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

First of all my apologies for all the downtime you are currently experiencing with the site. It is all because of the massive increase of visitors since Marion’s historical moment at the 80th Academy Awards. I hope the site’ll soon work a lot better again. I myself am still trying to get some much needed sleep here and there and am feeling totally out of my usual rhythm. But thinking of Marion Cotillard’s win at the Oscars is still making me smile so much! She was only the second French actress ever to receive the coveted statuette as Best Actress and also only the second actress – after Sophia Loren for an Italian film – to receive an Oscar in the Best Actress category for a performance that isn’t in English. Oh, and of course she is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.

Wasn’t her speech adorable? While her BAFTA acceptance speech was dominated by genuine surprise and shock I felt she seemed almost fragile and definitely overcome by emotions when accepting the César in her home country. But at the Oscars she was simply full of joy! And I loved her ‘poetic’ reference to the angels.

Oh — thank you so much. Olivier, what you did to me, Maestro Olivier Dahan, you rocked my life. You truly rocked my life. Thank you so much to Picturehouse for your passion, members of the Academy, thank you so, so much. And — wow. Well, I’m speechless now. I — I — well, I — thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city. Thank you so, so much.
Special online thanks Hylda, Bryna, Mara, Laurent, Bastien, I love you!
source: Oscar.com

Canada.com named this the best acceptance speech of the evening – giving it a grade A-.

Length: 47 seconds
Quote: “Thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city.”
Wins marks for: Her display of pure joy. Witness her thanks to La Vie En Rose writer/director Olivier Dahan: “Olivier, you rocked my life. You truly rocked my life!”
Loses marks for: Saying she was “speechless” in the middle of her, um, speech and then continuing to go on. Aaah well, English ain’t her first language.

In addition to the already added clip of the Thank You Cam – where Marion quickly says a few thank yous in French – I’ve now also added the full video of the Pressroom interview. She answers questions about her performance and about the now finished awards season. She says that she’s totally overwhelmed with joy and sparkles and fireworks and everything that goes like ‘boom boom boom’, names Peter Sellers, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Toni Colette among others as her favourite actors and concludes by choosing the song ‘Padam’ by Edith Piaf as the one that best describes her feelings at the moment. And she sings a few notes of the song. Be sure to download the video – it is a must-see!

President of France Nicolas Sarkozy congratulates Marion Cotillard in an official statement (Full statement on AmbaFrance):

I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Marion Cotillard, who has just received the Oscar for Best Actress for her masterful interpretation of Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”, directed by Olivier Dahan.

Half a century after Simone Signoret, a French artist has received the Best Actress award at the Oscars. It was a good omen that Catherine Allegret, Simone Signoret’s daughter, herself had a role in “La Vie en Rose”.

Marion Cotillard embodies an Edith Piaf who is unsettling in her realism, emotion and passion. Her interpretation brings to life the story of a woman who gave French song its acclaim and authenticity; a singer, too, who closely united France and America.

I have almost 300 additional pictures from the Oscars saved to my computer. I will soon upload them to the site – so stay tuned!

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:

Many thanks to joliechose for sending in HQ files of Marion Cotillard’s acceptance speech during the 33rd César Awards as well as her interview with Laurent Weil before the ceremony. I’ve thus been able to add really good quality caps of those to the gallery and as usual mq video clips to the Video Vault. Thanks to Paolo I’ve also added tiny bits of Marion’s interviews after her win as shown on France 2 and TF1 in their news reports. Additionally, there’s a small clip of Marion attending the César Nominees dinner a week ago as well as 2 French news reports: Journal d’Hollywood and JT13h.

