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The All The President's Men star received the lifetime achievement award for his full body of work at the ceremony.
Recent Oscar winner Sean Penn also attended the awards as its guest of honour.
The best film gong went to Séraphine, while the best director prize went to Jean-Francois Richet.
Vincent Cassel and Yolande Moreau won the awards for best actor and actress, with Jean-Paul Roussillon and Elsa Zylberstein winning for their supporting performances.
The best foreign film prize went to Waltz With Bashir, which had missed out on the same award at last month's Oscars.
Hoffman was recently hailed as "one of the greatest actors of our time" when he was made an honorary commander of France's National Order Of Arts And Letters.
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