Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer who throughout her career has received several awards and nominations including one Academy Award, one BAFTA Award and a César Award.
In 1993, she starred in ', the first installment of Krzysztof Kieà Âlowski's Three Colours trilogy, for this performance she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture â Drama and won the César Award for Best Actress (her first and only César Award to date out of ten nominations) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 50th Venice International Film Festival. She gained further international acclaim for her role in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. She received her second Academy Award nomination for Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000), for Best Actress. In 2001 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the 2000s Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.
At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival she won Best Actress for her performance in Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 art film Certified Copy, becoming the first actress to complete the âÂÂEuropeâÂÂs Triple Crownâ (winning at all 3 most prestigious film festivals: Berlin, Cannes, and Venice film festivals for the same categories) for Best Actress.