Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the
César Award for Best Director
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Director ( French: ''César du meilleur réalisateur'').
History
Superlatives
Winners and nominees 1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins and nominatio ...
for ''
My New Partner
''My New Partner'', also called ''Le Cop'', is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi that stars Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat ...
'', for which he was also nominated for Best Writing.
Filmography as director
External links
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1934 births
Living people
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Film directors from Paris
Best Director César Award winners
French people of Algerian descent