Jean-Luc Godard
Born in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard became acquainted, while at university, with Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, forming part of a group of passionate young film critics writing in Cahiers du Cinéma, and film-makers devoted to exploring new possibilities in cinema. A bout de souffle (Breathless) (1959) was his first feature. Made on a shoe-string budget, it was spontaneous, vibrant and ground breakingly original. From then until 1967/8 was loosely his first period when he made an astonishing number of films, sometimes 3 a year. From 68 Godard was very involved in political film-making, and then made a series of programmes for French TV in the mid and late 70’s. With Sauve qui peut (la vie) or Slow Motion, Godard could be said to start a 3rd period through the 80’s. In the 90’s he started more formal experimentation, specifically with his long series Histoire(s) du Cinéma. His films have influenced film-makers as diverse as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Wong Kar-Wai. His latest film, Film Socialisme, received its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) to great acclaim. Jean-Luc Godard was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2010.
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- Born:
- Dec 3, 1930 In Paris, France
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 110
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Le quadrille 1950-08-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Identidade 2026-04-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Identidade | Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo) | 2026-04-01 |
| Movie | From Darkness to Light | Self (archive footage) | 2025-04-20 |
| Movie | Death | Self (voice) | 2024-11-23 |
| Movie | Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars | Self/Narrator | 2023-12-15 |
| Movie | Full Metal Kuleshov Effect | Self | 2023-01-01 |
| Movie | The Sparks Brothers | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-06-18 |
| Movie | Anna Karina, Remember | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2020-06-13 |
| Movie | Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-07 |
| Movie | Mireille Darc, la femme libre | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-24 |
| Movie | Film catastrophe | Self | 2018-10-30 |
| Movie | Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure | Self (archive footage) | 2018-12-25 |
| Movie | Faces Places | Self | 2017-06-28 |
| Movie | Belmondo, le magnifique | Self (archive footage) | 2017-09-03 |
| Movie | Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture | Self (archive footage) | 2016-05-12 |
| Movie | A German Youth | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-15 |
| Movie | Hitchcock/Truffaut | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-09-05 |
| Movie | Goodbye to Language | Narrator (voice) | 2014-08-15 |
| Movie | Carottage | self | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
| Movie | Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais | Self | 2011-04-07 |
| Movie | La rouge et la noire | Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited) | 2011-06-08 |
| Movie | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Accomplice | Self (archive footage) | 2010-04-22 |
| Movie | Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings | Self | 2010-02-18 |
| Movie | Two in the Wave | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-19 |
| Movie | Memória Cubana | Self (archive footage) | 2010-09-27 |
| Movie | Brunes et Blondes | Self | 2010-10-06 |
| Movie | JLG\PG | Self | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time… Contempt | Self | 2009-05-21 |
| Movie | On the Trail of the New Wave | Self (archive footage) | 2009-03-14 |
| Movie | Back to Room 666 | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-02 |
| Movie | Four Short Films | Self - Narrator | 2006-03-06 |
| Movie | Filmmakers in Action | Self (archive footage) | 2006-09-15 |
| Movie | I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth | Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Mag Bodard, un destin | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-01 |
| Movie | Notre Musique | Self | 2004-11-24 |
| Movie | Marguerite as She Was | Self (archive footage) | 2003-04-04 |
| Movie | Heart of the Festival | Self (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi | Self (archive footage) | 2000-02-26 |
| Movie | Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas | Self | 2000-04-02 |
| Movie | After the Reconciliation | Robert | 2000-12-27 |
| Movie | Godard on TV: 1960-2000 | Self (archive footage) | 1999-12-06 |
| Movie | Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema | Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) | 1997-05-07 |
