The Deauville American Film Festival (french: Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville, link=no) is a yearly
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
devoted to American cinema, which has taken place since 1975 in
Deauville
Deauville () is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France. Major attractions include its harbour, race course, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino, and sumptuous hotels. The first Deauville Asian Film F ...
, France.
It was established by Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi, and then Mayor of
Deauville
Deauville () is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France. Major attractions include its harbour, race course, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino, and sumptuous hotels. The first Deauville Asian Film F ...
Michel d'Ornano
Michel d'Ornano (12 July 1924 – 8 March 1991) was a French politician. A descendant of both Marie Walewska and Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, he began his political career as mayor of Deauville in 1962. He served as president of the Genera ...
, with support from the
Groupe Lucien Barrière
Groupe Barrière operates casinos in France, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The group also operates in the French luxury hotel industry and in the catering and leisure industries.
History
François André, founder
*1912-1951: re-inventi ...
in providing a luxurious setting for the Festival. Although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes for
feature film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
s in 1995 and
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
s in 1998.
Awards
Grand Prix
This award was named ''Grand Prix spécial Deauville'' from 1995 to 2007 and ''Grand Prix du cinéma indépendant américain'' in 1998 and 1999.
Prix du Jury
The award was called ''Prix du jury spécial Deauville'' (Special Deauville Jury Award) from 1995 through 1997 and ''Prix spécial du jury du cinéma indépendant américain'' (Special Jury Award of American Independent Film) in 1998 and 1999.
*1995 (tied):
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Denise Calls Up
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'' directed by
Hal Salwen
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**''
The Brothers McMullen
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'' directed by
Edward Burns
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The Wachowskis
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Todd Solondz
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Ulee's Gold
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'' directed by
Victor Nuñez
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*1998: ''
High Art
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'' directed by
Lisa Cholodenko
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Michael Polish
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Life
The Polish brothe ...
**''
Guinevere
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'' directed by
Audrey Wells
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Early life
Wells was born in San Francisco, ...
Christopher Nolan
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Ben Younger
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Younger was born in Brooklyn, and raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household in Eltingville, Staten Island and in Fair Lawn, New ...
Terry Zwigoff
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*2002 (tied):
**''
One Hour Photo
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'' directed by
Mark Romanek
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Michael Cuesta
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*2003: ''
Thirteen
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* 13AD (band), an Indian classic and hard rock band
Albums
* ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013
* ...
'' directed by
Catherine Hardwicke
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Nicole Kassell
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*2005 (tied):
**'' On the Outs'' directed by Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik
**'' Keane'' directed by
Lodge Kerrigan
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Along with Amy S ...
Ryan Fleck
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Early life
B ...
*2007: ''
Never Forever
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Ballast
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'' directed by
Lance Hammer
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His first film, ''Ballast'', premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where he won the US Dramatic Directing Award. Ballast was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards and fo ...
Lee Daniels
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*2010 (tied):
**''
Winter's Bone
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The Myth of the American Sleepover
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'' directed by
David Robert Mitchell
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Early life ...
*2011: '' The Dynamiter'', directed by Matthew Gordon
*2012: '' Una Noche'', directed by
Lucy Mulloy
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*2013 (tied):
**''
All Is Lost
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'' directed by
J. C. Chandor
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**''
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
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'' directed by
Sam Fleischner
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Career
Fleischner graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006 with a degree in film studies. Starting with short films in 2005, he c ...
*2014: ''
The Good Lie
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''The Good Lie'' was s ...
'' directed by
Philippe Falardeau
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Early life
Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec. He later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travelling ...
*2015: ''
Tangerine
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Todd Solondz
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* 2017: (tied)
**
A Ghost Story
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Kelly Reichardt
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Reich ...
**''Lorelei'' directed by Sabrina Doyle
*2021 (tied):
**'' Red Rocket'' directed by Sean Baker
**''
Pleasure
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'' directed by Ninja Thyberg
*2022 (tied):
**''
War Pony
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The winner of the Deauville Audience Award is chosen by the festival attendees.
*1989: ''
Torch Song Trilogy
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'' by
Paul Bogart
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Allan Moyle
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His first major film was '' Times Square'' (1980). During th ...
Jon Amiel
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Hal Hartley
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**''
Hangin' with the Homeboys
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In the Soup
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'' by
Alexandre Rockwell
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Life and career
Alexandre Rockwell is best known for his independent films made in NYC with a small group of actors he met on the lower east side in ...
*1993 (ex-æquo):
**''
El Mariachi
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'' by
Robert Rodriguez
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**''
Naked in New York
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
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'' by
Joel Hershman
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Hershman is best known for the films ''Greenfingers'' starring Clive Owen and Helen Mirren and ''Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (film), Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me'' starring Sean Yo ...
*1994 (ex-æquo):
**''
Go Fish
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'' by
Rose Troche
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Early life and education
Troche was born to Puerto Rican parents and grew up on the north side of Chicago. In an interview she stated, " ...
**''
Clerks
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Office holder
Clerk(s) may also refer to a person who holds an office, most commonly in a local unit of government, or a court.
*Barristers' clerk, a manager and adminis ...
'' by
Kevin Smith
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Tom DiCillo
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Early life
He was born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina. His father was Italian and his mother was from New England. He studied creative wr ...
Bart Freundlich
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Early life
Freundlich was born and raised in Manhattan, the son of Debbie, a marketing consultant, and Larry Freu ...
*1998: ''
Next Stop Wonderland
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Songcatcher
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'' by
Maggie Greenwald
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Most recognized as an independent writer and director, Greenwald’s most notable films include ''Sophie and the Rising Sun'' (2016), starring an ensemble cast that included Margo Martindale, Julianne N ...
*2001: ''
Jump Tomorrow
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One Hour Photo
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'' by
Mark Romanek
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*2003: '' Dot the i'' by Matthew Parkhill
*2004: ''
Maria Full of Grace
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Fruitvale Station
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'' by
Ryan Coogler
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*2014: ''
Whiplash
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* ''Whiplas ...
'' by
Damien Chazelle
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For ''Whiplash'', he was nominated for t ...
Rick Famuyiwa
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Gifted
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'' by
Marc Webb
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The International Critics' prize is an award presented at the festival.
*1987: '' Hollywood Shuffle'' by Robert Townsend
*1988: ''
Patti Rocks
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Plot
In Minneapolis just before Christmas, fortysomething Billy persuades his old friend Eddie, who he has not seen for ...
'' by David Burton Morris
*1989: '' Signs of Life'' by
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*1990 (ex-æquo):
**''
Metropolitan
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Jon Amiel
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*1991: ''
My Own Private Idaho
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'' by
Gus Van Sant
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*1992: ''
Gas Food Lodging
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'' by
Allison Anders
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Bryan Singer
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After graduating from the University of Southern California, Singer ...
**''
The Wedding Banquet
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'' by
Ang Lee
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Michael Corrente
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'' Federal Hill'' won the Audienc ...
