Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard

Audiard at the 2012 Cabourg Film Festival
Born 30 April 1952
Paris, France
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Years active 1974–present

Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter; and the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.

He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet. He also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. His film Rust and Bone competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2] His upcoming film Dheepan has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Life and career

Audiard was born in Paris. At the beginning of the 1980s he successfully began screenwriting, including Réveillon chez Bob! and Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre and Saxo.

In 1994, he directed the film Regarde les hommes tomber, a road movie with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the César Award for the best first film and the prix Georges-Sadoul. Two years later he reunited with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant on his second movie Un héros très discret adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-François Deniau.

His fourth movie, De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté, received 10 nominations at the Césars and won eight, among them the awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best film music, and best cinematography.

He also released some music videos, among them Comme elle vient by Noir Désir where all the actors were deaf-mute and interpret the lyrics of the song in sign language. The beginning of the feature (a sequence with subtitles) created a minor scandal. It displayed three women discussing politics who come to the conclusion that "it is better to be deaf than to listen to that".

Filmography

Director and writer

Writer only

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  2. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  3. ↑ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Un prophète, Artistik Rezo, Cassandre Bournat. 2010-03-07 (in French).

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