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Jacques Audiard, Think Cinema Award 2024
Son of the famous dialogue writer and director Michel Audiard, Jacques Audiard began successfully writing screenplays in the early 1980s. By 1994, his transition to directing had everyone in agreement: ‘Regarde les hommes tomber’ won the César for Best First Film and the Prix Georges Sadoul. Two years later, ‘Un héros très discret’ won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes. His third film, ‘Sur mes lèvres’, won nine César nominations, including Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Screenplay, with Emmanuelle Devos winning Best Actress. In 2005, Jacques Audiard directed a remake of James Toback's Mélodie pour un tueur, De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté, another public and critical success for which he won the prestigious César awards for Best Film and Best Director.
In 2009, he caused a sensation on the Croisette, winning the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his fifth film, ‘Un prophète’, a dark immersion in the prison world that gave Tahar Rahim his first major role, as well as the César for Best Actor. In 2012 Jacques Audiard returned to Cannes with De rouille et d'os, a dramatic film about a young woman deprived of her legs. He was back in competition at Cannes in 2015 with ‘Dheepan’. The film, about a Tamil family seeking tranquillity in a troubled Parisian suburb, won the Palme d'Or. In 2018, his western ‘The Sisters Brothers’, starring Joachim Phoenix and John C. Reilly, won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. In 2021, ‘Les Olympiades’ was selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. This year Jacques Audiard is releasing his next film, ‘Emilia Perez’, a musical and crime comedy.
During his meeting with the public, Jacques Audiard received the Think Cinema Prize before the screening of his multi-award-winning film ‘Sur mes lèvres’.
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