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Published at:  Feb 23, 2003 11:44:08 AM CST

Father Geek here at the Geek Headquarters Compound in Austin, Texas with the results of the 28th edition of the French Academy Awards... To cut to the chase for those of you interested only in the bottom line for USA interests "The Pianist" was the BIG winner with 7 Awards, Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the Award for Best Foreign Film, and Meryl Streep & Spike Lee each received Special Awards... here's also a link to see the entire show on
vidéo (when you're on the page, click on the image LA CEREMONIE on the
right of the screen).

Just Click Right Here


Watch the speech of Michael Moore, it's great. (You can go straight to it if you so desire)

Now here's the complete list (My French isn't the best, sooooo I didn't translate what I didn't know for sure, sorry its my Texas education... heavy on Spanish)








Best Film:

The Pianist by Roman Polanski

Best Actor:

Adrian Brody for The Pianist

Best Actress:

Isabelle Carré for Se souvenir des belles choses (Beautiful Memories)

Best Supporting Actor:

Bernard Le Coq for Se souvenir des belles choses (Beautiful Memories)

Best Supporting Actress:

Karin Viard for Embrassez qui vous voudrez (See How They Run)

Meilleur espoir masculin :

Jean-Paul Rouve for Monsieur Batignole

Meilleur espoir féminin :

Cécile de France for L'Auberge espagnole

Best Director:

Roman Polanski for The Pianist

Meilleure première oeuvre de fiction :

Se souvenir des belles choses (Beautiful Memories) by Zabou Breitman

Meilleur scénario original ou adaptation :

Costa-Gavras et Jean-Claude Grumberg pour Amen

Best Foreign Film:

Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore

Best Film from l'Union Européenne:

Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar

Best Music written for Film:

Wojciech Kilar for The Pianist

Cinematography:

Pawel Edelman for The Pianist

Art Direction:

Allan Starski for The Pianist

Meilleur son :

Jean-Marie Blondel, Gérard Hardy et Dean Humphreys for The Pianist

Best Editing:

Nicolas Philibert for Etre et avoir

Best Costumes:

Philippe Guillotel, Tanino Liberatore et Florence Sadaune for Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Meilleur court métrage :

Peau de vache de Gérard Hustache-Mathieu

The Special Césares d'honneur:

Meryl Streep

Spike Lee

Bernadette Lafont



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  • Feb 23, 2003 11:54:44 AM CST

    Yeah, big surprise that anti-American piece of garbage Bowling w

    by the_nemesis

    BIG surprise coming from the land of haters and surrenderers..ersers...

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  • Feb 23, 2003 11:58:17 AM CST

    BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE was not Anti-American

    by dog of mystery

    It was against the culture of fear that we have embraced in this country -- that our current administration fosters. Take your duct tape and lock yourself in the basement, Nemesis. The rest of us are living life in the real world.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:05:51 PM CST

    Truth on Moore

    by pageiv

    Moore is not Anti-American, just anti-everything America is and stands for: freedom, democracy, self determination, capitalism. I believe his film shows this.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:14:36 PM CST

    translation of categories:

    by licase

    Meilleur espoir masculin is Best newcomer, man
    Meilleur espoir f

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:18:33 PM CST

    the "great" Moore clip

    by pageiv

    I'm just glad France has the power and the omniscience to tell America when she is wrong and I am glad that, since America is never right she therefore could never tell France she is wrong. Aint that right, Moore. And what about all the tens of billions in oil contracts the French and Germans have with Iraq? Though only the US can be in this for oil, right?

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:30:12 PM CST

    Moore is NOT anti--American...

    by indio2

    on the contrary he embodys all that it was once was to be an American. OK, so I live in Mexico City and am a citizen of that country, but I was educated in the USA... lived there through 6 years of college. I have many many US friends and I love the country even with its short falls. Moore embraces totally what it is to be a member of (if I remember my university civics correctly)THE FIFTH ESTATE... the "Loyal Opposition", that part of America that MAKES America the land of the free and the home of the brave. Moore more than anyone I can think of in the publiceye of the world symbolizes completely both the Spirit of Freedom, and Bravery! Look back to your American history... What are the "Four Freedoms?" They ARE all in Micheal Moore.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:38:50 PM CST

    Take a lookie!

    by themanwithnoname

    I hope The Pianist wins Best Picture at the oscars instead of the crappy The Hours or Chicago. snore yawn. But on a side not here's a funny little story about a frenchman.

