Tribute: Marcel Carné Biography & Movies
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Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
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entertainment · French film director (1906–1996) · film director · screenwriter · art critic · film critic · director · also Marcel Carné, Marcel Albert Carné, Carné
Born 18 August 1906 · Died 31 October 1996 · Q52409
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2026· 3 entries
Moviefone: Marcel Carné My Life in Film - Where to Watch
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New York Sun: Marcel Carné Revival at Film Forum Treads an Unsteady Line Between Comedy and Drama
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2021· 1 entry
Moviefone: Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné
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2019· 1 entry
What Culture: Marcel Carné
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: Le jour se lève review – Philip French on Marcel Carné’s poetic realist classic
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The Quietus: Poetic Realism: Marcel Carné’s Le Jour Se lève revisited
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-10-31.
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1996).
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In Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, and he was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Carné attempted to make one more film, Mouche, adapted from the Guy de Maupassant story
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1989).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary César (1979).
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1971· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1971).
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1958· 1 entry
Carné was the Head of the Jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival
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1953· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion for Thérèse Raquin (1953).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Port of Shadows (1939).
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-08-18.
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