Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard ( French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. One of the most awarded French filmmakers in history, his international accolades include an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. He holds the record for most individual wins in the history of the César Awards, France's national film awards, with thirteen wins between 1995 and 2025 including three separate Best Film/Best Director/Best Screenplay trifectas, and won four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival.

After working extensively as a screenwriter since the 1970s, Audiard made his directorial debut with See How They Fall (1994), followed by A Self-Made Hero (1996) and Read My Lips (2001). His drama The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) was seen as his breakout film, earning him a BAFTA and his first César trifecta, followed by a second for the prison crime drama A Prophet (2009), which earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. After Dheepan (2015), mostly in Tamil language and which won him Cannes' Palme d'Or, he made his English-language debut with the western The Sisters Brothers (2018) and his Spanish-language debut with the musical Emilia Pérez (2024), which won Golden Globes for Best Musical or Comedy and Best Foreign Language Film, and also earned Audiard an Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "El Mal") along with three nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.