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Directing

Arnaud Desplechin

Career: Active from 1983 to 2025, busiest in 2021 and 2025 with 3 main titles each.

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: In Treatment
81/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

César Awards · Best Director
2016 · Won
My Golden Years
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Film
2014 · Nominated
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Director
2014 · Nominated
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Adaptation
2014 · Nominated
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Original Screenplay
2009 · Nominated
A Christmas Tale
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Director
2009 · Nominated
A Christmas Tale
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Film
2009 · Nominated
A Christmas Tale
Source: Wikidata
Critics' Choice Awards · Best Foreign Language Film
2008 · Nominated
A Christmas Tale
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Director
2005 · Nominated
Kings and Queen
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Film
2005 · Nominated
Kings and Queen
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation
2005 · Nominated
Kings and Queen
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best First Film
1993 · Nominated
The Sentinel
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation
1993 · Nominated
The Sentinel
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 16 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Arnaud Desplechin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.4, average 4.8
Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Physical Comedy
1.0, average 2.4
Crime
2.2, average 3.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Complex Relationships 4
Character Study 3
European Cinema 3
French Drama 3
French Cinema 3
Psychological Depth 2
Melancholy Tone 2
Existential Crisis 2
Intimate 2
Melancholy 2
Thought-Provoking 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

36

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

The Thing That Hurts

Writer, Director

2020s

7 titles · average score 59

Late Fame

69

Thanks

Two Pianos

68

Director, Scenario Writer

Filmlovers!

64

as Le narrateur

Le Soulier de Satin

Director

Brother and Sister

49

Writer, Director

Deception

47

Screenplay, Director

Angels in America

Director, Writer

2010s

10 titles · average score 65

Oh Mercy

60

Screenplay, Dialogue

Diane

78

Thanks

Ismael's Ghosts

56

Director, Writer

My Golden Days

76

Director, Screenplay

Les Jours venus

as Participant scène de l'enterrement

The Forest

Director, Adaptation

Jimmy P.

54

Writer, Director

Claude Lanzmann "On Shoah": A Conversation with Serge Toubiana

Thanks

Soixante minutes de paroles pour le Japon

Director

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!

Co-Director

2000s

7 titles · average score 68

A Christmas Tale

77

Director, Writer

Choosing Love

as Narrator

The Beloved

Director

Le Cercle

TV show

Kings & Queen

81

Writer, Director

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

66

Director, Producer

Esther Kahn

48

Writer, Director

1990s

4 titles · average score 65

We, France's Undocumented Immigrants

Co-Director

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

64

Writer, Director

The Sentinel

66

Scenario Writer, Director

The Life of the Dead

65

Director, Writer

1980s

7 titles · average score 70

Love Without Pity

69

Writer

Présence féminine

Director of Photography

The Photograph

71

Director of Photography

French Lovers

Director of Photography

Comme les doigts de la main

Director of Photography

Le Couronnement du monde

Director

Le Polichinelle et la Machine à coder

Director