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FILM DIRECTOR

Jaco Van Dormael

1957 - Today

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Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. Van Dormael spent his childhood travelling around Europe, before going on to study filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels, where he wrote and directed his first short film, Maedeli la brèche (1981), which received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaco Van Dormael has received more than 309,744 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jaco Van Dormael is the 564th most popular film director (down from 556th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 366th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 564 out of 1,581. Before him are Amos Gitai, Ján Kadár, Roger Spottiswoode, King Hu, James Gunn, and Paul Greengrass. After him are Mika Kaurismäki, László Benedek, Hal Roach, Jamie Uys, Hong Sang-soo, and Jean-Daniel Cadinot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 102. Before him are Mary Bell, Cynthia Rothrock, Stefan Bellof, Nellie Kim, Seve Ballesteros, and Stephen Dillane. After him are Peter Høeg, Shane MacGowan, Robert Harris, William Kaelin Jr., Oliver Hirschbiegel, and Nikolaos Michaloliakos.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 372 out of 1,019. Before him are Jean Ray (1887), Jean-Marc Bosman (1964), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Paul Vanden Boeynants (1919), Franciscus Gomarus (1563), and Olivier Gendebien (1924). After him are Lucien Buysse (1892), Maurice De Waele (1896), Guido Gezelle (1830), Joseph Jongen (1873), Andrei Kozyrev (1951), and Bernard Voorhoof (1910).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 4. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928), Chantal Akerman (1950), and Jacques Feyder (1885). After him are André Delvaux (1926), Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Benoît Lamy (1945), and Felix van Groeningen (1977).

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Filmography

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