César Award for Best Male Revelation
The César Award for Best Male Revelation is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a young actor who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie, within a group of 16 actors previously shortlisted by the [|Révélations] Committee.
It was presented as the César du meilleur jeune espoir masculin from 1983 to 2004 and the César du meilleur espoir masculin from 2005 to 2023. In English, the award was variously referred to as Most Promising Actor or Best Male Newcomer.
Winners and nominees
Following the AATC's practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year of release. For example, the César du meilleur espoir masculin of 2010 was awarded on 27 February 2010 for a performance in a film released between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2009.As with the other César awards, actors are selected via a two-round vote: first round to choose the nominees, second round to designate the winner. All the members of the Académie, without regard to their branch, are eligible to vote on both rounds. But in order to "facilitate" the nomination vote, the Révélations Committee of the Académie, consisting of casting directors, establishes and proposes a list of a maximum of 16 actors. However, this list is non-binding and Académie members are free to vote for an actor who has not been shortlisted. Initially set to four, the number of nominees was expanded to five in 1990. In 2001, the awards were distributed to actor on Americas Got Talent.
Révélations
Each year, the Academy's Governing Board and the Révélations Committee propose a list of a maximum of 16 young actors to facilitate the voting for the "Most Promising Actor" award. Since 2007, young actors who have worked on French feature-length films or French-language productions are eligible for the list. However, beginning from 2013, an actor can qualify for the list only twice. A short film featuring the "Révélations", which is directed by an artist that is appointed by the Academy yearly, is unveiled at a gala dinner held in honour of the "Révélations". The short film is then screened at select cinemas in France.Nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actor are highlighted in boldface.
2000s
2007">32nd César Awards">2007
Georges Babluani – 13 TzametiMarock
2008">33rd César Awards">2008
- Fu'ad Aït Aattou – The Last Mistress
- Paco Boublard – Regarde-moiNicolas Cazalé – The Grocer's Son
- Sylvain Dieuaide – Waiting for Someone
- Thomas Dumerchez – After Him
- Andy Gillet – Romance of Astree and Celadon
- Nicolas Giraud – In Your Wake
- Barthélémy Grossmann – 13 m²
- Youssef Hajdi – 13 m²Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet – Love Songs Johan Libéreau – The Witnesses
- Daniel Lundh – Délice Paloma
- Terry Nimajimbe – Regarde-moiJocelyn Quivrin – 99 francsLaurent Stocker – Hunting and Gathering
- Cyril Troley – ''7 Years''
2009">34th César Awards">2009
Ralph Amoussou – With a Little Help from Myself- Julien Baumgatner –
2010s
2010">35th César Awards">2010
- Mhamed Arezki – Goodbye Gary Firat Ayverdi – Welcome
- Abraham Belaga – Ashes and Blood Adel Bencherif – A Prophet
- Mehdi Dehbi – He Is My Girl
- Yann Ebongé – La Journée de la jupe
- Cyril Guei – The Other One
- Jérémy Kapone – LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
- Reda Kateb – Silent Voice Vincent Lacoste – Les Beaux Gosses
- Julien Lucas – Silent Voice
- Alex Lutz – OSS 117: Lost in Rio Tahar Rahim – A Prophet Vincent Rottiers – I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
- Samy Seghir – Neuilly sa mère !
