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Luc Besson

French filmmaker (born 1959)

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Luc Besson is a French film director and producer known for creating visually distinctive action and science fiction movies since the 1980s. He matters because he has shaped popular cinema through influential films and his production company, helping define the style of modern blockbuster filmmaking.

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Born: 1959-03-18
Works: 52

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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…

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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

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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 It was superseded in 2000 when he co-founded EuropaCorp with longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam [fr].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.