Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard (French pronunciation: [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. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, eleven Cesar Awards and four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival.

Jacques Audiard
Audiard at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1952-04-30) 30 April 1952 (age 72) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1974–present

Audiard made his feature film debut with See How They Fall (1994), followed by Read My Lips (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), and Rust and Bone (2012). His film, the prison crime drama, A Prophet (2009) earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Dheepan (2015). He directed his first English-language feature film, the western The Sisters Brothers (2018). His latest film the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez (2024) won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize.

Early life

Audiard was born in Paris. He began his screenwriting career in the 1980s with films including Réveillon chez Bob!, Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre, and Saxo.

Career

In 1994, he directed See How They Fall (French: Regarde les hommes tomber), a road movie starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the César Award for best first film and the Prix Georges-Sadoul. Two years later he reunited with Kassovitz and Trintignant for Un Héros Très Discret – A Self-Made Hero in English, adapted from the novel by Jean-François Deniau. In 1996, A Self-Made Hero won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes and received six César Awards nominations. In 2002, Read My Lips was nominated for nine Césars and won three, for Best Actress (Emmanuelle Devos), Best Screenplay and Best Sound. His fourth movie, De Battre Mon Cœur s'est Arrêté, received 10 nominations at the Césars and won eight, among them the Césars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film Music and Best Cinematography. 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.

In 2009, A Prophet won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was nominated for 13 César Awards, winning nine: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Most Promising Actor for Tahar Rahim, Best Supporting Actor for Niels Arestrup, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Production Design. His 2012 film Rust and Bone competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won the BFI London Film Festival Award for Best Film. In 2015, his seventh movie, Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Audiard is one of the first filmmakers to participate in LaCinetek's project, a streaming platform where the films are curated exclusively from lists of favorites by acclaimed directors. Published on the platform's launch day, his list of 61 films notably includes Charlie Chaplin's series of comedies from both Essanay Studios and Keystone Studios. He has released some music videos, among them Comme Elle Vient by Noir Désir in which all the actors were deaf-mute and interpreted the lyrics of the song in sign language. The beginning of the feature (a sequence with subtitles) created a minor scandal; it displayed three women discussing politics who come to the conclusion that "it is better to be deaf than to listen to that".

On 2 September 2018, his first American film The Sisters Brothers had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1974	Kisses Till Monday	No	Yes
1981	Le Professionnel	No	Yes
1983	Deadly Circuit	No	Yes
1984	Réveillon chez Bob	No	Yes
1985	All Mixed Up	No	Yes
1987	Killing Time	No	Yes
1988	Saxo	No	Yes
1988	Fréquence meurtre	No	Yes
1989	Baxter	No	Yes
1989	Australia	No	Yes
1991	Swing troubadour	No	Yes
1992	Confessions d'un Barjo	No	Yes
1994	Dead Tired	No	Yes
1994	See How They Fall	Yes	Yes
1996	A Self-Made Hero	Yes	Yes
1998	Norme française	Yes	Yes	Short film
1999	Venus Beauty Institute	No	Yes
2001	Read My Lips	Yes	Yes
2005	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	Yes	Yes
2009	A Prophet	Yes	Yes
2012	Rust and Bone	Yes	Yes	Also as producer
2015	Dheepan	Yes	Yes
2018	The Sisters Brothers	Yes	Yes
2021	Paris, 13th District	Yes	Yes
2024	Emilia Pérez	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1984	Black Sequence	No	Yes	Episode: "L'ennemi public n° 2"
2020	The Bureau	Yes	Yes	Director (2 episodes) / Writer (4 episodes)

Awards and nominations

Audiard at the 2012 Cabourg Film Festival.

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	César Award	Best First Feature	See How They Fall	Won
		Best Writing		Nominated
1996	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	A Self-Made Hero	Nominated
		Best Screenplay Award		Won
	Cesar Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Writing		Nominated
	Stockholm Film Festival	Best Screenplay		Won
2001	César Award	Best Film	Read My Lips	Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Writing		Won
	European Film Award	Best Screenwriter		Nominated
2005	BAFTA Award	Best Film Not in the English Language	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	Won
	Berlin International Film Festival	Golden Bear		Nominated
	British Independent Film Award	Best Foreign Independent Film		Nominated
	César Award	Best Film		Won
		Best Director		Won
		Best Adaptation		Won
	French Syndicate of Cinema Critics	Best French Film		Won
	Globes de Cristal Award	Best Film		Won
	Lumières Award	Best Film		Won
2009	BAFTA Award	Best Film Not in the English Language	A Prophet	Won
	BFI London Film Festival	Best Film		Won
	British Independent Film Awards	Best Foreign Independent Film		Won
	Cannes Film Festival	Grand Prix		Won
	César Award	Best Film		Won
		Best Director		Won
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Foreign Language Film		Won
	David di Donatello Award	Best European Film		Nominated
	Dublin Film Critics' Circle	Best Director		Won
	European Film Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenwriter		Nominated
	French Syndicate of Cinema Critics	Best French Film		Won
	Globes de Cristal Award	Best Film		Won
	Goya Award	Best European Film		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	London Film Critics' Circle	Film of the Year		Won
	Lumières Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Won
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	National Board of Review	Best Foreign Language Film		Won
2012	BAFTA Award	Best Film Not in the English Language	Rust and Bone	Nominated
	British Independent Film Award	Best Foreign Independent Film		Nominated
	BFI London Film Festival Award	Best Film		Won
	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or		Nominated
	César Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Adaptation		Won
	Critics' Choice Movie Award	Best Foreign Language Film		Nominated
	Globes de Cristal Award	Best Film		Won
	Goya Award	Best European Film		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	London Film Critics' Circle	Foreign Language Film of the Year		Won
	Lumières Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Won
		Best Screenplay		Won
2015	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Dheepan	Won
	César Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Lumières Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
2018	Venice Film Festival	Silver Lion for Best Director	The Sisters Brothers	Won
		Golden Lion		Nominated
2021	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Paris, 13th District	Nominated
2024	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Emilia Pérez	Nominated
		Jury Prize		Won

Honorary awards

Association	Year	Category	Result	Ref.
Stockholm International Film Festival	2012	Stockholm Visionary Award	Honored
Telluride Film Festival	2024	Silver Medallion	Honored
Valladolid International Film Festival	2013	Espiga de Honor	Honored

References

1. "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
2. "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
3. Henry Barnes (24 May 2015). "Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's Dheepan wins the Palme d'Or". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
4. Rebecca Ford (24 May 2015). "Cannes: 'Dheepan' Wins the Palme d'Or". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
5. Vincentelli, Elisabeth (29 July 2020). "The World's Greatest Directors Have Their Own Streaming Lists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
6. "Jacques Audiard's list". LaCinetek. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
7. Tartaglione, Nancy (25 July 2018). "Venice Film Festival Lineup: Welles, Coen Brothers, Cuaron, Greengrass, More – Live". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
8. "Cannes Palme d'Or awarded to French film Dheepan". BBC. 24 May 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
9. Jensen, Jorn Rossing (31 October 2012). "Dafoe, Audiard and Troell to be awarded in Stockholm". Screen International. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
10. Ford, Rebecca (29 August 2024). "The 2024 Telluride Lineup Promises "Cinematic Ecstasy"". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
11. "Jacques Audiard". SEMINCI (in European Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2024.

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