Prix Jean Vigo
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The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the Cinema of France given annually since 1951 to a French film director in homage to Jean Vigo.
This award is usually given to a young director, for his or her independent spirit.
[edit] Winners
- 1951: La Montagne est verte (short) by Jean Leherissey
- 1952: La Grande Vie by Henri Schneider
- 1953: Crin blanc (short) by Albert Lamorisse
- 1954: Les statues meurent aussi (short) by Alain Resnais
- 1955: Émile Zola (short) by Jean Vidal
- 1956: Nuit et brouillard (short) by Alain Resnais
- 1957: Léon la lune (short) by Alain Jessua
- 1958: Les Femmes de Stermetz (short) by Louis Grospierre
- 1959: Le Beau Serge by Claude Chabrol
- 1960: À bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard
- 1961: La Peau et les os by Jean-Paul Sassy and Jacques Panuel
- 1962: La Guerre des boutons by Yves Robert
- 1963: Mourir à Madrid by Frédéric Rossif
- 1964: La Belle Vie by Robert Enrico
- 1965: Fait à Coaraze (short) by Gérard Belkin
- 1966: La Noire de... by Ousmane Sembène
- 1967: Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein
- 1968: O Salto by Christian de Chalonge
- 1969: L'Enfance nue by Maurice Pialat
- 1970: Hoa Binh by Raoul Coutard
- 1971: Remparts d'argile by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
- 1972: Continental Circus by Jérôme Laperroussaz
- 1973: Absences répétées by Guy Gilles
- 1974: Un homme qui dort by Bernard Queyssanne and Georges Perec
- 1975: L'Histoire de Paul by René Féret
- 1976: L'Affiche rouge by Frank Cassenti
- 1977: Paradiso by Christian Bricout
- 1978: Bako-l'autre rive by Jacques Champreux
- 1979: Certaines nouvelles by Jacques Davila
- 1980: Ma blonde entends-tu dans la ville ? by René Gilson
- 1981: Le Jardinier by Jean-Pierre Sentier
- 1982: L'Enfant secret by Philippe Garrel
- 1984: Vive la sociale by Gérard Mordillat
- 1985: Le Thé au harem d'Archimède by Medhi Charef
- 1986: Maine Océan by Jacques Rozier
- 1987: Buisson ardent by Laurent Perrin
- 1988: La Comédie du travail by Luc Moullet
- 1989: Chine ma douleur by Sijie Daï
- 1990: Mona et moi by Patrick Grandperret
- 1991: Le Brasier by Eric Barbier
- 1992: Paris s'éveille by Olivier Assayas
- 1993: Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général by Anne Fontaine
- 1994: Trop de bonheur by Cédric Kahn
- 1995: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir by Xavier Beauvois
- 1996: Encore by Pascal Bonitzer
- 1997: La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
- 1998: Dis-moi que je rêve by Claude Mourieras
- 1999: La vie ne me fait pas peur by Noémie Lvoski
- 2000: Saint-Cyr by Patricia Mazuy ex-æquo avec De l'histoire ancienne by Orso Miret
- 2000: Les filles de mon pays (short) by Yves Caumon
- 2001: Candidature by Emmanuel Bourdieu ex-æquo with Ce vieux rêve qui bouge by Alain Guiraudie
- 2002: Royal Bonbon by Charles Najman
- 2003: All the fine promises by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- 2004: "Quand je serai star" by Patrick Mimouni
- 2005: Les Yeux clairs by Jérôme Bonnell
[edit] Prix Jean Vigo in Spain
The Spanish documentary film festival Punto de Vista presents, for the first time in Spain, the Premio Jean Vigo al mejor director (Jean Vigo Prize to the best director).
The new award aims to strengthen both the spirit which inspired the festival in the first place and its commitment to the work of Jean Vigo. The creation of this prize has been made possible thanks to the close ties between Punto de Vista and the family of the great French filmmaker.
Punto de Vista paid tribute to the director of Zero de Conduite on the centenary of his birth in 2005. Luce Vigo, film critic and daughter of Vigo and Elizabeth Lozinska, attended that year. The festival provided an opportunity to look back on Vigo’s entire filmography and also represented the first step in a relationship which has now fructified in the form of this award. The Festival took its name, Punto de Vista (Point of View), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, back in the 30’s, to a “documented point of view” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking which commits the filmmaker.
