Léa Seydoux will chair the 52nd César ceremony

The French actress will succeed Camille Cottin as president of the ceremony, which will be held on Thursday February 25, 2027 at the Olympia, live on Canal+.

It’s a new stage in a career that has no shortage of them.

Léa Seydoux will chair the 52nd César ceremony, announced Canal+ and the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques.

The meeting is set for Thursday February 25, 2027, on the Olympia stage, with a clear, live broadcast on Canal+.

For more than twenty years, the actress has navigated between French auteur cinema and international productions. She distinguished herself in particular in The Beautiful Person by Christophe Honoré and Belle Épine by Rebecca Zlotowski, before gaining international recognition with The Life of Adèle by Abdellatif Kechiche. In 2013, the Cannes Festival jury, chaired by Steven Spielberg, awarded the Palme d’Or to the film as well as to its director and its two actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. A first in the history of the festival.

The actress has also joined several major Hollywood franchises. After Robin Hood by Ridley Scott and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol by Brad Bird, she played Madeleine Swann in 007 Ghost And Dying can waitbefore joining the universe of Dune by Denis Villeneuve, in the role of Lady Margot Fenring.

Nominated five times for the César and once for the BAFTA, she was also a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.

In 2026, Léa Seydoux is starring in The Unknown by Arthur Harari. We will soon find her in Gentle Monster by Marie Kreutzer and The Masque of the Red Death by Charlie Polinger.