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Agnès Varda Biography

Birth Name:Arlette Varda

Birth Place:Brussels, Belgium

Profession Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Soundtrack, Cinematographer, Actress, Music department, Sound department

Fast Facts

  • Has received the Berlin Film Festival Berlinale Camera Award
  • Was the first female director to receive the Academy Awards' Governors Award
  • Got married to filmmaker Jacques Demy in 1962
  • Well known for her contributions to French New Wave films

Awards

  • 1962Palme d'Or-: nominated
  • 1963Critics Award-Best Film: winner
  • 1964Prix Louis Delluc-: winner
  • 1965Silver Berlin Bear-Special Prize of the Jury: winner
  • 1965Interfilm Award - Recommendation-: winner
  • 1965Golden Berlin Bear-: nominated
  • 1965Top 10 Film Award-Best Film: nominated
  • 1966Golden Lion-: nominated
  • 1969Kinema Junpo Award-Best Foreign Language Film: nominated
  • 1977César-Best Short Film - Documentary (Meilleur court-métrage documentaire): nominated
  • 1977Golden Charybdis-: winner
  • 1981Un Certain Regard Award-: nominated
  • 1981Gold Hugo-Best Feature: nominated
  • 1981Gold Hugo-Best Feature: nominated
  • 1981Josef von Sternberg Award-: winner
  • 1985Golden Lion-: winner
  • 1985FIPRESCI Prize-Competition: winner
  • 1985OCIC Award-: winner
  • 1986César-Best Film (Meilleur film): nominated
  • 1986César-Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur): nominated
  • 1986Critics Award-Best Film: winner
  • 1986LAFCA Award-Best Foreign Film: winner
  • 1988Golden Berlin Bear-: nominated
  • 1993Un Certain Regard Award-: nominated
  • 1995Golden Berlin Bear-: nominated
  • 2000Gold Hugo-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2000European Film Award-European Documentary: winner
  • 2000Public's Choice Award-: winner
  • 2000Reader Jury of the "Standard"-: winner
  • 2001Critics Award-Best Film: winner
  • 2001LAFCA Award-Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: winner
  • 2001Best Film Award-: winner
  • 2001Insight Award-: winner
  • 2002OFTA Film Award-Best Documentary Picture: nominated
  • 2008CPH:DOX Award-: nominated
  • 2008Queer Lion Award-: nominated
  • 2009EDA Female Focus Award-Perseverance Award: winner
  • 2009Audience Award-: winner
  • 2009César-Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire): winner
  • 2009European Film Award-European Documentary: nominated
  • 2009Critics Award-Best Film: winner
  • 2009LAFCA Award-Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: winner
  • 2009WFCC Award-Best Documentary by or About Women: winner
  • 2009Étoile d'Or-Best Documentary (Documentaire): winner
  • 2010Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Direction: winner
  • 2010DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: nominated
  • 2011Silver Condor-Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera): winner
  • 2015Cinema Eye Honors Award-The Influentials: winner
  • 2016Cinema Eye Honors Award-The Influentials: winner
  • 2017International Documentary Award-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Grierson Award-Documentary Film: nominated
  • 2017Golden Eye-: winner
  • 2017CIFCC Award-Best Documentary Film: winner
  • 2017Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2017Maysles Brothers Award-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Golden Anchor Award-Best Film: winner
  • 2017IDA Award-Best Feature Documentary: nominated
  • 2017People's Choice Award-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Audience Award-Mind the Gap: winner
  • 2017SFCS Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
  • 2017Audience Award-Best Foreign Documentary: winner
  • 2017People's Choice Award-Documentary: winner
  • 2017Most Popular International Documentary Film-Documentary: winner
  • 2017VVFP Award-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2018Oscar-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2018EDA Special Mention Award-Actress Defying Age and Ageism: winner
  • 2018EDA Female Focus Award-Best Woman Director: nominated
  • 2018Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: nominated
  • 2018Cinema Eye Honors Award-The Unforgettables: winner
  • 2018Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize-: nominated
  • 2018Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 2018César-Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire): nominated
  • 2018Independent Spirit Award-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2018Gold Derby Film Award-Documentary Feature: winner
  • 2018INOCA-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2018Lumiere Award-Best Documentary (Meilleur documentaire): winner
  • 2018Master of Art-Best Film: winner
  • 2018NSFC Award-Best Non-Fiction Film: winner
  • 2018NSFC Award-Best Foreign Language Film: nominated
  • 2018OFTA Film Award-Best Documentary Picture: winner
  • 2019Silver Condor-Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera): nominated
  • 2019Gaudí Award-Best European Film (Millor Pel·lícula Europea): nominated
  • 2019Gopo Award-Best European Film (Cel mai bun film european): nominated
  • 2019Audience Award - Third Place-: winner
  • 2020Gold Derby Film Award-Documentary Feature of the Decade: nominated
  • 2020ICS Award-Best Documentary: nominated