Prix Jean Vigo

Last updated

The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the French cinema given annually since 1951 to a French film director, in homage to Jean Vigo. Since 1960, the award has been given to both a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film. The award is usually given to a young director, for their independent spirit and stylistic originality.

Contents

History

The Jean Vigo Prize has been awarded since 1951 as a tribute to film director Jean Vigo. It was created by Claude Aveline, [1] the executor of Jean Vigo's will, Vigo's daughter Luce Vigo, and a number of filmmakers. Members of the first jury, in 1951, included Jacques Becker, Jean Cocteau, Paul Gilson, Georges Sadoul, and Luce Vigo. [2]

The award recognizes films "for their inventiveness, originality and intellectual independence." [3] The goal of the award is to "recognize a future auteur, [to] discover through him a passion and a gift," according to the 2018 jury. [4]

Winners

1950s

Feature film

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Short film

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Award in Spain

Spain's Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival presents the Premio Jean Vigo to the best director. The award aims to strengthen both the spirit that originally inspired the festival and the festival's commitment to the work of Jean Vigo. The creation of this prize was made possible thanks to the close ties between Punto de Vista and the family of the French filmmaker.

In 2005, the festival paid tribute to Vigo on the centenary of his birth. Luce Vigo, film critic and daughter of Vigo and Elizabeth Lozinska, attended that year. The festival provided a retrospective of Vigo's entire filmography and also represented the first step in a relationship that resulted in the award. The festival took its name, Punto de Vista (English: "point of view"), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, in the 1930s, to a “documented point of view” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking that commits the filmmaker.

Related Research Articles

The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.

The Prix Rosny-Aîné is a literary prize for French science fiction. It has been awarded annually since 1980 in two categories: best novel and best short fiction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Lhomme</span> French cinematographer and filmmaker (1930–2019)

Pierre Lhomme was a French cinematographer and filmmaker.

The Prix Valery Larbaud is a French literary prize created in 1967, ten years after writer Valery Larbaud's death, by L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud, an organization dedicated to the promotion of his works. The prize is awarded to writers of books the jurists feel "that Larbaud would have loved". It is always awarded in Vichy on the last weekend in May.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Pierre Bacri</span> French actor and screenwriter (1951–2021)

Jean-Pierre Bacri was a French actor and screenwriter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molière Award</span> Award for French theatre

The Les Molière is the national theatre award of France and it recognises achievement of French theatre each year. The awards are considered the highest honour for productions and performances. Presided and decided by the Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre (APAT), supported by the Ministry of Culture in a ceremony annually held, called the Nuit des Molières in Paris.

Jean-Claude Labrecque, was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada.

The grand prix de l'Imaginaire, until 1992 the grand prix de la science-fiction française, is a French literary award for speculative fiction, established in 1972 by the writer Jean-Pierre Fontana as part of the science fiction convention of Clermont-Ferrand.

The 17th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1991 and took place on 22 February 1992 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Michèle Morgan and hosted by Frédéric Mitterrand. Tous les matins du monde won the award for Best Film.

The French Syndicate of Cinema Critics has, each year since 1946, awarded a prize, the Prix Méliès, to the best French film of the preceding year. More awards have been added over time: the Prix Léon Moussinac for the best foreign film, added in 1967; the Prix Novaïs-Texeira for the best short film, added in 1999; prizes for the best first French and best first foreign films, added in 2001 and 2014, respectively; etc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catherine Jacob (actress)</span> French actress

Catherine Jacob is a French film and theatrical actress who has won a César Award for her role in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Tatie Danielle (1990), Merci la vie (1991) and Neuf mois (1994). She has been two-time president of the Lumières Award. She is known for her voice and her charisma.

Alain Jessua was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of Casque d'or, with Max Ophüls for Madame de... and Lola Montès and with Marcel Carné on Wasteland. Léon la lune his first short film won the influential Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. He directed first feature film in 1963 La vie à l'envers that won Best First Film at Venice Film Festival, in 1964.

Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurent Stocker</span> French actor

Laurent Stocker is a French theatre and cinema actor, and a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.

The Roger Nimier Prize is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of Roger Nimier". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The prize was established in 1963 at the initiative of André Parinaud and Denis Huisman and is handed out annually during the second half of May. It comes with a sum of 5000 euro.

The Prix Victor-Rossel is a literary award in Belgium that was first awarded in 1938. The award was created by three people associated with the newspaper Le Soir: the owner Marie-Thérèse Rossel, the manager Lucien Fuss and the editor-in-chief, Charles Breisdorff.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cabourg Film Festival</span> Annual film festival in Cabourg, France

The Cabourg Film Festival - Romantic Days takes place on the seaside of Normandy every year in June. The festival's theme is romance and presents a selection of films dedicated to passion, love and fantasies. The festival was founded by Gonzague Saint Bris in 1983, and its director is Suzel Pietri. Today, the festival reaches several towns on the Côte Fleurie between Cabourg, Houlgate and Dives-sur-Mer. At nightfall, the festival also offers several open air screenings on the beach of Cabourg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delphine Depardieu</span> French actress

Delphine Depardieu is a French actress. She is the daughter of Alain Depardieu, and Gérard Depardieu's niece. After her training at the École internationale de création audiovisuelle et de réalisation (EICAR), at the Cours Simon and Jean-Laurent Cochet's course, she was rapidly drawn to the stage and the cinema. On stage, she has acted with Roland Giraud, Paul Belmondo and Alexandre Brasseur.

The grand prix catholique de littérature is a French literary prize awarded by the Association des écrivains catholiques de langue française.

The prix Sade is a French literary prize created in 2001, sometimes called the Sade Prize in English, as an homage to the marquis de Sade.

References

  1. Temple, Michael (19 April 2018). Jean Vigo. Manchester University Press. ISBN   9780719056321 . Retrieved 19 April 2018 via Google Books.
  2. "L'Histoire du prix/Le Palmarès". Prix Jean Vigo. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  3. ""Enorme" de Sophie Letourneur remporte le Prix Jean-Vigo". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  4. AlloCine. "Prix Jean-Vigo 2018 : Un Couteau dans le coeur et Shéhérazade ex-aequo: Jean-François Stévenin, Vigo d'honneur". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  5. 1 2 "Damien Odoul et Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun, prix Jean Vigo 2015". Télérama . 5 June 2015.
  6. Vandeginste, Louise. ""Enorme" de Sophie Letourneur remporte le Prix Jean-Vigo". Les Inrockuptibles. Retrieved 2021-12-07.