Alain Resnais - Awards & Nominations

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 SemprÃºn 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

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