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UPDATE, 4:50 PM PT: At nearly four hours, tonight's César Awards ceremony was one of the longest I can remember, but oddly also one of the most entertaining. Host Edouard Baer kept things moving for the Canal Plus broadcast even if he started to sweat as things started to draw out. Nevertheless, the Césars are often…

UPDATE, 2:25 AM PT: Last year’s dueling Yves Saint Laurent biopics each picked up several nominations this morning for France’s César Awards. Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, the country's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar, leads the pack with 10 mentions, followed by Thomas Cailley's Directors' Fortnight title Les…

‘The Artist’, ‘Poliss’ Lead Cesar Nominations Tonight, the French film industry converges at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet to celebrate what was a banner year for French film. Along with Oscar darling The Artist, the French will fête a year in which the local box office hit an all-time high (about $1.7 billion), with…