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It's Oscar season! French-language films have been well-represented at the Oscars. Beginning with Maurice Chevalier in 1929, 352 French-language films or films featuring French-speaking actors and actresses have been nominated for an Academy Award and 97 films have won. A sampling of nominations and winners include: ​

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Actors and Actresses 

• Charles Boyer

  • Maria Walewska (1937)

  • Algiers (1938)

  • Gaslight (1944)

  • Fanny (1961)

• Jean Dujardin

  • The Artist (2011) WON

• Claudette Colbert 

  • It Happened One Night (1934) WON

  • Private Worlds (1935)

  • Since You Went Away (1944) 

• Leslie Caron

  • Lili (1953)

  • The L-Shaped Room (1963)

• Simone Signonet

  • Room at the Top (1959) WON

  • Ship of Fools (1965)

• Marion Cotillard

  • La Vie en Rose (2008)

  • Two Days, One Night (2014)

• Isabelle Huppert

  • Elle (2016)

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Best International Feature Film Winners

• Mon Oncle (1958)

• Orfeu Negro (1959)

• Sundays and Cybele (1962)

• A Man and A Woman (1966)

• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

• Day for Night (1973)

• Madame Rosa (1977)

• Cut Out Your Handkerchief (1978)

• Indochine (1992)

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