Olivier Assayas

Writer | Director | Assistant Director

Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his ...

Born: January 25, 1955

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Filmography

Known For

Personal Shopper Writer (2016)
Clouds of Sils Maria Writer (2014)
Carlos Writer (2010)
Known For

Something in the Air Writer (2012)
Writer

Double Lives (2018)
Based on a True Story (2017)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Something in the Air (2012)
Carlos (2010)
Summer Hours (2008)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Boarding Gate (2007)
Metric (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Clean (2004)
Demonlover (2002)
Les destinées (2000)
Alice and Martin (1998)
Late August, Early September (1998)
Cinéma, de notre temps (1997)
Irma Vep (1996)
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1994)
Cold Water (1994)
A New Life (1993)
Paris Awakens (1991)
Filha da Mãe (1990)
Winter's Child (1989)
Avril brisé (1987)
Disorder (1986)
Scene of the Crime (1986)
L'unique (1986)
Passage secret (1985)
Rendez-vous (1985)
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
Scopitone (1980)
Nuit féline (1978)
Writer

Étoiles et toiles (1982)
Director

Double Lives (2018)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Something in the Air (2012)
Carlos (2010)
Summer Hours (2008)
Eldorado (2008)
Stockhausen/Preljocaj Dialogue (2007)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Boarding Gate (2007)
Noise (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Clean (2004)
Demonlover (2002)
Les destinées (2000)
Late August, Early September (1998)
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung (1997)
Cinéma, de notre temps (1997)
Irma Vep (1996)
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1994)
Cold Water (1994)
A New Life (1993)
Paris Awakens (1991)
Winter's Child (1989)
Disorder (1986)
Winston Tong en studio (1984)
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
Rectangle - Deux chansons de Jacno (1980)
Director

Copyright (1979)
Actor

Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret Police photographer (1979)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Crossed Swords (1977)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Les divorcés (1973)
Archive footage

Voyage à travers le cinéma français (2017)
Cinematographer

Noise (2006)
Editorial Department

Superman (1978)

Awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.

Another 27 wins & 56 nominations.

Did You Know

Split with his longtime partner Mia Hansen-Løve in 2016. They have one daughter. Despite numerous mentions in the media referring to them as husband and wife, Hansen-Løve stated in an interview with The Final Cut in 2017 that they had never been ...

Quotes

I think that it's important to understand, intuitively understand, what you are doing. But when you are doing it you must follow instinct. There has to be a certain level of risk, creating images, characters, emotions, it involves something a little...