James Gray
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* James Gray (British politician) (born 1954), British politician
* James Gray (mayor) (1862–1916) ...
The Wachowskis
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*1997: ''
Sunday
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For most observant adherents of Christianity, Sund ...
'' by
Jonathan Nossiter
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Early life and education
Nossiter was born to a Jewish familyGods and Monsters'' by
Bill Condon
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*1999: ''
Being John Malkovich
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'' by
Spike Jonze
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Jonze began his ca ...
Christopher Nolan
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John Cameron Mitchell
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*2002: ''
The Safety of Objects
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'' by
Rose Troche
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Early life and education
Troche was born to Puerto Rican parents and grew up on the north side of Chicago. In an interview she stated, " ...
*2003: ''
American Splendor
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'' by
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
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Biographies
Both Springer Berman and Pulcini were born in New York City, New York, New York (state), New York. Springer Be ...
*2004: ''
Maria Full of Grace
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Lodge Kerrigan
Lodge Hunt Kerrigan (born March 23, 1964) is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film '' Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)'' entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Along with Amy S ...
*2006: ''
Sherrybaby
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Plot
The story takes ...
'' by
Laurie Collyer
Laurie Collyer (born 1967) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Summit, New Jersey, she grew up in Mountainside, New Jersey and attended Oberlin College. After working at a series of odd jobs, she went to film school ...
*2007: ''
Grace Is Gone
''Grace Is Gone'' is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, ...
'' by
James C. Strouse
James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote and made his directorial debut with ''Grace Is Gone (film), Grace Is Gone'' (2007), starring John Cusack.
Career
He wrote the film ''Lonesome Jim'' (2005), directed by ...
*2008: ''
Gardens of the Night
''Gardens of the Night'' is a 2008 drama film, written and directed by Damian Harris and starring Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, and Tom Arnold.
Plot
In Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Leslie Whitehead (Ryan Simpkins) is kidnapped b ...
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Damian Harris
Damian David Harris (born 2 August 1958) is a British film director and screenwriter. He is the eldest son of the actor Richard Harris and socialite Elizabeth Rees-Williams.
Career
In 1968, Harris debuted on screen playing Miles in the film ...
Oren Moverman
Oren Moverman ( he, אורן מוברמן; born July 4, 1966) is an Israeli-American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, film director, and Emmy Award-winning film producer. He has directed the films '' The Messenger'', ''Rampart'', '' Time O ...
Rodrigo Cortés
Rodrigo Cortés Giráldez (born 31 May 1973) is a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, writer and occasional actor. He is best known for directing the 2010 psychological thriller '' Buried''.
Early life
Rodrigo Cortés was ...
The Retrieval
''The Retrieval'' is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Chris Eska. The film stars Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr., Christine Horn and Alfonso Freeman. The film was released on April 2, 2014, by Varia ...
'' by Chris Eska
*2014: ''
It Follows
''It Follows'' is a 2014 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Maika Monroe as a young woman who is pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter and must have sex with ...
'' by
David Robert Mitchell
David Robert Mitchell (born October 19, 1974) is an American film director and writer. He received significant recognition as a director after completing his second feature, the critically acclaimed horror film '' It Follows'' (2014).
Early life ...
*2015: ''
Krisha
''Krisha'' is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults in his feature-length directorial debut, starring his real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild, and is the feature-length adaption of the 2014 short film ''Krisha'' also ...
The Fits
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History
The Fits formed in Blackpool in October 1979, with an initia ...
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Anna Rose Holmer
Anna Rose Holmer (née Farrell) is an American director and writer. She began her career in the camera department before directing her feature debut ''The Fits'' (2015). She collaborated with Saela Davis on the Irish film '' God's Creatures'' ( ...
*2017: ''
A Ghost Story
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Sean Durkin
Timothy Sean Durkin (born December 9, 1981) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for ''Martha Marcy May Marlene''. His short film, ''Mary Last Seen'', on ...
Aftersun
''Aftersun'' is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells, starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall. It was released in the United States on 21 October 2022 by A24 and in the United Kingdom on 18 November 202 ...
'' directed by Charlotte Wells
Prix d'Ornano-Valenti
The Prix d'Ornano-Valenti (previously "Prix Michel d'Ornano") is awarded annually to a debut French film. It carries a grant of 3,000 euros for the awarded director-writer, 3,000 euros for the film's producer, and 10,000 euros for the French distributor to help promote the film. The award, which is named in honour of the former Mayor of
Deauville
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and co-founder of the festival,
Michel d'Ornano
Michel d'Ornano (12 July 1924 – 8 March 1991) was a French politician. A descendant of both Marie Walewska and Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, he began his political career as mayor of Deauville in 1962. He served as president of the Genera ...
Christophe Mordellet Christophe may refer to:
People
* Christophe (given name), list of people with this name
* Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer
* Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist
* Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic str ...
for ''
Silhouette
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Stéphane Brizé
Stéphane Brizé (born 18 October 1966) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Stéphane Brizé was born on 18 October 1966 in Rennes, France. He attended a University Institutes of Technology and moved to ...
and
Florence Vignon
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Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Gilles Paquet-Brenner (born 14 September 1974) is a French director and screenwriter. He is the son of the opera singer Ève Brenner. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film in 2001, ''Pretty Things'', won an award at the Deauville American Film Fes ...
Julie Bertuccelli
Julie Mathilde Charlotte Claire Bertuccelli is a French director born February 12, 1968, in Boulogne-Billancourt.
She is particularly known for her documentary La Cour de Babel released in 2014 and the feature film The Tree (2010 film), L'Arbre ...
for ''
Since Otar Left
''Since Otar Left'' (original French title: ''Depuis qu'Otar est parti...'') is a 2003 in film, 2003 film by director Julie Bertuccelli, recounting the lives of three Georgia (country), Georgian women in modern-day Tbilisi. It focuses on the attem ...
A Common Thread
''A Common Thread'' (''Brodeuses'') is a 2004 in film, 2004 Cinema of France, French film directed by . The film is known as ''Sequins'' in the United States.
The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cann ...
''
*2005:
Karin Albou
Karin Albou is a French-Algerian female director, writer, editor, producer and actress.
Early life
Karin Albou was born on March 12, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine to Jewish Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was only 16 when she was born.
In 1 ...
Julie Gavras
Julie Gavras is a French film director and screenwriter. She is known for her film '' Blame It on Fidel'' (2006).
Life and career
After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. Gavras started as an assistant directo ...
Marc Fitoussi
Marc Fitoussi (born 20 July 1976) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
After a university degree course in English and art history, Fitoussi joined the Conservatoire européen d'écriture audiovisuelle (CEEA) (European ...
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (born 31 December 1968), is a French filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of films '' Johnny Mad Dog'', '' A Prayer Before Dawn'' and ''La Mule''.
Personal life
Sauvaire was born on 31 De ...
Léa Fehner
Léa Fehner (born 15 October 1981) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Toulouse and raised in a travelling theatre family, Fehner attended classes in Nantes and at the INSAS school, before pursuing an education in ...
