Awards & Winners

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Date of Birth 08-October-1946
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France
Also know as Jean Jacques Beinex, Jean Jacques Beinex
Profession Film director, Film Producer, Screenwriter
Jean-Jacques Beineix is a French film director and generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax - Luc Besson, like Beineix much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire. The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire.

Awards by Jean-Jacques Beineix

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jean-Jacques Beineix.

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Director Betty Blue
César Award for Best Film Betty Blue
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film Betty Blue

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Betty Blue
Country: France; in French

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film Diva

1982


César Award for Best Debut
Honored for : Diva

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director Diva
César Award for Best Debut Diva

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
César Award for Best Short Film - Fiction Mr. Michel's Dog