| Movie | Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths | Self | 1997-02-22 |
| Movie | We're All Still Here | The Actor | 1997-03-19 |
| Movie | For Ever Mozart | Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited) | 1996-11-27 |
| Movie | JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December | Self (uncredited) | 1995-03-08 |
| Movie | Moving Pictures | Self | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 1993-05-27 |
| Movie | The Darty Report | Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robot | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | King Lear | Professor Pluggy | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | Keep Your Right Up | Idiot / Prince | 1987-12-30 |
| Movie | Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company | Self (uncredited) | 1986-08-28 |
| Movie | Meetin' WA | Self | 1986-04-23 |
| Movie | Godard / Sollers : L’entretien | Self | 1985-04-17 |
| Movie | Soft and Hard | Self | 1985-08-12 |
| Movie | First Name: Carmen | Uncle Jeannot (uncredited) | 1983-12-01 |
| Movie | Room 666 | Self | 1982-06-02 |
| Movie | Cinématon XI | N°106 | 1981-05-14 |
| Movie | Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) | Self | 1981-02-03 |
| Movie | Reporters | Self | 1981-06-10 |
| Series | France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children | Robert Linard (uncredited) | 1979-01-01 |
| Movie | ORG | Self (archive footage) | 1979-08-31 |
| Movie | How's It Going? | Union Member (voice) | 1978-04-26 |
| Movie | Cinématon | N°106 | 1978-12-20 |
| Movie | Little Godard | Guest | 1978-06-08 |
| Movie | Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication | Self | 1976-03-12 |
| Movie | Here and Elsewhere | Narrator (voice) | 1976-09-15 |
| Movie | Number Two | Self (uncredited) | 1975-09-24 |
| Movie | Né | Self | 1975-11-05 |
| Movie | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | 1 P.M. | Self | 1971-06-08 |
| Movie | Vladimir and Rosa | Vladimir Lenin (uncredited) | 1971-04-16 |
| Movie | Godard in America | Self | 1970-01-01 |
| Movie | Wind from the East | Self (uncredited) | 1970-08-19 |
| Movie | Pravda | (voice) | 1970-05-21 |
| Movie | Willing | Self (uncredited) | 1969-03-10 |
| Movie | Le Gai Savoir | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1969-07-12 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur and the Baby | Self | 1967-03-15 |
| Movie | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Narrator (voice) | 1967-03-17 |
| Movie | Made in U.S.A | Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited) | 1967-01-27 |
| Movie | Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 | Self | 1967-05-30 |
| Movie | Far from Vietnam | Self (segment "Camera Eye") | 1967-10-18 |
| Movie | Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson | Self | 1966-05-11 |
| Movie | The Defector | Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited) | 1966-10-19 |
| Movie | Carl Th. Dreyer | Self (uncredited) | 1966-11-14 |
| Movie | La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même | Self | 1964-05-19 |
| Movie | The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers | Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited) | 1964-08-14 |
| Movie | Band of Outsiders | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1964-08-05 |
| Movie | The Married Woman | The Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1964-12-04 |
| Movie | Paparazzi | Self | 1964-09-22 |
| Movie | Le Petit Soldat | Man at Railway Station (uncredited) | 1963-01-25 |
| Movie | The Lovely Month of May | Self (uncredited) | 1963-05-03 |
| Movie | Scheherazade | Handwalker | 1963-05-10 |
| Movie | Contempt | Lang's Assistant Director | 1963-10-29 |
| Movie | Cléo from 5 to 7 | The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film | 1962-04-11 |
| Movie | Petit Jour | Self | 1962-01-01 |
| Movie | Fiancés on the Bridge | Man with the Black Glasses | 1962-04-11 |
| Movie | Vivre Sa Vie | The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited) | 1962-09-20 |
| Movie | Sun in Your Eyes | 1962-06-22 | |
| Movie | Sign of the Lion | Le Mélomane (uncredited) | 1962-05-03 |
| Movie | Paris Belongs to Us | Hans Lucas | 1961-12-13 |
| Movie | Breathless | The Snitch | 1960-03-16 |
| Movie | The 400 Blows | (voice)(uncredited) | 1959-06-03 |
| Movie | Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Jules (voice) (uncredited) | 1958-12-31 |
| Movie | Fool’s Mate | Party guest (uncredited) | 1956-11-01 |
| Movie | The Kreutzer Sonata | Ami Journaliste | 1956-01-01 |
| Series | Cinépanorama | 1956-02-04 | |
| Movie | Le quadrille | Self | 1950-08-24 |
| Movie | The Glass Castle | Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited) | 1950-12-16 |