Jean-Jacques Annaud

Known for DirectingBorn 1943-10-01 (age 82)Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France

Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne. He was educated at the technical school in Vaugirard and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own military service in Cameroon. The film won an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. His third film Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu) received two Césars for best film and best director. In 1986 he directed The Name of the Rose, a film adaptation of Umberto Eco's popular novel of the same name. The film version, with a screenplay written by Andrew Birkin, won two BAFTA Film Awards and was the subject of another 14 wins & two nominations. Jean-Jacques Annaud spent four years preparing for the film, traveling throughout the United States as well as Europe, searching for the perfect cast and film set locations. He supposedly felt personally intrigued by the project, among other things because of a lifelong fascination with medieval churches and a great familiarity with Latin and Greek.[citation needed] For Seven Years in Tibet, a film adaptation of the life of Heinrich Harrer, he has received a lifelong denial of entry to China, as have starring actors Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. In 2000 he wrote and produced Running Free directed by Sergei Bodrov. He also directed the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates, detailing the exploits of Vassili Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad. His latest work was filmed in the year 2006, a film known by the name His Majesty Minor, which was filmed in Benitatxell and Benigembla, basically in the district of the Marina Alta, which is located in the Valencian Community. Annaud's next project will be the film adaptation of the award-winning best-selling Chinese novel Wolf Totem.Read more

Movies & web series

Der Bernd

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

Spécial cinéma

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

Le Grand Échiquier

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

Enemy at the Gates

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

The Name of the Rose

Seven Years in Tibet

Two Brothers

The Bear

The Lover

Hothead

Notre-Dame on Fire

Quest for Fire

Wings of Courage

Wolf Totem

La rosa dei nomi

Champs-Elysées

Black Gold

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Too Shy to Try

Black and White in Color

Nulle part ailleurs

Running Free

À propos de 'La guerre du feu'

La Traversée du désir

German Film Award

The King of Ads

Vivement dimanche

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

His Majesty Minor

A Look Through His Lens

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

Photo Video Journey with Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Making of The Lover

Pictures of Europe