Patrice Leconte

Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte in 2011
Born	(1947-11-12) 12 November 1947 Paris, France
Occupation	Film director, actor, screenwriter
Years active	1976–present

Patrice Leconte (French: [ləkɔ̃t]; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.

Life and career

Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote. He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with Monsieur Hire, which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival^[1] and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as Ridicule and L'homme du train which have had success in the international arthouse market, and others, like Les Grands Ducs, whose appeal has been limited to France.

In the 2000s, Patrice Leconte received more recognition in the United States with the successful United States releases of Girl on the Bridge, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers (Paramount Classics released three of these films in the United States^[2]). Ryan Mottesheard of IndieWIRE wrote: "you could even argue that no other foreign filmmaker (INCLUDING Pedro Almodóvar) has had as strong of an impact on United States arthouses."^[3]

An English language remake of Leconte's film Man on the Train was remade by an independent Hollywood studio in 2011, and two others are in 'development': Intimate Strangers and My Best Friend.^[4]

Patrice Leconte's film, The Suicide Shop, was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California, on April 28 and May 2, 2013.^[5]

Director

Year	Title	Box Office	Notes
1969	L'espace vital	/	Short
1971	Le laboratoire de l'angoisse	/	Short
1973	La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul)	/	Short
1976	Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur	$3,483,367^[6]
1978	French Fried Vacation	$17,314,830^[7]
1979	French Fried Vacation 2	$11,518,357^[8]
1981	Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine	$21,151,267^[9]	Nominated - Chicago International Film Festival - Best Feature
1982	Ma femme s'appelle reviens	$8,916,300^[10]
1983	Circulez y a rien à voir!	$8,133,292^[11]
1985	Les Spécialistes	$39,896,565^[12]
1987	Tandem	$4,483,185^[13]	Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1988	Sueurs froides	/	TV Series (1 Episode)
1989	Monsieur Hire	$5,980,540^[14]	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Prix Méliès - Best French Film Guldbagge Award - Best Foreign Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director
1990	The Hairdresser's Husband	$2,687,602^[15]	Louis Delluc Prize Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1991	Contre l'oubli	/	Segment "Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS"
1992	Le batteur du Boléro	/	Short Kraków Film Festival - Don Quixote Award
1993	Tango	$4,798,440^[16]
1993	The King of Ads	/	Documentary Segment "Pilote commercial"
1994	Le parfum d'Yvonne	$1,191,270^[17]
1995	Lumière and Company	/	Documentary Segment "La Ciotat 1996"
1996	Les Grands Ducs	$3,755,175^[18]
1996	Ridicule	$35,519,611^[19]	BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film Chicago International Film Festival - Best Film César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Director David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film London Film Critics' Circle Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year Lumières Award for Best Film National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Society of Texas Film Critics Award - Best Foreign Film Awards Circuit Community Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Film Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1998	Une chance sur deux	$7,926,075^[20]
1999	Girl on the Bridge	$11,171,846^[21]	Cinemania Film Festival - Audience Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Don Quijote Award - Special Mention Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Nominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Robert Festival - Best Non-American Film
2000	The Widow of Saint-Pierre	$12,990,288^[22]	Moscow International Film Festival - Russian Film Critics Award Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - American Film Institute - Grand Jury Prize Nominated - Film Critics Circle of Australia - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Moscow International Film Festival - Golden St. George
2001	Félix et Lola	$480,382^[23]	Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - Verona Love Screens Film Festival - Best Film
2002	Rue des plaisirs	$1,873,072^[24]
2002	The Man on the Train	$7,582,447^[25]	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Venice Film Festival - Audience Award - Best Film Seattle Film Critics Awards - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Nominated - Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film
2004	Intimate Strangers	$7,460,079^[26]	Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - Grand Prize
2004	Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux	/	Documentary
2006	French Fried Vacation 3	$83,897,719^[27]
2006	My Best Friend	$13,186,926^[28]	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best European Film
2007	Trac	/	Short
2007	Dix films pour en parler	/	Short
2008	Beauties at War	$3,016,611^[29]
2011	Voir la mer	$248,092^[30]	Nominated - Taormina International Film Festival - Golden Tauro
2012	The Suicide Shop	$2,229,885^[31]	Nominated - European Film Academy Young Audience Award
2013	A Promise	$385,486^[32]	Nominated - Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction
2014	Do Not Disturb	$7,551,502^[33]

Notes

Lisa Downing, Patrice Leconte (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)

References

External links

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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

Films directed by Patrice Leconte

Feature	Les vécés étaient fermés de l'interieur Les Bronzés Les Bronzés font du ski Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine Ma femme s'appelle reviens Circulez y'a rien à voir Les Spécialistes Tandem Monsieur Hire The Hairdresser's Husband Tango Yvonne's Perfume Ridicule Les Grands Ducs Une chance sur deux Girl on the Bridge The Widow of Saint-Pierre Felix and Lola Love Street The Man on the Train Intimate Strangers Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux Les Bronzés 3 : Amis pour la vie My Best Friend Beauties at War The Suicide Shop A Promise Do Not Disturb

Short	L'espace vital Le laboratoire de l'angoisse La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul) Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS Le Batteur Du Boléro La Ciotat 1996 Trac

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