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Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.
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entertainment · French filmmaker and photographer (1928–2019) · photographer · visual artist · screenwriter · university teacher · cinematographer · film producer · film editor · actor · activist · director · also Agnès Varda, Agnes Varda, Agnés Varda, Varda
Born 30 May 1928 · Died 29 March 2019 · Q229990
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2026· 5 entries
“Happy because we make films to love. We make films so that you love the film.”
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“I could not shoot more than one week a month,”
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“hit like a cannonball because I was a young woman, since before that, in order to become a director you had to spend years as an assistant.”
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Collater.al Magazine: Off Screen – Agnès Varda: Beyond the Boundaries of Cinema
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs go on show
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2024· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Agnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Camera ready: how Agnès Varda turned her photographs into film
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The Guardian: Cléo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda’s New Wave classic is cosmopolitan to the core
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2020· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Eccentric Genius of Agnès Varda
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2019· 14 entries
The Guardian: Agnès Varda remembered by Jane Birkin
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The Film Stage: U.S. Trailer for ‘Varda by Agnès’ and Nationwide Agnès Varda Retrospective Announced
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Yahoo: 9 Film Critics Reflect on How Agnès Varda Inspired Them — IndieWire Critics Survey
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The New Yorker: “While I Live, I Remember”: Agnès Varda’s Way of Seeing
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The Guardian: Agnès Varda's last interview: 'I fought for radical cinema all my life'
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The Guardian: Agnès Varda – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Agnès Varda obituary
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The Guardian: 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema | Peter Bradshaw
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The Guardian: Agnès Varda, beloved French New Wave director, dies aged 90
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Yahoo: Agnès Varda Tributes: Martin Scorsese, Ava DuVernay, Cannes, Madonna & More React To Passing Of Cinema “Legend”
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Died 2019-03-29.
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The Guardian: Varda by Agnès review – two hours of magic with the veteran director
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Received a second major award at the Berlin International Film Festival, viz
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The BBC polled 368 film experts from 84 countries to name the 100 best films by women directors
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2018· 2 entries
The Film Stage: Agnès Varda Will Reflect on Her Career in New Film ‘Let’s Talk About Cinema’
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The New Yorker: Agnès Varda Is Still Going Places
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2017· 7 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2017).
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Awarded Donostia Award (2017).
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Awarded L'Œil d'or for Faces Places (2017).
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2017).
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Varda also won L'Œil d'or (The Golden Eye, The Documentary Prize - Cannes) for Faces Places
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Became the first female director to win an Academy Honorary Award
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Varda co-directed Faces Places with the artist JR
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Max Beckmann prize (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Palme d'Or (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Leopard of Honour (2014).
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Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2013).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Brussels (2013).
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art held Varda's first American exhibition, Agnès Varda in Californialand
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2012· 1 entry
The City of Brussels decides to rename the Ecole de Photographie de la Ville de Bruxelles after her; the official unveiling of L'Ecole de Photographie et de Techniques Visuelles Agnès Varda is on 2013-09-25
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Carrosse d'or (2010).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2010).
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Varda joined the gallery Nathalie Obadia
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film for The Beaches of Agnès (2009).
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Awarded César Award for Best Documentary Film for The Beaches of Agnès (2009).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
And a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1983
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded René Clair Award (2002).
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Was the recipient of the French Academy prize, the René Clair Award
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Konrad Wolf Prize (2001).
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Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film for The Gleaners and I (2001).
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Awarded Honorary César (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Documentary for The Gleaners and I (2000).
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1991· 1 entry
Shortly after her husband Jacques Demy's death, Varda created the film Jacquot de Nantes, which is about his life and death
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Vagabond (1986).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Vagabond (1985).
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Varda made Sans toit ni loi ("without roof nor law"; known in most English-speaking countries as Vagabond), a drama about the death of a young female drifter named Mona
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Ulysse (1984).
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Received her first of three César Awards for her movie short Ulysse
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1982· 1 entry
Called Ulysse, which is based on another photograph I took in 1954, one I'd made with the same bellows camera, and I started Ulysse with the words, 'I used to see the image upside down
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1977· 1 entry
Varda founded her own production company, Ciné-Tamaris, in order to have more control over shooting and editing
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1971· 1 entry
Varda was one of the 343 women who signed the Manifesto of the 343 admitting they had had an abortion despite it being illegal in France at the time and asking that abortion be made legal
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1967· 1 entry
While living in California, Varda met her father's cousin for the first time
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Happiness Is in the Field (1964).
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1958· 1 entry
While at a short film festival in Tours, Varda met her future husband, Jacques Demy, also a French director
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1955· 1 entry
Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte, about an unhappy couple working through their relationship in a small fishing town, was released
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1951· 1 entry
Her friend Jean Vilar opened the Théâtre National Populaire and hired Varda as its official photographer
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1940· 1 entry
For Sète, where she spent her teenage years and during World War II, she lived there on a boat with her family
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-05-30.
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