Alain Resnais

Directing

Born 1922-06-03 Died 2014-03-01 Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France 63 credits César Award for Best Film 3 César Award for Best Director 2 Louis Delluc Prize 3 Jean-Le-Duc award 1

Awards

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards

BAFTA Awards 2 nominated

1963 Best Film Nominated Last Year at Marienbad
1961 Best Film Nominated Hiroshima mon amour

Directors Guild of America 1 nominated

1960 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Nominated Hiroshima mon amour

César Award for Best Film 3 won · 5 nominated

2010 Best Film Nominated Wild Grass
2004 Best Film Nominated Not on the Lips
1998 Best Film Won Same Old Song
1994 Best Film Won Smoking/No Smoking
1987 Best Film Nominated Mélo
1985 Best Film Nominated L'Amour à mort
1981 Best Film Nominated My American Uncle
1978 Best Film Won Providence

César Award for Best Director 2 won · 6 nominated

2007 Best Director Nominated Private Fears in Public Places
2004 Best Director Nominated Not on the Lips
1998 Best Director Nominated Same Old Song
1994 Best Director Won Smoking/No Smoking
1987 Best Director Nominated Mélo
1985 Best Director Nominated L'Amour à mort
1981 Best Director Nominated My American Uncle
1978 Best Director Won Providence

Louis Delluc Prize 3 won

1997 Louis Delluc Prize Won Same Old Song
1993 Louis Delluc Prize Won Smoking/No Smoking
1966 Louis Delluc Prize Won The War Is Over

Jean-Le-Duc award 1 won

— Jean-Le-Duc award Won

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Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg. In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Resnais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.