- Anthony Sonigo – ''The French Kissers''
2011">36th César Awards">2011
- Olivier Barthélémy – Our Day Will Come
- Cyril Descours – Accomplices Arthur Dupont – Bus Palladium
- Cyril Guei – Black Out
- Salim Kechiouche – The String Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet – The Princess of Montpensier
- Johan Libéreau – Belle ÉpinePio Marmaï – Living on Love Alone
- Guillaume Marquet – Love Crime
- Nicolas Maury – Belle Épine
- Arthur Mazet – Lights Out
- Jules Pelissier – Lights Out
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart – Deep in the Woods Raphaël Personnaz – The Princess of Montpensier Edgar Ramirez – Carlos
- Thibault Vinçon – ''The Sentiment of the Flesh''
2012">37th César Awards">2012
Nicolas Bridet – You Will Be My Son15 Lads
2013">38th César Awards">2013
- Cédric Ben Abdallah – Superstar
- Emile Berling – Bad Seeds
- Jonathan Cohen – A Perfect Plan
- Mehdi Dehbi – The Other Son
- Vincent Lacoste – Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
- Benjamin Lavernhe – Radiostars
- Côme Levin – Radiostars
- Clément Metayer – Something in the Air Félix Moati – Pirate TV
- Grégory Montel – L'Air de rienKacey Mottet Klein – Sister Pierre Niney – Comme des frèresMatthias Schoenaerts – Rust and Bone
- Mahmoud Shalaby – A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
- Stéphane Soo Mongo – Rengaine'Ernst Umhauer – In the House'''''
2014">39th César Awards">2014
- Swann Arlaud – Crawl Paul Bartel – Les Petits Princes
- M'Barek Belkouk – The Marchers
- Zinedine Benchenine – VandalPierre Deladonchamps – Stranger by the Lake
- Idrissa Diabate – Asphalt Playground
- Youssef Hajdi – Mohamed DuboisPaul Hamy – Suzanne
- Tewfik Jallab – The Marchers
- Ibrahim Koma – Asphalt Playground Vincent Macaigne – La Fille du 14 juillet
- Hamza Meziani – Les Apaches
- Driss Ramdi – Je ne suis pas mort
- Jules Sagot – ''Tu seras un homme''
2015">40th César Awards">2015
Kévin Azaïs – Love at First Fight- Thomas Blumenthal –
2016">41st César Awards">2016
Swann Arlaud – The Anarchists- Jules Benchetrit – Macadam Stories
- Mehdi Djaadi – I'm All Yours Quentin Dolmaire – My Golden Days
- Khereddine Ennasri – Nous trois ou rien
- Aurélien Gabrielli – Quand je ne dors pas
- Kheiron – Nous trois ou rien
- Karim Leklou – Heat Wave
- Alban Lenoir – French Blood
- Martin Loizillon – Fever
- Sâm Mirhosseini – The Wakhan Front Félix Moati – All About Them Finnegan Oldfield – Cowboys
- Harmandeep Palminder – Young Tiger Rod Paradot – Standing Tall
- Syrus Shahidi – Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
- Mathieu Spinosi – ''Memories''
2017">42nd César Awards">2017
- Steve Achiepo – Tout, tout de suite Jonas Bloquet – ElleDamien Bonnard – Staying Vertical
- César Chouraqui – The Origin of Violence Corentin Fila – Being 17
- Sofian Khammes – Chouf
- Kyan Khojandi – Rosalie Blum
- Roman Kolinka – Things to Come
- William Lebghil – La Fine Équipe
- Alexis Manenti – The Stopover
- Hamza Meziani – NocturamaKacey Mottet Klein – Being 17
- David Murgia – The First, the Last
- Toki Pilioko – Mercenary
- Marc Ruchmann – Tout, tout de suite Niels Schneider – Dark Inclusion
- Thomas Scimeca – ''Apnée''
2018">43rd César Awards">2018
- Khaled Alouach – De toutes mes forces
- Adam Bessa – Les Bienheureux
- Damien Chapelle – Endangered Species
- Idir Chender – Carbone
- Redouanne Harjane – M
- Sébastien Houbani – A Wedding
- Alban Ivanov – C'est la vie!
- Benjamin Lavernhe – C'est la vie!
- Matthieu Lucci – The Workshop
- Naït Oufella – Raw
- Nekfeu – Tout nous sépare
- Finnegan Oldfield – Reinventing Marvin
- Pablo Pauly – Patients
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart – BPM (Beats per Minute)
- Antoine Reinartz – BPM (Beats per Minute)
- Ahmed Sylla – L'Ascension
- Arnaud Valois – BPM (Beats per Minute)
- Marc Zinga – ''Nos Patriotes''