    "One of America

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:39:30 PM CST

    What a great country we live in... A long-time political partner

    by uncle sam

    and attempts to bully them with official sanctions. Thats democracy at work for ya, if someone disagrees with ya, they have to be considered your potential enemies, and you must try to punish them. Man, even if there isn't a war, it'll take YEARS for peace and harmony to return to the UN. That idiot Dubya has compromised our diplomatic relations with our allies big time. That reminds me, I have to go buy some duct tape and some bottled water to protect my family from a nuclear attack. - I WANT YOU, but not in that way.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 12:55:24 PM CST

    Voicing disagreement with the government

    by renonevada2000

    -is what this country was founded on. ("Taxation without representation", The Decalaration of Indeoendance, anyone remember these?) I question how anyone can claim to be a patriotic American when they wish to silence any voice that is in opposition of theirs. Turn off the Limbaugh, read some history and then try to form an opinion on your own.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 1:28:37 PM CST

    I missed something

    by pageiv

    Anytime some one says "That guy is a fucking moron" the moron and his fans say something about trying to "silence" the oppistion. I like Moore because he shows how stupid Liberals can be.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 1:51:12 PM CST

    The French saved US first

    by lazarus long

    The French would be speaking German if it wasn't for us blah blah blah...did it ever occur to you that without the French, it is highly unlikely the U.S. would have won the War of 1812 against the British? So if it wasn't for France, we might be speaking a different form of English. I'm not comparing England to Nazi Germany, but just saying that the friends and allies thing has worked both ways, and began with the French. Remember who gave us the fucking Statue of Liberty? We've pissed on that thing enough that they could rightfully ask for it back.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 2:04:34 PM CST

    I love how conservatives like Pageiv call liberals stupid and ye

    by cutter's way

    Michael Moore has the right to voice dissent, as do we all, that is, until Bush, Ashcroft and Rumsfield repeal that right too. America was created from dissention, in opposition to an exploitive government. Bush has declared war against his own people. The only result of the so-called "Patriot Act" and other Constitutional dismantling "reforms" has been to foster distrust of government authority and undermine democracy. See you in the detention center.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 2:05:26 PM CST

    I'm sorry did I miss something in school about the war of 1812?

    by themanwithnoname

    I'm being dead honest here. I knew the French helped a little bit during the war of 1812. But I must have not seen in the history books and school etc that the French sent thousands and thousands of troops over here to american to help perserve America.. Maybe Napolean just did that to burn the asses of the Brittish ,because they were at war with eat other at that time. The French also tried to help the confederates and if they had succedded(spelling?) then America would be split in half right now. I'm not pro war, pro bush, anti war or anti bush. I just found that little story funny. The Frenchman should have responded "Sir do you have a Brittish accent" "No" "Well your welcome"

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  • Feb 23, 2003 2:19:57 PM CST

    Typical Lib

    by pageiv

    Good come back! I'll tell you I'm lucky that I only misspelled one word per talk back. So where are these "detention" centers you are worring about? Like Moore, your argument falls victim to the hyperbole. "Bush has declared war on the American people!!! UHHHHHHHHHHH!"

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  • Feb 23, 2003 2:44:04 PM CST

    The War of 1812

    by extinctbobcat01

    Lazarus Long, since you obviously have zero knowledge of the war of 1812, please allow me to fill you in.
    To start, the British and the French were at war with one another starting in 1792. At this point America had nothing to do with the war. Then in 1807 the british ship "Leopard" attacked the American ship, "USS Chesapeake". This prompted the USA to pass an embargo on any trade with any foreign country. The problem was that it ended up hurting us economically. Then in 1810 a new Congress was elected. In the new Congress there was a group known as War Hawks. They wanted to go to war with England.So on June 18, 1812, President James Madison declared war on England. Then In March 1814 England defeated France.The American part of the War of 1812 was fought from June 1812 to the spring of 1815. A peace treaty was signed in Ghent on December 24, 1814. No one really won this war. But It is quite clear the French to nothing to help us fight. History Lesson over.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 3:37:12 PM CST

