Olivier Assayas

DirectorWriterActorProducerCrew Jan 25 (age 71) Paris, France 1977–2026 (49 year career)

5.9 avg rating

Biography

Olivier Assayas (French: [ɔlivje asajas]; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, and comedies. He has directed French, Spanish, and English-language films with international casts. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. There he wrote about world cinema and its film auteurs, who…

Known For

Film

Paris Je T'aime

Director

Film

Clouds of Sils Maria

Director

Film

Personal Shopper

Dialogue

Film

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Self

Film

Carlos

Director

Film

Irma Vep

Director

Film

Wasp Network

Director

Film

Based on a True Story

Screenplay

Filmography

Acting (25)

Movies (24)

Suspended Time

2024

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

4.9

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

as Self - Filmmaker

Room 999

as Self

Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be

2023

as Self

7.8

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

2023

as Self

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

as Self - Filmmaker

Corona Film Club

as Self

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

2019

as Self - Filmmaker

7.0

Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais

2019

as Self - director, critique

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

2019

as Self

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

as Self - Filmmaker

Aware, Anywhere

as Himself

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

2016

as Self

7.5

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

2016

as Self - Movie Director

1.0

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015

as Self

7.2

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014

as Self

7.2

Professor Goudet's Lessons

2013

as Self

A Special Day

2012

as Self

6.0

Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »

2011

as Self (cinéaste)

… But Film Is My Mistress

2010

as Self

6.2

Inventory

2008

as Interviewee

In the Mood for Doyle

2007

as Himself

4.0

Making of 'Demonlover'

2003

as Self

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

1993

as Self

5.1

Television (1)

Quotidien

2016

as Self - Guest

5.5

Crew (83)

Movies (77)

The Wizard of the Kremlin

2026

Director

6.4

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Writer

Suspended Time

Director

Suspended Time

Producer

Suspended Time

Screenplay

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

Thanks

Passages

Thanks

The Emma Bovary Trial

Thanks

Bergman Island

Thanks

Wasp Network

Director

Wasp Network

Screenplay

Non-Fiction

Director

Non-Fiction

Writer

Based on a True Story

Screenplay

Personal Shopper

Dialogue

Personal Shopper

Director

Personal Shopper

Screenplay

Clouds of Sils Maria

Director

Clouds of Sils Maria

Writer

Something in the Air

Director

Something in the Air

Writer

Carlos

Director

Carlos

Screenplay

Summer Hours

Director

Summer Hours

Writer

Eldorado

Director

Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance

2008

Director

Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance

2008

Writer

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

Director

6.5

To Each His Own Cinema

Writer

Boarding Gate

Director

Boarding Gate

Writer

Paris Je T'aime

Director

Paris Je T'aime

Writer

Noise

Director

Noise

Director of Photography

4.8

Quartier des Enfants-Rouges

2006

Director

Quartier des Enfants-Rouges

2006

Writer

Clean

Director

Clean

Writer

Demonlover

Director

Demonlover

Writer

Sentimental Destinies

2000

Director

5.5

Sentimental Destinies

2000

Screenplay

5.5

Late August, Early September

1999

Director

5.9

Late August, Early September

1999

Writer

5.9

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1999

Director

7.8

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Screenplay

Alice and Martin

Writer

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

Director

Irma Vep

Director

Irma Vep

Writer

La page blanche

Director

La page blanche

1995

Writer

Cold Water

Director

Cold Water

Writer

A New Life

Director

A New Life

Screenplay

Paris Awakens

Director

Paris Awakens

Writer

Lovely Child

Writer

Winter's Child

Director

Winter's Child

Writer

Broken April

Writer

Scene of the Crime

Screenplay

Disorder

Director

Disorder

Writer

L'Unique

Writer

Rendez-vous

Dialogue

Rendez-vous

Screenplay

Secret Passage

Writer

Winston Tong In Studio

1984

Director

3.0

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

1982

Director

4.2

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

1982

Screenplay

4.2

Scopitone

1980

Writer

Nuit féline

1978

Writer

The Prince and the Pauper

1977

Third Assistant Director

5.9

Television (6)

Irma Vep

Director

Irma Vep

Executive Producer

Irma Vep

Writer

Carlos

Director

Carlos

Script Editor

All the Boys and Girls of Their Time

1994

Director

4.0