I have had some additional videos in relation to the recent Oscars sitting around on my computer. I finally organized them for the Video Vault and made screencaptures of some for the gallery. Be sure to check out the videos – apart from covering Marion Cotillard’s Oscar win they also show footage of ‘Taxi’ premieres, interviews from early last year and from when Marion attended a screening of ‘La Môme’ with her grandmother.

Unfortunately, the gallery system has encountered some kind of problem – it won’t let me add any new pictures. I’ve tried every solution I was able to find in the application’s support forums. However, nothing helped. During the 8 months I’ve been using this system it’s not the first time it’s been playing weird. So despite the advantages – disable hotlinking to full sized versions especially – I’ve decided to move the pictures to a fabulous Coppermine installation. Of course this will take some time but both versions will be accessible. Whatever gets removed from the old gallery can be found in the new one.

Gallery links:
091 JT20H (RTL) – 25/02/2008
104 JT20H (La Une) – 25/02/2008
042 France 3 – 23/02/2008
149 80th Academy Awards – Ceremony
255 80th Academy Awards – Red Carpet many thanks Mycah for your help

Video links:
06 News Segments many thanks Paolo and Mariana for your help
01 Public Appearances – Oscars 2008 many thanks Paolo for your help

Remember: everybody that receives French Channel Canal + will be able to see Bastien Duval’s exclusive Marion Cotillard documentary – about her life during the worldwide La Vie en Rose promotion tour and the recent awards season – called Mon Clown tonight at 11.05 pm.

For everyone else – myself included – I have another special treat: The March issue of Italian Vogue features a 22 page long editorial called ‘Divina’ featuring none other than Marion! Discover the 11 new pictures from a spectacular photoshoot by Peter Lindbergh in the gallery. (We’ve already seen another picture of the same session in the February issue of Italian’s Men’s Vogue).

Kindly do not redistribute these scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were obtained exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

022 Vogue (Italy) – March 2008

Some more scans. This time from the French Glamour – where Marion is gracing the cover on the April issue. Nothing really new inside. It’s a report about the public events she attended before the Oscars. Although the picture with the byline ‘a true US star’ is actually from the 6th Marrakech International Film Festival that took place back in December 2006 – even from before La Vie en Rose had its world premiere…

Then a fabulous photoshoot that was published on the day of the Oscars in the Los Angeles Times. I actually did my best to attempt a good quality scan of the oversized newspaper article but I’m afraid it could be better. Finally, I’ve added 2 clippings from German magazines Welt and Bild sent in by Benjamin. Many thanks!

07 Glamour (France) – April
01 Los Angeles Times (US) – February 24
02 Various Clippings 2008

Regarding the title… I only have Marion Cotillard’s recent wins at the César and Academy Awards ceremonies in mind. Here the promised scans – most of them are of publications that feature Marion Cotillard’s name if not also her picture on the cover: Elle (March 3), Le Figaro Magazine (March 1), France Dimanche (February 29), Point de Vue (February 27), and Los Angeles Times (February 25).

Mariana sent in a scan of British Night & Day of Marion’s BAFTA win – and I’ve added some other miscellanous scans as well to the Clippings album.

Thanks to Mimi we also have scans of VSD. Many thanks! The article reports that Marion apparently declined a publicity contract for a famous cosmetics brand – because it is on Greenpeace’s black list.

Ok, I’ve finished sorting and resizing all the remaining pictures from the Oscars and the after parties. Many thanks to the always wonderful Mariana for some of the pictures. Enjoy!

112 80th Academy Awards – Backstage & Pressroom
016 80th Annual Academy Awards – Governor’s Ball
049 16th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party

Obviously, Marion Cotillard’s Best Actress win at the Oscars is making headlines throughout the world. I’ve now added scans of the most recent issues of Vanity Fair Germany and Paris Match – both feature Marion on the cover. The latter also features an interesting interview with Marion’s dad: Jean-Claude Cotillard (see scan #11).

Remember that although the scans are tagged I am happy to see a link back to this site here should you decide to post them in e.g. a messageboard. I have come across a number of my scans – especially rare ones such as the Japanese magazine features – having been posted on various places uncredited and with illegible tags. Buying and scanning magazines is something I enjoy doing for a fansite but it costs money and time. So instead of simply taking them for your own use please take the additional time of maybe commenting on here how much you appreciate them and add a link back to Magnifique Marion Cotillard should you post them someplace else. It would be much appreciated!

05 Vanity Fair (Germany) – February 28
12 Paris Match (France) – February 28 – March 5

To pass the time here some new scans with accompanying articles in French as well as from the previously updated about 2008 Oscar Portfolio by The New York Times Magazine. I hadn’t realized they dedicated 4 pages to Marion Cotillard! This is fantastic – to have a quite major & popular US publication show so much love for Marion before her Oscar win! Ellen Page was on the cover and had 1 page inside, and Julie Christie as well as many others ‘only’ had one single page dedicated to them. Some had double pages.

06 Elle (France) – February 25
02 Gala (France) – February 20
04 The New York Times Magazine (US) – February 10

France’s Le Grand Journal interviewed Marion Cotillard about her Oscar win. The interview was aired Tuesday eveing on Canal+. I’ve added the HQ clip as well as screencaptures. Among other things – such as ‘was her thank you speech prepared?’ – we learn that she flew to Chicago today to start work on ‘Public Enemies’ – her new movie with Johnny Depp and by Michael Mann.

For a full English translation read Delsa‘s comment on a similar entry – containing a YouTube version of the same video – on Marion Cotillard ‘s Road to Oscar.

I suppose Marion was giving some interviews for US television programmes too. Has anybody been able to catch any? Reports about them, pics or even clips would be most welcome!

335 Le Grand Journal, February 25, 2008 on Canal+
Video: Talk Shows > 2008

I’ve added many more pictures of Marion Cotillard arriving at the Oscars as well as from during the ceremony. The album 80th Academy Awards – Arrivals & Ceremony now contains 140 pictures. Note the pictures of Marion and Cate Blanchett greeting each other on the red carpet as well as Helen Mirren and George Clooney congratulating her after her Best Actress win. I’ll soon add the photos from the Pressroom and the after parties too.

4.30 pm/1.30 am: Marion Cotillard has been spotted on the red carpet! She’s looking absolutely glamourous and beautiful in a low-cut white dress and a kind of an old-Hollywood hairdo!

4.37 pm/1.37 am: The fashion lady from E! loves Marion’s dress! It’s Jean Paul Gaultier by the way. In the interview she talks about living in the presence and enjoying every minute as well as about her American accent for her role of Billie in ‘Public Enemies’.

5.35 pm/2.35 am: It’s getting earlier and earlier over here. But I’ve added 11 gorgeous HQ pictures to the 80th Academy Awards folder in the gallery.

7.13 pm/4.13 am: MARION COTILLARD WINS THE OSCAR!!!!!!

7.16 pm/4.16 am: Warmest congratulations again! I’m sooo happy! As luck would have it my internet connection decided to act weird in the middle of Marion’s speech Also I couldn’t get it recorded. Sorry! In the meantime I have some other interviews for you, incl. the interview by E! News:

10.13 pm/7.13 am: Thanks to Mycah we have a HQ clip of Marion’s acceptance speech: