Olivier Assayas
Directing
1955-01-25 · Paris, France
Olivier Assayas (French: [ɔlivje asajas]; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, and comedies. He has directed French, Spanish, and English-language films with international casts. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. There he wrote about world cinema and its film auteurs, who later influenced his work. Assayas made several short films, and made his feature debut with Disorder in 1986. He continued directing feature films, with Cold Water (1994) considered a breakthrough film in his career. It was his first film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His followup film, Irma Vep (1996), also screened at Cannes, while Sentimental Destinies (2000), Demonlover (2002), and Clean (2004) all officially competed for the Palme d'Or. In 2006, he contributed a short film to the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006). Assayas gained acclaim for his dramas Summer Hours (2008), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and Personal Shopper (2016); the latter won him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He also directed the comedy Non-Fiction (2018) and the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Assayas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Movie
Being Bo Widerberg
2025 · Movie
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024 · Movie
Suspended Time
2024 · Movie
Room 999
2023 · Movie
Passages
2023 · Movie
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023 · Movie
Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be
2023 · Movie
Irma Vep
2022 · Series
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
2021 · Movie
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Movie
Bergman Island
2021 · Movie
Corona Film Club
2021 · Movie
Wasp Network
2020 · Movie
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
2019 · Movie
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Movie
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019 · Movie
Diane
2019 · Movie
Non-Fiction
2018 · Movie
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018 · Movie
Aware, Anywhere
2017 · Movie
Based on a True Story
2017 · Movie
Personal Shopper
2016 · Movie
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016 · Movie
Quotidien
2016 · Series
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016 · Movie
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 · Movie
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014 · Movie
Clouds of Sils Maria
2014 · Movie
Clique
2013 · Series
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013 · Movie
Something in the Air
2012 · Movie
A Special Day
2012 · Movie
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011 · Movie
Carlos
2010 · Movie
Carlos
2010 · Series
… But Film Is My Mistress
2010 · Movie
Making of 'Summer Hours'
2008 · Movie
Summer Hours
2008 · Movie
Eldorado
2008 · Movie
Inventory
2008 · Movie
Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance
2008 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
In the Mood for Doyle
2007 · Movie
Boarding Gate
2007 · Movie
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Movie
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
2006 · Movie
Noise
2006 · Movie
Clean
2004 · Movie
Making of 'Demonlover'
2003 · Movie
Demonlover
2002 · Movie
Léaud l'unique
2001 · Movie
Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer
2001 · Movie
Sentimental Destinies
2000 · Movie
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1999 · Movie
Late August, Early September
1999 · Movie
Alice and Martin
1998 · Movie
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung
1997 · Movie
Irma Vep
1996 · Movie
All the Boys and Girls of Their Time
1994 · Series
Cold Water
1994 · Movie
A New Life
1993 · Movie
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993 · Movie
Paris Awakens
1991 · Movie
Lovely Child
1990 · Movie
Winter's Child
1989 · Movie
Broken April
1987 · Movie
Disorder
1986 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1986 · Movie
L'unique
1986 · Movie
Secret Passage
1985 · Movie
Rendez-vous
1985 · Movie
Winston Tong In Studio
1984 · Movie
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982 · Movie
Scopitone
1980 · Movie
Nuit féline
1978 · Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
1977 · Movie
Spiritual World
Movie