Michel Hazanavicius
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Hazanavicius at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born |
29 March 1967 Paris |
| Residence |
Paris, France Los Angeles, United States |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Bérénice Bejo |
| Children | four |
| Awards |
Academy Award for Best Director and other see awards |
Academy Award for Best Director
BAFTA for Best Director
César Award for Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius (French pronunciation: [mi.ʃɛl a.za.na.vi.sjys]; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parodies OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009).
Hazanavicius was born in Paris. His family is Jewish, and originally from Lithuania. His grandparents settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988. He began directing commercials for companies such as Reebok and Bouygues Telecom, and then, in 1993, he made his first feature-length film, La Classe américaine, for television. The film, co-directed with Dominique Mézerette, consisted entirely of footage taken from various films produced by the Warner Bros. studio, re-edited and dubbed into French. In 1997, Hazanavicius directed his first short film, Echec au capital, and followed it up with his first theatrically released feature, Mes amis, which starred his brother, actor Serge Hazanavicius.
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