Are both Robert Zemeckis and Luc Besson French?
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Robert Zemeckis Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects. Credited as "one of the greatest visual storytellers in filmmaking", he first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of "Romancing the Stone" (1984) and the science-fiction comedy "Back to the Future" film trilogy, as well as the live-action/animated comedy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988). In the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's "Forrest Gump", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. The film itself won Best Picture. The movies he has directed have ranged across a wide variety of genres, for both adults and families.
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Luc Besson Luc Besson (] ; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed or produced the films "Subway" (1985), "The Big Blue" (1988), and "Nikita" (1990). Besson is known for his distinctive filmmaking style and is associated with the movement critics call "Cinéma du look". He has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films "" and "". He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film "The Fifth Element" (1997). He wrote and directed the 2014 sci-fi thriller film "Lucy".
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Luc Besson filmography Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and producer. He has contributed to many projects as either writer, director, producer, or a combination of the three.
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Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his comedy films "Melvin and Howard" (1980), "Swing Shift" (1984), "Something Wild" (1986), and "Married to the Mob" (1988), as well as the critically acclaimed concert film "Stop Making Sense" (1984), in collaboration with the band Talking Heads. He became best known for directing "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He later directed the acclaimed films "Philadelphia" (1993) and "Rachel Getting Married" (2008).
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Luc Ferrari Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer of Italian heritage and pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music.
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Bessonies Bessonies is a commune in the Lot department in southwestern France.
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Jules Besson Jules Gustave Besson (1 August 1868 in Paris – ?) was a French painter. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Élie Delaunay, and particularly Gustave Moreau at the Beaux-Arts, Paris, but did not follow his teacher's style.
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Roschdy Zem Roschdy Zem (born 27 September 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker of Moroccan descent. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Days of Glory" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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Karim Zéribi Karim Zéribi (born 25 September 1966) is a French politician of Europe Écologie–The Greens, Member of the European Parliament.
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Tchéky Karyo Tchéky Karyo (] ; born 4 October 1953) is a Turkish-born French actor and musician. Beginning his career as an actor on stage in classical and contemporary works, he began to work as a character actor in films in the 1980s. He has acted in numerous films by Hollywood and French directors, including Luc Besson.
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Claude Berri Claude Berri (] ; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
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Jean Becquerel Jean Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, and son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on the optical and magnetic properties of crystals, discovering the rotation of the plane of polarisation by a magnetic field. He also published a textbook on relativity. In 1909, he became the fourth in his family to occupy the physics chair at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, following in the footsteps of his father, his grandfather A. E. Becquerel and his great-grandfather Antoine César Becquerel.
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Isild Le Besco Isild Le Besco (born 22 November 1982) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French, and Algerian descent.
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The Intouchables The Intouchables (French: Intouchables ] , UK: Untouchable) is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 film "Welcome to the Sticks". The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The film has received several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy, and garnered seven further nominations for the César Awards, including the César Award for Best Film, which it lost to the Best Picture winner "The Artist".
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Michel Béroff Michel Béroff (born 9 May 1950) is a French pianist and conductor of Bulgarian origin.
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Yves Tanguy Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter.
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Jean Besson Jean Besson (born 1 July 1948 in Valréas, Vaucluse) is a French politician, social-democrat. He is married and father of three children. He was a French Senator from 1989 to 2014.
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George Besson George Besson (25 December 1882 – 19 June 1971) was a French art critic, and the founder and director of "Cahiers d'Aujourd'hui".
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Allied (film) Allied is a 2016 romantic thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight. It stars Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence officer and Marion Cotillard as a French Resistance fighter and collaborator, who fall in love during a mission in Casablanca. Jared Harris, Simon McBurney and Lizzy Caplan also star.
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For Ever Mozart For Ever Mozart is a 1996 feature film directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard. The film's title is a bilingual pun intentionally meant to sound like "Faut rêver Mozart" ("Dream Mozart, dream" in French). The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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The Transporter The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 English-language French action thriller film directed by Corey Yuen and Louis Leterrier (who is credited as artistic director on the project), and written by Luc Besson, who was inspired by BMW Films' "The Hire" series. The film stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, a driver for hire – a mercenary "transporter" who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price. It also stars Shu Qi as Lai Kwai.
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Carpenter Brut Carpenter Brut is a French electronic music artist whose real name is Franck Hueso, based in Poitiers, France. Little personal information is known about him aside from his French nationality. His anonymity is a deliberate artistic choice in order to place more importance on the music itself rather than the identity of the musician behind it. To date he has released three EPs, which were collected together and released together under the title "Trilogy" in 2015. He has also contributed original music to a variety of soundtracks. He started writing music as Carpenter Brut with the intention of mixing sounds from horror films, metal, rock, and electronic music. He has toured the United States and Europe, and in 2016 he toured the US with the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost. He performs live with a guitarist and drummer.