FILM DIRECTOR

Jean-Luc Godard

1930 - 2022

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Jean-Luc Godard (UK: GOD-ar, US: goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Luc Godard is the 28th most popular film director (down from 21st in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from France (down from 207th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Film Director.

Jean-Luc Godard is most famous for his innovative and influential filmmaking style, which includes the use of jump cuts, hand-held cameras, and natural lighting.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 28 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, Cecil B. DeMille, Miloš Forman, and George Lucas. After him are Konstantin Stanislavski, Georges Méliès, Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Fritz Lang, and Michael Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 18. Before him are Jacques Derrida, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Pierre Bourdieu, Steve McQueen, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. After him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Ray Charles, Baudouin of Belgium, Pete Conrad, John Young, and Buzz Aldrin. Among people deceased in 2022, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 10. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Ivana Trump, Jiang Zemin, Shinzō Abe, Vangelis, and Thích Nhất Hạnh. After him are Leonid Kravchuk, Ben Roy Mottelson, Francisco Gento, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 286 out of 6,770. Before him are Prosper Mérimée (1803), François Couperin (1668), Philippa of Hainault (1314), Philip the Good (1396), Henry I of France (1008), and Georges Clemenceau (1841). After him are Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Louis Bonaparte (1778), Hugues de Payens (1074), Simone Weil (1909), Raymond Poincaré (1860), and Paul Signac (1863).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 3. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Éric Rohmer (1920), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Alain Resnais (1922), and Robert Bresson (1901).

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