Olivier Assayas


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Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his films Demonlover (2002), Something in the Air (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016). Assayas is the son of French director/screenwriter Raymond Assayas, alias Jacques Rémy. His directorial debut was in the short film Copyright (... See full bio »

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 29 wins & 64 nominations. See more awards »

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 2018 Vidas Duplas
 2017/I A Partir de Uma História Verdadeira (screenplay)
 2016 Personal Shopper (written by)
 2014 As Nuvens de Sils Maria (written by)
 2012 Depois de Maio (screenplay)
 2010 Carlos (TV Mini-Series) (written by - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (2010) ... (written by)
- Episode #1.2 (2010) ... (written by)
- Première partie (2010) ... (written by)
 2008 Tempos de Verão (writer)
 2007 Cada Um o Seu Cinema (segment "Recrudescence")
 2007 Boarding Gate - Porta de Embarque (written by)
 2006 Metric (Video documentary) (idea)
 2006 Paris, je t'aime (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
 2004/I Clean (written by)
 2002 Agente Infiltrada (written by)
 1998 Alice e Martin (writer)
 1998 Fin août, début septembre (written by)
 1997 Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997) ... (writer)
 1996 Irma Vep (written by)
 1994 Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- La page blanche (1994) ... (writer)
 1994 L'eau froide
 1993 Une nouvelle vie (writer)
 1990 Filha da Mãe (writer)
 1989 L'enfant de l'hiver (writer)
 1987 Avril brisé
 1986 Desordem (written by)
 1986 O Local do Crime (written by)
 1986 L'unique
 1985 Passage secret (dialogue) / (scenario)
 1985 Encontro (written by)
 1984 Étoiles et toiles (TV Series documentary) (interactive dialogue - 1 episode)
- Kim Basinger (1984) ... (interactive dialogue)
 1980 Scopitone (Short) (scenario and dialogue)
 1978 Nuit féline (Short)
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Biography: "Kenneth Anger", 1999.

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[on Encontro (1985)] It was so important for me. I learned a lot from André Téchiné. I was a very young screenwriter - I didn't have any serious credits. I'd been writing about movies and had directed some short films, but my experience of writing screenplays had been fairly conventional. I'd been learning how to structure things in a very rational way. André challenged anything that we ... See more »

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Split with his longtime partner Mia Hansen-Løve in 2016. They have one daughter. Despite numerous mentions in the media referring to them as husband and wife, Hansen-Løve stated in an interview with The Final Cut in 2017 that they had never been married. See more »

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