Paris Match conducted a long survey to determine who were the 20 personalities who mattered most in French cinema. The name of the personality at the top of this ranking may well surprise you.

The ranking is to be found in full in the latest issue of Paris Match. It's on newsstands this Wednesday, because tomorrow Thursday is a public holiday. Philippe Lacheau is therefore the personality who has weighed the most this year inFrench cinema. In second place on the podium is Jean Dujardin. Anna Marsch is third.