    How the French assisted the U.S. in the War of 1812.

    by thetsordiline

    When the War of 1812 broke out, Britain's forces were invested in the war with France. As a result they couldn't send very many soldiers to defend the colony. This prevented the Canadians from reversing the U.S.'s intended invasion (though they did manage to temporarily take some land and burn down the White House). Without France's conflict with Britain the empire would have flooded the colony with troops and likely done some significant damage to the U.S.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 3:39:48 PM CST

    Cheese eating surrender monkeys?

    by bastard bunny

    The French can be arrogant and infuriating a lot of the time but they are not cowards. They were heavily beaten in 1940 by the most powerful and advanced army in the world, as was everybody else who came up against them. If the US army of 1940 had been present in France then it too would have been easily crushed. The venom directed at them for daring to disagree with the USA is astonishing, at least they're not openly haggling about how much cash will buy their security council vote like most of the others, a truely depressing sight.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 4:48:52 PM CST

    Michael Moore....my arse

    by 0ptic

    Yeah, Michael Moore is all for the American way, truth, justice, honour....except of course when it comes to making money, then all his ideals go out the window.

    Michael Moore bought the rights for a football disaster that occured in the UK from the BBC, he used that footage to explain hooliganism, it's a shame that the disaster that took the lives of 96 people had absolutely fuck all to do with hooliganism.

    Instead it was the fault of the Police who wouldn't let people who were being crushed to death get out of the paddock by opening the gates, instead they watched as panic stricken parents tried to save there children, watched as people stood on top of others who had fallen trying to escape the nightmare. 96 people were crushed to death that day, the police stood by and watched it happen without doing a fucking thing.

    Michael Moore bought the rights to this and paraded it as hooliganism, fuck him, fuck all the self righteous bastards like him as well.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 5:23:12 PM CST

    Michael Moore - The new Jerry Lewis of France

    by axisofweasels

    Michael Moore's movie won not because of any artistic achievement, but because it is obnoxiously liberal and anti-American.

    To me, winning an award in France would be an insult. Bowling for Columbine is crap, it is Michael Moore capitalizing on the deaths of students that went nuts not because they had guns, but because they listened to the same liberal fucktards who will be spewing anti-American crap at the Grammy's tonight.

    If you want to see a REAL documentary, check out http://www.brain-terminal.com/articles/video/peace-protest.html

    But the French weanies would never support that, huh?

    For more info, check out http://www.axisofweasels.com

    And lastly, we should include that tool Harry on the petition to silence celebrity pundits. http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/hollywoodceleb/index.html

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  • Feb 23, 2003 6:09:56 PM CST

    Paging Sen. McCarthy....

    by joe cool

    Since when does "liberal" equate to "anti-American"? I thought the McCarthy hearings exposed that kind of blinkered ideological xenophobia for the unconstitutional whitewash that it was. Guess I was wrong. Funny, I thought America was about being a place where you didn't dictate to people how to think and what to say. The last superpower I saw practising that kind of social policy kept its people behind a wall until its leader decided people could think for themselves and invented glasnost to prove it. (I read this week that a US kid was told he couldn't wear an anti-Bush T-shirt at his high school. Nice to see you're breeding yet another generation of "free thinkers" down there.) Don't be so quick so stomp on the voice of dissension. It's about the only thing separating America from all those "evil empires" it prides itself on railing against.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 6:26:48 PM CST

    there's a big difference

    by frank cotton

    between 'dissension', and the kind of rabidly anti-American hate speech that spews forth from the average pro-socialist liberal. use your brain - VOTE LIBERTARIAN!

