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This great news just came in via Variety:

The Hollywood Film Festival has tapped Marion Cotillard to receive its Hollywood Breakthrough Actress of the Year Award.

Kudo will be presented at the festival’s Oct. 22 awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.

The org cited Cotillard’s performance in Olivier Dahan’s “La Vie en rose.” Previous recipients of the Hollywood breakthrough honors include Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal, Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts.

Everyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose already (the film has just opened in the UK and USA) will agree that her performance is worthy of every award out there. So it will come as no surprise to us that Marion Cotillard has been awarded the award (Swann d’0r which means Golden Swan) for Best Actress at the 21st Cabourg Romantic Film Festival in France on June 16. This is certainly the first of many more to come. Congratulations!!!

Awarded the Best Actor trophy was Guillaume Canet. The 2 visited the festival before – also together – in 2003 to promote Love Me If You Dare.

Considering Marion Cotillard hasn’t signed up for a new project to follow up ‘La Môme’ yet and her statement that she would like to take a break for a while you may find the following interesting: A local newspaper reports her saying at the festival that she still has “a ‘hunger’ for new roles and more beautiful stories to tell”. Isn’t that a relief?

Many thanks for the help with the pictures goes once again to Mariana!

005 21st Cabourg Romantic Film Festival – Various
036 21st Cabourg Romantic Film Festival – Ceremony

Marion Cotillard flew from Cannes to New York to attend the ‘proper’ New York premiere of ‘La Vie en Rose‘ on May 31. Remember, there was one back in February this year during the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. This time the event was organized by the film’s US distributor Picturehouse and Chanel. The day before she also attended the premiere of another Picturehouse film ‘Gracie’. Check out the pictures in the gallery (many thanks go out to Mariana)!

041 ‘La Môme’ Premiere by Chanel & Picturehouse
010 ‘Gracie’ New York Premiere