THE OSCARS: C’est la vie! French outsider Marion Cotillard stuns Hollywood with best actress win
If there were an Oscar for best fairytale ending for an Academy Award winner, it would go to best actress winner Marion Cotillard, the French-born outsider who pipped veteran British actress Julie Christie to the post, denying Christie her second Oscar.
With a critically acclaimed performance as legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Cotillard pulled off an upset for the Best Actress award over Julie Christie, who had been the favourite to claim a second Oscar 42 years after she first won for Darling.
Cotillard became the first French woman to win the Best Actress Oscar in almost 50 years.
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