He doesn’t have a César in his pocket, but he does have five brave nominations under his belt, two of them in the best actor category. Canal+ announced this Wednesday that actor Benjamin Lavernhe, a member of the Comédie Française, will present the 51st César ceremony on February 27. This time, again, he will be surrounded by a group of artists, whose names we still do not know.
Benjamin Lavernhe will thus succeed Jean-Pascal Zadi, who took on this difficult task last year. Canal+ salutes in X an “irresistible actor, passionate about comedy, nominated five times for the César, including last year for with fanfare“.
After landing her first big screen role in 2012 in radio stars by Romain Lévy, Benjamin Lavernhe became known to the general public in 2017 in the comedy-drama The meaning of the party. by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. A role that earned him a César nomination for most promising actor.
He then starred in successful French films, such as my stranger by Hugo Gélin or Antoinette in the Cévennes by Caroline Vignal, then plays the lead roles in The speech by Laurent Tirard, Great expectations by Sylvain Desclous, Abbé Pierre: a life of struggle and in the comedy released last year with 2.5 million viewers, with fanfare.
Last Wednesday, Canal+ and the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Techniques had already announced that the Canadian-American Jim Carrey had been chosen to receive the Honorary César on the Olympia stage. The nominees for the 51st Caesar ceremony have not yet been revealed.
Source: BFM TV