Alix Delaporte
Alix Delaporte (born 1969) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Delaporte studied at the London School of Economics between 1988 and 1989, and in 1993, she obtained a master's degree in contemporary history. During her scre ...
for ''
Angel & Tony
''Angel & Tony'' (french: Angèle et Tony) is a 2010 French drama film directed by Alix Delaporte. It tells the story of a young widow in a desperate situation who not only wins the respect of her employer, his family and his community but also ...
Muriel Coulin
Delphine and Muriel Coulin are French sisters who form a directing duo. They are best known for their film '' 17 Girls''.
Early career
Muriel Coulin began work as a cinematographer and camera assistant throughout the 1990s. Delphine is also a nov ...
for ''
17 Girls
''17 Girls'' (french: 17 filles) is a 2011 French comedy-drama film about 17 teenage girls who make a pregnancy pact. The film was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. ''17 Girls'' is based on the a ...
''
*2012:
Rachid Djaïdani
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*Rashid (name), also Rachid and Rasheed, people with the given name or surname
*Rached, a given name and surname
*Rashad, a surname
Plac ...
Guillaume Gallienne
Guillaume Gallienne (born 8 February 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiogra ...
Jeanne Herry
Jeanne Herry (born 19 April 1978) is a French filmmaker and actress.
Personal life
She is the daughter of actress Miou-Miou and singer-songwriter Julien Clerc
Paul Alain Leclerc (born 4 October 1947), known by his stage name Julien Clerc (), ...
Thomas Bidegain
Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for ''A Prophet'' and Best Adaptation ...
for ''
The Cowboys
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Léonor Serraille
Léonor Serraille (born 1986) is a French screenwriter and director.
Biography
Serraille was born in Lyon and was a student at La Fémis. In 2013 Serraille completed her master's degree in general and comparative literature at the Sorbonne-Nouve ...
for ''Jeune Femme''
*2020: Charlène Favier for ''Slalom''
*2021: Vincent Maël Cardona for ''Les Magnetiques.''
*2022: Charlotte Le Bon for ''Falcon Lake''
Prix de la Révélation
The Revelation Prize recognises an original work by a promising new filmmaker and is awarded by a Revelation jury composed of up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
*2006: '' Half Nelson'' by
Ryan Fleck
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Early life
B ...
Ballast
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'' by
Lance Hammer
Lance Hammer is an American independent filmmaker.
His first film, ''Ballast'', premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where he won the US Dramatic Directing Award. Ballast was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards and fo ...
Oren Moverman
Oren Moverman ( he, אורן מוברמן; born July 4, 1966) is an Israeli-American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, film director, and Emmy Award-winning film producer. He has directed the films '' The Messenger'', ''Rampart'', '' Time O ...
Beasts of the Southern Wild
''Beasts of the Southern Wild'' is a 2012 American fantasy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-scored by Benh Zeitlin. It was adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar's one-act play ''Juicy and Delicious''. The film stars Quvenzhané ...
'' by
Benh Zeitlin
Benjamin Harold Zeitlin (; born October 14, 1982) is an American filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the 2012 film '' Beasts of the Southern Wild'', for which he received two Academy Award nominations.
Early life
Zeitlin was born in ...
*2013: ''
Fruitvale Station
''Fruitvale Station'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Coogler's feature directorial debut and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by Bay ...
'' by
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a recipient of four NAACP Image Awards, four Black Reel Awards, a Golden Globe Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Pictu ...
*2014: ''
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'' ( fa, دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود ) is a 2014 Persian-language American Western horror film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Wes ...
'' by
Ana Lily Amirpour
Ana Lily Amirpour ( fa, آنا لیلی امیرپور) is a British-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-described as "the first ...
Josh Mond
Josh Mond (born c. 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for producing the feature films ''Martha Marcy May Marlene'' (2011) and ''Simon Killer'' (2012), and for writing and directing '' James White'' (2015).
...
Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz (; born October 15, 1959) is an American filmmaker and playwright known for his style of dark, socially conscious satire. Solondz's work has received critical acclaim for its commentary on the "dark underbelly of middle class Americ ...
*2017: ''
A Ghost Story
''A Ghost Story'' is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery and starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, with Will Oldham, Liz Cardenas Franke, Sonia Acevedo, and Rob Zabrecky in supporting roles; Kesha appear ...
Sean Durkin
Timothy Sean Durkin (born December 9, 1981) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for ''Martha Marcy May Marlene''. His short film, ''Mary Last Seen'', on ...
*2021: ''
John and the Hole
''John and the Hole'' is a 2021 American coming-of-age psychological thriller film directed by Pascual Sisto and written by Nicolás Giacobone. A feature-length adaptation of Giacobone's short story, ''El Pozo'', the film stars Charlie Shot ...
'' by
Pascual Sisto
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*2022: ''
War Pony
''War Pony'' is a 2022 American drama film directed and produced by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell—in both of their respective feature directorial debuts—from a screenplay by Keough, Gammell, Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy. It stars Jojo Ba ...
'' by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough
Prix du Scénario
The Screenplay Prize was awarded in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and then discontinued.
* 2004: '' The Final Cut'' by
Omar Naim
Omar Naim ( ar, عمر نعيم; born 27 September 1977) is a Lebanese film director and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 2004 film '' The Final Cut''.
Life and career Early life and education
Omar Naim was born in Jor ...
Duncan Tucker
Duncan Tucker is an American film director and screenwriter.
Tucker was born in Kansas City and grew up between Kansas City and Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from New York University.
After the short subject film ''The Mountain King'' (2 ...
* 2006: ''
Sherrybaby
''Sherrybaby'' is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006, the film received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006.
Plot
The story takes ...
'' by
Laurie Collyer
Laurie Collyer (born 1967) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Summit, New Jersey, she grew up in Mountainside, New Jersey and attended Oberlin College. After working at a series of odd jobs, she went to film school ...
The Jury
* 1995 :
Andrei Konchalovsky
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(president),
Anouk Aimée
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...
,
Michael Lonsdale
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,
Claudie Ossard
Marie-Claude Ossard (born 16 December 1943 in Paris) is a French film producer.
Selected filmography
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,
René Bonnell
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René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ...
,
Valérie Kaprisky
Valérie Kaprisky ( Chérès; born 19 August 1962) is a French actress.
Life and career
She was born Valerie Chérès on 19 August 1962 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Kaprisky is her Polish mother's maiden name. She is of Greek-Ottoman and Argentine de ...
,
Steven Zaillian
Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay ''Schindler's List'' (1993) and has earned Oscar no ...
Élie Chouraqui
Élie Chouraqui (born 3 July 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. His 1996 film '' Les menteurs'' was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.
He made several films with Anouk Aimée.Ryan, Desmond.SCOTT GLENN PLAYS ...
and
Yvan Attal Yvan is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Jacques-Yvan Morin, GOQ (born 1931), politician in Quebec, Canada
*Marc-Yvan Côté (born 1947), former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party
*Maurice-Yvan S ...
