Nicole Kidman to Receive Honorary César in Paris

Nicole Kidman will receive an Honorary César, one of France's top film honours, at the 52nd César Ceremony in Paris in February, according to Deadline.

The honorary prize goes to film figures for a body of work rather than a single film. It joins a list of recent recipients that Deadline also named: Cate Blanchett in 2022, David Fincher in 2023, Christopher Nolan in 2024, Julia Roberts in 2025 and Jim Carrey in 2026.

Kidman's own record already includes some of the biggest prizes in the business. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2003 for playing the writer Virginia Woolf in The Hours. In 2024 she took the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, one of the top acting prizes there, for Babygirl.

She is also a producer. Kidman co-founded the production company Blossom Films, which made Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers. She acted in all three of those projects too, so the company's work sits alongside her own performances rather than apart from them.

For anyone who follows the awards calendar, the César is France's equivalent of the Academy Awards, and its honorary prizes are usually handed out on the night of the main ceremony. The 52nd edition is set for Paris, with the February date that Deadline reported. Honorary recipients are typically announced well ahead of the event, which gives the ceremony time to plan tributes and travel.

What this means in practice is simple. Kidman will stand on a Paris stage in February to receive one of French cinema's highest honours, adding it to a career that has moved between Hollywood studio films, prestige television and European festivals. The ceremony itself will be where the details of the evening take shape.