César Award for Best Original Screenplay

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César Award for Best Original Screenplay

2025 recipient: Boris Lojkine

Country| France
Presented by| Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First award| 1983—1985; 2006—present
Currently held by| Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut for Souleymane's Story (2025)
Website| academie-cinema.org

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay (French: César du meilleur scénario original) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Adaptation.

## Winners and Nominees

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### 1980s

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Year  | Winners and nominees  | Original title  | Writer(s)

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1983
(8th)  | The Return of Martin Guerre | Le Retour de Martin Guerre | Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? | Élie Chouraqui
La Balance | Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim
A Good Marriage | Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer
1984
(9th)  | The Wounded Man | L'Homme blessé | Patrice Chéreau and Hervé Guibert
Entre Nous | Coup de foudre | Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry
The ComDads | Les Compères | Francis Veber
1985
(10th)  | Our Story | Notre histoire | Bertrand Blier
Full Moon in Paris | Les Nuits de la pleine lune | Éric Rohmer
My New Partner | Les Ripoux | Claude Zidi

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

### 2000s

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Year  | Winners and nominees  | Original title  | Writer(s)

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2006
(31st)  | Live and Become | Va, vis et deviens | Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu
The Child | L'enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Hidden | Caché | Michael Haneke
Merry Christmas | Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion
The Young Lieutenant | Le petit lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat
2007
(32nd)  | Days of Glory | Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle
Jean-Philippe | Laurent Tuel and Christophe Turpin
Orchestra Seats (a.k.a. Avenue Montaigne) | Fauteuils d'orchestre | Christopher and Danièle Thompson
When I Was a Singer (a.k.a. The Singer) | Quand j'étais chanteur | Xavier Giannoli
You Are So Beautiful | Je vous trouve très beau | Isabelle Mergault
2008
(33rd)  | The Secret of the Grain | La graine et la mulet | Abdellatif Kechiche
2 Days in Paris | Julie Delpy
Molière | Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron
Those Who Remain | Ceux qui restent | Anne Le Ny
La Vie en Rose | La môme | Olivier Dahan
2009
(34th)  | Séraphine | Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost
A Christmas Tale | Un conte de Noël | Emmanuel Bourdieu and Arnaud Desplechin
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | Le premier jour du reste de ta vie | Rémi Bezançon
I've Loved You So Long | Il y a longtemps que je t'aime | Philippe Claudel
Welcome to the Sticks | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier

### 2010s

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Year  | Winners and nominees  | Original title  | Writer(s)

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2010
(35th)  | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
In the Beginning | À l'origine | Xavier Giannoli
Skirt Day | La Journée de la jupe | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Welcome | Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol and Olivier Adam
Le Concert | Radu Mihăileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc
2011
(36th)  | The Names of Love | Le Nom des gens | Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc
On Tour | Tournée | Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novias Teles and Raphaëlle Valbrune
The Clink of Ice | Le Bruit des glaçons | Bertrand Blier
Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Étienne Comar and Xavier Beauvois
Mammuth | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
2012
(37th)  | The Minister | L'Exercice de l'État | Pierre Schöller
Declaration of War | La Guerre est déclarée | Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm
The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius
Polisse | Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot
The Intouchables | Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2013
(38th)  | Amour | Michael Haneke
Holy Motors | Leos Carax
Camille Rewinds | Camille redouble | Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Seyvos, Maud Ameline and Pierre-Olivier Mattei
Granny's Funeral | Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé | Bruno Podalydès and Denis Podalydès
A Few Hours of Spring | Quelques heures de printemps | Florence Vignon and Stéphane Brizé
2014
(39th)  | 9 Month Stretch | Neuf mois ferme | Albert Dupontel
Suzanne | Mariette Désert and Katell Quillévéré
The Past | Le Passé | Asghar Farhadi
Stranger by the Lake | L'Inconnu du lac | Alain Guiraudie
Cycling with Moliere | Alceste à bicyclette | Philippe Le Guay
2015
(40th)  | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall
The Bélier Family | La Famille Bélier | Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain
Love at First Fight | Les Combattants | Thomas Cailley and Claude Le Pape
Hippocrates | Hippocrate | Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson
Clouds of Sils Maria | Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas
2016
(41st)  | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour
Dheepan | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré
Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli
Standing Tall | La Tête haute | Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano
My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse  | Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr
2017
(42nd)  | The Aquatic Effect | L'Effet aquatique | Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget
Divines | Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina and Malik Rumeau
The Innocents | Les Innocentes  | Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine
Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont
In Bed with Victoria | Victoria  | Justine Triet
2018
(43rd)  | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo
Barbara | Mathieu Amalric and Philippe Di Folco
Raw | Grave | Julia Ducournau
Bloody Milk | Petit paysan | Claude Le Pape and Hubert Charuel
C'est la vie! | Le Sens de la fête | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2019
(44th)  | Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Xavier Legrand
The Trouble with You | En liberté! | Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin, Benjamin Charbit
Sink or Swim | Le Grand Bain | Gilles Lellouche, Ahmed Hamidi, Julien Lambroschini
Guy | Alex Lutz, Anaïs Deban, Thibault Ségouin
In Safe Hands | Pupille | Jeanne Herry

### 2020s

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Year  | Winners and nominees  | Original title  | Writer(s)

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2020
(45th)  | La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos
By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | François Ozon
The Specials | Hors normes | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma
2021
(46th)
[1] | Bye Bye Morons | Adieu les cons | Albert Dupontel
My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévennes | Caroline Vignal
Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | Emmanuel Mouret
Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovorashy
Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven
2022
(47th) | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari and Vincent Poymiro
Aline | Valérie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc
Annette | Leos Carax, Ron Mael and Russell Mael
Black Box | Boîte noire | Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, and Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard
The Divide | La Fracture | Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, and Agnès Feuvre
2023
(48th) | The Innocent | L'innocent | Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet
Full Time | À plein temps | Éric Gravel
Forever Young | Les Amandiers | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnes de Sacy
Rise | En corps | Cedric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena
Saint Omer | Alice Diop, Amrita David and Marie NDiaye
2024[2]
(49th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
All Your Faces | Je verrai toujours vos visages | Jeanne Herry
The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | Thomas Cailley and Pauline Munier
The Goldman Case | Le Procès Goldman | Cédric Kahn and Nathalie Hertzberg
Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand
2025
(50th) | Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut
Borgo | Stéphane Demoustier
Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier and Théo Abadie
The Marching Band | En Fanfare | Emmanuel Courcol and Irène Muscari
Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie

## See also

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* César Award for Best Adaptation
* César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation
* Lumière Award for Best Screenplay
* Magritte Award for Best Screenplay
* Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
* Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
* BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
* BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

## References

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1. ^ "'Bye Bye Morons' Wins Best Film at France's Cesar Awards". Hollywood Reporter.
2. ^ "Cesar Awards Nominations: Thomas Cailley's 'The Animal Kingdom,' Justine Triet's Oscar-Nominated 'Anatomy of a Fall' Lead the Way". Variety. 24 January 2024.

## External links

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* Official website
* César Award for Best Original Screenplay at AlloCiné

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