| Year |
Film |
Role |
Cesar
nomination |
Cesar
win |
Director |
| 1972 | Nathalie Granger | | | | Marguerite Duras |
| 1973 | Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse | Beretti | | | Juan Luis Buñuel |
| The Year 01 | | | | Jacques Doillon
Alain Resnais
Jean Rouch |
| The Holes | Le facteur | | | Pierre Tchernia |
| 1974 | Going Places | Jean-Claude | | | Bertrand Blier |
| La Femme du Gange | | | | Marguerite Duras |
| Stavisky | | | | Alain Resnais |
| Vincent, François, Paul and the Others | Jean Lavallee | | | Claude Sautet |
| 1975 | Pas si méchant que ça | Pierre | | | Claude Goretta |
| Maîtresse | Olivier | | | Barbet Schroeder |
| Sept morts sur ordonnance | Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg | Best Actor | | Jacques Rouffio |
| 1976 | Je t'aime moi non plus | | | | Serge Gainsbourg |
| The Last Woman | Giovanni | Best Actor | | Marco Ferreri |
| 1900 | Olmo Dalcò | | | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Barocco | Samson | | | André Téchiné |
| 1977 | Rene the Cane | René Bornier | | | Francis Girod |
| The Lorry | Lui | | | Marguerite Duras |
| Baxter, Vera Baxter | Michel Cayre | | | Marguerite Duras |
| This Sweet Sickness | David Martinaud | Best Actor | | Claude Miller |
| At Night All Cats Are Crazy | Philibert Larcher | | | Gérard Zingg |
| 1978 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Raoul | | | Bertrand Blier |
| Bye Bye Monkey | Gérard LaFayette | | | Marco Ferreri |
| Violanta | Fortunat | | | Daniel Schmid |
| The Left-Handed Woman | | | | Peter Handke |
| Le Sucre | Raoul-Renaud Homecourt | Best Actor | | Jacques Rouffio |
| 1979 | Traffic Jam | Franco | | | Luigi Comencini |
| The Dogs | Morel | | | Alain Jessua |
| Buffet froid | Alphonse Tram | | | Bertrand Blier |
| 1980 | Hurricane Rosy | Raoul Lamarre | | | Mario Monicelli |
| My American Uncle | René Ragueneau | | | Alain Resnais |
| Loulou | Loulou | | | Maurice Pialat |
| The Last Metro | Bernard Granger | | Best Actor | François Truffaut |
| Inspector Blunder | Roger Morzini | | | Claude Zidi |
| Je vous aime | Patrick | | | Claude Berri |
| 1981 | Choice of Arms | Mickey | | | Alain Corneau |
| The Woman Next Door | Bernard Coudray | | | François Truffaut |
| La Chèvre | Campana | | | Francis Veber |
| 1982 | The Return of Martin Guerre | Martin Guerre | | | Daniel Vigne |
| The Big Brother | Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo | | | Francis Girod |
| 1983 | Danton | Georges Danton | Best Actor | | Andrzej Wajda |
| Moon in the Gutter | Gérard Delmas | | | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| Les Compères | Jean Lucas | Best Actor | | Francis Veber |
| 1984 | Fort Saganne | Charles Saganne | Best Actor | | Alain Corneau |
| Le tartuffe | Tartuffe | | | Gérard Depardieu |
| Rive droite, rive gauche | Paul Senanques | | | Philippe Labro |
| 1985 | Police | Louis Vincent Mangin | Best Actor | | Maurice Pialat |
| Une Femme ou Deux | Julien Chayssac | | | Daniel Vigne |
| 1986 | Tenue de soirée / Menage | Bob | | | Bertrand Blier |
| Jean de Florette | Jean de Florette | | | Claude Berri |
| Les Fugitifs | Jean Lucas | | | Francis Veber |
| 1987 | Under the Sun of Satan | Abbé Donissan | Best Actor | | Maurice Pialat |
| 1988 | A Strange Place to Meet | Charles | | | François Dupeyron |
| Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin | Best Actor | | Bruno Nuytten |
| 1989 | Deux | Marc Lambert | | | Claude Zidi |
| Too Beautiful for You | Bernard Barthélémy | Best Actor | | Bertrand Blier |
| I Want to Go Home | Christian Gauthier | | | Alain Resnais |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | | Best Actor | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Uranus | Léopold Lajeunesse | | | Claude Berri
