page_title: Marion Cotillard
section_title: 2011–2015: Continued acclaim
hierarchical_section_title: Marion Cotillard / Acting career / 2011–2015: Continued acclaim
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Marion Cotillard au festival de Cannes
context_page_description: Marion Cotillard is a French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, and environmentalist. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two César Awards, a European Award, and a Lumières Award. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010, and was promoted to Officer in 2016. She was the face of Lady Dior handbag from 2008 to 2017. In 2020, she became the new face of the Chanel No. 5 fragrance.
  Cotillard had her first English-language role in the television series Highlander and made her film debut in The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed. Her breakthrough came in the successful French film Taxi, which earned her a César Award nomination. She made the transition into Hollywood in Tim Burton's Big Fish, and subsequently appeared in A Very Long Engagement, for which she won her first César Award.
context_section_description: In 2011, Cotillard starred in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris alongside Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson and Kathy Bates, as Adriana, a fictionalised mistress of Pablo Picasso with whom Wilson's character, Gil, falls in love. The film grossed US$151 million worldwide on a US$17 million budget. She appeared with Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's thriller film Contagion (2011). She also ranked on the top of Le Figaro's 2011 list of the highest-paid French actors in 2010, the first time in nine years that a female had topped the list, and was tied with Kate Winslet as the highest-paid foreign actress in Hollywood. In 2012, Cotillard was ranked ninth on the list of the highest-paid French actresses in 2011, and starred in Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight Rises, playing Miranda Tate, a board member at Wayne Enterprises. The film reunited Cotillard with her Inception co-stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy, and Public Enemies collaborator Christian Bale.
  In Jacques Audiard's drama Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os), alongside Matthias Schoenaerts, Cotillard portrayed the orca trainer Stéphanie, who loses her legs after an accident at work and begins a strange relationship with Schoenaerts' character. The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received a ten-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening. Cotillard garnered rave reviews for her performance, and Cate Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising her, describing the film as "simply astonishing" and stating that "Marion has created a character of nobility and candour, seamlessly melding herself into a world we could not have known without her. Her performance is as unexpected and as unsentimental and raw as the film itself". She received a fifth César Award nomination, a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a third Golden Globe nomination (her first nomination for Best Actress – Drama), a second Critics' Choice Award nomination and a second Lumières Award nomination. Cotillard also received several honours and career tributes in 2012, at the Telluride Film Festival, Hollywood Film Festival, AFI Fest, Gotham Awards and Harper's Bazaar Awards.
  In 2013, Cotillard was named Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year by Harvard student, and was also ranked the 2nd highest paid actress in France in 2012. In May 2013, she appeared in the controversial music video "The Next Day" by David Bowie, alongside Gary Oldman, her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises. She had her first leading role in an American movie in James Gray's The Immigrant, starring as the Polish immigrant Ewa Cybulska, who wants to experience the American dream in 1920s New York, starring opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. James Gray wrote the movie especially for Cotillard after meeting her at a French restaurant with her boyfriend. Gray stated that Cotillard is the best actor he's ever worked with. Cotillard had to learn 20 pages of Polish dialogue for her role. Her performance was widely acclaimed, and she was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award, the Toronto Film Critics Association Award and was nominated for a Spirit Award for Best Actress in 2015. She starred in Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties, with Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and her Rust and Bone co-star Matthias Schoenaerts, and had a cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, acting opposite Jim Carrey as a Canadian anchor in the battle scene between rival news teams.
  In late 2013, Cotillard was a member of the jury of the 13th Marrakech Film Festival that was presided by Martin Scorsese. In 2014, she starred in Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit), portraying Sandra, a Belgian factory worker who has just one weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. The film premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and earned a 15-minute standing ovation, with her performance being named "the best performance of the festival"
caption: Cotillard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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