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Prix Jean Vigo

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The Prix Jean Vigo (French pronunciation: [pʁi ʒɑ̃ viɡo]) 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.

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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

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1950s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
1951 La Montagne est verte Jean Leherissey short
1952 La Grande Vie Henri Schneider
1953 White Mane Crin Blanc Albert Lamorisse short
1954 Statues Also Die Les statues meurent aussi Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet
1955 Émile Zola Jean Vidal
1956 Night and Fog Nuit et Brouillard Alain Resnais
1957 Léon la lune Alain Jessua
1958 Les Femmes de Stermetz Louis Grospierre
1959 Le Beau Serge Claude Chabrol

1960s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s)
1960 Breathless À bout de souffle Jean-Luc Godard
1961 La Peau et les os Jean-Paul Sassy and Jacques Panuel
1962 War of the Buttons La Guerre des boutons Yves Robert
1963 To Die in Madrid Mourir à Madrid Frédéric Rossif
1964 La Belle Vie Robert Enrico
1965 Not awarded
1966 Black Girl La Noire de... Ousmane Sembène
1967 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? William Klein
1968 O Salto Christian de Chalonge
1969 Naked Childhood L'Enfance nue Maurice Pialat

1970s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
1970 Hoa Binh Hòa Bình Raoul Coutard
1971 Ramparts of Clay Remparts d'argile Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
1972 Continental Circus Jérôme Laperroussaz
1973 Repeated Absences Absences répétées Guy Gilles
1974 The Man Who Sleeps Un homme qui dort Bernard Queyssanne and Georges Perec
1975 The Story of Paul Histoire de Paul René Féret
1976 L'Affiche rouge Frank Cassenti
1977 Paradiso Christian Bricout
1978 Bako-l'autre rive Jacques Champreux
1979 Certaines nouvelles Jacques Davila

1980s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
1980 Ma blonde entends-tu dans la ville? René Gilson
1981 Le Jardinier Jean-Pierre Sentier
1982 L'Enfant Secret Philippe Garrel
1983 Not Awarded
1984 Vive la sociale! Gérard Mordillat
1985 Tea in the Harem Le Thé au harem d'Archimède Mehdi Charef
1986 Maine-Ocean Express Jacques Rozier
1987 Buisson ardent Laurent Perrin
1988 La Comédie du travail Luc Moullet
1989 Chine ma douleur Dai Sijie

1990s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
1990 Mona et moi Patrick Grandperret
1991 Le Brasier Éric Barbier
1992 Paris Awakens Paris s'éveille Olivier Assayas
1993 Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général Anne Fontaine
1994 Trop de bonheur Cédric Kahn
1995 Don't Forget You're Going to Die N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir Xavier Beauvois
1996 Encore Pascal Bonitzer
1997 La Vie de Jésus Bruno Dumont
1998 Tell Me I'm Dreaming Claude Mouriéras
1999 La vie ne me fait pas peur Noémie Lvoski

2000s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
2000 The King's Daughters Saint-Cyr Patricia Mazuy
De l'histoire ancienne Orso Miret
2001 Candidature Emmanuel Bourdieu
That Old Dream That Moves Ce vieux rêve qui bouge Alain Guiraudie
2002 Royal Bonbon Charles Najman
2003 Toutes ces belles promesses Jean-Paul Civeyrac
2004 Quand je serai star Patrick Mimouni
2005 Les Yeux clairs Jérôme Bonnell
2006 Le Dernier des fous Laurent Achard
2007 La France Serge Bozon
2008 Nulle part, terre promise Emmanuel Finkiel
2009 Family Tree L'Arbre et la Forêt Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

2010s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
2010 Love Like Poison Un poison violent Katell Quillévéré
2011 Smugglers' Songs Les Chants de Mandrin Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
2012 L'Âge atomique Héléna Klotz
2013 L'Enclos du temps Jean-Charles Fitoussi
2014 Mange tes morts Jean-Charles Hue
2015 The Fear La Peur Damien Odoul [5]
2016 The Death of Louis XIV La Mort de Louis XIV Albert Serra
2017 Barbara Mathieu Amalric
2018 Shéhérazade Jean-Bernard Marlin
Knife+Heart Un couteau dans le cœur Yann Gonzalez
2019 Vif-Argent Stéphane Batut

2020s

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Year English Title Original Title Director(s) Notes
2020 Énorme Sophie Letourneur [6]
2021 Petite Solange Axelle Ropert
2022 Saint Omer Alice Diop
2023 La Rivière Dominique Marchais
2024 Holy Cow Vingt Dieux Louise Courvoisier

Short film

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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2020s

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Award in Spain

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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.

References

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  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. ^ a b "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.
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