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Luc Besson

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Also known as Luc Paul Maurice Besson

French filmmaker (born 1959)

OverviewAI-generated

Luc Besson is a French film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor born on March 18, 1959, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. He has been active in the industry since 1981 and speaks both French and English. His notable works include *Léon: The Professional* and *Arthur and the Minimoys*. Besson has received the César Award for Best Director and the Inkpot Award, and has been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Film.

He has been married to Anne Parillaud, Milla Jovovich, Virginie Silla, and Maïwenn. In addition to his film career, Besson is an author with 52 recorded works, including *L'histoire de Arthur et les Minimoys* and *L'histoire du Grand bleu*. He maintains an official website and has a social media following of 1,561,922.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
52

Top works

  • ha-Elemenṭ ha-ḥamishi
  • L'histoire de Arthur et les Minimoys
  • Arthur 3/LA Vengeance De Maltazard (French Edition)
  • Arthur et les Minimoys - Tome 2 - La cité interdite
  • L'histoire du Grand bleu

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Film & TV

Writing · Paris, France

Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer known for making highly visual thriller and action films.  Besson has been nominated for, and won, numerous awards and honors from the foreign press, and is often credited as inventing the so-called "Cinema du look" movement in French film.   Born in Paris, Besson spent his childhood traveling Europe with his parents and developing an…

Known for

  • Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema — Self2026
  • The Family — Self2023
  • Mostra, Venise — Self2022
  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self2018
  • Valérian, histoire d'une création — Self2017
  • Belmondo, itinéraire... — Self2011
  • On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest2006
  • Taxi 2 — Boat Owner (uncredited)2000
  • Vivement dimanche — Self1998
  • NeXt — Self1994

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1959
has german audiobooks

Discography

Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,421
Total plays
7,195

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Luc+Besson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program

    · 2009 · cited 31,500x

  2. The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge

    · 2009 · cited 16,410x

  3. Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)

    · 2008 · cited 11,362x

  4. Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    · 2008 · cited 11,236x

  5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,802x

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Quotes

  • “This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible :”
  • “You no trouble. Me... Fifth element... supreme being... me protect you.”
  • “You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.”
  • “Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?”
  • “Learning's always a painful process.”
  • “"I would rather stop too soon than too late." - Interview for The Guardian (2011)”

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Encyclopedic overview

Luc Paul Maurice Besson ( French: [lyk bɛsɔ̃]; born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker. He directed and produced the films Subway (1985), The Big Blue (1988), and La Femme Nikita (1990). Associated with the Cinéma du look film movement, he has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films Léon: The Professional (1994) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film The Fifth Element (1997). He wrote and directed the sci-fi action film Lucy (2014), the space opera film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Dogman (2023), and the fantasy romantic movie Dracula (2025).

In 1980, near the beginning of his career, he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, later renamed Les Films du Dauphin. It was superseded in 2000 when he co-founded EuropaCorp with longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam [fr]. As writer, director, or producer, Besson has been involved in the creation of more than 50 films.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luc Besson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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