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Francois-Truffaut

Francois Truffaut

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February 6, 1932

October 21, 1984

Madeleine Morgenstern (m. 1957–1965) (2 children)

Claude Jade (fiancee: 1968)

Fanny Ardant (partner: 1981-1984) (1 child)

Did We Miss Any?

Writer

"Belle Époque" (1995) TV mini-series (writer)

La petite voleuse (1988) (screenplay)

The Man Who Loved Women (1983) (first story)

Vivement dimanche! (1983) (writer, director, producer)

Breathless (1983) (story "A Bout De Souffle")

La femme d'à côté (1981) (original scenario, director, producer)

Le dernier métro (1980) (dialogue, director, producer) (scenario)

L'amour en fuite (1979) (scenario, director, producer)

La chambre verte (1978) (writer, director, producer, actor)

L'homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) (writer, director, producer, actor)

L'argent de poche (1976) (original scenario, director, producer, actor)

L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975) (writer, director, producer, actor)

La nuit américaine (1973) (writer, director, actor)

Une belle fille comme moi (1972)(adaptation and dialogue, director, actor)

Les deux anglaises et le continent (1971) (adaptation & dialogue, director, actor)

Domicile conjugal (1970) (scenario and dialogue, director, producer, actor)

L'enfant sauvage (1970) (screenplay, director, actor)

La sirène du Mississipi (1969) (dialogue) (screenplay, director, producer)

Baisers volés (1968) (scenario and dialogue, director, producer)

La mariée était en noir (1968)(adaptation and dialogue, director)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (screenplay, director)

Mata Hari, agent H21 (1964) (scenario and dialogue) (as F. Truffaut)

La peau douce (1964) (screenplay, director, producer, actor)(as F. Truffaut)

L'amour à vingt ans (1962) (segment "Antoine et Colette") (director)

Une grosse tête (1962) (dialogue) (writer)

Jules et Jim (1962) (adaptation and dialogue, director, producer)

Une histoire d'eau (1961) (writer, director)

Tire-au-flanc 62 (1960) (writer, director, producer, actor)

Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) (adaptation,director) (as F. Truffaut)(dialogue)

À bout de souffle (1960) (story)

Me faire ça à moi (1960) (uncredited)

Les quatre cents coups (1959) (adaptation, director, producer, actor) (as F. Truffaut) (scenario)

Les surmenés (1958) (writer)

Les mistons (1957) (scenario,director) (uncredited)

Une visite (1955) (writer, director)

Director

Antoine et Colette (1962)

Producer

L'enfance nue (1968) (producer)

Le scarabée d'or (1961) (producer)

Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (1960) (assistant producer) (uncredited)

Anna la bonne (1958) (producer)

Actor

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Le coup du berger (1956)

Appearances

On Location to Bed and Board (2003)

Ces chers disparus: Françoise Dorléac (1984) (TV)

La leçon de cinéma: François Truffaut (1983) (TV)

"Le grand échiquier" (1 episode, 1982)

The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) (TV)

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977) (TV)

I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975)

"Omnibus" (1 episode, 1973)

Henri Langlois (1970)

"Cinéastes de notre temps" (4 episodes, 1964-1970)

The Academy Awards

1975 Nominated Oscar Best Director for: La nuit américaine (1973)

1975 Nominated Oscar Best Writing, Original Screenplay for: La nuit américaine (1973). Shared with:Jean-Louis Richard,Suzanne Schiffman

1960 Nominated Oscar Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
for: Les quatre cents coups (1959). Shared with: Marcel Moussy

BAFTA Awards

1984 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Language Film for: Vivement dimanche! (1983). Shared with: Armand Barbault France.

1979 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor for: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1974 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Direction for: La nuit américaine (1973)

1961 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film from any Source for: Les quatre cents coups (1959) France.

Berlin International Film Festival

1979 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: L'amour en fuite (1979)

1977 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: L'homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)

1976 Won OCIC Award - Recommendation Competition for: L'argent de poche (1976)

1976 Won Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" for: L'argent de poche (1976)

1976 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: L'argent de poche (1976)

1962 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: L'amour à vingt ans (1962). Shared with: Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini, Shintarô Ishihara & Marcel Ophüls

Bodil Awards

1965 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film) for: La peau douce (1964)

1963 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film) for: Jules et Jim (1962)

1960 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film) for: Les quatre cents coups (1959)

Cannes Film Festival

1964 Nominated Golden Palm for: La peau douce (1964)

1959 Won Best Director for: Les quatre cents coups (1959)

1959 Won OCIC Award for: Les quatre cents coups (1959)

1959 Nominated Golden Palm for: Les quatre cents coups (1959)

Cartagena Film Festival

1976 Won Special Critics Award for: L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

Nominated Golden India Catalina Best Film (Mejor Película) for: L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

