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The César Academy has announced the nominations for its 50th ceremony, to be held on February 28, 2025 at the Olympia in Paris.

14 nominations for The Count of Monte-Cristo by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière and 13 nominations for Beating Hearts by Gilles Lellouche. Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, which was awarded the Best Actress and Jury Prizes at the 77th Festival de Cannes, garnered 12 nominations. Souleymane’s Story, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury’s Prize and Best Actor Award in the same section last year at Cannes, received 8 nominations, as did Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie. Emmanuel Courcol’s The Marching Band received 7 nominations. Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow, winner of the Un Certain Regard Youth Award and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Most Precious of Cargoes were nominated 4 and 3 times respectively. Wild Diamond, Agathe Riedinger’s first film, received 2 nominations. Anora by Sean Baker (Palme d’or at the 77th Festival de Cannes), The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi, The Belle from Gaza by Yolande Zauberman, Ernest Cole, Lost and Found by Raoul Peck, Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, Jim’s Story by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, The Kingdom by Julien Colonna, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević (Short film Palme d’or), Savages by Claude Barras, The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof (Jury Special Prize), The Substance by Coralie Fargeat (Best Screenplay), and The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Grand Prix of the 76th Festival de Cannes), each received 1 nomination.