1930 - 2022
Jean-Luc Godard (UK: GOD-ar, US: goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Luc Godard has received more than 4,517,796 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Jean-Luc Godard is the 17th most popular film director (up from 21st in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from France (up from 199th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Film Director.
Jean-Luc Godard is most famous for his innovative and influential filmmaking style, which includes the use of jump cuts, hand-held cameras, and natural lighting.
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Among film directors, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 17 out of 1,581. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, and Andrei Tarkovsky. After him are Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Georges Méliès, and Leni Riefenstahl.
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 13
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 14
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 15
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 16
1930 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 17
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 18
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 19
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 21
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 22
1902 - 2003
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 10. Before him are Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Michael Collins, Warren Buffett, Helmut Kohl, George Soros, and Pierre Bourdieu. After him are Ray Charles, Jacques Derrida, Hafez al-Assad, Steve McQueen, Buzz Aldrin, and Mobutu Sese Seko.
1930 - 2002
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 4
1930 - 2021
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 5
1930 - Present
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 6
1930 - 2017
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 7
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 8
1930 - 2002
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 9
1930 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 10
1930 - 2004
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 11
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 12
1930 - 2000
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 13
1930 - 1980
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 14
1930 - Present
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 15
1930 - 1997
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 16
Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 183 out of 6,011. Before him are Pope John XXII (1244), Pope Urban V (1310), François Viète (1540), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Louis de Broglie (1892), and Gérard Depardieu (1948). After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Théodore Géricault (1791), Louis VII of France (1120), and Alfred Sisley (1839).
1244 - 1334
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 177
1310 - 1370
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 178
1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 179
1663 - 1736
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 180
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 181
1948 - Present
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 182
1930 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 183
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 184
1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 185
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 186
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 187
1120 - 1180
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 188
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 189
Among film directors born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 2. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933). After him are François Truffaut (1932), Georges Méliès (1861), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jacques Tati (1907), William Wyler (1902), Roger Vadim (1928), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Robert Bresson (1901).
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 2
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 3
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 4
1920 - 2010
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 5
1907 - 1982
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 6
1902 - 1981
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 7
1928 - 2000
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 8
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1901 - 1999
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 12