Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas | |
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Born | Paris, France | 25 January 1955
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, film critic |
Years active | 1977–present |
Spouse | |
Partner | Mia Hansen-Løve (2002–2017) |
Children | 1 |
Olivier Assayas (French:
He continued directing feature films, with Cold Water (1994) considered a breakthrough film in his career. It was his first film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His followup film, Irma Vep (1996), also screened at Cannes, while Sentimental Destinies (2000), Demonlover (2002), and Clean (2004) all officially competed for the Palme d'Or. In 2006, he contributed a short film to the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006). He gained acclaim with his dramas Summer Hours (2008), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016); the latter won him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He also directed the comedy Non-Fiction (2018) and the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019).
Life and career
Assayas was born in Paris, France, the son of French director/screenwriter
Assayas's biggest hit to date is
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Assayas married Cheung in 1998. They divorced in 2001, but their relationship remained amicable, and in 2004 Assayas made his film Clean with her.
He met actress-director Mia Hansen-Løve when Hansen-Løve, 17 at the time, starred in Assayas's 1998 feature Late August, Early September, but they "didn't get together until [she] was 20".[7] They separated in 2017.
In 2009 and 2010, Assayas signed two petitions in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the first petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects".[8][9][10][11][12]
Assayas directed and co-wrote the 2010 French television miniseries
In April 2011, it was announced that Assayas would be a member of the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[13]
Assayas's 2012 film
In June 2017, it was announced that Assayas would preside over the 2017 Locarno Film Festival.[20]
Style and influences
In an interview with Nick Pinkerton of Reverse Shot, Assayas talked about his influences:
That radicality in cinema involved just being outside of the world of modern images, and the key to it was the work of Robert Bresson, who has been by far the most important influence in my work, and intellectually it's been the influence of Guy Debord—basically, you know, it's been Debord-Bresson, Bresson-Debord, the things that've always defined my framework, the way I look at the world.[21]
Assayas participated in the
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Director | Screenwriter | Distribution |
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1986 | Disorder | Yes | Yes | Forum Distribution |
1989 | Winter's Child | Yes | Yes | Ciné Classic |
1991 | Paris Awakens | Yes | Yes | Pan-Européenne |
1993 | A New Life | Yes | Yes | Pyramide Distribution |
1994 | Cold Water | Yes | Yes | Pan-Européenne |
1996 | Irma Vep | Yes | Yes | Haut et Court |
1998 | Late August, Early September | Yes | Yes | PolyGram Film Distribution |
2000 | Sentimental Destinies | Yes | Yes | Pathé Distribution |
2002 | Demonlover | Yes | Yes | SND Films |
2004 | Clean | Yes | Yes | ARP Sélection |
2006 | Paris, je t'aime | Yes | Yes | Segment: "Quartier des Enfants Rouges" La Fabrique de Films |
2007 | Boarding Gate | Yes | Yes | ARP Sélection |
2008 | Summer Hours | Yes | Yes | MK2 Films |
2012 | Something in the Air | Yes | Yes | |
2014 | Clouds of Sils Maria | Yes | Yes | Les films du losange
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2016 | Personal Shopper | Yes | Yes | |
2018 | Non-Fiction | Yes | Yes | Ad Vitam Distribution |
2019 | Wasp Network | Yes | Yes | Netflix |
2024 | Suspended Time | Yes | Yes |
As a writer only
- Passage secret (1985)
- Rendez-vous (1985)
- L'Unique (1986)
- Scene of the Crime (1986)
- Avril brisé (1987)
- Filha da Mãe (1990)
- Alice and Martin (1998)
- Based on a True Story (2017) - Co-written with Roman Polanski
Television
Year | Title | Director | Screenwriter | Notes |
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1982 | Étoiles et toiles | Yes | Documentary | |
1994 | Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... | Yes | Yes | TV series |
1997 | Cinéma, de notre temps | Yes | Yes | Episode: HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien |
2006 | Noise | Yes | Documentary | |
2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | Yes | Yes | Segment: "Recrudescence" |
2007 | Stockhausen / Preljocaj Dialogue | Yes | Documentary | |
2008 | Eldorado | Yes | Documentary | |
2010 | Carlos | Yes | Yes | TV miniseries |
2022 | Irma Vep | Yes | Yes | TV miniseries |
Short films
Year | Title | Director | Screenwriter | Notes |
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1978 | Nuit féline | Yes | Short film | |
1979 | Copyright | Yes | Short film | |
