Jacques Audiard
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 Audiard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. |
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| Born | 30 April 1952 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Film Director |
Jacques Audiard (French pronunciation: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.
He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet. He also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. His film Rust and Bone competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]
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Biography [edit]
Audiard was born in Paris. At the beginning of the 1980s he successfully began screenwriting, including Réveillon chez Bob! and Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre and Saxo.
In 1994, he directed the film Regarde les hommes tomber, a road movie with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the César Award for the best first film and the prix Georges-Sadoul. Two years later he reunited with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant on his second movie Un héros très discret adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-François Deniau.
His fourth movie, De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté, received 10 nominations at the Césars and won eight, among them the awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best film music, and best cinematography.
He also released some music videos, among them Comme elle vient by Noir Désir where all the actors were deaf-mute and interpret the lyrics of the song in sign language. The beginning of the feature (a sequence with subtitles) created a minor scandal. It displayed three women discussing politics who come to the conclusion that "it is better to be deaf than to listen to that".
Filmography [edit]
Director and Writer [edit]
- 1994 See How They Fall (Regarde les hommes tomber)
- 1996 A Self-Made Hero (Un héros très discret)
- 1998 Norme française (short)
- 2001 Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres)
- 2005 The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté)
- 2009 A Prophet (Un prophète).[3]
- 2012 Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)
Writer only [edit]
- 1974 Kisses Till Monday (Bons baisers... à lundi)
- 1983 Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée)
- 1984 Réveillon chez Bob
- 1985 All Mixed Up (Sac de noeuds)
- 1987 Saxo
- 1987 Killing Time (Poussière d'ange)
- 1988 Frequent Death (Fréquence meurtre)
- 1989 Baxter
- 1989 Australia
- 1991 Swing troubadour
- 1992 Barjo (Confessions d'un Barjo)
- 1994 Dead Tired (Grosse fatigue, uncredited)
- 1999 Venus Beauty Institute (Vénus beauté (institut))
Awards [edit]
- César Award for Best Director for The Beat That My Heart Skipped
- César Award for Best Director for A Prophet
- BAFTA Award for Best Movie not in the English language for The Beat That My Heart Skipped
- BAFTA Award for Best Movie not in the English language for A Prophet
- Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for A Prophet
- Stockholm Visionary Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival
References [edit]
- ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ Un prophète, Artistik Rezo, Cassandre Bournat. 2010-03-07 (in French).
External links [edit]
- Jacques Audiard at the Internet Movie Database
- Clipography
- Jacques Audiard Interview
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