Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard | |
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Born | Paris, France | 30 April 1952
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1974–present |
Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter; and 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]
His 2015 film Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[3][4]
Life and career
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.
In 1996, his film A Self Made Hero won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival and received 6 César Awards nominations.
In 2002, his film Read My Lips received 9 César Awards nominations, winning 3: Best Actress for Emmanuelle Devos, Best Screenplay and Best Sound.
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.
In 2009, A Prophet won the Grand Prix at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, won the BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was nominated for 13 César Awards, winning 9: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Most Promising Actor for Tahar Rahim, Best Supporting Actor for Niels Arestrup, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Production Design.
In 2013, Rust and Bone received 2 BAFTA nominations, 2 Golden Globe nominations and 9 César Awards nominations, winning four: Most Promising Actor for Matthias Schoenaerts, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Music for Alexandre Desplat and Best Editing for Juliette Welfling.
In 2015, his seventh movie Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received 9 César Awards nominations.
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
Other awards
- Stockholm International Film Festival - Stockholm Visionary Award
- Valladolid International Film Festival - Espiga de Honor
References
- ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ Henry Barnes (24 May 2015). "Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's Dheepan wins the Palme d'Or". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Rebecca Ford (24 May 2015). "Cannes: 'Dheepan' Wins the Palme d'Or". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "Cannes Palme d'Or awarded to French film Dheepan". BBC. 24 May 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
External links
- Jacques Audiard at IMDb
- Clipography
- Jacques Audiard Interview