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)

The first pictures of Marion Cotillard at the César Awards in Paris tonight. Keep checking back for more and for news of the actual awards ceremony!

Update 11.25 pm Marion Cotillard won!!!!! Congratulations!

Update February 23 Added many more pictures – bringing the total count of the César Awards album up to 174. Check out the pictures at the end of the album where Mélanie Laurent is congratulating Marion and where Best Supporting Actress winner and Toi et moi co-star Julie Depardieu is greeting Marion and posing with her for photographers.

2 days to go till the Césars are handed out – and only 4 days till the Oscars are here. What will the weekend bring for Marion Cotillard? 99.9% she’ll win a César. How many French awards are out there? She won at the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, was awarded 2 NRJ awards by the French public and won the Prix Lumière. However, fellow César-nominee Cécile de France won Best Actress at the Globes de Cristal and Marion had to share the Etoile d’Or – handed out by French critics – with another fellow César-nominee: Isabelle Carré. La Môme – or as it’s known internationally La Vie en Rose – came to French cinemas more than a year ago. Could it be that the French have already forgotten Marion’s excellent performance? I dare say they haven’t. And how could Marion not win the biggest award in her home country when she’s winning major awards abroad?

As for the Oscar I am still hopeful. All the votes are in and being counted right now. Who will be named Best Actress? All the ‘insider’ publications and ‘movie buff’ blogs say it’s going to be either Julie Christie or Marion Cotillard. Whenever the general public has a say in it Ellen Page comes up as well. I seriously think Marion has a chance of winning Best Actress and it would be very well deserved. Out of the many articles about Oscar predictions you can read online you might want to check out this Reuters article (thanks Asia) that puts Marion in the spotlight.

Whatever happens this weekend I’m sure Marion will savour every minute of it! Surely no win or loss can improve or lessen her magnifique performance. She’s always been a talented actress and regardless of what Film Academies and the like have to say now she will always continue to shine!

See a scan from British Evening Standard magazine about Marion’s fashion style this season here . Remember that all the scans and many other pictures in the gallery are HQ – but only registered and logged-in visitors are able to see the full versions.

Thanks to Mariana from Eva Green Web you can read the first batch of those quotes from the current French Première magazine in English here. Many thanks!

I’ve added my own scans of Marion Cotillard re-enacting a scene from ‘Psycho’ in the Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair. Also big thanks to joliechose who sent me scans of the new issue of French Premiere magazine. It features Marion on the cover and is full of lovely quotes from people who’ve had the privilege of working with her over the years, including Dikkenek co-star Mélanie Laurent. Again, is anybody able to send in a good translation of this? If not, I’ll be trying my own luck on it soon.

There’s also a preview of the upcoming documentary about Marion on the La Vie en Rose promotion tour ‘Mon Clown’. Strangely, it gives a different date for it: March 7 as opposed to the previously announced March 14. If anyone knows which is the ‘real’ date please do let us know!

And a new TV alert: French TV channel M6 will be airing a portrait documentary about Marion Cotillard on March 1, 11.30 am. (source)

07 Premiere (France) – March
02 Vanity Fair (US) – March

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

Prior to the actual scans of the new Elle issue I’ve added the portrait session to the gallery. While there are no new pictures (yet) it features most of the ones from the actual magazine in quite good quality. Additionally, I’ve added some older – and very gorgeous – sessions. Enjoy!

09 2007: Session 007
01 2005: Session 004
04 2003: Session 004
02 2001: Session 001
08 2000: Session 001
04 1999: Session 001, Session 002
02 Unsorted: Session 009

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

The last scan update for today. February issues of both the US and the Italian Men’s Vogue feature Marion Cotillard.

03 Men’s Vogue (US) – February
02 L’Uomo Vogue (Italy) – February

Another Media Alert: Marion is featured in the March issue of US Elle in a 14 (!) page photo spread. See scans of the gorgeous pictures at the Fashion Spot Forum. Thanks Mycah for the heads up and Jen for the link. Scans will come soon to the gallery here.

I have now added scans of all the magazines I have and that were published in 2007 and 2008 and feature Marion. Do you have some magazines that are missing? Could you maybe scan them and contribute to the site? I’d be very thankful. I will soon – not making any promises as to when, though – start scanning earlier publications.

In one of our recent updates there was a mention of Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable. You can watch the video and read a transcript on their website – the transcript is also in our press archive.

The day before it was removed from the newsstand, I accidentally came across an issue of German magazine called Stern reporting on this event. Of course I had to buy it and scan it for the site! The article is a translated and shortened version of the afore-mentioned transcript. To make things even better I also added the outtakes of the photos used in the magazine (and in a previous issue of Newsweek) to the gallery.

08 Stern (Germany) February 7
24 Session 005

I have spent a tremendous amount of time this afternoon scanning various magazines featuring Marion Cotillard. In this first batch there’s nothing totally new but nevertheless I’m sure you will be enjoying them.

02 Obs Télé (France) – January 6-12, 2007
02 Harper’s Bazaar (Australia) – August, 2007
02 Mean (US) – November, 2007 first mention in an English publication of the Karim Dridi Project
01 Elle (France) – December 31, 2007
02 Elle (France) – January 21, 2008
05 Stella (UK) – January 27, 2008 scans to this article
02 Studio (France) – February, 2008
02 Maxi (Germany) – March, 2008