.
* 1996 :
Charlotte Rampling
Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model.
She was cast in the role ...
(president),
Sabine Azéma
Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director.
Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the ...
,
René Cleitman
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René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminin ...
,
Dominique Farrugia
Dominique Farrugia (born 2 September 1962) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, humorist and comedian. He is a member and founder of the group of comedians '' Les Nuls'' alongside Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Care ...
,
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (; born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French musician Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song " Lemo ...
,
Chiara Mastroianni
Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
Early life
Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Ma ...
,
Laura Morante
Laura Morante (born 21 August 1956) is an Italian film actress.
Life and career
Morante was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto ( Tuscany), the daughter of lawyer and playwright Marcello Morante, who was the son of Irma (née Poggibonsi) ...
,
Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti (born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress. She made her film debut as Francesca Cimarosa in the 1970 film ''La moglie più bella.''
Early life
Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and ...
,
Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker.
Career
Poupaud's first appearance was, as a child, in Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film '' City of Pirates''. He met Ruiz through his mother, Chantal Poupaud, who was a well-kn ...
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and '' La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising A ...
(president),
Élodie Bouchez
Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter (born 5 April 1973) is a French actress. She became internationally known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show ''Alias'' and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film '' Wild ...
,
Philippe Carcassonne Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to:
* Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present)
* Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer
* Prince Philippe, Cou ...
,
Étienne Chatiliez
Étienne Chatiliez (born 17 June 1952) is a French film director. He was born in Roubaix, France.
After starting out directing many advertising clips, he is now a well-known director of feature-length films with some success.
Filmography
* ...
,
Alain Finkielkraut
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,
John Hurt
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,
Michèle Laroque
Michèle Laroque (; born 15 June 1960) is a French actress, comedian, humorist, producer and screenwriter.
Early life
Michèle Laroque was born in Nice in the department of Alpes-Maritimes. She is the daughter of Romanian dancer and violinis ...
,
Inés Sastre
Inés Sastre Moratón (born 21 November 1973) is a Spanish model and actress.
Early life
Born in Valladolid, Sastre's career started at the age of 12, when she was selected for a fast-food commercial with McDonald's. Her first movie appearanc ...
,
Nathalie Quintane
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Notable people with the name include:
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* ...
and
Lambert Wilson
Lambert Wilson (born 3 August 1958) is a French actor, singer and activist. He is best known internationally for his portrayal of The Merovingian in ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''The Matrix Revolutions'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''.
Biograph ...
.
* 1998 :
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Career
He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on ''Zazie dans le métro (film), Zazie dans le métro'' in 1960 a ...
(president),
Michèle Halberstadt
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Michele (pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and identically ...
,
Sandrine Kiberlain
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Russell Banks
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,
Maurice Bernart Maurice may refer to:
People
* Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
* Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and ...
,
Alessandro Gassmann
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Early life
Gassmann was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of German, Jewish and French ...
,
Ewan McGregor
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,
Liam Neeson
William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed 7th on '' Th ...
Christian Vincent (director)
Christian Vincent (born 5 November 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. He won the César Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Writing for his 1990 film ''La Discrète
''La Discrète'' (The Discreet) is a 1990 French comedy-drama ...
.
* 1999 :
Régis Wargnier
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(president),
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Jean-Hugues Anglade (born 29 July 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, known for his roles as Eric in ''Killing Zoe'', Zorg in ''Betty Blue'' and Marco, the boyfriend of Nikita in ''Nikita''.
Personal life
Anglade was born i ...
,
Humbert Balsan
Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films.
In February 2005 ...
Gabriel Byrne
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Marie Gillain
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In 1996 Gillain received the Prix Romy Schneider. She is single and has two daughters, Dune (born in 2004, with musician Martin Gamet) and Vega (born in ...
,
Michel Houellebecq
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His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer ...
,
Marie-France Pisier
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Early life
Pisier was ...
and
Elsa Zylberstein
Elsa Zylberstein (born Elsa Florence Zylbersztejn, 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César Award for Be ...
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* 2000 :
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, '' Night in Tunisia'', won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academ ...
(president),
Guillaume Canet
Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.
Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like '' Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me I ...
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Clotilde Courau
Princess Clotilde Marie Pascale Courau (born 3 April 1969) is a French actress. She is married to Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Royal Families of the World: ''Volume I Europe & Latin America''. Burke's Pee ...
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Tchéky Karyo
Tchéky Karyo (; born 4 October 1953) is a French actor and musician of Turkish origin. Beginning his career as an actor on stage in classical and contemporary works, he began to work as a character actor in films in the 1980s. He has acted in nu ...
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Philippe Labro
Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director. He has worked for RTL, '' Paris Match'', TF1 and Antenne 2. He is a laureate of the Prix Interallié, a French literary distinction founded in 1930, whic ...
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Samuel Le Bihan
Samuel Le Bihan (born 2 November 1965) is a French actor, known for his role in '' Brotherhood of the Wolf''.
Selected filmography Film
* 1993: , directed by René Féret
* 1993: , directed by René Féret
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François Ozon
François Ozon (; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Ozon is considered one of the most important modern French filmmakers. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeli ...
Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films i ...
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Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
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* 2001 :
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing ''Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), '' The Bear'' (1988), '' The Lover'' (1992), '' Seven Years in ...
(president),
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for ''À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actr ...
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Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist who is widely known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions.
She has received ...
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Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958. is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough ro ...
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Gérard Darmon
Gérard Darmon (born 29 February 1948) is a French- Moroccan actor and singer.
Personal life
He was the second husband of actress Mathilda May
Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress.
Early life
May was bor ...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Debuting as a di ...
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Darius Khondji
Darius Khondji ( fa, داریوش خنجی; born 21 October 1955) is an Iranian-French cinematographer. Khondji has worked with a number of high-profile directors, including David Fincher, Woody Allen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Gus Van Sant, Roman Po ...
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Benoît Poelvoorde
Benoît Poelvoorde (, ; born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor and comedian.
Early life
His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still a minor. He attended the Jesuit Boarding School of Godinne before ...
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Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claud ...
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* 2002 :
Pierre Lescure
Pierre Lescure (born 2 July 1945) is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show ''Les Enfants du rock'' broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Cana ...
(president),
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' ...
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Richard Anconina
Richard Anconina (; born 28 January 1953) is a French actor. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1983, and for Best Actor in 1989.
Filmography
*1977 : ''Comment se faire réformer'' directed by Philippe Clair
*1978 : ''Les Réfo ...
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Jean-Marc Barr
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Early life and ed ...
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Charles Berling
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) s ...
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Amira Casar
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Early life
Amira is the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian mother. She was born in London and was subsequently raised in England, Ireland, and France. Sh ...
Irène Jacob
Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-Swiss actress known for her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. She won the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Kieślowski film ''The Double Life of Vero ...
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Cédric Kahn
Cédric Kahn (; born 17 June 1966) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. His films include ''L'Ennui'' (1998), based on the Alberto Moravia novel ''Boredom'', and '' Red Lights'' (2004), based on the Georges Simenon novel. His film '' ...
