Actress Nicole Kidman will receive an honorary César in 2027

The 2027 Césars are expanding. The breathtaking Vincent Dedienne will host the ceremony, which will be chaired by America's favorite French actress, Léa Seydoux. Canal + reveals Thursday, November 12 that they will have the opportunity to pay tribute, as an honorary César, to the Australian-American actress Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge, Big Little Lies).

“Hollywood star and major figure in auteur cinema, Nicole Kidman has built a career that defies categories. She has collaborated with filmmakers as different as Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Lars von Trier, Baz Luhrmann and Yorgos Lanthimos, among many others,” said the encrypted channel, which will broadcast the ceremony on February 25, 2027, in a press release.

Last February, the master of ceremonies paid tribute to Jim Carrey, the Honorary César, even imitating some of his cult scenes. It is less likely that Vincent Dedienne will slip into the costume of Satine, the courtesan and cabaret actress played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge, in 2001.

From France, Nicole Kidman knows the world of cabarets, but also the Cannes Festival, where she has visited numerous times and where in 2017 she received the special 70th anniversary prize (a one-off honorary trophy). The Chanel muse starred in front of the camera of French filmmaker Olivier Dahan in 2014, for Grace de Monaco. By awarding him this Honorary César, CANAL+ and the Academy wish to pay tribute to a personality “who never let his star status dictate his artistic choices”.