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Jacques Audiard

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Date of birth (location)
30 April 1952
Paris, France

Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne but didn't finish his degree. By that time, his then girlfriend suggested he work as a trainee editor during his university holidays. He worked as an assistant editor on several movies like "Le locataire" (1976) directed by Roman Polanski.

He also joined a theater where he did all kinds of work. He specially enjoyed adapting works for stage. In the eighties he wrote the screenplays of some successful movies like "Mortelle Randonnee" (1983), "Reveillon Chez Bob" (1984), "Saxo" (1987), "Frequence meurtre" (1988) and "Grosse fatigue" (1994). Most of those films were thrillers directed by prestigious filmmakers like Claude Miller and Michel Blanc. He also directed some well received short movies.

Thanks to the success of those movies he was able, in 1994, to raise up the money to make his first movie "Regarde les hommes tomber" a somber road movie starred by two of the most important French actors: Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean Louis Trintignant. That movie won 3 Cesars of the French academy for best editing, best new director (Jacques Audiard) and best new actor (for Kassovitz).

Kassovitz also became the star of his second movie "Un heros tres discret" released in the Festival de Cannes in 1996 where it won the award for best screenplay. "Un heros tres discret" undermined the myth of the French resistance to the Nazis by telling the story of a young impostor who rises high in French society after World war by concocting a past for himself as a hero. It also won awards in the festivals of Stockholm and Valladolid and made his name internationally.

In 2001 he made his third movie "Sur mes levres". The love story between two outsiders (a deaf office worker and a hoodlum) who decide to con a group of gangsters also became a success. It also won three Cesars (best actress, sound and screenplay).

His last movie, "De battre mon Coeur sest arrête" (a remake of "Fingers" a James Toback´s movie) was released in the Berlin festival of 2005.

With those movies, Audiard has become the new master of the "polar" (French thriller) and inheritor of others great French directors like Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) and Henri Georges-Clouzot (1907-1977).

Director - filmography

# Disparus, Les (2006) (pre-production)

# De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
... aka The Beat That My Heart Skipped
# Sur mes lèvres (2001)
... aka Read My Lips (International: English title)

# Norme française (1998)
# Un héros très discret (1996)
... aka A Self-Made Hero
# Regarde les hommes tomber (1994)
... aka See How They Fall

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Jacques Audiard

Read My Lips (2001)

[Now I regret my decision for skipping to watch TBTMHS when am in NYC. We watched Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera and Sweet Charity instead when we were there.]

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Miranda July

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Date of birth (location)
February 1974
Barre, Vermont, USA

Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004!

She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) has won several film awards.


Director - filmography

1. Nest of Tens (2005)
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

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Miranda July

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

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Gaspar Noe

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Date of birth (location)
27 December 1963
Argentina


Director - filmography
(2000s) (1990s)

1. Irréversible (2002)
... aka Irreversible (International: English title)

2. Seul contre tous (1998)
... aka I Stand Alone (USA)
... aka One Against All (literal English title)
3. Sodomites (1998)
4. Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (1995) (TV)
5. Carne (1991)

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Gaspar Noe

Irreversible (2002) / 5

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Shane Carruth


Director - filmography

1. Primer (2004)

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Shane Carruth

Primer (2004)

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Sofia Coppola

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Date of birth (location)
14 May 1971
New York, New York, USA
Birth name
Sofia Carmina Coppola
Height
5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Spouse
Spike Jonze (26 June 1999 - 9 December 2003) (divorced)
Trivia

Cousin of Jason Schwartzman.

Daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola.

Cousin of Nicolas Cage.

Her film debut: as the baby (boy!) in the christening scene toward the climax of The Godfather (1972).

Designer for street fashion label Milkfed, which she calls "a small t-shirt company"

Replaced Winona Ryder in the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (1990).

Sister of Roman Coppola.

Is the third woman in history to be nominated for a Best Director Academy Award.

In 2004, she became the first American woman ever nominated for best director Oscar. The two other past Oscar nominees were Jane Campion who is a New Zealander and Lina Wertmüller who is Italian.

Sofia and her ex-husband Spike Jonze have both received Oscar nominations for Best Director, having been the first married couple to do so.

With her 2004 Oscar win for screen writing, she joined her family, The Coppolas, to becoming the second family to have Oscar winners in three generations with her father, Francis Ford Coppola, grandfather, Carmine Coppola, and cousin, Nicolas Cage, all winners. The first family is the Hustons - Anjelica Huston, John Huston and Walter Huston.

A friendship of many years with Quentin Tarantino blossomed into a serious relationship recently following Sofia's separation from her husband, Spike Jonze.

Is one of a select few who has won both an Academy Award and a Razzie.

Niece of Talia Shire

Studied photography at Mills College in Oakland, California, just east of San Francisco, and painting at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal-Arts) in Valencia, California, just north of Los Angeles.

She was one of the cast members who were involved in all three of The Godfather films, along with Al Pacino . She played as the christened baby in The Godfather (1972), as a child on a steamboat in _The Godfather II (1974)_ , and eventually as Mary Corleone in _The Godfather III (1990)_ . Nevertheless, her appearances in the first and second movie were left uncredited.

Designer Marc Jacobs named a bag after her: The Sofia Bag


Director - filmography

1. Marie-Antoinette (2006) (post-production)

2. Lost in Translation (2003)

3. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
... aka Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides (USA: complete title)
4. Lick the Star (1998)

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Sofia Coppola

Lost in Translation (2003) / 5
The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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Cedric Kahn

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Date of birth (location)
17 June 1966

Trivia

President of jury La Femis 2001

Director - filmography

1. Avion, L' (2005)
2. Feux rouges (2004)
... aka Red Lights (International: English title) (USA: literal English title)
3. Roberto Succo (2001)

4. Ennui, L' (1998)
... aka Tédio, O (Portugal)
5. Culpabilité zéro (1996) (TV)
... aka Zero Guilt (USA)
6. Trop de bonheur (1994)
... aka Bonheur (France: TV title)
... aka Too Much Happiness
7. "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge" (1994) (mini) TV Series (segment "Bonheur")
8. Bar des rails (1991)
... aka Railway Bar
9. Dernières heures du millénaire, Les (1990)