César Awards, France

1989 Nominated César Best Writing - Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation) for: La petite voleuse (1988). Shared with: Claude de Givray, Annie Miller, Claude Miller & Luc Béraud

1984 Nominated César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur) for: Vivement dimanche! (1983)

1981 Won César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur) for: Le dernier métro (1980)

1981 Won Best Film (Meilleur film) for: Le dernier métro (1980)

1981 Won Best Writing - Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation)
for: Le dernier métro (1980). Shared with: Suzanne Schiffman

1976 Nominated César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur) for: L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

David di Donatello Awards

1981 Won Luchino Visconti Award For his whole works as a director and movie critic.

Edgar Allan Poe Awards

1969 Nominated Edgar Best Motion Picture for: La mariée était en noir (1968). Shared with: Jean-Louis Richard

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics

1977 Won Critics Award Best Film for: L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

1974 Won Critics Award Best Film for: La nuit américaine (1973)

1971 Won Critics Award Best Film for: L'enfant sauvage (1970)

1969 Won Critics Award Best Film for: Baisers volés (1968)

1960 Won Critics Award Best Film for: Les quatre cents coups (1959). Tied with Hiroshima mon amour (1959).

Guild of German Art House Cinemas

1984 Won Guild Film Award - Gold Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) for: La femme d'à côté (1981)

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

1963 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
for: Jules et Jim (1962)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1984 Won Special Award

Mar del Plata Film Festival

1962 Won Best Director for: Jules et Jim (1962)

National Board of Review, USA

1971 Won NBR Award Best Director for: L'enfant sauvage (1970)

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

1974 Won NSFC Award Best Director for: La nuit américaine (1973)

1970 Won NSFC Award Best Director for: Baisers volés (1968)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

1975 Won NYFCC Award Best Screenplay for: L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975). Shared with: Jean Gruault & Suzanne Schiffman

1974 Won NYFCC Award Best Director for: La nuit américaine (1973)

Prix Louis Delluc

1968 Won Prix Louis Delluc for: Baisers volés (1968)

Sant Jordi Awards

1961 Won Sant Jordi Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero) for: Les quatre cents coups (1959)

Venice Film Festival

1966 Nominated Golden Lion for: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

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Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut On Movie Set Director Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut

Film lovers are sick people.

I make films that I would like to have seen when I was a young man.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Cinema is an improvement on life.

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François Roland Truffaut had a strange, unhappy childhood. His mother was Janine de Montferrand who gave birth to him out of wedlock. His mother's future husband, Roland Truffaut, accepted him as an adopted son and gave him his surname. He was moved between various nannies and his grandmother, whom he lived with until he was 10 years old when she passed away and who instilled in him a love of books. He played truant from school and drifted in and out of remand homes. Truffaut watched his first film, Abel Gance’s Paradise Lost, aged eight and thereafter sought constant solace in the cinema, frequenting Henri Langlois’ Cinémathèque, where he was exposed to all kinds of cinema and in 1948, he formed his own film club, Movie Mania, selling a typewriter stolen from his stepfather’s office to finance screenings.

Movie Mania brought Truffaut into contact with influential critic André Bazin. When Truffaut was arrested for desertion from the French army in 1952 – he had unwisely enlisted to escape a failed love affair – Bazin used his political cout to get Truffaut released and gave the young upstart a job at film magazine Cahiers du cinema. Truffaut quickly earned a reputation as France’s most ferocious critic – he was nicknamed the Grave Digger – launching brutal, scathing attacks against the French film establishment. In 1958 he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival for complaining about the flowers at the bottom of the screen, which were blocking the view of the critics in the stalls.

As a writer-director-producer – and sometimes actor – he specialized in intimate chamber pieces that exposed the frailty and contradictions of the human heart with delicacy and compassion, creating a blueprint for a new type of personal cinema. There are no villains in Truffaut’s generous worldview, just recognizable people in conflict.

His self-proclaimed religion was Charlie Chaplin.

In the mid 1960s Truffaut conducted a series of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. It was a unique project – a hotshot director putting his own career on hold to pay homage to his hero – and it became an indispensable piece of film criticism.

Truffaut admired filmmakers Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. He once called German New Wave filmmaker Werner Herzog "the most important film director alive".

In 1983, Truffaut was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He died on October 21, 1984 at the age of 52, at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France. He is buried in Paris' Montmartre Cemetery.

Must-see Movies

The Four Hundred Blows (1959)

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Jules et Jim (1962)

The Wild Child (1970)

Day for Night (1973)

Salary

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) $75,000

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