FILM DIRECTORS from Monaco

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Monegasque Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Monegasque Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Danièle Thompson (1942 - )

With an HPI of 47.87, Danièle Thompson is the most famous Monegasque Film Director.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

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 including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot and Jet Lag, which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film, Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father,[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.[2] In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot in signing the petition in support of Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities. Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings.

2. Armand Gatti (1924 - 2017)

With an HPI of 46.31, Armand Gatti is the 2nd most famous Monegasque Film Director.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Armand Gatti (French: [gati]; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter. His debut film Enclosure was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director. Two years later, his film El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013 he was awarded the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française. Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.