Jean-Luc Godard's biography

Jean-Luc Godard is 92 years old film director born at Paris. He was born on Wednesday 3rd of December 1930. Jean-Luc is often nicknamed as JLG. According to year of birth 1930 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 3rd of December means he is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.He was married 2 times.

Jean-Luc is native french speaker. He is white french. He is citizen of France. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know Jean-Luc also as actor, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer, film editor, writer, film critic, television director, television producer. Jean-Luc is recently known as video artist.

Jean-Luc Godard's dad

Jean-Luc Godard's father's name is Paul Godard.

Jean-Luc Godard's mom

Jean-Luc Godard's mother's name is Odile Monod.

Jean-Luc Godard's family

Jean-Luc Godard's ex wifes

Anna Karina

Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina have been together since 1961 for 6 years. She is known as singer. Jean-Luc´s ex wife was born on Sunday 22nd of September 1940 in Copenhagen. His ex wife died on Saturday 14th of December 2019 in Paris. Anna Karina was 89 years old, when this happened.

Anne Wiazemsky

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky have been together since 1967 for 3 years. She is known as actor. Jean-Luc´s ex wife was born on Wednesday 14th of May 1947. His ex wife died on Thursday 5th of October 2017 in 15th arrondissement of Paris. Anne Wiazemsky was 87 years old, when this happened.

Jean-Luc Godard's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: University of Paris.

Jean-Luc Godard's career

His main focus is to be film director. He is famous thanks to Á bout de souffle. Jean-Luc is also a member of Dziga Vertov Group.

Is Jean-Luc Godard gay ?

Jean-Luc is known to be straight.

How did Jean-Luc Godard die

Jean-Luc died on on Tuesday 13th of September 2022 when he was 92 years old. Jean-Luc Godards death was caused by assisted suicide.

Awards and competitions

Jean-Luc Godard's Awards

He received award for Sutherland Trophy for work Pierrot le Fou in 1965
Jean-Luc received award for Golden Lion for work First Name: Carmen in 1983
Jean-Luc received award for Louis Delluc Prize for work Keep Your Right Up in 1987
He received award for Jury Prize for work Goodbye to Language in 2014
He received award for Golden Bear for work Alphaville in 1965
He received award for Silver Bear for Best Director for work Breathless in 1960
Jean-Luc received award for Silver Lion for work My Life to Live in 1962
He received award for Palme d'Or for work The Image Book in 2018

Jean-Luc Godard's Nominations

Jean-Luc was nominated for National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director for work Every Man for Himself in 1980
Jean-Luc was nominated for César Award for Best Director for work Every Man for Himself in 1981
Jean-Luc was nominated for César Award for Best Film for work Every Man for Himself in 1981
He was nominated for César Award for Best Director for work Passion in 1983
Jean-Luc was nominated for César Award for Best Film for work Passion in 1983
Jean-Luc was nominated for César Award for Best French-Speaking Film for work Hail Mary in 1986
He was nominated for Jury Prize for work Goodbye to Language in 2014
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Composer for work Nouvelle Vague in 1990
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for work Notre musique in 2004

Jean-Luc Godard's quotes

I make film to make time pass.
I don't think you should FEEL about a movie. You should feel about a woman. You can't kiss a movie.
Tracking shots are a question of morality.
[on Los Angeles] It's a big garage.
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
Every edit is a lie.
What I want above all is to destroy the idea of culture. Culture is an alibi of imperialism. There is a Ministry of War. There is a Ministry of Culture. Therefore, culture is war.
I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I'm still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of 'Cahiers du Cinema.' The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
[at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival about filmmaker Michael Moore] Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
It's over. There was a time maybe when cinema could have improved society, but that time was missed.
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me.
You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
In order to criticize a movie, you have to make another movie.
[in Paris, 10/18/66] Until I am paid on par with Henri-Georges Clouzot, Federico Fellini and RenÃ© ClÃ©ment, I cannot consider myself to be a success.
[on Kenji Mizoguchi] The greatest of Japanese filmmakers. Or, quite simply, one of the greatest of filmmakers.
In my cinema, there are never any intentions. It's not me inventing this empty auditorium. I don't want to say anything, I try to show, or to get feeling across, or to allow something else to be said after the fact.
Cinema begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
[on Quentin Tarantino] Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He'd have done better to give me some money.
[on Steven Spielberg] I don't know him personally. I don't think his films are very good.
A film should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
Bresson [Robert Bresson] is to French cinema what Mozart [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] is to German music and Dostoyevsky [Fyodor Dostoevsky] is to Russian literature.
[on Orson Welles] All of us will always owe him everything.
If the cinema no longer existed, Nicholas Ray alone gives the impression of being capable of reinventing it, and, what is more, of wanting to.
To me, thinking about films and making them is no different.
Pernaps the most interesting thing with video is that you can grab the camera easily. But if you can grab the camera easily, maybe you can put it down more easily too and think about it better.
The cinema should consist not so much in showing what's happening. Films should show what is not happening. [May 2018]
When you produce an image, be it of the past, the present or the future, you have to do away with two images each time to find the really good one. [May 2018]
Americans don't have critics. For me, there are only two, James Agee and Manny Farber. The rest are reviewers.
If I don't particularly like Foucault, it's because of his saying "At such and such a period they thought..." That's fine with me, but how can we be so sure?
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body-both go together, they can't be separated.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
In the temple of cinema, there are images, light and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple.
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Jean-Luc Godard's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Jean-Luc Godard looks. We will focus on Jean-Luc´s height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. Jean-Luc is tall as 5' 7" (170 cm). He weights 150lbs (68 kg). Body build is normal. His eyes are tinted brown - dark. His hair is shade of grey.

Jean-Luc Godard