Nicole Kidman to receive honorary César Award from French film academy

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.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.