| Number: | 18 |
| Award: | César Awards |
| Date: | 8 March 1993 |
| Site: | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France |
| Host: | Frédéric Mitterrand |
| Best Film: | Savage Nights |
| Best Actor: | Jacques Dutronc |
| Best Actress: | Jeanne Moreau |
| Network: | France 2 |
| Last: | 17th |
| Next: | 19th |
The 18th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1992 and took place on 8 March 1993 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Marcello Mastroianni and hosted by Frédéric Mitterrand. Savage Nights won the award for Best Film.
The winners are highlighted in bold:
Savage Nights, directed by Cyril Collard
La Crise, directed by Coline Serreau
Indochine, directed by Régis Wargnier
L.627, directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Le petit prince a dit, directed by Christine Pascal
Un coeur en hiver, directed by Claude Sautet
Tacones lejanos, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
L'Amant, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Howards End, directed by James Ivory
Husbands and Wives, directed by Woody Allen
The Player, directed by Robert Altman
Les Nuits fauves, directed by Cyril Collard
Nord, directed by Xavier Beauvois
Riens du tout, directed by Cédric Klapisch
La Sentinelle, directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Le Zèbre, directed by Jean Poiret
Claude Rich, for Le Souper
Vincent Lindon, for La Crise
Richard Berry, for Le petit prince a dit
Claude Brasseur, for Le Souper
Daniel Auteuil, for Un coeur en hiver
Catherine Deneuve, for Indochine
Juliette Binoche, for Damage
Anémone, for Le petit prince a dit
Emmanuelle Béart, for Un coeur en hiver
Caroline Cellier, for Le Zèbre
André Dussollier, for Un coeur en hiver
Patrick Timsit, for La Crise
Jean Yanne, for Indochine
Jean-Pierre Marielle, for Max & Jeremie
Fabrice Luchini, for Le Retour de Casanova
Dominique Blanc, for Indochine
Zabou Breitman, for La Crise
Michèle Laroque, for La Crise
Maria Pacôme, for La Crise
Brigitte Catillon, for Un coeur en hiver
Emmanuel Salinger, for La Sentinelle
Julien Rassam, for L'Accompagnatrice
Olivier Martinez, for
Xavier Beauvois, for Nord
Grégoire Colin, for Olivier, Olivier
Romane Bohringer, for Les Nuits fauves
Isabelle Carré, for Beau fixe
Elsa Zylberstein, for Beau fixe
Linh Dan Pham, for Indochine
Charlotte Kady, for L.627
Claude Sautet, for Un coeur en hiver
Régis Wargnier, for Indochine
Bertrand Tavernier, for L.627
Cyril Collard, for Les Nuits fauves
Christine Pascal, for Le petit prince a dit
Coline Serreau, for La Crise
Michel Alexandre, Bertrand Tavernier, for L.627
Cyril Collard, Claude Sautet, for Les Nuits fauves
Arnaud Desplechin, for La Sentinelle
Jacques Fieschi, for Un coeur en hiver
François Catonné, for Indochine
Yves Angelo, for L'Accompagnatrice and Un coeur en hiver
Robert Fraisse, for L'Amant
Sylvie de Segonzac, for Le Souper
Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle, for L'Amant
Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Gabriella Pescucci, for Indochine
Dominique Hennequin, Guillaume Sciama, for Indochine
Paul Lainé, Gérard Lamps, for L'Accompagnatrice
Pierre Lenoir, Jean-Paul Loublier, for Un coeur en hiver
Lise Beaulieu, for Les Nuits fauves
Noëlle Boisson, for L'Amant
Geneviève Winding, for Indochine
Gabriel Yared, for L'Amant
Georges Delerue, for Diên Biên Phu
Patrick Doyle, for Indochine
René-Marc Bini, for Les Nuits fauves
Jacques Bufnoir, for Indochine
Hoang Thanh At, for L'Amant
François de Lamothe, for Le Souper
Versailles Rive-Gauche, directed by Bruno Podalydès
Le Balayeur, directed by Serge Elissalde
Hammam, directed by Florence Miailhe
Omnibus, directed by Sam Karmann
Jean Marais
Marcello Mastroianni
Gérard Oury