Gilles Jacob
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday22 June 1930 (96 years old)
Place of birthParis, France
Known credits25
Biography
Gilles Jacob (born 22 June 1930) is a French film critic and essayist, who served as president of the Cannes Film Festival between 2001 and 2014. Born in Paris, the son of an entrepreneur, Jacob studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, having Claude Chabrol as a schoolmate. At 17 years old he co-founded a short-lived cinema magazine, Raccords. He then collaborated as a film critic and journalist with several publications, including Cinéma, Les Nouvelles littéraires and L'Express. In 1976 he was named deputy delegate general of the Cannes Film Festival, before becoming delegate general in 1978, a…
Thanks for Coming
2026 · Self
Citizen B
2025 · Self
Kiarostami at Work
2023 · Self
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Deauville et le rêve américain
2020 · Self
The Legend of the Ugly King
2017 · Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Self
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016 · Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014 · Self
Mr. X
2014 · Self
A Special Day
2012 · Director
100 Films and a Funeral
2007 · Self
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Producer
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
2007 · Producer
Words in Progress
2004 · Director
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
Femme Fatale
2002 · Cannes Film Festival Participant
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Director
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Producer
Dead Tired
1994 · Gilles Jacob
Liberté
1989 · Director
Le cinéma dans les yeux
1987 · Director
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
1985 · Scenario Writer
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
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