FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Audiard

1952 - Today

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Jacques Audiard (French: [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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Audiard has received more than 646,336 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jacques Audiard is the 360th most popular film director (up from 383rd in 2019), the 2,120th most popular biography from France (up from 2,132nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Audiard ranks 360 out of 2,041. Before him are Valerio Zurlini, François Ozon, Mikio Naruse, Clifford Odets, Juan Antonio Bardem, and Jacques Feyder. After him are Irvin Kershner, Kinji Fukasaku, Walerian Borowczyk, Ladislas Starevich, Jacques Doillon, and Emilio Fernández.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Jacques Audiard ranks 117. Before him are Terry O'Quinn, Chazz Palminteri, Kaija Saariaho, Rainer Bonhof, Nora Miao, and Eduardo Souto de Moura. After him are Annie Potts, Şenol Güneş, Dalia Itzik, Manuel Zelaya, Larry Fink, and Mandy Patinkin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Audiard ranks 2,120 out of 6,770. Before him are Aimable Pélissier (1794), Théophile Delcassé (1852), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Legall de Kermeur (1702). After him are Benjamin Péret (1899), Pierre Hadot (1922), Philippe de Gaulle (1921), Edmond Locard (1877), Tino Rossi (1907), and Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jacques Audiard ranks 44. Before him are William Kennedy Dickson (1860), Jean Rouch (1917), Claude Sautet (1924), Jean Girault (1924), Guy Hamilton (1922), and François Ozon (1967). After him are Jacques Doillon (1944), Leos Carax (1960), Alexandre Astruc (1923), Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946), Patrice Leconte (1947), and Jacques Copeau (1879).

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Filmography

The Sisters Brothers
Director
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Sep 19o 20186.818 / 10
A Prophet
Director
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
Aug 26o 20097.591 / 10
Rust and Bone
Director
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
May 17o 20127.177 / 10