Ouch! Marion Cotillard Gets ‘Stabbed’ During Awards Ceremony

ABC's Christophe Schpoliansky reports from Paris: Her mouth wide open, French actress Marion Cotillard gasped in pain after France’s culture minister jabbed her in the chest with a pin. This was no movie scene. Frederic Mitterand had accidentally pinned a medal into her chest as he was making her a knight in the Order of the Arts and Letters yesterday in Paris. The two burst out laughing as the culture minister quickly apologised. Perched on silver stilettos, the 34-year-old Oscar-winning actress then grabbed the minister’s arm as she almost fell off the stage on which the ceremony was taking place. Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand, nephew of the late French president, had earlier praised Cotillard’s “charm, natural grace and beauty”.  Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for best actress in 2008 for her performance as the French singer Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”. In the same ceremony, American movie director Tim Burton was made an officer in France’s National Order of Arts and Letters. He was not injured by the French minister. Burton will head the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.