Nicole Kidman to receive honorary César Award from French film academy

Published on 13 November 2026 - 8:21 GMT+1 Celebrated Australian actress Nicole Kidman is set to receive an honorary César Award – France's highest film honour and the French equivalent to the Oscar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, the French film academy behind the awards, announced the honour alongside broadcaster Canal+, saying the award recognises a perfromer and producer who has never allowed fame to steer the work she chooses. Kidman will receive the award at the 52nd ceremony on 25 February 2027 at the Olympia in Paris. Kidman gained international fame in 1989 with her role in Dead Calm and went on to star in films like Days Of Thunder, Practical Magic, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Others and Dogville. She won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2003 for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, and in 2024 won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Babygirl. Kidman also co-founded Blossom Films, the company behind series including Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers, all of which she also headlined. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Big Little Lies. Previous honours include being named a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2006, receiving Cannes Film Festival’s 70th anniversary prize in 2017, and being feted by the American Film Institute in 2024 with the Lifetime Achievement Award - making her the first Australian to receive it. Away from the screen, Kidman has served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and UN Women goodwill ambassador since 2006. She has helped raise several million dollars for women’s cancer programs, including at Stanford and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The 52nd ceremony of the Césars takes place on 25 February 2027.