Was ranked fourth on the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of the greatest directors
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a French filmmaker, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. In 2002, he was ranked fourth on the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of the greatest directors. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975. Renoir w…
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entertainment · French filmmaker (1894–1979) · film director · actor · screenwriter · film producer · film editor · author · novelist · producer · director · film screenwriter · also Jean Renoir, Renoir
Born 15 September 1894 · Died 12 February 1979 · Q50713
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1979· 1 entry
Died 1979-02-12.
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1975· 2 entries
The government of France elevated him to the rank of commander in the Légion d'honneur
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Renoir received a lifetime Academy Award for his contribution to the motion picture industry
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Renoir was preparing a production of his stage play, Carola, with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer when he fell ill and was unable to direct
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Charles Blanc (1963).
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1960· 1 entry
With Columbia University's Oral History Research Office
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1949· 1 entry
Renoir traveled to India to shoot The River (1951), his first color film
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1945· 1 entry
When he made The Southerner (1945) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing
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1940· 1 entry
But after the fall of France that June, it was banned again
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1939· 1 entry
Able to co-finance his own films, Renoir made The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu), a satire on contemporary French society with an ensemble cast
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1938· 1 entry
The Nazis disrupted a showing of La Grande Illusion
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for The Lower Depths (1937).
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Made La Grande Illusion, one of his best-known films, starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin
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1934· 1 entry
Filmed an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857)
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1931· 1 entry
Directed his first sound films, On purge bébé (Baby's Laxative) and La Chienne (The Bitch)
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1926· 1 entry
And the 1927 silent futuristic fantasy film Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston) with the African American mime artist Johnny Hudgins
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1924· 1 entry
Renoir directed Une Vie Sans Joie or Catherine, the first of his nine silent films, most of which starred his first wife, Catherine Hessling, who was also his father's last model
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-09-15.
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