Best Short Film
Best First Work
Best Foreign Film
Best Feature Film
Honorary César
25th César Ceremony
The first woman winning best director
After Coline Serreau in 1986, it isn't until the year 2000 that a director once again wins the César for Best Film. But Tonie Marshall, with "Vénus Beauté (Institut)", is above all the first woman to win the César for Best Director. To this day, she is still the only recipient. Alain Chabat succeeds Antoine de Caunes in the role of Host of the Ceremony.

February 19, 2000 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Directed by Jérôme Revon.
Broadcast on Canal+.

ALAIN DELON
President of the Ceremony

TONIE MARSHALL
César for Best Director and for Best Film