Raoul Coutard
Camera
Born 1924-09-16
Died 2016-11-08
Paris, France
89 credits
César Award for Best Cinematography 1
Marburg Camera Award 1
Prix Jean Vigo 1
Awards
Won 1 César Award for Best Cinematography Award
César Award for Best Cinematography 1 won
- — Best Cinematography Won
Marburg Camera Award 1 won
- 2001 Marburg Camera Award Won
Prix Jean Vigo 1 won
- 1970 Prix Jean Vigo Won Hoa-Binh
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Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wave director François Truffaut as well as Jacques Demy, a contemporary frequently associated with the movement.
He shot over 75 films during a career that lasted nearly half a century.
Coutard originally planned to study chemistry, but switched to photography because of the cost of tuition. In 1945, Coutard was sent to participate in the French Indochina War; he lived in Vietnam for the next 11 years, working as a war photographer, eventually becoming a freelancer for Paris Match and Look. In 1956, he was approached to shoot a film by Pierre Schoendoerffer, La Passe du Diable. Coutard had never used a movie camera before, and reportedly agreed to the job because of a misunderstanding (he believed he was being hired to shoot production stills of the film).
Coutard's first work collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard was Godard's first feature, À bout de souffle, shot in 1959. He was reportedly "imposed" on Godard by producer Georges de Beauregard; the director had already settled on a different cinematographer.
Coutard photographed nearly all of Godard's work in the Nouvelle Vague era (1959 - 1967), with the exception of Masculin, féminin; their last work during this period was Week-end (1967), which marked the end of Godard's work as a 'mainstream' filmmaker. The two did not work together again until Passion; their final collaboration was Godard's next feature, Prénom Carmen. ...
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Filmography
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Other credits
51 credits
Breathless
Contempt
Pierrot le Fou
Vivre Sa Vie
Alphaville
Band of Outsiders
Jules and Jim
First Name: Carmen
Lola
The Defector
The Soft Skin
Z
Shoot the Piano Player
La Chinoise
The Bride Wore Black
Weekend
Antoine and Colette
The Confession
A Woman Is a Woman
The Married Woman
A Pain in the Ass
Salt on the Skin
Parachute
Chronicle of a Summer
Le Petit Soldat
The Hideout
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
The Carabineers
Made in U.S.A
The Phantom Heart
The 317th Platoon
Godard's Passion
Max My Love
Male Companion
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Drummer-Crab
The Outskirts of Alphaville
Portuguese Vacation
Love at Twenty
The Southern Star
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Dangerous Moves
Burning Beds
The Devil's Pass
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Happiness Is No Joke
The Bitch
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Embassy
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Rocky Road to Dublin
Acting
10 credits
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Cinépanorama
Contempt
Z
La Chinoise
The Bamboo Incident
Godard, Love and Poetry
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Directing
3 credits
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