The French film academy will present the award at the 52nd César Awards on 25 February 2027.
Australian actor Nicole Kidman will receive an honorary César from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, the French film academy behind the awards. The academy announced the honour on Thursday, alongside broadcaster Canal+.
The award will be presented at the 52nd César ceremony on 25 February 2027, at the Olympia in Paris. Canal+ will carry the tribute live and exclusively, unencrypted for all viewers.
The academy called Kidman "a Hollywood star and a major figure in auteur cinema", and said she "has built a career that defies categorization." It said it wished "to pay tribute to an actress and producer who has never allowed her status as a star to dictate her artistic choices."
Her work spans both studio and art-house cinema. Her films include Aquaman and Practical Magic, and she has worked with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut, Jane Campion on The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier on Dogville and Baz Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge!. She has also worked with Yorgos Lanthimos.
She has been nominated for an Oscar five times. She won Best Actress at the 2003 Academy Awards for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Her Babygirl performance earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 2024.
Kidman also produces. She co-founded Blossom Films, the company behind series including Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers, all of which starred her. On stage, she has won acclaim in London for The Blue Room and Photograph 51.
She was made a Companion within the Order of Australia in 2006 and was given the 70th anniversary award from the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. In 2024 the American Film Institute presented her with its Life Achievement Award, and she became the first Australian to win that honour. She is also a UN Women goodwill ambassador and has helped raise several million dollars for women's cancer programmes, including at Stanford and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Recent honorary César recipients include Jim Carrey, Julia Roberts, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher and Cate Blanchett. The French comedian Vincent Dedienne will host the 52nd ceremony. Léa Seydoux is chairing the awards and will open the ceremony. The first round of voting is on 5 January, with nominations announced on 22 January.
Canal+ will carry the 25 February tribute live.
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