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20th César Awards

1995 cinema awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ896972 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 20th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1994 and took place on 25 February 1995 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Alain Delon and hosted by Jean-Claude Brialy and Pierre Tchernia. Wild Reeds won the award for Best Film.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “20th César Awards” as 1995 cinema awards ceremony. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 20th, César and Awards can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1995 cinema awards ceremony. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q896972. Authority coordinates are 48.879, 2.283. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “20th César Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.