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Gilles Jacob
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- Works
- 14
Top works
- Un homme cruel
- L'échelle des Jacob
- Les pas perdus
- Le festival n'aura pas lieu
- Lezioni di cinema
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Film & TV
Paris, France
Gilles Jacob (born 22 June 1930) is a French film critic and essayist, who served as president of the Cannes Film Festival between 2001 and 2014. Born in Paris, the son of an entrepreneur, Jacob studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, having Claude Chabrol as a schoolmate. At 17 years old he co-founded a short-lived cinema magazine, Raccords. He then collaborated as a film critic and journalist…
Known for
- Thanks for Coming — Self2026
- Citizen B — Self2025
- Kiarostami at Work — Self2023
- Morceaux de Cannes2021
- Deauville et le rêve américain — Self2020
- The Legend of the Ugly King — Self2017
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self2017
- Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture — Self2016
- Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione — Self2014
- Mr. X — Self2014
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Norway
- Active from
- 1980-07-04
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Discography
- Remember September2007
- A Place in Heaven2011
- Ocean Princess2011
- Promise2011
- Starvation2011
- <32011
- Illusions2011
- The Hero in Your Heart2013
- Autumn Love2014
- That's a Wrap2014
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gilles
- Family name
- Jacob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 17th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- essayist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Employer
- Mettler Toledo
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Direction du Festival de Cannes en 2009ds.jpg
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- Gilles Jacob
- date of birth
- 1930-06-22
- name in native language
- Gilles Jacob
- social media followers
- 29656
- birth name
- Gilbert Jacob
- pseudonym
- Gilles Jacob
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