Olivier Assayas
Known for: Directing
Born: January 25, 1955
Place of birth: Paris, France
Olivier Assayas (French: [ɔlivje asajas]; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, and comedies. He has directed French, Spanish, and English-language films with international casts. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. There he wrote about world cinema and its film auteurs, who later influenced his work. Assayas made several short films, and made his feature debut with Disorder in 1986. He continued directing feature films, with Cold Water (1994) considered a breakthrough film in his career. It was his first film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His followup film, Irma Vep (1996), also screened at Cannes, while Sentimental Destinies (2000), Demonlover (2002), and Clean (2004) all officially competed for the Palme d'Or. In 2006, he contributed a short film to the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006). Assayas gained acclaim for his dramas Summer Hours (2008), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and Personal Shopper (2016); the latter won him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He also directed the comedy Non-Fiction (2018) and the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Assayas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
70 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
6.5
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
8.0
Being Bo Widerberg
2025
7.2
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
5.1
Suspended Time
2024
5.8
Room 999
2023
6.3
Passages
2023
NR
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023
7.5
Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be
2023
6.5
Irma Vep
2022
7.2
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
2021
6.6
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021
6.3
Bergman Island
2021
5.0
Corona Film Club
2021
6.0
Wasp Network
2020
NR
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
2019
10.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
7.0
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
5.4
Non-Fiction
2018
5.9
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018
8.5
Aware, Anywhere
2017
5.7
Based on a True Story
2017
5.9
Personal Shopper
2016
1.0
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
5.2
Quotidien
2016
7.5
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
7.1
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
6.6
Clouds of Sils Maria
2014
4.5
Clique
2013
NR
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013
5.9
Something in the Air
2012
5.3
A Special Day
2012
NR
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
7.0
Carlos
2010
7.5
Carlos
2010
6.3
… But Film Is My Mistress
2010
6.4
Summer Hours
20085.3
Eldorado
2008NR
Inventory
2008
NR
Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance
2008
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
4.0
In the Mood for Doyle
2007
5.0
Boarding Gate
2007
6.8
Paris Je T'aime
2006NR
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
2006
4.5
Noise
2006
6.4
Clean
2004
7.0
Making of 'Demonlover'
2003
5.8
Demonlover
2002
10.0
Léaud l'unique
2001
6.7
Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer
2001
5.5
Sentimental Destinies
2000
7.9
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1999
5.9
Late August, Early September
1999
5.7
Alice and Martin
1998
4.0
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung
1997
6.7
Irma Vep
1996
5.0
All the Boys and Girls of Their Time
1994
6.4
Cold Water
1994
4.8
A New Life
1993
5.6
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
6.0
Paris Awakens
1991
7.1
Lovely Child
1990
6.5
Winter's Child
1989
9.0
Broken April
1987
6.1
Disorder
1986
5.7
Scene of the Crime
1986
7.0
L'unique
1986
7.0
Secret Passage
1985
5.6
Rendez-vous
1985
3.8
Winston Tong In Studio
1984
4.8
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982
NR
Scopitone
198010.0
Nuit féline
1978
6.1
The Prince and the Pauper
1977