Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson | |
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Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1966–present |
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
Thompson has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot, and Jet Lag, which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film, Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father,[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.[2]
In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case[1]
In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot in signing the petition in support of Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities.[2]
Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings.[3]
Filmography
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1966 | La Grande Vadrouille | Writer | |
1969 | The Brain | ||
1971 | Delusions of Grandeur | ||
1973 | The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | ||
1975 | Cousin Cousine | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated - César Award for Best Writing | |
1978 | La Carapate | Writer & Soundtrack | |
Va voir maman, papa travaille | Writer | ||
Claudine | TV series (3 episodes) | ||
1980 | The Umbrella Coup | ||
La Boum | |||
Petit déjeuner compris | TV Mini-Series | ||
1982 | Ace of Aces | ||
La Boum 2 | |||
1984 | The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent | ||
1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Writer & Soundtrack | TV Mini-Series |
1987 | Malady of Love | Writer | |
Lévy et Goliath | |||
1988 | L'Étudiante | ||
1989 | Vanille fraise | ||
1991 | La neige et le feu | ||
1992 | La femme de l'amant | TV movie | |
1992–present | Une famille formidable | Creator & Writer | TV series (12 episodes) |
1993 | Les marmottes | Writer | |
1994 | La Reine Margot | Nominated - César Award for Best Writing | |
1997 | Le Rouge et Le Noir | TV movie | |
Des gens si bien élevés | TV movie | ||
1998 | Paparazzi | ||
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | Nominated - César Award for Best Writing | ||
1999 | Season's Beatings | Director & writer | Lumières Award for Best Screenplay Nominated - César Award for Best First Feature Film Nominated - César Award for Best Writing |
Belle maman | Writer & Soundtrack | ||
2000 | La bicyclette bleue | Writer | TV Mini-Series |
2001 | Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre | ||
2002 | Jet Lag | Director & writer | |
2004 | The Giraffe's Neck | Writer | |
2006 | Avenue Montaigne | Director & writer | Nominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated - Globe de Cristal for Best Film |
Les grandes occasions | Writer | TV movie | |
2009 | Change of Plans | Director & writer | |
2013 | Des gens qui s'embrassent | ||
2016 | Cézanne and I |
References
[edit]- ^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !". La Règle du jeu (in French). 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ "Polanski : La pétition". 7 June 2010.
- ^ Janis L. Pallister; Ruth A. Hottell (2005). Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-8386-4046-3. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
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