Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose has secured 11 Cesar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard's portrayal of French icon Edith Piaf.

Other Best Picture contenders for France's highest film honor include Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud's Persepolis (also up for an Oscar for Animated Feature), Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and Claude Miller's Un Secret. Schabel, who won the directing prize in Cannes, is also nominated for a Best Directing Cesar, as well as the Oscar.

Diving Bell took a total 7 nominations while Persepolis grabbed six just ahead of La Graine with 5. (See full list below.)

Also up for the Cesar directing prize are Kechiche, Miller and Andre Techine for Les Temoins.

Vying for Best Actor are Diving Bell's Mathieu Amalric, Michel Blanc for Andre Techine's Les Temoins, Jean-Pierre Darroussin for Jean Becker's Dialogue Avec Mon Jardinier, Vincent Lindon for Anne Le Ny's Ceux Qui Restent and Jean-Pierre Marielle for Faut Que Ca Danse! by Noemie Lvovsky.

Those joining Cotillard in the Best Actress category are Isabelle Carre for Michel Spinosa's Anna M., Cecile de France for Un Secret, Marina Fois for Christine Carriere's Darling and Catherine Frot for Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Odette Toulemonde.

Cotillard is also nominated for a Best Actress Oscar while La Vie has garnered nods in the make up and costume design categories as well.

The 33rd Cesar awards ceremony will be held on February 22 in Paris.

Best French Film
La Graine Et Le Mulet, dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
La Vie En Rose, dir. Olivier Dahan
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, dir. Julian Schnabel
Persepolis, dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Un Secret, dir. Claude Miller

Best Director
Abdellatif Kechiche, La Graine et le mulet
Olivier Dahan, La Vie En Rose
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Andre Techine, Les Temoins
Claude Miller, Un secret

Best Actor
Vincent Lindon, Ceux Qui Restent
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dialogue Avec Mon Jardinier
Jean-Pierre Marielle, Faut Que Ca Danse!
Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Michel Blanc, Les Temoins

Best Actress
Isabelle Carre, Anna M.
Marina Fois, Darling
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Catherine Frot, Odette Toulemonde
Cecile de France, Un Secret

Best Supporting Actor
Laurent Stocker, Ensemble, C'est Tout
Pascal Greggory, La Vie En Rose
Michael Lonsdale, La Question Humaine
Sami Bouajila, Les Temoins
Fabrice Luchini, Moliere

Best Supporting Actress
Noemie Lvovsky, Actrices
Bulle Ogier, Faut Que Ca Danse!
Sylvie Testud, La Vie En Rose
Julie Depardieu, Un Secret
Ludivine Sagnier, Un Secret

Most Promising Young Talent (Male)
Jocelyn Quivrin, 99 F
Laurent Stocker, Ensemble, C'est Tout
Nicolas Cazale, Le Fils De L'Epicier
Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Les Chansons D'Amour
Johan Libereau, Les Temoins

Most Promising Young Talent (Female)
Hafsia Herzi, La Graine Et Le Mulet
Clotilde Hesme, Les Chansons D'Amour
Adele Haenel, Water Lillies
Louise Blachere, Water Lillies
Audrey Dana, Roman De Gare

Best Original Screenplay
2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
Ceux Qui Restent, Anne Le Ny
La Graine Et Le Mulet, Abdellatif Kechiche
La Vie En Rose, Olivier Dahan
Moliere, Laurent Tirard, Gregoire Vigneron

Best Adapted Screenplay
Darling, Christine Carriere
Ensemble, C'est Tout, Claude Berri
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Ronald Harwood
Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Un Secret, Natalie Carter, Claude Miller

Best First Film
Ceux Qui Restent, Jean-Philippe Andraca
Ceux Qui Restent, Christian Berard
Ceux Qui Restent, Anne Le Ny
Et Toi, T'es Sur Qui', Lola Doillon, Saga Blanchard
Water Lillies, Celine Sciamma, Benedicte Couvreur, Jerome Dopffer
Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud, Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert, Marjane Satrapi
Tout Est Pardonne, Philippe Martin, David Thion, Mia Hansen-Love

Best Foreign Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu
The Edge Of Heaven, Fatih Akin
We Own The Night, James Gray
The Lives Of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg

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