Patrice Leconte

Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte in 2011
Born	(1947-11-12) 12 November 1947 Paris, France
Occupation	Film director, actor, screenwriter
Years active	1976–present

Patrice Leconte (French: [ləkɔ̃t]; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.

Life and career

Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote. He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with Monsieur Hire, which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as Ridicule and L'homme du train which have had success in the international arthouse market, and others, like fr, whose appeal has been limited to France.

In the 2000s, Patrice Leconte received more recognition in the United States with the successful United States releases of Girl on the Bridge, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers (Paramount Classics released three of these films in the United States). Ryan Mottesheard of IndieWIRE wrote: "you could even argue that no other foreign filmmaker (INCLUDING Pedro Almodóvar) has had as strong of an impact on United States arthouses."

An English language remake of Leconte's film Man on the Train was remade by an independent Hollywood studio in 2011, and two others are in 'development': Intimate Strangers and My Best Friend.

Patrice Leconte's film, The Suicide Shop, was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California, on April 28 and May 2, 2013.

Director

Year	Title	Box Office	Notes
1969	L'espace vital	/	Short
1971	Le laboratoire de l'angoisse	/	Short
1973	La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul)	/	Short
1976	Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur	$3,483,367
1978	French Fried Vacation	$17,314,830
1979	French Fried Vacation 2	$11,518,357
1981	Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine	$21,151,267	Nominated - Chicago International Film Festival - Best Feature
1982	Ma femme s'appelle reviens	$8,916,300
1983	Circulez y a rien à voir!	$8,133,292
1985	Les Spécialistes	$39,896,565
1987	Tandem	$4,483,185	Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1988	Sueurs froides	/	TV Series (1 Episode)
1989	Monsieur Hire	$5,980,540	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Prix Méliès - Best French Film Guldbagge Award - Best Foreign Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director
1990	The Hairdresser's Husband	$2,687,602	Louis Delluc Prize Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1991	Contre l'oubli	/	Segment "Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS"
1992	Le batteur du Boléro	/	Short Kraków Film Festival - Don Quixote Award
1993	Tango	$4,798,440
	The King of Ads	/	Documentary Segment "Pilote commercial"
1994	Le parfum d'Yvonne	$1,191,270
1995	Lumière and Company	/	Documentary Segment "La Ciotat 1996"
1996	Les Grands Ducs	$3,755,175
	Ridicule	$35,519,611	BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film Chicago International Film Festival - Best Film César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Director David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film London Film Critics' Circle Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year Lumières Award for Best Film National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Society of Texas Film Critics Award - Best Foreign Film Awards Circuit Community Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Film Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1998	Une chance sur deux	$7,926,075
1999	Girl on the Bridge	$11,171,846	Cinemania Film Festival - Audience Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Don Quijote Award - Special Mention Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Nominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Robert Festival - Best Non-American Film
2000	The Widow of Saint-Pierre	$12,990,288	Moscow International Film Festival - Russian Film Critics Award Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - American Film Institute - Grand Jury Prize Nominated - Film Critics Circle of Australia - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Moscow International Film Festival - Golden St. George
2001	Félix et Lola	$480,382	Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - Verona Love Screens Film Festival - Best Film
2002	Rue des plaisirs	$1,873,072
	The Man on the Train	$7,582,447	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Venice Film Festival - Audience Award - Best Film Seattle Film Critics Awards - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Nominated - Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film
2004	Intimate Strangers	$7,460,079	Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - Grand Prize
	Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux	/	Documentary
2006	French Fried Vacation 3	$83,897,719
	My Best Friend	$13,186,926	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best European Film
2007	Trac	/	Short
	Dix films pour en parler	/	Short
2008	Beauties at War	$3,016,611
2011	Voir la mer	$248,092	Nominated - Taormina International Film Festival - Golden Tauro
2012	The Suicide Shop	$2,229,885	Nominated - European Film Academy Young Audience Award
2013	A Promise	$385,486	Nominated - Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction
2014	Do Not Disturb	$7,551,502
2016	Mamie Loto		Pre-Production

Notes

• Lisa Downing, Patrice Leconte (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)

External links

• Patrice Leconte at the Internet Movie Database
• Patrice Leconte at Allmovie
• Short bio
• Interview with Patrice Leconte on The Widow of St. Pierre