FILM DIRECTOR

Gérard Corbiau

1941 - Today

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Gérard Corbiau (French: [kɔʁbjo]; born 19 September 1941) is a Belgian film director. Corbiau was born in Brussels, Belgium. He is best known for his costume dramas about music, Le maître de musique (1988), Farinelli (1994) and Le roi danse (2000). Two of them (Le maître de musique and Farinelli) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gérard Corbiau is the 990th most popular film director (down from 937th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 581st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gérard Corbiau ranks 990 out of 2,041. Before him are Tosca Musk, Frank Beyer, Randal Kleiser, Lajos Koltai, Elia Suleiman, and Ringo Lam. After him are Shawn Levy, Martin Frič, Helmut Dietl, Matt Reeves, Irwin Allen, and Fyodor Khitruk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gérard Corbiau ranks 394. Before him are Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Erkin Koray, Vittorio Messori, Epeli Nailatikau, Sahar Khalifeh, and Zlatko Škorić. After him are Wilfrid Napier, Markus Lüpertz, Christoph Höhne, Alf Clausen, Peter Bonetti, and Ole Ritter.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Gérard Corbiau ranks 631 out of 1,190. Before him are Gérard Leman (1851), Hadja Lahbib (1970), Willy Vandersteen (1913), Prosper Poullet (1868), Julien Cools (1947), and Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802). After him are Georges Grün (1962), Jules d'Anethan (1803), Gabrielle Petit (1893), Suzanne Lilar (1901), Jef Planckaert (1934), and Emiel Puttemans (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Gérard Corbiau ranks 8. Before him are Chantal Akerman (1950), Jacques Feyder (1885), André Delvaux (1926), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Raoul Servais (1928), and Ulu Grosbard (1929). After him are Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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