Awards & Winners

Alain Resnais

Date of Birth 03-June-1922
Place of Birth Vannes
(Morbihan, Brittany)
Nationality France
Also know as Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais, The Sphinx, Alex Reval, Alzin Rezarail
Profession Film Director, Film Editor, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Actor
Alain Resnais was a French film director 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, 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, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel, 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, 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 usually 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.

Awards by Alain Resnais

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alain Resnais.

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Film Wild Grass
César Award for Best Writing - Adaptation Wild Grass

2009


Cannes Lifetime Achievement Award
(for his work and exceptional contribution to the history of cinema)

2007


European Film Discovery Award - Prix Fipresci
Honored for : Private Fears in Public Places

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Private Fears in Public Places

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Not on the Lips
César Award for Best Film Not on the Lips

1998


César Award for Best Film
Honored for : Same Old Song

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Same Old Song
César Award for Best Film Same Old Song

1994


César Award for Best Film
Honored for : Smoking/No Smoking
César Award for Best Director
Honored for : Smoking/No Smoking

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Smoking/No Smoking
César Award for Best Film Smoking/No Smoking

1987


David di Donatello Luchino Visconti Award

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Mélo
César Award for Best Film Mélo

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director L'Amour à mort
César Award for Best Film L'Amour à mort

1981


Honorary César

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Mon oncle d'Amérique
César Award for Best Film Mon oncle d'Amérique

1978


César Award for Best Film
Honored for : Providence
César Award for Best Director
Honored for : Providence

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Providence
César Award for Best Film Providence

1963


Sutherland Trophy
Honored for : Muriel

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film Last Year at Marienbad
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Last Year at Marienbad

1961


Golden Lion
Honored for : Last Year at Marienbad
BAFTA United Nations Award
Honored for : Hiroshima mon amour

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film Hiroshima mon amour
BAFTA United Nations Award Hiroshima mon amour
BAFTA United Nations Award Night and Fog

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Hiroshima mon amour

1952


Golden Globe Special Achievement Award
Honored for : Pictura

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Special Achievement Award Pictura