'Joe's? Oh, Jaws!' — Cotillard Wins Oscar

Though I’ve interviewed an Oscar nominee before (Will Smith), I could never say I’d broken bread with a winner… till Sunday night. I met Ms. Marion Cotillard at the Hôtel Costes late last year for a Mean magazine feature. I first saw La Môme (known as La Vie en Rose to America) at the Angelika Theater on a visit to New York City last summer, to take advantage of the English subtitles. The Édith Piaf biopic was a phenom, and Cotillard deserves her Academy Award; she won a César (France’s Oscar) the same weekend for the same role. In person, she’s unassumingly cute and coquettish. She even stuck me with the check (ha!), which was a first in my 15 years of talking to the famous. Click here to read “Belle on the Ball,” our conversation together. (She loves Spielberg’s Jaws; her French accent makes it sound like Joe’s…) Congratulations, Marion.