108 Journal d’Hollywood, on Canal+, February 9, 2008
014 33rd César Awards – Nominees Dinner, February 13, 2008
015 JT13H, on France 2, February 22, 2008
085 33rd César Awards – Interview with Laurent Weil, February 22, 2008
142 33rd César Awards – Ceremony, February 22, 2008
031 ‘Après Césars’, France 2 & TF1, February 23, 2008

Video Links:
03 News segments etc > 2008 (Journal d’Hollywood, JT13h, Après Césars)
03 Public Appearances > 2008 (César Nominees Dinner, Interview Laurent Weil, César Awards)

Today’s other update is all about Marion Cotillard’s recent Talk Show appearances. Of course there was the interview on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson back in January, which we finally have screencaptures and a clip of, and then 2 interviews on AMC’s programme Shootout. Big thanks goes to Mycah for recording the second of those – the Oscar Nominees Special – for the site and sending in caps & a clip. These are all very lovely clips so be sure to watch!

062 Shootout Palm Springs Film Festival, January 5, 2008 on AMC
180 The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, January 8, 2008 on CBS
117 Shootout Oscar Nominees Special, February 15, 2008 on AMC – screencaps by Mycah
003 Videos: Talk Shows – 2008

Thanks to Gabriel – visitor of Marion Cotillard’s Road to Oscar – for the heads up. French TV channel Canal+ aired a new interview with Marion Cotillard and La Vie en Rose director Olivier Dahan on Saturday as part of their César nominee special. It seems to have been recorded at the same time as the César nominees dinner took place on Wednesday. Marion Cotillard seems very exhausted – no doubt due to her recent cold which surely isn’t getting better quickly with all the travelling across continents and jetlag. I hope she’ll soon feel better. Also, the interviewer in my opinion should have tried to ask different questions when she realized both of her interviewees weren’t going to give her the answers she was looking for. Nevertheless, it is an interesting watch and in the intro montage you can spot some footage of the ‘Public Enemies’ costume fitting.

303 Screencaptures: Exterieur Jour – 2008, February 16 on Canal+
001 Video: Talk Shows – 2008 watch original here

I think I have now finished adding all the pictures and videos of Marion Cotillard at last Sunday’s BAFTA Awards. Due to the high amount of pictures of Marion on the red carpet, in the pressroom and attending after parties – mostly HQ – I decided to divide them into 3 different albums. Additionally to adding a video of Marion presenting an award to Javier Bardem I’ve also replaced the existing clip of her own win with one that includes the full presentation speech of Harvey Keitel and the clip from La Vie en Rose. Finally, there’s a clip called ‘Various’ – it includes small glimpses of Marion on the red carpet, Eva Green, Keira Knightley and Daniel Day-Lewis mentioning Marion and Marion’s comment about being confused with Keira by fans on the red carpet.

If you have any additional pictures/clips please feel free to send them in. Also, does anybody have a better quality clip of Marion’s acceptance speech? Could you in that case please send in screencaptures? That’d be awesome!

040 The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2008
080 The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2008 – Pressroom
071 The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2008 – After Parties
003 Videos Public Appearances – 2008 – BAFTA

I’ve started adding pictures of Marion Cotillard at the BAFTA Awards and I’ve also come across 2 lovely interviews. One features a thrilled and over-joyed Marion facing the press after her win and the other is an interview together with Keira Knightley on the red carpet before the ceremony by Sky News. Thanks to KeiraWeb for that one.

If you have any additional videos and especially her acceptance speech please don’t hesitate to send it in! We’d all be soo thankful

42 The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2008
05 Videos Public Appearances – 2008 – BaFTA [edit: Thanks to KeiraWeb we have more videos - incl. the absolutely adoring acceptance speech]

It’s very busy in the world of Marion Cotillard right now – and I’m barely able to keep up. I’m trying to catch up on all the news today. For now, I’ve updated the Video Vault with new videos from Marion at the Critics Choice Awards, DGA Awards, SAG Awards and 2008 Virtuosos Awards. Thanks to Mycah, Mariana and Roberta for their help in getting & encoding some of the clips.

008 Videos – Latest Updates – Public Appearances 2008

Many thanks to everyone who informed me about Marion Cotillard’s appearance on Oprah last Thursday. She was lovely and radiant. Thanks to Spark I’ve uploaded a video and screencaptures of this to the site. Many thanks. And Mariana sent in the E! News video clip.

001 Video – News Segments etc – E! News
001 Video – Talk Shows – Oprah
147 Oprah – 2008