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Bruno Wolkowitch
Bruno Wolkowitch is a French actor born on 10 May 1961 in Paris, in the 11th arrondissement.
Biography
Bruno Wolkowitch (orig. Wołkowicz) is of Polish descent. His father was a tailor turned bookkeeper and his mother a beautician who became a ...
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* 2003 :
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a ( né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, tw ...
(president),
Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938) is an Italian actress. She has starred in some of the most iconic European films of the 1960s and 1970s, acting in Italian, French, and English.
Born and raised in La Goulette, a ...
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Paweł Edelman
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Jacques Fieschi
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...
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Ben Kingsley
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Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud (; born 6 May 1960) is a French actress who has been active since 1977. She is best known internationally for playing the title character in Luc Besson's film '' La Femme Nikita''.
Biography
Parillaud was born in Paris. While in ...
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Zbigniew Preisner
Zbigniew Preisner (; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as we ...
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Ludivine Sagnier
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Fernando Trueba
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Between 1974 and 1979, he worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper ''El País''. ...
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Tom Tykwer
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* 2004 :
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critica ...
(president),
Anouk Aimée
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...
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Marie-Josée Croze
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Early life
Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec, was adopted, and grew up in Longueuil with four other ch ...
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Danièle Heymann
Danièle Heymann (16 May 1933 – was a French journalist and film critic. She was the former head of the Culture Department at ''Le Monde'', a film critic for ''Marianne'' and ''L'Express'', and was a participant in the show ''Le Masque et la Pl ...
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Diane Kurys
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Personal life
Kurys was born in Lyon, Rhône, France, the younger of two daughters. She is ...
Lio
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Life and career
Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furt ...
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Claudie Ossard
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Selected filmography
External links
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Bettina Rheims
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Career Early stages
Bettina Rheims was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Her photographic career began in 1978, when she took a series of photos of a group of strip- ...
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Mathilde Seigner
Mathilde Seigner (born 17 January 1968) is a French actress.
Early life
Seigner was born in Paris. She is the granddaughter of actor Louis Seigner (1903–1991). She is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner and a niece of Françoise Seigner.
Car ...
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* 2005 :
Alain Corneau
Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer.
Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work ...
(president),
Enki Bilal
Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.
Biography Early life
Bilal was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from ...
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Dominique Blanc
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,
Romane Bohringer
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She won the C� ...
Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker.
Career
Poupaud's first appearance was, as a child, in Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film '' City of Pirates''. He met Ruiz through his mother, Chantal Poupaud, who was a well-kn ...
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Brigitte Roüan
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* 2006 :
Nicole Garcia
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Guillaume Canet
Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.
Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like '' Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me I ...
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Amira Casar
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Early life
Amira is the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian mother. She was born in London and was subsequently raised in England, Ireland, and France. Sh ...
Antoine de Caunes
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Julien Clerc
Paul Alain Leclerc (born 4 October 1947), known by his stage name Julien Clerc (), is a French singer-songwriter.
Life
Born in Paris, Clerc grew up listening to classical music in his father Paul Leclerc's home, while his mother Évelyne Merlot ...
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Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian (; born 3 June 1949) is a popular French author of Armenian descent. He won the 2012 Prix Interallié for the novel ''"Oh..." (Elle'' for the English translation).
Life and career
Djian graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de J ...
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Marthe Keller
Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film ''Marathon Man (film), Marathon Man'' (1976), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting ...
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* 2007 :
André Téchiné
André Téchiné (; born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post- New Wave French film directors.
Téchiné belongs to a second generation ...
Xavier Beauvois
Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
Career
His film ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.
His film '' Of Gods and ...
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Nicolas Cazalé
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Charlélie Couture
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Émilie Deleuze
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Anouk Grinberg
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She has appeared ...
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Marie-France Pisier
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Early life
Pisier was ...
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* 2008 :
Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in ''Too Beautiful for You''. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 f ...
(president),
Édouard Baer
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In 2009, he participated in the French television programme ''Rendez-vous en terre inconnue''. On 5 March 2015 he appeared with S ...
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Ronit Elkabetz
Ronit Elkabetz ( he, רונית אלקבץ; 27 November 1964 – 19 April 2016) was an Israeli actress, screenwriter and film director. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nomin ...
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Diane Fleri
Diane Fleri (born 13 July 1983), is a French-born Italian actress.
Early life
Fleri was born in Quimper, Brittany, France, to an Italian father, Marino Fleri, a diplomat of Estonian and Maltese origins, and a French mother of Vietnamese origin ...
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Pierre Jolivet
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Cédric Kahn
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Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu (; born 27 April 1968) is a Romanian filmmaker. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for his film ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', which he wrote and directed. He has also won the awards for Best Screenplay an ...
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Leonor Silveira
Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes (born 28 October 1970) is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in '' The Cannibals'' for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She appeared in most of Oliveira's subsequent films.
She is the d ...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Debuting as a di ...
Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to ...
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Jean-Loup Dabadie
Jean-Loup Dabadie (27 September 1938 – 24 May 2020) was a French journalist, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and member of the Académie Française.
Filmography
* '' Anna'' (1967)
* '' Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me'' (1972)
* '' Parisian Life'' ...
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Émilie Dequenne
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Déborah François
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Sandrine Kiberlain
Sandrine Kiberlain (born Sandrine Kiberlajn; 25 February 1968) is a French actress and singer. Her most notable roles were in the films '' The Patriots'' (1994), '' A Self Made Hero'' (1996), '' For Sale'' (1998), '' Alias Betty'' (2001), '' Mad ...
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Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.
Life and career
Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Ins ...
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Géraldine Pailhas
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Bruno Podalydès
Bruno Podalydès (born 11 March 1961) is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more ...
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* 2010 :
Emmanuelle Béart
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(president),
Lucas Belvaux
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Jeanne Balibar
Jeanne Balibar (born 13 April 1968) is a French actress and singer.
Life and career
Balibar was born in Paris, the daughter of Marxist philosopher Étienne Balibar and physicist Françoise Balibar.
She started her career as a student in th ...
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Faouzi Bensaïdi
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Christine Citti
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Personal life
Her brother, Marc Citti, is also actor. Her father was mayor of Ramoulu in the Loiret
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Fabrice Du Welz
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Career
Fabrice du Welz ...
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Tony Gatlif
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Personal
Gatlif was born in Algeria of Pied noir ancestry. A ...
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Denis Lavant
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Abderrahmane Sissako
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* 2011 :
Olivier Assayas
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(president),
Nathalie Baye
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Claire Denis
Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Ev ...
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Nicolas Godin
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Early life
Godin was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture ...
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Chiara Mastroianni
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Early life
Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Ma ...
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Angelin Preljocaj
Angelin Preljocaj (; born 19 January 1957) is a French dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance.
Early life
Angelin Preljocaj was born in 1957 in Sucy-en-Brie, France. He is of Albanian descent.
Career
His choreographic work is steeped ...
