Audrey Diwan and Florian Zeller to choose the French film for the 2025 Oscars

The commission is meeting today to select 3 to 5 films.

How not to repeat the mistake Anatomy of a Fall ? The CNC is looking for solutions to improve the choice of French films that will represent France at the Oscars. And it has just revealed the list of the new commission in charge of the selection.

Eleven members (elected for 2 years) will now be part of it, as announced a few weeks ago. Among them are Carole Baraton (Charades), Nadim Cheikhroua (Tanit Films), Michèle Halberstadt (ARP Sélection), Grégoire Melin (Kinology), David Thion (Les Films Pelléas), Rosalie Varda (Ciné-Tamaris), Patrick Wachsberger (Picture Perfect), but also the French actress who has worked extensively in Hollywood, Clemence Poesyas well as the director and screenwriter Florian Zellerawarded an Oscar (for The Father) and the director and screenwriter Audrey Diwancrowned in Venice with the Golden Lion for The Event.

A choice that is not insignificant since Audrey Diwan had not been selected for the 2022 Oscars. Despite the very positive buzz generated by her film on abortion, it is Titanium by Julia Ducournau, who had been preferred by the commission at the time, logically choosing the reigning Palme d'Or to defend France's chances. Bad choice. Titanium had been rejected and not even nominated. So two years later, when it was necessary to choose between the ode to French cuisine Dodin Bouffant and the Palme d'Or Anatomy of a Fallthe new commission decided not to go for the most obvious choice, putting aside Justine Triet's legal thriller for the very beautiful film by Trần Anh Hùng. Another failure: whileAnatomy of a fall cwould conquer America, Dodin Bouffant was rejected from nominations…

The experience ofAudrey Diwan should therefore be important in choosing the representative of France at the Oscars 2025. And it will start today. The commission is meeting this Wednesday, September 11, to select 3 to 5 films, whose teams will be auditioned on Wednesday, September 18. The choice will be made at the end of these auditions.