Known for Directing
Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952; Paris) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. 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. 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. His 2015 film Dheepan won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Born
April 30, 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Filmography
72 films, 7 shows


Emilia Pérez
2024 · 2h 12m
country: Belgium
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.


Paris, 13th District
2021 · 1h 46m
country: France
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.


The Sisters Brothers
2018 · 2h 1m
country: France
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.


Dheepan
2015 · 1h 55m
country: France
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.


Rust and Bone
2012 · 2h 3m
country: France
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.


Raphaël Live by Jacques Audiard
2011 · 1h 43m
country: France
The third live album of Raphael (Raphaël Haroche) and musicians from the concert at the Coopérative de Mai, Clermont-Ferrand, France, December 4, 2010.


A Prophet
2009 · 2h 35m
country: France
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.


The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005 · 1h 47m
country: France
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.


Read My Lips
2001 · 1h 55m
country: France
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.


A Self-Made Hero
1996 · 1h 47m
country: France
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.


See How They Fall
1994 · 1h 30m
country: France
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.