and Arlette Langmann |
| Green Card | Georges Fauré | | | Peter Weir |
| 1991 | Merci la vie | Doctor Marc Antoine Worms | | | Bertrand Blier |
| My Father the Hero | André Arnel | | | Gérard Lauzier |
| Tous les Matins du Monde | Marin Marais | | | Alain Corneau |
| 1992 | The Timekeeper (Short) | | | | Jeff Blyth |
| 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Christopher Columbus | | | Ridley Scott |
| 1993 | Hélas pour moi | Simon Donnadieu | | | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Germinal | Toussaint Maheu | | | Claude Berri |
| 1994 | My Father the Hero | André Arnel | | | Steve Miner |
| A Pure Formality | Onoff | | | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Colonel Chabert | Chabert | Best Actor | | Yves Angelo |
| La Machine | Doctor Marc Lacroix | | | Francois Dupeyron |
| 1995 | Élisa | Jaques "Lebovitch" Desmoulins | | | Jean Becker |
| Les Anges gardiens | Antoine Carco | | | Jean-Marie Poiré |
| Le Garçu | Gérard | | | Maurice Pialat |
| 1996 | Unhook the Stars | Big Tommy Bellaveau | | | Nick Cassavetes |
| Bogus | Bogus | | | Norman Jewison |
| The Secret Agent | Ossipon | | | Christopher Hampton |
| The Best Job in the World | Laurent Monier | | | Gérard Lauzier |
| Hamlet | Reynaldo | | | Kenneth Branagh |
| 1997 | XXL | Jean Bourdalou | | | Ariel Zeitoun |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Porthos | | | Randall Wallace |
| Notes of Love | Lawyer Levi | | | Mimmo Calopresti |
| The Count of Monte Cristo (TV miniseries) | Edmond Dantès | | | Josée Dayan |
| Bimboland | Laurent Gaspard | | | Ariel Zeitoun |
| 1999 | Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar | Obelix | | | Claude Zidi |
| Un pont entre deux rives | Georges | | | Frédéric Auburtin |
| Balzac (TV miniseries) | Honoré de Balzac | | | Josée Dayan |
| 2000 | Mirka | Strix | | | Rachid Benhadj |
| Tutto l'amore che c'è | Molotov | | | Sergio Rubini |
| Actors | as himself | | | Bertrand Blier |
| Vatel | François Vatel | | | Roland Joffé |
| Les Misérables (TV miniseries) | Jean Valjean | | | Josée Dayan |
| The Envy of Gods | Bernard | | | Vladimir Menshov |
| 102 Dalmatians | Jean Pierre Le Pelt | | | Kevin Lima |
| 2001 | The Closet | Félix Santini | | | Francis Veber |
| Unfair Competition | Professor Angelo | | | Ettore Scola |
| CQ | Andrzej | | | Roman Coppola |
| Vidocq | Vidocq | | | Pitof |
| 2002 | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Obelix | | | Alain Chabat |
| I Am Dina | Jacob Grønlev | | | Ole Bornedal |
| A Loving Father | Léo Shepherd | | | Jacob Berger |
| Between Strangers | Max | | | Edoardo Ponti |
| City of Ghosts | Emile | | | Matt Dillon |
| Napoléon (TV miniseries) | Joseph Fouché | | | Yves Simoneau |
| Blanche | D'Artagnan | | | Bernie Bonvoisin |
| 2003 | Le Pacte du silence | Joachim | | | Graham Guit |
| Crime Spree | Daniel Foray | | | Brad Mirman |
| Bon voyage | Jean-Étienne Beaufort | | | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Nathalie... | Bernard | | | Anne Fontaine |
| Ruby & Quentin | Quentin | | | Francis Veber |
| 2004 | RRRrrrr!!! | Chief | | | Alain Chabat |
| La Femme Musketeer (TV film) | Cardinal Mazarin | | | Steve Boyum |
| San-Antonio | Lieutenant Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier | | | Frédéric Auburtin |
| Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) | Father Thomas Blondeau | | | Jean Beaudin |
| 36 Quai des Orfèvres | Denis Klein | | | Olivier Marchal |
| Changing Times | Antoine Lavau | | | André Téchiné |
| 2005 | Let's Be Friends | Serge | | | Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano |
| Boudu | Boudu | | | Gérard Jugnot |
| How Much Do You Love Me? | Charly | | | Bertrand Blier |
| The Accursed Kings (TV miniseries) | Jacques de Molay | | | Josée Dayan |
