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François Truffaut

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Also known as Francois Truffaut

French film director (1932–1984)

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François Truffaut (1932–1984) was a French film director, actor, producer, and critic. Born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, he worked as an employee for *Cahiers du cinéma*. His notable works include *Les Quatre Cents Coups*, *Hitchcock*, *Jean Renoir*, and *El Placer De La Mirada*. Truffaut was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

He received the Cannes Best Director Award, the Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film, the Louis Delluc Prize, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Truffaut died of a brain tumor in Neuilly-sur-Seine and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Born
6 Feb 1932
Died
21 Oct 1984
Works
65

Top works

  • トリュフォー最後のインタビュー
  • Les Quatre Cents Coups
  • Hitchcock
  • Jean Renoir
  • El Placer De La Mirada

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Film & TV

Directing · Paris, France

François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most…

Known for

  • Postface à l’Atalante — Self2025
  • François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Godard Cinema — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Godard by Godard — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Passion Fanny Ardant — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2023
  • Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Deneuve, la reine Catherine — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte — Self (archive footage)2021
  • Sous le soleil de Pialat — Self (archive footage)2021
  • Jim Morrison: The End — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1932
Active to
1984

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
208
Total plays
1,665

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François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was screenwriter, director, producer or actor in over twenty-five films. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fran%C3%A7ois+Truffaut">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,450x

  2. New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

    · 2010 · cited 16,956x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,961x

  4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,882x

  5. Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    · 2008 · cited 11,233x

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Quotes

  • “I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.”

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Encyclopedic overview

François Roland Truffaut ( UK: /ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ-/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: /truːˈfoʊ/ troo-FOH; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. The films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979) continued to chronicle the story of the couple Antoine and Christine (Claude Jade). Truffaut contributed to another significant milestone of the movement with his work on Breathless (1960), a film directed by his Cahiers colleague Jean-Luc Godard.

His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), Two English Girls (1971) and The Last Metro (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He played the doctor in The Wild Child (1970), the director of the film-within-the-film in Day For Night and the scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He starred in The Green Room (1978), based on Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead". He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview with his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of the greatest books on film. Truffaut paid homage to Hitchcock in The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and his last film, Confidentially Yours (1983).

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