This is a partial list of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Name | Rank | Year |
---|---|---|
T. S. Eliot | Commandeur | 1960 |
Jorge Luis Borges | Commandeur | 1962 [1] |
Victoria Ocampo | Commandeur | 1962 [2] |
Elisabeth Söderström | Commandeur | 1973 |
Marcel Marceau | Commandeur | 1978 |
Stevie Wonder | Commandeur | 1981 [3] |
Jerry Lewis | Commandeur | 1984 [4] |
Zoran Mušič | Commandeur | 1984 |
Akira Kurosawa | Commandeur | 1985 [5] |
Yasuo Mizui | Commandeur | 1985 [6] |
Mrinal Sen | Commandeur | 1985 [7] |
Josef Tal | Commandeur | 1985 [8] |
Moritz de Hadeln | Commandeur | 1986 |
Sean Connery | Commandeur | 1987 |
Audrey Hepburn | Commandeur | 1987 |
Fairuz | Commandeur | 1988 |
Peter O'Toole | Commandeur | 1988 |
Mercedes Sosa | Commandeur | 1989 [9] |
Dirk Bogarde | Commandeur | 1990 [10] |
Bob Dylan | Commandeur | 1990 |
Nadine Gordimer | Commandeur | 1991 |
Tarek Ali Hassan | Commandeur | 1991 [11] |
Clint Eastwood | Commandeur | 1994 |
Mortimer Zuckerman | Commandeur | 1994 [12] : 89 [13] |
Lauren Bacall | Commandeur | 1995 |
Dustin Hoffman | Commandeur | 1995 |
Marilyn Horne | Commandeur | 1995 [12] : 82 |
María Félix | Commandeur | 1996 [14] |
Seamus Heaney | Commandeur | 1996 [15] |
Lester James Peries | Commandeur | 1997 [16] |
Paul Mauriat | Commandeur | 1997 |
David Bowie | Commandeur | 1999 [17] |
Sharmila Tagore | Commandeur | 1999 [18] |
Soumitra Chatterjee | Commandeur | 1999 [18] |
Salman Rushdie | Commandeur | 1999 |
Rustam Ibragimbekov | Commandeur | 2000 (renounced in 2012) [19] |
Václav Havel | Commandeur | 2001 |
Maryse Condé | Commandeur | 2001 [20] |
David Stratton | Commandeur | 2001 [21] |
Barbara Wright | Commandeur | 2002 [22] |
Siddiq Barmak | Commandeur | 2003 |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Commandeur | 2003 [23] |
Alexis Rosenberg-Redé | Commandeur | 2003 |
Meryl Streep | Commandeur | 2003 [24] |
Julian Barnes | Commandeur | 2004 [25] |
Jin Yong | Commandeur | 2004 |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Commandeur | 2005 [26] |
Patti Smith | Commandeur | 2005 |
Max Roach | Commandeur | 1989 |
Christoph Eschenbach | Commandeur | 2006 |
Nan Goldin | Commandeur | 2006 |
Paul Auster | Commandeur | 2007 [27] |
Ray Bradbury | Commandeur | 2007 |
Lucien Clergue | Commandeur | 2007 |
Emir Kusturica | Commandeur | 2007 [28] |
June Anderson | Commandeur | 2008 [29] |
Roger Moore | Commandeur | 2008 [30] |
Richard Serra | Commandeur | 2008 [31] |
Nikos Papatakis | Commandeur | 2009 [32] |
Thom Mayne | Commandeur | 2009 [33] |
Michael Haneke | Commandeur | 2010 [34] |
Takeshi Kitano | Commandeur | 2010 [35] |
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg | Commandeur | 2010 |
Michael Caine | Commandeur | 2011 [36] |
Myung-Whun Chung | Commandeur | 2011 [37] |
Anish Kapoor | Commandeur | 2011 [38] |
Christopher Lee | Commandeur | 2011 [39] |
Jean van Hamme | Commandeur | 2011 [40] |
Anne Sofie von Otter | Commandeur | 2011 [41] |
Douglas Gordon | Commandeur | 2012 |
Israel Horovitz | Commandeur | 2012[ citation needed ] |
Donald Sutherland | Commandeur | 2012 [42] |
Bono | Commandeur | 2013 [43] |
David Cairns | Commandeur | 2013 [44] |
William Kentridge | Commandeur | 2013 [45] |
Ringo Starr | Commandeur | 2013 [46] |
Bruce Willis | Commandeur | 2013 [47] |
Kar-Wai Wong | Commandeur | 2013 [48] |
Isabelle Adjani | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Charles Berling | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Catherine Breillat | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Xavier Darcos | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Brigitte Fontaine | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Jacques Higelin | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Marlène Jobert | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Quincy Jones | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Pierre Perret | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Juliette Gréco | Commandeur | 2016 [49] |
Eric Clapton | Commandeur | 2017 [50] |
Iggy Pop | Commandeur | 2017 [51] |
Vangelis Papathanassiou | Commandeur | 2017 [52] |
John Mordler | Commandeur | 2017 |
Fujiko Nakaya | Commandeur | 2017 [53] |
Roger Corman | Commandeur | 2017 [54] |
Leo Brouwer | Commandeur | 2018 [55] |
Alejandro G. Iñarritu | Commandeur | 2019 |
Catherine Jacob | Commandeur | 2019 [56] |
Jennifer Flay | Commandeur | 2020 [57] |
Emma Lavigne | Commandeur | 2020 [58] [59] |
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields.
Michel Ciment was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif.
Guillaume Gallienne is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiographical comedy film Me, Myself and Mum (2013).
Gérard Krawczyk is a French film director. He is of Polish descent.
Nathalie Stutzmann is a French contralto and, in her later career, conductor.
Francis Pierre Horton Perrin is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Michèle Torr is a French singer and author, best known in non-Francophone countries for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg in 1966 and for Monaco in 1977.
Laurent Hilaire is a French ballet dancer. Regarded as one of the greatest dancers to emerge from ballet over the past few decades, he was an étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet for 22 years. From 2011, he was the associate artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet and a ballet master with the company from 2005 to 2014. In 2017, he became the director of dance at Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. He resigned in February 2022 over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In May, he was appointed the new director at Bavarian State Ballet.
Katell Quillévéré is a French filmmaker.
Philippe Lançon is a journalist working for the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, who was wounded in the terrorist attack perpetrated against that publication on 7 January 2015.
Thomas Cailley is a French screenwriter and film director. In 2014, he made his feature directorial debut with Love at First Fight, which won three César Awards including Best First Feature Film. In 2023 he made his second movie The Animal Kingdom.
Gaelle Josse is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages.
Stéphane Fontaine is a French cinematographer. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in 1985, and began his career as first assistant camera on films directed by Arnaud Desplechin, Jim Jarmusch, Leos Carax and Olivier Assayas, among others. He won the César Award for Best Cinematography in 2006 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet.
Mathieu Riboulet was a French writer and film director.
René Koering is a French composer, film producer and theater director. He is particularly known for his involvement in the creation of the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in 1985.
Quentin Bajac is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Pierre Barillet was a French playwright.
Stéphane André Braunschweig is a French theatre director.
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Camille Pascal is a French writer and senior civil servant.
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