I’ve diligently transferred all the existing video clips of Marion at public appearances from the old to the new archive – bringing the total count in the new archive to 110. I’ve also added 4 new clips: 2006 Cannes Festival, 2007 Hollywood Awards Interview (by a rather ignorant reporter…) and 2009 Oscars Backstage & Red Carpet.

And here’s the transcript of what Marion said to Kate Winslet during the recent Oscar ceremony:

Kate Winslet, with each new role you continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Your brilliant performance in “The Reader” encompasses all the qualities that have always drawn us to you: passion, vulnerability and extraordinary depth. As your character move through time, love and the most dire of circumstances we, as your audience Kate, never lose a connection to you. This is yet another unforgettable portrait from one of our most gifted actresses and one of our most inspiring. Thank you!

And something cute I found online:

Fresh off her emotional acceptance speech, best actress Oscar winner Kate Winslet was still shaking when she came backstage.

“Oh my God. Oh my god. Did I make any sense?” she asked presenter Marion Cotillard.
“Totally. Don’t worry,” Cotillard, last year’s winner, told her.
“I’ve got to phone my kids,” Winslet, still shaking, said as she headed toward a hallway.

036 Award Ceremonies
005 Other Public Appearances

Remember last October, how we posted that one of Marion’s first roles would air on TV? Ever helpful Paolo recorded Théo La Tendresse for us and now, half a year later, I finally added screencaptures and 3 clips with Marion Cotillard as Laura, protagonist Théo’s daughter.

Tonight, Marion Cotillard’s movie debut – the 1994 movie L’histoire du garçon qui voulait qu’on l’embrasse (Die Geschichte des Jungen, der geküsst werden wollte) – will air on German TV chain ARD at 1.45am. Hopefully, we’ll be able to provide caps of this as well.

Gallery: 240 Théo la tendresse: La Nouvelle de la semaine – 1996 > Screencaptures
Video: 003 Movie & TV Clips – Théo La Tendresse

I came across another music video with Marion Cotillard. Back in April 1990 a 14 year old Marion could be seen in the music video Petite Fille by French punk rock/psychobilly band Les Wampas. Back then the music video was quite popular and aired often on French TV chain M6. The video clip is a bonus on the band’s DVD Les Wampas – Never trust a DVD!

I added screencaptures and the hilarious clip to the media parts of the site. While I was at it I also replaced the caps of Marion in Hawksley Workman’s 2004 music video No Reason To Cry Out Your Eyes (On The Highway Tonight) with better ones and added both this clip as well as Givin’ Up (2003) to the video archive.

If you know of any other video clips Marion Cotillard appeared in, please don’t hesitate to inform me about them – it’d be much appreciated!

Gallery Links:
031 Petite Fille – 1990
064 No Reason To Cry Out Your Eyes – 2004

Video Link:
003 Music Videos

I transferred all the movie trailers & clips of projects with Marion Cotillard from the old video archive and added also a few more, all I could find, actually. Among them a rare trailer for “Lisa“. There are now also French trailers for “A Good Year” and “Big Fish” as she provided her voice for the French versions as well. I also added a few trailers with either English audio or subtitles, e.g. for “Mary” or “Burnt Out“. In addition, I added some DVD Extras for “Jeux d’enfants“, “Taxi 2“, “La Boîte Noire” and “Les Jolies Choses“. There are now a total of 63 videos in the new archive – more to come!

I’ve installed a new Video Archive. Huge thank you goes to my wonderful host Fan-Sites.org, who’s hosting the media part of the website! I hope you’ll love the fact that you’ll be able to directly play the videos instead of having to download & unzip them first as much as I! Over the coming days the old archive will be transferred to the new one.

I’ve also taken the opportunity to some videos of Marion Cotillard during the recent Oscars. Thanks Mariana for recording one of the red carpet interviews!

Videos: Awards Ceremonies (81st Academy Awards)

[edit March 7:] I’ve enabled user registration so that rating and commenting of the pictures work. Let’s see how long we can escape the spam, otherwise I’ll have to disable it again. Have fun!

I have for you a clip of Marion Cotillard’s entire presentation at the BAFTA ceremony this past Sunday as well as screencaps of the show. A number of times when a winner made his way to the stage on the right side of the alley Marion could quickly be spotted. I’ve also added captures of these moments.

Gallery: Orange British Academy Film Awards – 2009
Video: Public Appearances > 2009 (also on YouTube)

TF1 aired a Marion Cotillard special during their programme 50min inside. Nothing really new except you can see her arrive at the Paris Fashion Week a month ago and some new excerpts from almost 2 year old interviews. The rest of the clip shows various French journalists talk about her life after the Oscars and when she will return to France.

Remember back in February when we linked to an article about Hawksley Workman that mentioned him having “spent some time in Los Angeles working and writing songs with Golden Globe winning actress Marion Cotillard”? Well, these new songs for Cartier LOVE (Hawksley also recorded an original song) could really be the result. I found this on HawksleyWorkman.com:

While you’re there, make sure you also check out Oscar winner Marion Cotillard’s Hawksley-produced effort “The Strong Ones”.

Also, could it be that it’s him who’s providing the background vocals on Marion’s track?

To find out what exactly those LOVE bracelets are that all of these songs are advertising check out this article at Paste Magazine. And if you have trouble downloading the song from the Cartier website go here.

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

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