Nicole Kidman will obtain an honorary César throughout the French César ceremony, the presentation being scheduled for the 52nd ceremony on February 25, 2027 on the Olympia in Paris.
The Academy of Cinema Arts and Strategies, the French academy behind these awards, introduced this honor on Thursday alongside the Canal+ channel. Each males stated the award acknowledges an actress and producer who has by no means let fame information the work she chooses.
Kidman is each a Hollywood star and a significant identify in arthouse cinema. The filmmakers she has labored with vary from Stanley Kubrick and Jane Campion to Lars von Trier, Baz Luhrmann and Yorgos Lanthimos.
The Australian actor made his first worldwide breakthrough with “Useless Calm” and went on to star in “Moulin Rouge!”, “Eyes Extensive Shut”, “The Others” and “Dogville”. She gained the Academy Award for Finest Actress in 2003 for her function as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” In 2024, she gained the Volpi Cup for greatest actress on the Venice Movie Competition for “Babygirl”.
Kidman additionally produces. She co-founded Blossom Movies, the corporate behind sequence resembling “Large Little Lies,” “The Undoing” and “9 Excellent Strangers,” which she additionally headlined.
On stage, she obtained vital acclaim in London’s West Finish for “The Blue Room” and “{Photograph} 51.”
Her earlier honors embody being appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2006 and receiving the seventieth Anniversary Award on the Cannes Movie Competition in 2017. In 2024, the American Movie Institute introduced her with its Life Achievement Award, making her the primary Australian to obtain it.
Off-screen, Kidman is a UN Girls Goodwill Ambassador. She additionally helped elevate a number of million {dollars} for ladies’s most cancers applications, together with at Stanford and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Most cancers Middle.
Canal+ will broadcast the tribute on February 25 dwell and solely, unencrypted for all viewers.