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Jean-Jacques Annaud

1943 - Today

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Jean-Jacques Annaud (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ano]; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Jacques Annaud is the 59th most popular film director (up from 74th in 2019), the 559th most popular biography from France (up from 594th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Film Director.

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing films such as The Bear, The Name of the Rose, Enemy at the Gates, Seven Years in Tibet, and The Lover.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 59 out of 2,041. Before him are Roger Vadim, Takeshi Kitano, Yasujirō Ozu, Jack L. Warner, Stephen Hillenburg, and Paul Verhoeven. After him are Brian De Palma, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, and Lars von Trier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 31. Before him are Elena Ferrante, Christopher Walken, Salvatore Adamo, Joseph Stiglitz, Horst Köhler, and Jean-Louis Tauran. After him are Khalifa Haftar, Louise Glück, Raffaella Carrà, Howard Gardner, John Kerry, and Carlos Alberto Parreira.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 559 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Maurice Béjart (1927), Françoise Sagan (1935), Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), and André Maurois (1885). After him are Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), François Jacob (1920), and Hilary of Poitiers (315).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean-Jacques Annaud ranks 6. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933), François Truffaut (1932), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Georges Méliès (1861), and Roger Vadim (1928). After him are Éric Rohmer (1920), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Alain Resnais (1922), and Robert Bresson (1901).

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