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Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives.
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Born 3 June 1922 · Died 1 March 2014 · Q218022
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2014· 2 entries
Resnais died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 1 March 2014; he was buried in Montparnasse cemetery.
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Critics Award for Private Fears in Public Places (2007).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded César Award for Best Film for Same Old Song (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Same Old Song (1997).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Director for Smoking/No Smoking (1994).
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Awarded César Award for Best Film for Smoking/No Smoking (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Smoking/No Smoking (1993).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Resnais said that he did not make a separation between cinema and theatre and refused to make enemies of them
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary César (1981).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Director for Providence (1978).
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Awarded César Award for Best Film for Providence (1978).
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1969· 1 entry
Resnais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer André Malraux)
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1967· 1 entry
Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, in a collective work about the Vietnam war, Loin du Vietnam (Far from Vietnam)
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for The War Is Over (1966).
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An objection from the Spanish government caused it to be withdrawn and it was shown out of competition
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1963· 1 entry
Won Sutherland Trophy for Muriel (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Became the vice president and co-founder of an International Society for Comic Books, Le Club des bandes dessinées, renamed two years later as Centre d'Études des Littératures d'Expression Graphique (CELEG)
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded United Nations Awards for Hiroshima mon amour (1961).
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Won Golden Lion for Last Year at Marienbad (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
The Manifesto of the 121, which protested against French military policy in Algeria, was signed by a group of leading intellectuals and artists who included Resnais
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1958· 1 entry
Resnais undertook a commission from the Pechiney company to make short film, in colour and wide-screen, extolling the merits of plastics, Le Chant du styrène
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1948· 2 entries
And also won an Oscar for Best 2-reel Short in 1949
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To make a film about the paintings of Van Gogh, to coincide with an exhibition that was being mounted in Paris
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1946· 1 entry
To start his career as a film editor, but also began making short films of his own
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1945· 1 entry
To do his military service which took him to Germany and Austria with the occupying French forces, as well as making him a temporary member of a travelling theatre company, Les Arlequins
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1943· 1 entry
To apply to the newly formed film school IDHEC to study film editing
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1939· 1 entry
Moved to Paris to become an assistant in Georges Pitoëff's company at the Théâtre des Mathurins
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1922· 2 entries
Born 1922-06-03.
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At Vannes in Brittany, where his father was a pharmacist
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