Bertrand Blier

Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier in 2011
Born	(1939-03-14) 14 March 1939 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation	Film director, writer
Years active	1959–present

Bertrand Blier (born 14 March 1939) is a French film director and writer. His 1978 film Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.^[1]

He is the son of famous French actor Bernard Blier. His 1996 film Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] His 2005 film How Much Do You Love Me? was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver George for Best Director.^[3]

A defence of Blier's work up until 2000 was written by Sue Harris, Queen Mary College, London and published in 2001 by Manchester University Press.^[4]

Personal life

With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he has a daughter named Béatrice.^[5] He also has a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress Anouk Grinberg.^[6] He is married to actress Farida Rahouadj, with whom he has a daughter named Leila.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
Year	Title	Director	Screenwriter	Other	Notes
1959	Oh ! Qué mambo			Yes	As 1st assistant director
1961	Arrêtez les tambours			Yes	As assistant director
1961	Le Monocle noir			Yes	As assistant director
1963	The Virgin of Nuremberg			Yes	As assistant director
1963	Hitler, connais pas	Yes			Documentary Locarno International Film Festival - Silver Sail
1966	La Grimace	Yes	Yes		Short
1967	If I Were a Spy	Yes	Yes
1971	Laisse aller... c'est une valse		Yes
1974	Going Places	Yes	Yes
1976	Calmos	Yes	Yes
1978	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	Yes	Yes		Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director (runner-up) Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (runner-up) Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (runner-up)
1979	Buffet froid	Yes	Yes		César Award for Best Writing
1981	Beau-père	Yes	Yes		Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or
1983	Debout les crabes, la mer monte !		Yes
1983	My Best Friend's Girl	Yes	Yes
1984	Our Story	Yes	Yes		César Award for Best Original Screenplay
1986	Tenue de soirée	Yes	Yes		Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated—César Award for Best Film Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—César Award for Best Writing
1989	Too Beautiful for You	Yes	Yes		Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Director César Award for Best Writing
1991	Merci la vie	Yes	Yes		Nominated—César Award for Best Film Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—César Award for Best Writing
1991	My Life Is Hell			Yes	As actor
1991	Lest We Forget	Yes			Segment: Pour Alirio de Crisanto Mederos, Vénézuela
1992	Patrick Dewaere			Yes	As himself
1993	1, 2, 3, Sun	Yes	Yes		Stockholm International Film Festival - Bronze Horse for Best Film Venice Film Festival - Grand Prize of the European Academy Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion
1995	Jamais seul avec toi			Yes	Short; co-producer
1996	My Man	Yes	Yes		Nominated—Berlin Film Festival - Golden Bear
2000	Actors	Yes	Yes		Also actor
2003	Les Côtelettes	Yes	Yes		Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or
2004	Pédale dure		Yes
2005	How Much Do You Love Me?	Yes	Yes		Also actor Moscow Film Festival - Silver George for Best Director
2009	All About Actresses			Yes	As actor
2010	The Clink of Ice	Yes	Yes		Venice Film Festival - Europa Cinemas Label Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—César Award for Best Original Screenplay
2015	Papa, Alexandre, Maxime et Eduardo			Yes	Short; as actor
2016	Existe en blanc	Yes	Yes

Theatre

1997: Les Côtelettes
2010: Désolé pour la moquette...

Published works

1972: Les Valseuses
1981: Beau-père
1997: Les Côtelettes
1998: Existe en blanc
2001: Pensées, répliques et anecdotes
2010: Désolé pour la moquette...

References

↑ "The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
↑ "Berlinale: 1996 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
↑ "28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
↑ Bertrand Blier - In the series French Film Directors. ISBN 0-7190-5297-1
1 2 "Bertrand Blier". VSD.
↑ "Un Deux Trois, Anouk Grinberg!". Le Soir.