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  • Feb 23, 2003 6:51:34 PM CST

    Not as big as you think - just two different names for the same

    by joe cool

    I didn't see any "anti-American hate speech" in Bowling for Columbine. What I did see was a fairly stark illustration of the fact that AMERICA HAS A GUN PROBLEM. A BIG ONE. How the right to bear arms can be so aggressively clung to while the right to free speech is so arbitrarily dismissed is completely beyond me. I suspect the Founding Fathers didn't have that philosophy in mind when they rejected taxation without representation. Why did they rise up? Because THEY WANTED TO BE HEARD. Armed conflict was a necessary evil to achieve that end, but 225 years later, guns (hunters excepted) have no place in modern society. Free speech and a voice, on the other hand, is what the whole exercise was designed to achieve. A high-profile critique of the gun culture isn't hate-spewing, and it isn't Anti-American. It's showing America what it may not necessarily want to see about itself, but that's not a bad thing now and then. For anyone.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 7:19:34 PM CST

    was not referring to the film

    by frank cotton

    but to posters, french/german demonstrators, etc.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 10:06:01 PM CST

    place in society...

    by pageiv

    Today it is "guns have no place in society", tomorrow it will be your free speech, then your religion, then your right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The only gun problem we have is too many criminals have them and not enough law adbiding folk do. As far as the ignorant kid in Michigan goes, the Surpreme Court has ruled time and again free speech does not apply to schools if good order and discipline are affected.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 11:23:31 PM CST

    2 cents

    by grand digital

    I am suspicious of Michael Moore. America has a gun problem.

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  • Feb 23, 2003 11:46:46 PM CST

    You Damn Dirty Ape

    by grand digital

    Yeah one other thought...it was kind of shitty the way the whole film lead up to this big climax of hero vs villain. Michael Moore vs Charlton Heston. It was too contrived and manipulative. Heston is a pretty easy target, he's about 400 years old, he's just the figurehead of the NRA and he's got Alzheimers. If Michael Moore had gone up against an articulate pro-gun lobbyist who held his ground, would that have been the climax of the movie ? I doubt it, ya know. The Heston confrontation was kind of cheap. Plus as someone mentioned before, the editing was tricksy, especially the part where MM confronted Heston with the kid's photo...it was obvious he recorded his lines - ' look at this boy's face Mr Heston ' - after the fact.

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  • Feb 24, 2003 12:02:45 AM CST

    Political affiliation

    by dog of mystery

    I'm against the war. However, I'm a laissez-faire capitalist anarchist. I believe that all government is, by virtue of its existence, socialist. I despise socialism. I therefore resist the socialist agenda of going to war with Iraq. Eat that, right wingers and Bushies.

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  • Feb 24, 2003 12:37:56 AM CST

    Guns in society

    by inwosuxred

    Moore never suggested guns have no place in society. He never reaches that conclusion in the film or anywhere outside of the film. He talks about being an NRA member himself when it was a gun safety organization and not an organization that intentionally undermines laws intended to keep guns out of the wrong hands. He went to Columbine to look for answers to why something like that could have occurred. So is it anti-American to be concerned about the United States and the safety of our fellow citizens? He actually shows that Canada has a very large population of gun ownership, but they don't have the same type of problem with gun related deaths. So the conclusion he shows doesn't blame guns at all. He looked at violent entertainement, but he doesn't blame violent entertainment because the facts don't add up there either.

    As for Heston being an easy target, nobody made him say any of that garbage. I might be wrong but I don't think he was diagnosed with Alzheimers at the time. If he was, what does that say about the organization for continuing to use him? Charelton Heston blamed the problem of gun violence on American's mixed ethnicity. Nobody forced him to do it, he did it willingly.

    Moore is un-American for being a concerned citizen who looks at real problems and trys to make sense of them, perhaps even to the point of making a change for the positive. He is anti-capitalism for not wanting corporations to behave like Enron, Tyco, Halliburton, Worldcom or Harken. He is against freedom by exercising his right to free speech. He is anti-self determination because he went out on his own and made a film. He is anti-democracy because he opposes the idea of the Supreme Court appointing a President. Okay, that makes sense.

