Olivier Assayas
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PERSONAL DATA OF OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Age: 66 years old
Born in: Paris, France
Born on: 01/25/1955
BIOGRAPHY OF OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Director and screenwriter. He inherits his passion for cinema from his father, Jacques Rémi, screenwriter and adapter of novels for cinema and television. Thus began his career by supporting him in his work as a screenwriter when he, an elderly man, had fallen ill. At the same time he is assistant on the sets of great American productions in France (‘The Prince and the Poor’ by Richard Fleischer and ‘Superman’ by Richard Donner). He collaborates with ‘Cahiers du cinéma’, a magazine for which he wrote from 1980 to 1985, revealing a particular attention to oriental cinema. In the meantime he also collaborates as a screenwriter with Laurent Perrin and André Téchiné and shoots various short films. In 1986 he made his debut on the big screen with a long set among the Parisian youth bands, ‘Il Disorder’, which won the international critics’ prize at the Venice Film Festival. Generational conflicts and interpersonal relationship difficulties are at the center of his subsequent films: ‘The Winter Child’ (1989) and ‘Against Destiny’ (1991), the latter played by one of the symbolic actors of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Pierre Léaud. In 1996 he directed his most celebrated work, ‘Irma Vep’, a tribute to the pioneer of French cinema Louis Feuillade and to Hong Kong cinema. The protagonist of the film is the actress Maggie Cheung, who will be his wife from 1998 to 2001. Assayas’ passion for Asian cinema is also manifested in 1997 in a documentary-tribute to Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Three years later he directed a major costume production for his ‘Les Destinées sentimentales’, based on a novel by Jacques Chardonne, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Isabelle Huppert. With the film ‘Clean’ (2004), he returns to work with his ex-wife Maggie Cheung, starring in the role of the partner of a former rock-star, who wins her the award for best female interpretation at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. In 2005 he directed an episode of the collective film ‘Paris, je t’aime’, which he dedicated to the 3rd Arrondissement of Paris, while in 2007 he took part in ‘Chacun son cinéma’, a film celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival promoted by Gilles Jacob. composed of 33 short auteur shorts. Three years later he returned to Cannes called to be part of the jury for the ‘Cinéfondation’ chaired by the director he highly esteemed Hou Hsiao Hsien.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Wasp Network
Role: Film director
Year: 2019
Doubles vies
Role: Film director
Year: 2018
Personal Shopper
Role: Film director
Year: 2016
Sils Maria (Clouds Of)
Role: Film director
Year: 2014 Go to the complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Drama: 48% Thriller: 24% Comedy: 10% Biography: 10%
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AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Venice Festival
Here are all the awards and nominations Venice Festival
- 2012 – Osella Award for the best screenplay for Something in the air
Cannes Film Festival
Here are all the awards and nominations Cannes Film Festival
- 2016 – Best Director Award for Personal Shopper
César
Here are all the awards and nominations César
- 2015 – Best director nomination for Sils Maria
- 2015 – Nomination for best original screenplay for Sils Maria
- 2011 – Best director nomination for Carlos
- 1986 – Best Screenplay Nomination for RENDEZ-VOUS
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