FILM DIRECTOR

Jaco Van Dormael

1957 - Today

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Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. Van Dormael spent his childhood travelling around Europe, before going on to study filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels, where he wrote and directed his first short film, Maedeli la brèche (1981), which received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards. Van Dormael's feature debut, Toto le héros (1991), won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaco Van Dormael is the 584th most popular film director (down from 583rd in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 418th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 584 out of 2,041. Before him are Asghar Farhadi, Arthur Hiller, Moshé Mizrahi, Tom Tykwer, Dan O'Bannon, and Hal Ashby. After him are Hugh Hudson, Jennifer Lee, Mauritz Stiller, Ann Hui, Paul Haggis, and Seijun Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 140. Before him are María Conchita Alonso, Robert Sapolsky, Nery Pumpido, Zhao Leji, Mark Gordon, and Mary Bell. After him are Marc Platt, John Lasseter, Vladimir Tkachenko, Afrika Bambaataa, Duško Ivanović, and Tetsuo Sugamata.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 419 out of 1,190. Before him are Herman Van Springel (1943), Joos de Momper (1564), Hucbald (840), Didier Reynders (1958), Henry Carton de Wiart (1869), and Lucien Buysse (1892). After him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Dries Mertens (1987), Arthur De Greef (1862), Jean Stas (1813), Peter Benoit (1834), and Raoul Lambert (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Jaco Van Dormael ranks 5. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928), Chantal Akerman (1950), Jacques Feyder (1885), and André Delvaux (1926). After him are Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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