1980 | Rectangle - Deux chansons de Jacno | Yes | Short film | |
1980 | Scopitone | Yes | Yes | Short film |
1982 | Laissé inachevé à Tokyo | Yes | Yes | Short film |
1984 | Winston Tong en studio | Yes | Short documentary | |
1998 | Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung | Yes | Short documentary |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Project | Result |
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1991 | Prix Jean Vigo | Paris Awakens | Won | |
2000 | Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Sentimental Destinies | Nominated |
2002 | Demonlover | Nominated | ||
2004 | Clean | Nominated | ||
2008 | Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Foreign Language Film | Summer Hours | Won |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | ||
National Society of Film Critics Award |
Best Foreign Language Film | Won | ||
New York Film Critics Circle Award |
Best Foreign Language Film | Won | ||
Toronto Film Critics Association | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | ||
2010 | Primetime Emmy Award |
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series |
Carlos | Nominated |
César Award |
Best Director | Nominated | ||
European Film Award |
Best Director | Nominated | ||
Lumières Award | Best Film | Nominated | ||
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Director | Won | ||
Globes de Cristal Award |
Best Television Film or Television Series | Won | ||
2012 | Venice International Film Festival |
Golden Osella for Best Original Screenplay | Something in the Air | Won |
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award | Won | |||
Golden Lion | Nominated | |||
2014 | Louis Delluc Prize | Clouds of Sils Maria | Won | |
Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Nominated | ||
César Award |
Best Film | Nominated | ||
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2016 | Cannes Film Festival | Best Director |
Personal Shopper | Won |
2016 | Zurich Film Festival | A Tribute To... Award | Lifetime Achievement | Won |
References
- ^ "Olivier Assayas Interview". Outside In Tokyo.
- ^ Chouaki, Yasmine (1 June 2012). "2. Michka Assayas (rediffusion)". RFI. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Michka Assayas Ecrivain et journaliste français". Evene. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Olivier Assayas • Great Director profile • Senses of Cinema". www.sensesofcinema.com.
- ^ White, Rob "Interview with Olivier Assayas" pages 74-77 from Film Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue # 2, Winter 2010 page 75.
- ^ White, Rob "Interview with Olivier Assayas" pages 74-77 from Film Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue # 2, Winter 2010 page 77.
- ^ Morris, Octavia (27 June 2010). "The film that changed my life: Mia Hansen-Løve". guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski - SACD". archive.ph. 4 June 2012. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Shoard, Catherine; Agencies (29 September 2009). "Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ "Pétition des nominés à Cannes en faveur de Roman Polanski". La Règle du jeu (in French). 11 May 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ Lévy, Bernard-Henri (11 May 2010). "Polanski Petition: A Gesture of Solidarity and an Appeal to Swiss Justice". HuffPost. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "French directors sign Polanski petition at Cannes". Daily Express. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "The Jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes". Cannes. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ "Venezia 69". labiennale. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ "Official Awards of the 69th Venice Film Festival". labiennale. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Keslassy, Elsa (16 December 2014). "Olivier Assayas' 'Sils Maria' Wins Louis Delluc Prize".
- ^ César Award for Best Supporting Actress
- ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (22 May 2016). "Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' Takes Palme D'Or; Director Joins Double-Winners Club – Cannes".
- ^ "Olivier Assayas to Preside Over Locarn Film Festival". 29 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ Pinkerton, Nick. "Another interview with Olivier Assayas". Reverse Shot.
- ^ "Olivier Assayas". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
Further reading
- Olivier Assayas, A Post-May Adolescence. Letter to Alice Debord, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 17, Vienna: SYNEMA - Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-44-3
- Kent Jones (Ed.), Olivier Assayas, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 16, Vienna: SYNEMA - Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-43-6
External links
- Olivier Assayas at IMDb
- Olivier Assayas at AllMovie
- Olivier Assayas at AlloCiné (in French)
- New York Times article on Assayas
- Bringing Down the House: A Conversation with Olivier Assayas, The Notebook, mubi.com