Sandrine Bonnaire
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(president),
Clotilde Courau
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Christophe Honoré
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Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in '' Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon af ...
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Anaïs Demoustier
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Personal life
During the filming of ''Marguerite & Julien
''Marguerite & Julien'' ...
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Alice Taglioni
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Personal life
Alice Taglioni was born in Ermont, Val-d'Oise. She is the daughter of an Italian man from Lombardy. She was Miss Corsica in 1996, but refused to participate in the election ...
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Philippe Decouflé
Philippe Decouflé (born October 22, 1961) is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director.
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Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director.
Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well kn ...
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Florent Emilio Siri
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Lou Doillon
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Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of French writer/director Jacques Doillon and English actress/singer Jane Birkin. She has six brothers and sisters: K ...
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Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz (born 26 December 1947) is a French writer.
Biography
Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived sinc ...
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Hélène Fillières
Hélène Fillières (born 1 May 1972) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She is the sister of filmmaker Sophie Fillières
Sophie Fillières (born 20 November 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter who has written fo ...
Famke Janssen
Famke Beumer Janssen (; born ) is a Dutch actress. She played Xenia Onatopp in '' GoldenEye'' (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the ''X-Men'' film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the ''Taken'' film trilogy (2008–2014). In 2008, she ...
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Pierre Lescure
Pierre Lescure (born 2 July 1945) is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show ''Les Enfants du rock'' broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Cana ...
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Bruno Nuytten
Bruno Nuytten (born 28 August 1945) is a French cinematographer turned director.
''Camille Claudel'' which was Nuytten's first directorial and screenwriting effort, won the César Award for Best film in 1989. The film starred and was co-produced ...
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Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Education
A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. S ...
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Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...
(president),
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations.
Debuting as a di ...
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Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critica ...
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Pierre Lescure
Pierre Lescure (born 2 July 1945) is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show ''Les Enfants du rock'' broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Cana ...
André Téchiné
André Téchiné (; born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post- New Wave French film directors.
Téchiné belongs to a second generation ...
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Marie-Claude Pietragalla
Marie-Claude Georgette Yvonne Pietragalla (born 2 February 1963 in Paris) is a French dancer and choreographer.
Biography
Pietragalla was born in Paris to a Coriscan father and mother from Bordeaux. At 16, she joined the Ballet de l'Opera Natio ...
* 2015 :
Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (; born 5 February 1947) is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.
Life and career
Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, incl ...
(president),
Pascal Bonitzer
Pascal Bonitzer (; born 1 February 1946) is a French screenwriter, film director, actor, and former film critic for ''Cahiers du cinéma''. He has written for 48 films and has appeared in 30 films since 1967. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 fil ...
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Louise Bourgoin
Louise Bourgoin (; born Ariane Louise Bourgoin, 28 November 1981) is a French actress, model and television presenter.
Life and career
She was born on 28 November 1981 in Rennes. Bourgoin's parents, both secondary level teachers, encouraged ...
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (born 25 December 1963) is a French actor and film director. His daughter, Alice de Lencquesaing, is also an actress.
Filmography
As an actor
*''Les dernières heures du millénaire'' (1990, Short)
*''Madame Bovary'' ...
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Marc Dugain
Marc Dugain (born 1957) is a French novelist and film director, best known for ''La Chambre des Officiers'' (English, ''The Officers' Ward (novel), The Officers' Ward'') (1999), a novel set in World War I.
Dugain was born in Senegal and studied a ...
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Marie Gillain
Marie Gillain :fr:Mérite wallon, O.M.W. (born 18 June 1975) is a Belgium, Belgian actress.
In 1996 Gillain received the Prix Romy Schneider. She is single and has two daughters, Dune (born in 2004, with musician Martin Gamet) and Vega (born in ...
Sophie Fillières
Sophie Fillières (born 20 November 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter who has written for more than fifteen film and television productions since 1991.
Filmography
References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
F ...
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Marthe Keller
Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film ''Marathon Man (film), Marathon Man'' (1976), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting ...
Françoise Arnoul
Françoise Arnoul (born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch; 3 June 1931 – 20 July 2021) was a French actress, who achieved popularity during the 1950s.
Early life
Born in Constantine, French Algeria, as the daughter of stage a ...
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Éric Elmosnino
Éric Elmosnino (born 2 May 1964) is a French actor and musician. He is known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in '' Gainsbourg'', for which he won the César Award for Best Actor.
He studied at the National Conservatory of Dramat ...
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Sara Forestier
Sara Forestier (born 4 October 1986) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Forestier began her film career in 2001.
She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in '' Games of Love and ...
,
Ana Girardot
Ana Girardot (born 1 August 1988) is a French actress and director. She is known for ''Escobar: Paradise Lost'' (2014); her role of Lucy in the television series '' Les Revenants'' (''The Returned''); and ''Someone, Somewhere'' (2019).
Life and c ...
Radu Mihăileanu
Radu Mihăileanu (born 23 April 1958) is a Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poe ...
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Emmanuel Mouret
Emmanuel Mouret (born 30 June 1970) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
He was born on 30 June 1970 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He graduated from La Fémis (9th promotion, dire ...
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (; fa, مرجان ساتراپی ; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel ''Persepolis'' a ...
Benjamin Biolay
Benjamin Biolay (; born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément—whose first three albums he wrote and produced—and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroiann ...
Clotilde Hesme
Clotilde Hesme (born 30 July 1979) is a French actress best known for playing Lilie in Philippe Garrel's ''Regular Lovers'' and Alice in Christophe Honoré's ''Love Songs''. She is also known for the role of Adèle from the TV series '' Les Reve ...
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Eric Lartigau
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
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Charlotte Le Bon
Charlotte Le Bon (born 4 September 1986) is a Canadian actress, artist, former model and television presenter. She is known for her work in the Canal+ talk show '' Le Grand Journal'', and the films '' Yves Saint Laurent'', '' The Hundred-Foot J ...
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Michel Leclerc
Michel Leclerc (born 24 April 1965) is a French director and screenwriter.
Career
During the 1990s, Leclerc worked as a TV editor and cameraman. He also wrote and directed a number of shorts. For years, he was a columnist on television shows suc ...
,
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...
Alice Winocour
Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Winocour was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family. After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script ...
* 2018 :
Sandrine Kiberlain
Sandrine Kiberlain (born Sandrine Kiberlajn; 25 February 1968) is a French actress and singer. Her most notable roles were in the films '' The Patriots'' (1994), '' A Self Made Hero'' (1996), '' For Sale'' (1998), '' Alias Betty'' (2001), '' Mad ...
(president),
Sabine Azéma
Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director.
Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the ...
Leïla Bekhti
Yasmine Leïla Bekhti (born 6 March 1984) is a French film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in ''Tout ce qui brille'' (2007) and, in 2006, ''Paris, je t'aime'' and ''Sheitan (film), Sheitan''.
Early life
Bekhti was born in ...
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Stéphane Brizé
Stéphane Brizé (born 18 October 1966) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Stéphane Brizé was born on 18 October 1966 in Rennes, France. He attended a University Institutes of Technology and moved to ...