External links

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Bertrand Blier at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Bertrand Blier

If I Were a Spy Going Places Calmos Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Buffet froid Beau-père My Best Friend's Girl Our Story Tenue de soirée Too Beautiful for You Merci la vie 1, 2, 3, Sun My Man Actors Les Côtelettes How Much Do You Love Me? The Clink of Ice

Academy Award for Foreign Language Film Winners

1947–1955 (Honorary)	1947: Shoe-Shine – Vittorio De Sica 1948: Monsieur Vincent – Maurice Cloche 1949: Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica 1950: The Walls of Malapaga – René Clément 1951: Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa 1952: Forbidden Games – René Clément 1954: Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa 1955: Samurai, The Legend of Musashi – Hiroshi Inagaki

1956–1975	1956: La Strada – Federico Fellini 1957: Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini 1958: My Uncle – Jacques Tati 1959: Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus 1960: The Virgin Spring – Ingmar Bergman 1961: Through a Glass Darkly – Ingmar Bergman 1962: Sundays and Cybele – Serge Bourguignon 1963: 8½ – Federico Fellini 1964: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Vittorio De Sica 1965: The Shop on Main Street – Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos 1966: A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch 1967: Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel 1968: War and Peace – Sergei Bondarchuk 1969: Z – Costa-Gavras 1970: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri 1971: The Garden of the Finzi Continis – Vittorio De Sica 1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel 1973: Day for Night – François Truffaut 1974: Amarcord – Federico Fellini 1975: Dersu Uzala – Akira Kurosawa

1976–2000	1976: Black and White in Color – Jean-Jacques Annaud 1977: Madame Rosa – Moshé Mizrahi 1978: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs – Bertrand Blier 1979: The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff 1980: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears – Vladimir Menshov 1981: Mephisto – István Szabó 1982: Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again') – José Luis Garci 1983: Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman 1984: Dangerous Moves – Richard Dembo 1985: The Official Story – Luis Puenzo 1986: The Assault – Fons Rademakers 1987: Babette's Feast – Gabriel Axel 1988: Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August 1989: Cinema Paradiso – Giuseppe Tornatore 1990: Journey of Hope – Xavier Koller 1991: Mediterraneo – Gabriele Salvatores 1992: Indochine – Régis Wargnier 1993: Belle Époque – Fernando Trueba 1994: Burnt by the Sun – Nikita Mikhalkov 1995: Antonia's Line – Marleen Gorris 1996: Kolya – Jan Svěrák 1997: Character – Mike van Diem 1998: Life Is Beautiful – Roberto Benigni 1999: All About My Mother – Pedro Almodóvar 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Ang Lee

2001–present	2001: No Man's Land – Danis Tanović 2002: Nowhere in Africa – Caroline Link 2003: The Barbarian Invasions – Denys Arcand 2004: The Sea Inside – Alejandro Amenábar 2005: Tsotsi – Gavin Hood 2006: The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2007: The Counterfeiters – Stefan Ruzowitzky 2008: Departures – Yōjirō Takita 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes – Juan J. Campanella 2010: In a Better World – Susanne Bier 2011: A Separation – Asghar Farhadi 2012: Amour – Michael Haneke 2013: The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino 2014: Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski 2015: Son of Saul – László Nemes

Submissions

César Award for Best Director

	1976 Bertrand Tavernier 1977 Joseph Losey 1978 Alain Resnais 1979 Christian de Chalonge 1980 Roman Polanski 1981 François Truffaut 1982 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1983 Andrzej Wajda 1984 Ettore Scola 1985 Claude Zidi 1986 Michel Deville 1987 Alain Cavalier 1988 Louis Malle 1989 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1990 Bertrand Blier 1991 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1992 Alain Corneau 1993 Claude Sautet 1994 Alain Resnais 1995 André Téchiné 1996 Claude Sautet 1997 Patrice Leconte / Bertrand Tavernier 1998 Luc Besson 1999 Patrice Chéreau 2000 Tonie Marshall 2001 Dominik Moll 2002 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2003 Roman Polanski 2004 Denys Arcand 2005 Abdellatif Kechiche 2006 Jacques Audiard 2007 Guillaume Canet 2008 Abdellatif Kechiche 2009 Jean-François Richet 2010 Jacques Audiard 2011 Roman Polanski 2012 Michel Hazanavicius 2013 Michael Haneke 2014 Roman Polanski 2015 Abderrahmane Sissako 2016 Arnaud Desplechin

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