3rd César Awards explained

Number:	3
Award:	César Awards
Date:	4 February 1978
Site:	Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Host:	Pierre Tchernia
Best Film:	Providence
Best Actor:	Jean Rochefort
Best Actress:	Simone Signoret
Most Wins:	Providence (7)
Most Nominations:	Providence (8)
Network:	Antenne 2
Last:	2nd
Next:	4th

The 3rd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1977 and took place on 4 February 1978 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jeanne Moreau and hosted by Pierre Tchernia for the third time. Providence won the award for Best Film.

Winners and nominees

Providence Le Crabe-tambour The Lacemaker Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!	Alain Resnais – Providence Luis Buñuel – That Obscure Object of Desire Pierre Schoendoerffer – Le Crabe-tambour Claude Miller – This Sweet Sickness
Jean Rochefort – Le Crabe-tambour Gérard Depardieu – This Sweet Sickness Charles Denner – The Man Who Loved Women Patrick Dewaere – Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff Alain Delon – Death of a Corrupt Man	Simone Signoret – Madame Rosa Isabelle Huppert – The Lacemaker Miou-Miou – This Sweet Sickness Brigitte Fossey – Closet Children Delphine Seyrig – Repérages
Jacques Dufilho – Le Crabe-tambour Michel Aumont – Spoiled Children Jean Bouise – Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff Philippe Léotard – Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff Jean-François Balmer – La Menace	Marie Dubois – La Menace Florence Giorgetti – The Lacemaker Nelly Borgeaud – The Man Who Loved Women Geneviève Fontanel – The Man Who Loved Women Valérie Mairesse – Repérages
Providence – David Mercer That Obscure Object of Desire – Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel Death of a Corrupt Man – Michel Audiard Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! – Jean-Loup Dabadie	Rêve Fracture Kubrick à brac Mordillissimo La Nichée
Raoul Coutard – Le Crabe-tambour Pierre Lhomme – This Sweet Sickness Andréas Winding – The Accuser Ricardo Aronovich – Providence	Albert Jurgenson – Providence Chris Marker – A Grin Without a Cat Henri Lanoë – La Menace Françoise Bonno – The Simple Past
René Magnol and Jacques Maumont – Providence Bernard Aubouy – Peppermint Soda Paul Lainé, François Bel and Pierre Ley – This Sweet Sickness Jean-Pierre Ruh – Madame Rosa	Miklós Rózsa – Providence Vladimir Cosma – Animal Francis Lai – Bilitis Philippe Sarde – Le Crabe-tambour
Jacques Saulnier – Providence Hilton McConnico – This Sweet Sickness Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko – Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! Bernard Evein – Madame Rosa	Le Maréchal-ferrant Ben Chavis La Loterie de la vie Naissance Samara
500 grammes de foie de veau Le Blanc des yeux Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre Sauf dimanches et fêtes Temps souterrain	A Special Day The American Friend Annie Hall Bread and Chocolate
Robert Dorfmann René Goscinny

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
8	Providence
6	Le Crabe-tambour
This Sweet Sickness
3	The Lacemaker
Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!
The Man Who Loved Women
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff
La Menace
2	That Obscure Object of Desire
Death of a Corrupt Man
Repérages
Madame Rosa

The following films received multiple awards:

Awards	Film
7	Providence
3	Le Crabe-tambour

See also

• 50th Academy Awards
• 31st British Academy Film Awards

External links

• Official website
  • 3rd César Awards at AlloCiné