Jacques Audiard (French pronunciation: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, eleven Cesar Awards and four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival.
Jacques Audiard | |
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 Audiard at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | 30 April 1952 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1974–present |
Audiard made his feature film debut with See How They Fall (1994), followed by Read My Lips (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), and Rust and Bone (2012). His film, the prison crime drama, A Prophet (2009) earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Dheepan (2015). He directed his first English-language feature film, the western The Sisters Brothers (2018). His latest film the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez (2024) won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize.
Early life
editAudiard was born in Paris. He began his screenwriting career in the 1980s with films including Réveillon chez Bob!, Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre, and Saxo.
Career
editIn 1994, he directed See How They Fall (French: Regarde les hommes tomber), a road movie starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the César Award for best first film and the Prix Georges-Sadoul. Two years later he reunited with Kassovitz and Trintignant for Un Héros Très Discret – A Self-Made Hero in English, adapted from the novel by Jean-François Deniau. In 1996, A Self-Made Hero won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes and received six César Awards nominations. In 2002, Read My Lips was nominated for nine Césars and won three, for Best Actress (Emmanuelle Devos), Best Screenplay and Best Sound. His fourth movie, De Battre Mon Cœur s'est Arrêté, received 10 nominations at the Césars and won eight, among them the Césars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film Music and Best Cinematography. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language twice, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet, as well as winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2009, A Prophet won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was nominated for 13 César Awards, winning nine: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Most Promising Actor for Tahar Rahim, Best Supporting Actor for Niels Arestrup, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Production Design. His 2012 film Rust and Bone competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival,[1][2] was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won the BFI London Film Festival Award for Best Film. In 2015, his seventh movie, Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[3][4]
Audiard is one of the first filmmakers to participate in LaCinetek's project, a streaming platform where the films are curated exclusively from lists of favorites by acclaimed directors.[5] Published on the platform's launch day, his list of 61 films[6] notably includes Charlie Chaplin's series of comedies from both Essanay Studios and Keystone Studios. He has released some music videos, among them Comme Elle Vient by Noir Désir in which all the actors were deaf-mute and interpreted 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".
On 2 September 2018, his first English language American film The Sisters Brothers had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.[7]
In 2022, a five episode special about Audiard's pre-production process was released by Télérama.[8] It was revealed that Audiard was in development of a script adaptation of the opera libretto Emilia Pérez, this would mark the first time Audiard has written a film alone. Filming began in the summer of 2023 with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.[9] The film premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 18th 2024. It was later won the Jury Prize and its female ensemble won the Best Actress award at the festival. It went on to be selected as the French entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.[10]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Kisses Till Monday | No | Yes | |
| 1981 | Le Professionnel | No | Yes | |
| 1983 | Deadly Circuit | No | Yes | |
| 1984 | Réveillon chez Bob | No | Yes | |
| 1985 | All Mixed Up | No | Yes | |
| 1987 | Killing Time | No | Yes | |
| 1988 | Saxo | No | Yes | |
| 1988 | Fréquence meurtre | No | Yes | |
| 1989 | Baxter | No | Yes | |
| 1989 | Australia | No | Yes | |
| 1991 | Swing troubadour | No | Yes | |
| 1992 | Confessions d'un Barjo | No | Yes | |
| 1994 | Dead Tired | No | Yes | |
| 1994 | See How They Fall | Yes | Yes | |
| 1996 | A Self-Made Hero | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | Norme française | Yes | Yes | Short film |
| 1999 | Venus Beauty Institute | No | Yes | |
| 2001 | Read My Lips | Yes | Yes | |
| 2005 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Yes | Yes | |
| 2009 | A Prophet | Yes | Yes | |
| 2012 | Rust and Bone | Yes | Yes | Also as producer |
| 2015 | Dheepan | Yes | Yes | |
| 2018 | The Sisters Brothers | Yes | Yes | |
| 2021 | Paris, 13th District | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Yes | Yes |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Black Sequence | No | Yes | Episode: "L'ennemi public n° 2" |
| 2020 | The Bureau | Yes | Yes | Director (2 episodes) / Writer (4 episodes) |
Awards and nominations
editHonorary awards
edit| Association | Year | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filmfest Hamburg | 2024 | Douglas Sirk Award | Honored | [12] |
| Morelia International Film Festival | 2024 | Artistic Excellence Award | Honored | [13] |
| Stockholm International Film Festival | 2012 | Stockholm Visionary Award | Honored | [14] |
| Telluride Film Festival | 2024 | Silver Medallion | Honored | [15] |
| Valladolid International Film Festival | 2013 | Espiga de Honor | Honored | [16] |
References
edit- ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ Henry Barnes (24 May 2015). "Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's Dheepan wins the Palme d'Or". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Rebecca Ford (24 May 2015). "Cannes: 'Dheepan' Wins the Palme d'Or". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Vincentelli, Elisabeth (29 July 2020). "The World's Greatest Directors Have Their Own Streaming Lists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Jacques Audiard's list". LaCinetek. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (25 July 2018). "Venice Film Festival Lineup: Welles, Coen Brothers, Cuaron, Greengrass, More – Live". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ Rigoulet, Laurent (24 January 2022). "À la recherche d'"Emilia Pérez" : le projet fou de Jacques Audiard". Télérama (in French). Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ Ruimy, Jordan (3 November 2022). "Jacques Audiard's Musical 'Emilia Perez' Starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana, Begins Filming Summer 2023". World of Reel.
- ^ https://deadline.com/2024/09/oscars-france-emilia-perez-for-best-international-feature-film-race-1236092843/
- ^ "Cannes Palme d'Or awarded to French film Dheepan". BBC. 24 May 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Honorary Awards for Arnold and Audiard". Filmfest Hamburg. 3 September 2024. Archived from the original on 10 September 2024. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ Film Festival, Morelia (18 October 2024). "El FICM inauguró su 22ª edición con la proyección de EMILIA PÉREZ, de Jacques Audiard". Morelia Film Fest (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Jensen, Jorn Rossing (31 October 2012). "Dafoe, Audiard and Troell to be awarded in Stockholm". Screen International. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ Ford, Rebecca (29 August 2024). "The 2024 Telluride Lineup Promises "Cinematic Ecstasy"". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ "Jacques Audiard". SEMINCI (in European Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2024.
External links
edit
- Jacques Audiard at IMDb
- Clipography
- Jacques Audiard Interview