| Olé! | François Veber | | | Florence Quentin |
| 2006 | Last Holiday | Chef Didier | | | Wayne Wang |
| Paris, je t'aime (Anthology film) | | | | Joel and Ethan Coen,
Gus Van Sant,
Wes Craven,
Gérard Depardieu
and Frédéric Auburtin |
| When I Was a Singer | Alain Moreau | Best Actor | | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2007 | La Vie en Rose | Louis Leplée | | | Olivier Dahan |
| Michou d'Auber | Georges | | | Thomas Gilou |
| 2008 | Asterix at the Olympic Games | Obelix | | | Frédéric Forestier
and Thomas Langmann |
| Vsyo mogut koroli | | | | Alexandr Chernyaev |
| Disco | Jean-François Civette | | | Fabien Onteniente |
| Babylon A.D. | Gorsky | | | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Mesrine | Guido | | | Jean-François Richet |
| Bouquet final | Hugo | | | Michel Delgado |
| Hello Goodbye | Alain Gaash | | | Graham Guit |
| Trouble at Timpetill | General Igor | | | Nicolas Bary |
| 2009 | Diamant 13 | Mat | | | Olivier Marchal |
| Coco | Doctor | | | Gad Elmaleh |
| Bellamy | Inspector Paul Bellamy | | | Claude Chabrol |
| In the Beginning | Abel | | | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2010 | L'Autre Dumas | Alexandre Dumas | | | Safy Nebbou |
| Mammuth | Serge Pilardosse | Best Actor | | Benoît Delépine
and Gustave de Kervern |
| Le Grand Restaurant (TV) | Gérard | | | Gérard Pullicino |
| My Afternoons with Margueritte | Germain Chazes | | | Jean Becker |
| Potiche | Maurice Babin | | | François Ozon |
| Pozdnyaya Lyubov | Gueorgui | | | Sabit Kurmanbekov |
| Small World | Konrad Lang | | | Bruno Chiche |
| 2011 | Grenouille d'hiver (Short) | Benjamin | | | Slony Sow |
| Un baiser papillon | | | | Karine Silla |
| Raspoutine | Rasputin | | | Josée Dayan |
| 2012 | Le grand soir | Juvénal | | | Benoît Delépine
and Gustave de Kervern |
| The Man Who Laughs | Ursus | | | Jean-Pierre Améris |
| Life of Pi | The cook | | | Ang Lee |
| Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia | Obelix | | | Laurent Tirard |
| 2013 | Turf | Monsieur Paul | | | Fabien Onteniente |
| A Farewell to Fools | Ipu | | | Bogdan Dreyer |
| Niente può fermarci | Henry | | | Luigi Cecinelli |
| La marque des anges - Miserere | Lionel Kasdan | | | Sylvain White |
| Les Invincibles | Jacky Camboulaze | | | Frédéric Berthe |
| Cadences obstinées | Père Villedieu | | | Fanny Ardant |
| 2014 | Zaytsev+1 (TV series) | Zhora | | | Michael Starchak |
| Welcome to New York | Devereaux | | | Abel Ferrara |
| United Passions | Jules Rimet | | | Frédéric Auburtin |
| La voix des Steppes | | | | Yermek Shinarbayev
and Gérard Depardieu |
| Viktor | Victor Lambert | | | Philippe Martinez |
| Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes | | | | Sergey Oldenburg |
| 2015 | Valley of Love | Gérard | Best Actor | | Guillaume Nicloux |
| Capitaine Marleau (TV series, 1 episode) | Philippe Muir | | | Josée Dayan |
| 2016 | Saint-Amour | Jean | | | Benoît Delépine
and Gustave de Kervern |
| Marseille (TV series) | Robert Taro | | | Florent Emilio Siri
and Thomas Gilou |
| The End | The man | | | Guillaume Nicloux |
| Tour de France | | | | |
| La Dream Team | Jacques Belloch | | | Thomas Sorriaux |
| 2017 | Bonne Pomme | Gérard | | | Florence Quentin |
| Carbone | Aron Goldstein | | | Olivier Marchal |
| Creators: The Past | Master of Faith | | | Piergiuseppe Zaia |
| Let the Sunshine In | | | | Claire Denis |
| Solo se vive una vez | Duges | | | Federico Cueva |
| Mata Hari | Father Bernard | | | Dennis Berry, Julius Berg |
| 2018 |
La cité des rois (short) |
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Rock Miller |
| Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Gaston Baptiste | | | Richard Lanni |
| To the Ends of the World | | | | Guillaume Nicloux |