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  • Feb 24, 2003 12:42:59 AM CST

    Disagreement isn't Condemnation.

    by nakedmonk

    I take issue with this contention that the expression of Moore and others like him (people of an ideological, outspoken nature) are being suppressed. The opposition to their p.o.v. is simply the p.o.v of another faction of our turbid little society (yes, thanks to the great dissemination of media, we are a little society again). Shit, no one

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  • Feb 24, 2003 12:55:17 AM CST

    NERDS!!!!!

    by nakedmonk

    Isn

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  • Feb 24, 2003 4:49:34 AM CST

    Christ this is a depressing talkback.

    by heleno

    Pageiv, attacking gun ownership does not lead inexorably to attacking life, liberty, freedom of thought and religion, so don't be hysterical. And to suggest that the answer to there being too many guns is to give more guns to "law-abiding" people is ridiculous. You fuel the fear culture, and lead more people to shoot first and ask questions later. As for the suggestions that Michael Moore is anti-american, that is also ridiculous. I have noticed that Americans are somewhat brainwashed by this "USA - No.1" culture, and see any criticism of American life as an attack, but one of the central tenets of that life is freedom of expression, and criticism is a vital part of that. He is far more American than most of you hysterics, because he takes an active role in the democratic process by questioning government (and the other powers that be, like industry and the NRA and other lobby groups) and challenging the accepted wisdom. Whether you agree with what he says or not, you have to stand back and let him do his thing if you want to call yourself American - or if you want to live in any democratic country.

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  • Feb 24, 2003 4:52:22 AM CST

    Film title in English

    by ambient_noise

    The international title of "Se souvenir des belles choses" is "Try to Remember". Its literal translation is "try to remember the beautiful things."

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  • Feb 24, 2003 7:01:07 AM CST

    Movies Movies Movies.

    by jb77

    Ok. It seems that some people are not talking about movies here and i'm kind of tired of seeing that even in this forum, there is fight over the Irak issue.
    And most of all, i'm tired of reading a lot of stupid things.
    "Who did what 50 years ago?" "who helps who 200 years ago?" etc.
    I don't think this is the best place to do it.
    I don't think anyone here is in position to give lessons on these subjects.
    Both France and the US have to be
    ashamed of events in their history.("Independance Day" for the US and "Les visiteurs en Am

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  • Feb 24, 2003 7:50:59 AM CST

    Free Speech and Guns

    by silent_bob_of_st

    Why do so many Americans think that they have a right to bare arms in these modern times? The Constitution of the USA was wrote at the birth of a nation that faced hostility from all around the world and was young without a real army. The USA was a wild and hostile country on top of that so the need for guns in understandable. But now the USA is the worlds only true super power the worlds most powerful country in both economic and millitary terms. I can understand Americans wanting guns for hunting, but for home protection what the fuck? Many Americans shot are killed by their own gun often fired by a family member. It is just White suburban Americas fear of the "blacks" when they are the ones that kill each other and leave other ethnic groups to suffer. America has a gun problem no doubt about it. In Britain we don't really have any guns and thats the way it should be in any civillized country. And don't start yourr bollox about gun control being a threat to your freedoms, you do not have the freedom to shoot and kill people so why should you have guns for anything other than hunting. America needs to stop trying to make the rest of the world "better" and sit down and look at waht it has become and relise that you are hated all over the world because of your arrogance and reckless atitudes towards everything from war to welfare. I do not share this hatered I like Americans but i just think that some of them have to sit down and listen to what they are sayimg. Mike Moore trys to sit down and listen to what America is about and all he gets is abuse off his own people. You have to understand the attitudes that people like Mike Moore are agianst are not the only American attitude so he is not anti-American he is just anti-pro gun bigots. And no USA we in Britain where been our usaul resilient selves bak in WW2 before you entered.

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  • Feb 24, 2003 6:08:22 PM CST

    Yikes

    by joe cool

    A T-shirt bearing an anti-government message is a threat to "good order and discipline"? Where does that kid go to school - Beijing? And I just don't buy the slippery-slope argument. There's gotta be a happy medium somewhere, and this isn't it.

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  • Feb 25, 2003 3:56:40 AM CST

    from a french

    by proudfrog

    all these comments about how and why the french are cowards and everything... even if this has probably nothing to see in this collumns, i think you're missing something.

    there is something i NEVER read or listen to in american media and that is true. The french, we LOVE the american people. Those who saved us long ago. You won't find any french person that can tell you something else in my whole country.
    Of course, fox news and Mr.Murdoch will never tell you this.
    We just think that we have the right to disagree with mr Bush, to find out if we can achieve something without killing hundreds of thousands of people. Is this being coward?An ennemy?
    Can't a friend disagree with you without being insulted?
    Think different than george, he doen't care. We do.

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