Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius began his career on TV with La Classe Américaine. His career took a step forward in 2006 with the offbeat spy film OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, carried by Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, and three years later OSS 117: Lost in Rio.

He reached international fame with The Artist. The film was unanimously praised around the world. Ultimate consecration, it received 5 Oscars including Best Film, and remains to this day the only French production to have won it.

In 2014, the filmmaker switches to a different tone with the drama The Search then three years later Godard Mon Amour, a biopic on Jean-Luc Godard.

In 2019, he released The Lost Prince, a colorful fairy tale carried by Omar Sy. His latest production Z (comme Z), remake of the Japanese film One cut of the dead by Shinichiro Ueda will be released soon, starring Romain Duris.

Michel was president of the feature film jury in 2021.