FILM DIRECTOR

Jean-Jacques Annaud

1943 - Today

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Jean-Jacques Annaud (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ano]; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Jacques Annaud has received more than 722,585 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jean-Jacques Annaud is the 74th most popular film director (down from 68th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from France (down from 565th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Film Director.

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing films such as The Bear, The Name of the Rose, Enemy at the Gates, Seven Years in Tibet, and The Lover.

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  • 71.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 74 out of 2,041. Before him are Chuck Jones, Theo Angelopoulos, Dziga Vertov, Frank Capra, Christopher Nolan, and Ernst Lubitsch. After him are Alain Resnais, Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Terry Gilliam, and Franco Zeffirelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 41. Before him are John Kerry, Khalifa Haftar, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Johnny Hallyday, Malcolm McDowell, and Richard Wright. After him are Gianni Rivera, Mario Monti, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Hanna Schygulla, Mariss Jansons, and Helmut Marko.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 594 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Roger Garaudy (1913), Margaret of Anjou (1430), Françoise Hardy (1944), and Antipope Clement VII (1342). After him are Lazare Carnot (1753), Anaïs Nin (1903), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Alain Resnais (1922), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 10. Before him are Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), Luc Besson (1959), Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Chabrol (1930), and Éric Rohmer (1920). After him are Alain Resnais (1922), William Wyler (1902), Robert Bresson (1901), René Clair (1898), Marcel Carné (1906), and Jean-Pierre Melville (1917).

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