FILM DIRECTOR

Chantal Akerman

1950 - 2015

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Chantal Anne Akerman (French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for her films Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1976), and Je Tu Il Elle (1974); the first of these was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll, making her the first woman to top the poll. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chantal Akerman has received more than 1,420,751 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Chantal Akerman is the 226th most popular film director (up from 333rd in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 220th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Chantal Akerman ranks 226 out of 2,041. Before her are Guy Ritchie, Robert Wiene, Nanni Moretti, Tony Richardson, Chris Marker, and Mario Monicelli. After her are Nicholas Ray, Mario Bava, Marco Ferreri, Arthur Penn, Věra Chytilová, and Gus Van Sant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Chantal Akerman ranks 66. Before her are Bjarne Stroustrup, Marianne Bachmeier, Amos Gitai, Sahle-Work Zewde, John Candy, and David Graf. After her are Chen Shui-bian, Helen Clark, Grigory Sokolov, Brad Dourif, Miki Manojlović, and Robert B. Laughlin. Among people deceased in 2015, Chantal Akerman ranks 69. Before her are Setsuko Hara, Ben E. King, Udo Lattek, Alfred G. Gilman, Georges Wolinski, and Gabriele Ferzetti. After her are Robert Loggia, Khaled al-Asaad, Kurt Masur, Dettmar Cramer, Licio Gelli, and Chandra Bahadur Dangi.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Chantal Akerman ranks 163 out of 1,190. Before her are Toots Thielemans (1922), Blanche of Namur (1320), The Singing Nun (1933), Petrus Plancius (1552), Victor D'Hondt (1841), and Abraham Brueghel (1631). After her are Victor Serge (1890), Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (1962), Pierre De Geyter (1848), Roelant Savery (1576), Heinrich Isaac (1450), and Cipriano de Rore (1515).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Chantal Akerman ranks 2. Before her are Agnès Varda (1928). After her are Jacques Feyder (1885), André Delvaux (1926), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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Filmography

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Jan 21st 19767.4 / 10
Je Tu Il Elle
Director
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
Dec 31st 19746.4 / 10
News from Home
Director
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
May 20th 19777.1 / 10