FILM DIRECTOR

Jean-Jacques Beineix

1946 - 2022

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Jean-Jacques Beineix (French: [bɛnɛks]; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films Diva and Betty Blue. His work is regarded as a prime example of the cinéma du look film movement in France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Jacques Beineix is the 408th most popular film director (up from 409th in 2019), the 2,339th most popular biography from France (down from 2,328th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean-Jacques Beineix ranks 408 out of 2,041Before him are Ishirō Honda, Anthony Minghella, Tom Hooper, Martin Campbell, Jacques Deray, and Paweł Pawlikowski. After him are Lo Wei, Louis Delluc, Roland Joffé, M. Night Shyamalan, Gustav Ucicky, and Olivier Assayas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jean-Jacques Beineix ranks 212Before him are Allan Clarke, Claire Denis, Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, Nicole Garcia, Shlomo Sand, and Rodrigo Lara. After him are Stig Blomqvist, Donovan, Cheng Pei-pei, Willy van der Kuijlen, Toquinho, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Among people deceased in 2022, Jean-Jacques Beineix ranks 139Before him are Charles Greene, Shintaro Ishihara, Christos Sartzetakis, William Klein, Anne Heche, and Uri Orlev. After him are Kay Parker, Joseph Kittinger, Juris Hartmanis, Luis Echeverría, Hermann Nitsch, and Richard Leakey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Jacques Beineix ranks 2,339 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Eugène Fromentin (1820), Jan Asselijn (1610), Marc Augé (1935), and Octave Lapize (1887). After him are Rudi Garcia (1964), Louis Delluc (1890), Louis Jouvet (1887), Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut (1294), Isaac the Blind (1160), and Matthias of Arras (1290).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean-Jacques Beineix ranks 55Before him are Marcel Camus (1912), Jacques Doillon (1944), Claire Denis (1946), Just Jaeckin (1940), Albert Lamorisse (1922), and Jacques Deray (1929). After him are Louis Delluc (1890), Olivier Assayas (1955), Jacques Copeau (1879), Christian-Jaque (1904), Yves Boisset (1939), and Guy Hamilton (1922).