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Alexandre Astruc is a French film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He is best known for his influential essay "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: The Camera-Stylo" (1948), which argued for a new form of cinema based on the synthesis of writing and image. He is also known for his films, including the award-winning The Red Balloon (1956) and The Blood of a Poet (1960). Astruc was born in Paris in 1923. He studied at the Sorbonne and the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. He began his career as a film critic, writing for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. In 1948, he wrote his influential essay "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: The Camera-Stylo", which argued for a new form of cinema based on the synthesis of writing and image. Astruc began directing films in the 1950s. His first feature film, The Red Balloon (1956), won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His other films include The Blood of a Poet (1960), The Little Soldier (1963), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). Astruc has also written several books, including The Technique of Film Editing (1953) and The Technique of Film Directing (1956). He has also written several plays and television scripts. Astruc has been awarded numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor, the Order of Arts and Letters, and the Prix Louis Delluc. He is a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Popular As Alexandre Auguste Astruc
Occupation director,writer,actor
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 13 July, 1923
Birthday 13 July
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 19 May, 2016
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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1994

He received in 1994 the René-Clair prize of the Académie française for his career.

1945

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 75-78. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

1923

Born in Paris on July 13th 1923, Alexandre Astruc is the son of a couple of journalists. Very good at school, he attended a preparatory school for Polytechnique but finally became both a law and an arts graduate. First a literary critic, he soon specialized as a film critic and worked for various papers and magazines such as "Combat", "La Gazette du Cinéma", "L'Ecran français", "La Nef", "Ciné-Digest", "Les Cahiers du Cinéma".