Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard, born April 30 1952, is the son of the famous screenwriter (and director) Michel Audiard. He began his career in film not as a director or screenwriter, but as an editor. It wasn’t until1980 that he began collaborating on scripts for directors like Georges Lautner (THE PROFESSIONAL), Denys Granier-Deferre (REVEILLON WITH BOBSLED), Claude Miller (MORTAL HIKE), Jérôme Boivin (BAXTER), Elisabeth Rappeneau (FREQUENCY MURDER) or Ariel Zeitoun (SAXO). As eclectic as these films may seem, they all have one commonality: a black atmosphere, a caustic and shifted humor, and a somewhat hopeless vision of the human condition. Audiard maintained this sort of dark vein when directing his first film in 1994, SEE HOW THEY FALL, starring Mathieu Kassovitz and John Louis Trintignant. The film took the prize for Best First Film at the Cesars. His third film, READ MY LIPS, received 10 nominations and won 8 Cesar awards in 2001. He followed that up with THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, where it premiered in 2005. He followd this of course with A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE), which debuted at Cannes in 2009, taking home the Grand Prix Prize.