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

Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globes, ten Cesar Awards, four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival as well as nominations for four Academy Awards.

Audiard made his feature film directorial 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 Language 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 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. For this film, Audiard also received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, and Best International Feature.

Early life

Audiard was born in Paris, the son of Marie-Christine Guibert and Michel Audiard, who was a film director and screenwriter. 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 English language American film The Sisters Brothers had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2022, a five episode special about Audiard's pre-production process was released by Télérama. It was revealed that Audiard was in development of a script adaptation of the opera libretto Emilia Pérez, this would mark the first time Audiard has written a film alone. Filming began in the summer of 2023 with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana. The film premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 18th 2024. It was later won the Jury Prize and its female ensemble won the Best Actress award at the festival. It went on to be selected as the French entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

Filmography

Feature film

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

Television

Year Title Director Writer Notes
1984 Black Sequence No Yes Episode "L'ennemi public n° 2"
2020 The Bureau Yes Yes Directed 2 episodes, wrote 4 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1994 Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or See How They Fall Nominated
1995 César Award Best First Feature Won
Best Writing Nominated
1996 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or A Self-Made Hero Nominated
Best Screenplay Award Won
Valladolid International Film Festival Golden Spike Nominated
Silver Spike Won
Stockholm Film Festival Bronze Horse Nominated
Best Screenplay Won
1997 Cesar Award Best Director Nominated
Best Writing Nominated
2002 César Award Best Film Read My Lips Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Writing Won
Newport International Film Festival Best Director Won
European Film Award Best Screenwriter Nominated
2005 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear The Beat That My Heart Skipped Nominated
Tribeca Festival Jury Award Nominated
Seville European Film Festival Golden Giraldillo Won
European Film Awards Best Director Nominated
2006 Étoiles D'Or Best Film Won
Best Director Won
Institut Lumière Jacques Deray Prize Won
Globes de Cristal Award Best Film Won
Lumières Award Best Film Won
BAFTA Award Best Film Not in the English Language Won
César Award Best Film Won
Best Director Won
Best Adaptation Won
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Best French Film Won
British Independent Film Award Best Foreign Independent Film Nominated
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 Palm d'Or Nominated
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
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
2010 Goya Award Best European Film Nominated
82nd Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Feature Film Nominated
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
World Cinema Amsterdam Best Film Nominated
Oslo Films from the South Festival Audience Award Won
2016 Lumière Award Best Film Nominated
Best Director Nominated
César Award Best Film Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
Amanda Award Best Foreign Feature Film Nominated
Miami Film Festival Grand Jury - Knight Competition Won
2017 BAFTA Awards Best Film Not in the English Language Nominated
2018 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion The Sisters Brothers Nominated
Silver Lion for Best Director Won
San Sebastian International Film Festival City of Donostia Audience Award Nominated
Louis Delluc Prize Best Film Nominated
2019
Lumiere Awards Best Film Won
Best Director Won
César Awards Best Film Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Almería Western Film Festival Best Feature Won
2020 Magritte Awards Best Foreign Film in Co-production Nominated
2021 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Paris, 13th District Nominated
Queer Palm Nominated
Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo Nominated
Gold Q-Hugo Nominated
Out of Look Competition - Special Mention Won
Hamburg Film Festival Art Cinema Award Won
Seville European Film Festival Golden Giraldillo Nominated
2022 Lumiere Awards Best Director Nominated
Cesar Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Cleveland International Film Festival International Narrative Competition - Best Feature Film Nominated
2023 Polish Film Awards Best European Film Nominated
2024 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Emilia Pérez Nominated
Jury Prize Won
Queer Palm Nominated
Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award Runner-up
San Sebastian International Film Festival Sebastiane Award Nominated
Audience Award Nominated
Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Favorite ¡Viva el cine! Won
Denver Film Festival Rare Pearl Award Won
New Orleans Film Festival Narrative Feature Nominated
Hollywood Music in Media Awards Best Original Song – Feature Film for "El Mal" Nominated
Music Themed Film, Biopic or Musical Won
Seville European Film Festival Puerta América Award Nominated
Stockholm International Film Festival FIPRESCI Best Film Won
Audience Award Won
European Film Awards Best Film Won
Best Director Won
Best Screenwriter Won
Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best International Feature Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards Best International Film Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Song for "El Mal" Nominated
Best International Won
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards Best International Feature Film Nominated
New York Film Critics Online Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best International Feature Nominated
Indiana Film Journalists Association Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Original Vision Nominated
2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival Vanguard Award Won
FIPRESCI Best International Film Pending
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language Won
Best Original Song for "El Mal" Won
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups Pending
Best Director Pending
Best Screenwriter Pending
Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Picture Pending
Best Director Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Pending
Foreign Language Film Pending
Best Song for "El Mal" Pending
Lumières Awards Best Film Won
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Film Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay, Adapted Nominated
Best International Film Nominated
Academy Awards Best Picture Pending
Best Director Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Pending
Best Original Song Pending

Honorary awards

Association Year Category Result Ref.
Filmfest Hamburg 2024 Douglas Sirk Award Honored
Morelia International Film Festival 2024 Artistic Excellence Award Honored
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

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