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Sara Giraudeau
Sara Giraudeau (born 1 August 1985) is a French actress. She won the 2018 César Award for Best Supporting Actress
The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one ...
,
Xavier Legrand
Xavier Legrand (born 28 March 1979) is a French actor, scriptwriter and filmmaker. Legrand was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual ...
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Pierre Salvadori
Pierre Salvadori (born 8 November 1964) is a French film director from Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco, known for works on romantic comedies such as '' Hors de prix'' (2006).
Life and career
In 1989 Salvadori wrote his first screenplay, which would the ...
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Leïla Slimani
Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the ''Organisation internationale de la Franc ...
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Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recogni ...
Claire Burger
Claire Burger is a French film director, film editor and screenwriter. She received the Camera d'Or award for her debut feature film ''Party Girl'' at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
The 67th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May ...
, Jean-Pierre Duret,
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in '' Rain Man'', ''Big Top Pee-wee'' and the two '' Hot Shots!'' films, particularly the olive-in-the-be ...
,
Vicky Krieps
Vicky Krieps (born 4 October 1983) is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French and German productions. Krieps' breakthrough role was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film ''Pha ...
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Gaël Morel
Gaël Morel (born 25 September 1972) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône (department), Rhône, France, a town of 30,000 inhabitants outside Lyon. He grew up in the ...
,
Orelsan
Aurélien Cotentin (; born 1 August 1982), better known by his stage name Orelsan, sometimes stylized as OrelSan (), is a French Rapping, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actor and film director. He has released four studio albums: his debut ...
, Nicolas Saada,
Gaspard Ulliel
Gaspard Thomas Ulliel (; 25 November 198419 January 2022) was a French actor. He was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in ''Hannibal Rising'' (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic '' Saint Laurent'' (2014 ...
* 2020 :
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (; born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's hig ...
(president),
Yann Gonzalez
M83 are a French electronic music group formed in Antibes in 1999 and currently based in Los Angeles. Initially a duo of multi-instrumentalists Nicolas Fromageau and Anthony Gonzalez, Fromageau parted ways shortly after touring for their second ...
,
Zita Hanrot
Zita Hanrot (born 7 December 1989) is a French actress. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2016 for her role in the film ''Fatima''.
Life and career
Zita Hanrot was born in 1989, to a Jamaican mother and a French father. She ...
,
Delphine Horvilleur
Delphine Horvilleur (born 8 November 1974) is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2012) editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine ''Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a''. She leads a congregation in Paris, and is currently co-l ...
Oxmo Puccino
Abdoulaye Diarra (; born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino (, ), is a French-Malian rapper.
Career
A longtime hip hop fan, at age 21 Diarra began his collaboration with the fledgling rap collective Time Bomb, honing ...
* 2021 :
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (; born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French musician Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song " Lemo ...
(president),
Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello (; born 11 September 1968) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and composer. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal. His work has also been associated with the New French Extre ...
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Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is a French novelist.
Life and career
De Vigan wrote her first four novels by night while working at a public opinion firm in Alfortville by day. Her first published work, ''Jours sans faim'' (2001), was ...
,
Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was entered into the 2001 Can ...
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Fatou N'Diaye
Fatou N'Diaye is an actress, originally from Senegal, born 1980 in Saint-Louis du Sénégal.
Biography
At 8 years old, she left Senegal with her mother, and moved to Paris.
In 1997, aged 16/17, she was discovered by Oliviero Toscani, commer ...
,
Garance Marillier
Garance Marillier (born 11 February 1998) is a French actress. She is known for her lead role in '' Raw'' released in 2016.
Early life
Prior to becoming an actress she learned the trombone and classical percussion at the Conservatoire of the 11 ...
, Mikhaël Hers, SebastiAn
The Revelation Jury
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Christophe Honoré
Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director.
Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in '' Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon af ...
(president),
Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French-English singer, actress and model.
Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of French writer/director Jacques Doillon and English actress/singer Jane Birkin. She has six brothers and sisters: K ...
Émilie Simon
Émilie Simon (; born 1978 in Montpellier, Occitanie, France) is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music.
Music
''Émilie Simon''
In May 2003, she released her debut album '' Émilie Simon''. The electronic album was cr ...
Gaël Morel
Gaël Morel (born 25 September 1972) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône (department), Rhône, France, a town of 30,000 inhabitants outside Lyon. He grew up in the ...
(president),
Clotilde Hesme
Clotilde Hesme (born 30 July 1979) is a French actress best known for playing Lilie in Philippe Garrel's ''Regular Lovers'' and Alice in Christophe Honoré's ''Love Songs''. She is also known for the role of Adèle from the TV series '' Les Reve ...
Mélanie Thierry
Mélanie Thierry is a French actress.
Early life and career
Mélanie Thierry began her career as a model in France, then moved into acting. She began with a series of roles in French productions, and at the age of 17 appeared in the internationa ...
and
Florian Zeller
Florian Zeller (; born 28 June 1979) is a French novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film director. He won the Prix Interallié for his 2004 novel ''The Fascination of Evil'' and several awards for his plays. He wrote and ...
*2008:
Zoe Cassavetes
Zoe Rowlands Cassavetes (born June 29, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is the daughter of filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is best known for her 2007 film ''Broken English''.
Career
Ca ...
Léa Drucker
Léa Drucker (born 23 January 1972) is a French actress.
Early life
Born in Caen, Normandy, she is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mother ...
,
Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert (born 11 May 1976) is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Born to an ethnic French (Pied-Noir) father, actor Jean Lespert, and an Algerian mother, who is an attorney and a jurist, Lespert first studied law, ...
Maïwenn
Maïwenn Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Early life
Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Catherine Belkhodja. ...
(president),
Romane Bohringer
Romane Bohringer (; born 14 August 1973) is a French actress, film director, screenwriter, and costume designer. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and sister of Lou Bohringer. Her parents named her after Roman Polanski.
She won the C� ...
Aïssa Maïga
Aïssa Maïga (born 5 May 1975) is a Senegal-born French actress, director, writer, producer, and activist. Maïga has worked with major auteurs like Michael Haneke, Abderrahmane Sissako and Michel Gondry, and recently starred in Chiwetel Ejiofor� ...
Manuel Pradal
Manuel Pradal (22 March 1964 – 13 May 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote the scenarios for all the films he directed. Pradal died on 13 May 2017 in Paris after a long illness, aged 53.
Awards and nominations
His 19 ...
Emma Luchini
Emma may refer to:
* Emma (given name)
Film
* ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown
* ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow
* ''Emma'' (1996 TV film), a British television film starring Kate B ...
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Roxane Mesquida
Roxane Mesquida (born 1 October 1981) is a French-American actress and model based in Los Angeles.
Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet, a little town located in southern France. Her mother, writer Françoise Mesquida, is French/Spanish and her father ...
Samuel Benchetrit
Samuel Benchetrit (born 26 June 1973) is a French writer, actor, scenarist, and director.
