At the age of 14, he entered the classical guitar class of master Javier Quevedo at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he graduated as a concert performer and was unanimously selected by the jury. Les Choristes is his first feature film, released in 2004.
The film was a huge success, both nationally and internationally (8 César nominations, 2 Oscars).
After Faubourg 36 (2008), La Nouvelle guerre des boutons (2011), and Envole-moi (2021), Christophe Barratier has just released Le Temps des Secrets in March 2022, an adaptation of the third volume of Marcel Pagnol’s childhood memories.
5th Prize for Best Sound Creation
May 17 to 28, 2022
Composition of the Jury
Christophe BARRATIER
Chairman of the Jury
Anne PARILLAUD
Actress
Anne Parillaud made her film debut in Michel Lang’s L’Hôtel de la Plage.
She went on to act in theater, television and cinema, including two films by and with Alain Delon: Pour la peau d’un flic and Le Battant.
Her breakthrough came with Luc Besson’s Nikita, a cult role that won her the César for Best Actress, as well as the David Di Donatello for Best Actress (Italian César) and international recognition.
She also won the Best Actress award for two roles in short films: Désolée pour hier soir (Grand Off de Varsovie) and Millefeuille (Madrid Film Festival).
This year, she published ” The Abused “his commercially successful and critically acclaimed first novel.
He began his career as artistic director of EMI’s classical department, where he worked with such masters as Rostropovitch, Prêtre, Maazel and Bernstein, enriching his musical language and orchestration style.
He has composed some one hundred musical creations for film, theater and television, including the score for Babar, King of the Elephants…
His most recent compositions include scores for some remarkable documentaries (Les Vies d’Albert Camus, De Gaulle, histoire d’un géant, Jack London, Jusqu’au Dernier, Karen Blixen, John Huston), as well as an album dedicated to the celebrated American clarinettist David Krakauer.
Since 2020, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Académie des César.
Greco CASADESUS
Composer, teacher and founding president of the Union des Compositeurs de Musique de Films (UCMF)
Marie MASSIANI
Sound Operator
After studying at Louis Lumière, Marie Massiani joined the legendary Studio Philippe Sarde (Paris ).
She has worked with many directors, including C.Marker, P.DeBroca, J.Becker, O.Assayas, A.Sissako, C.Klapich, B.Jacquot, E.Rochant, R.Pahn, F.Tellier, P.Bokanowski…
Equally attracted to working with images, from shooting to editing, she has since diversified into documentary filmmaking and music videos.
She is in charge of a training course in audiovisual sound at INA.
A leading figure in French broadcasting, Janine Langlois Glandier has headed some of the industry’s most prestigious institutions: Société Française de Production (SFP), France 3, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Pathé.
A keen innovator, she has enthusiastically followed the convergence of television and new technologies.
Since 2004, she has been President of the Mobile Media Forum, which brings together some thirty companies (publishers, operators, manufacturers, content creators, authors’ societies, etc.) concerned by the evolution and development of audiovisual media broadcasting.
Janine LANGLOIS GLANDIER
President of Forum Médias Mobiles
Christian HUGONNET
Founding President of La Semaine du Son Initiator of the Best Sound Creation Award at the Cannes Film Festival
An engineering graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Christian Hugonnet founded the association “La Semaine du Son” in 1998, to educate the general public and raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our sound environment.
A Court of Cassation-approved expert, he has also run a consulting firm in acoustics for auditoriums and recording studios since 1993, and teaches sound recording at various international film schools.
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Best of 2022
Jury statement
“CORSAGE” by MARY KREUTZER AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2022 “Un Certain Regard
Under the aegis of its president, director Christophe BARRATIER, the jury for the 5th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award, made up of actress Anne PARILLAUD, composer Greco CASADESUS, head of sound operations Marie MASSIANI, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the award, unanimously chose to reward Austrian director Mary KREUTZER for her film “Corsage”.
“In consideration of the narrative, aesthetic and semantic virtues of the sound dimension of a cinematographic work, the jury for Best Sound Creation 2022, as part of the “Un Certain Regard” selection, awards its prize to the film “ Corsage ” by Mary Kreutzer, thus distinguishing a sound approach of rare balance, restoring the qualities of voice timbres, period atmospheres, the degree of breaths and silences as much as musical compositions. “
