Francois Truffaut was a French film director and critic who lived from 1932 to 1984, a founding figure of the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. He began as a critic for the journal Cahiers du Cinema before directing his autobiographical debut feature The 400 Blows in 1959, which won him the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His later films include Jules and Jim in 1962 and Day for Night in 1973, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Francois Truffaut, the same subject.
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1. Wikipedia: Francois Truffaut
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Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for the latter's Cahiers du Cinéma, where Truffaut became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.
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