Biography
Benchetrit was born to a family of Romani, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
At age fifteen, he quit school to focus on photography.
B ...
(president),
Leila Hatami
Leila Hatami ( fa, لیلا حاتمی; born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Bear, two Crystal Simorghs, two Hafez Awards, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and three Iran's Film ...
,
Sabrina Ouazani
Sabrina Ouazani (born 6 December 1988) is a French actress of Algerian descent. She is best known internationally for her performance as Frida in '' Games of Love and Chance'' and as Charlotte Ben Smires in Netflix's hit rom-com series ''The Ho ...
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Elisa Sednaoui
Elisa Sednaoui (born December 14, 1987) is a model, actress, philanthropist and film director of Syrian, Italian, Egyptian, and French descent. She has appeared in such films as ''Eastern Drift'', ''La Baie du renard'', '':fr:Bus Palladium (film), ...
and
Benjamin Siksou
Benjamin Siksou (born 8 February 1987) is a French singer-songwriter and actor. He sings in a "jazz blues" style and plays the guitar, piano, and the violin.
Early years
Benjamin Siksou was born to a visual-artist mother and media consultant ...
*2012:
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel '' Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book ''Un roman frança ...
(president),
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (born 26 May 1986) is a French-Spanish actress and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in '' The Sea Wall'', the mermaid Syrena in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' and Sofi in ''I Origins''. She a ...
,
Mélanie Bernier
Mélanie Bernier (born 5 January 1985) is a French actress. She has appeared in several films, such as '' L'Assaut'' (2011), directed by Julien Leclerq, relating the hijacking of an Air France A300 in December 1994, and also in several televisi ...
,
Ana Girardot
Ana Girardot (born 1 August 1988) is a French actress and director. She is known for ''Escobar: Paradise Lost'' (2014); her role of Lucy in the television series '' Les Revenants'' (''The Returned''); and ''Someone, Somewhere'' (2019).
Life and c ...
and
Félix Moati
Félix Moati (born 24 May 1990) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the son of the journalist and filmmaker Serge Moati
Serge Moati (born Henry Moati; 17 August 1946) is a French journalist, television presenter, film direc ...
*2013:
Valérie Donzelli
Valérie Donzelli (born 2 March 1973) is a French actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films and two short films since 2008, including the film ''Declaration of War'' (2011).
Early life
Valérie Donzelli was born i ...
(president),
Laurence Arné
Laurence Arné (born 4 February 1982) is a French actress, comedian and writer.
Filmography
Theatre
References
External links
*
Living people
French film actresses
21st-century French actresses
1982 births
People from Angoulême ...
Géraldine Maillet
Geraldine may refer to:
People
* Geraldine (name), the feminine form of the first name Gerald, with list of people thus named.
* The Geraldines, Irish dynasty descended from the Anglo-Norman Gerald FitzWalter de Windsor
* Geraldine of Albania, ...
and
Woodkid
Yoann Lemoine (; born 16 March 1983), known professionally as Woodkid, is a French music video director, graphic designer and singer-songwriter. His most notable works include his music video direction for Katy Perry's " Teenage Dream", Taylor ...
*2014:
Audrey Dana
Audrey Dana (born 21 September 1977) is a French actress and film director.
Life and career
Dana studied drama in Orléans and Paris. After two years in New York City, she went back to France where she acted in various plays, including '' Nos am ...
Lola Bessis
Lola Bessis (born 30 November 1992) is a French actress, screenwriter and director. She is known for the movie '' Swim Little Fish Swim'', in which she acted and wrote the script.
Career
She started her career at the age of 12.
In 2013, she pla ...
,
Christine and the Queens
Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier (; born 1 June 1988), known professionally as Christine and the Queens and Redcar, or occasionally simply Chris, is a French singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Nantes, he started learning piano at the age o ...
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Freddie Highmore
Alfred Thomas Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles beginning as a child, in the films '' Finding Neverland'' (2004), '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005), '' August Rush'' (2007), and ...
and
Clémence Poésy
Clémence Guichard (born 30 October 1982), known professionally as Clémence Poésy (), is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 19 ...
Alice Isaaz
Alice Isaaz (born 26 July 1991) is a French actress. She is known for her roles in the films '' The Gilded Cage'' (2013), ''La Crème de la crème'' (2014) and ''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles
''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles'' ( en, The Yellow ...
,
Géraldine Nakache
Géraldine Nakache (born 16 February 1980) is a French actress, director and screenwriter of Algerian Jewish descent.
Life and career
Nakache grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. She earned a DEUG diploma in cinema. She worked as assistant cas ...
,
Stanley Weber
Stanley Weber (born 13 July 1986) is a French actor and theatre director. He is known for his performance as Juan Borgia in the television series ''Borgia'', and for his roles in films '' The First Day of the Rest of Your Life'' and '' Thérèse ...
and
Rachelle Lefevre
Rachelle Marie Lefèvre (, ; born February 1, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series ''Big Wolf on Campus'' and had recurring roles in '' What About Brian'', ''Boston Legal'', and ''Swingtown''. She played the vamp ...
*2016:
Audrey Pulvar
Audrey Pulvar (; born 21 February 1972) is a French journalist, television and radio host and politician. Newsreader of the ''19/20'' on France 3 from 2005 to 2009, Pulvar has been commentator within Laurent Ruquier's show ''On n'est pas couch� ...
Diane Rouxel
Diane Rouxel (born August 14, 1993) is a French actress. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2016 for her role in the film '' Standing Tall''. She received the Prix Romy Schneider in 2019.
Life and career
Diane ...
and
Christa Théret
Christa Théret (born 25 June 1991) is a French actress, best known for her role of Andrée Heuschling in ''Renoir''.
Early life
As a child, Théret aspired to be a teacher and then to become an actress.
Career
Théret's acting career began a ...
*2017:
Emmanuelle Bercot
Emmanuelle Bercot (born 6 November 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Clément'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2013 film '' On My Way'' premiered in competi ...
Anaïs Demoustier
Anaïs Demoustier (; born Anaïs Aude Marie Michèle Demoustier; 29 September 1987) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000.
Personal life
During the filming of ''Marguerite & Julien
''Marguerite & Julien'' ...
,
Pio Marmaï
Pio Marmaï (born 13 July 1984) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2008.
Early life and education
Marmaï was born on 13 July 1984. His mother is a former costume designer at the Opéra de Strasbourg, and his f ...
,
Pierre Rochefort
Pierre Rochefort (born 1981) is a French actor and singer. He is the son of Jean Rochefort and Nicole Garcia. At the age of five, he appeared in the 1986 short film ''15 août'' which was directed by his mother. In 2005, he made his foray into mu ...
and
Leonor Varela
Leonor Magdalena Varela Palma (; born 29 December 1972) is a Chilean actress. She played the title role in the 1999 television film ''Cleopatra'', and vampire princess Nyssa Damaskinos in the 2002 Marvel Comics film '' Blade II''.
Early lif ...