Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard (French pronunciation: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, eleven Cesar Awards and four prizes from the Cannes Film Festival.

Audiard made his feature film debut with See How They Fall (1994), followed by Read My Lips (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), and Rust and Bone (2012). His film, the prison crime drama, A Prophet (2009) earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Dheepan (2015). He directed his first English-language feature film, the western The Sisters Brothers (2018). His latest film the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez (2024) won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize.