Françoise Bonnot

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Françoise Bonnot (born August 17, 1939 in Bois-Colombes , France , † June 9, 2018 in Paris ) was a French film editor .

Life

Françoise Bonnot came from a cinema-related family. She was the daughter of the French editor Monique Bonnot , who edited several films for the director Jean-Pierre Melville . She was married to the French-Armenian director Henri Verneuil and their son Patrick Malakian is a French director. Her brother Alain Bonnot is also a director, for whom she edited A Dirty Affair in 1981 .

After assisting her mother Monique Bonnot in Two Men in Manhattan , a crime thriller by Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri Verneuil gave her the chance to independently edit the film three years later in A Monkey in Winter . For him she edited San Sebastian , Silent as the Night and The 25th Hour even under the name Françoise Bonnot-Verneuil.

She has worked with the Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras for over 30 years. Bonnot edited films for him such as Das Geständnis , Hanna K. and Mad City . With her first cut for Z , she received numerous international nominations and film awards, including the 1970 Oscar for Best Editing . In 1983 she received the BAFTA Award for Best Film Editing for the joint film Missing . She has also had a long-term collaboration with director Julie Taymor . She edited all of her feature films for Taymor, namely Titus , Frida , Across the Universe and, most recently, The Tempest .

Françoise Bonnot was a member of the American Cinema Editors .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

BAFTA Award

  • 1970: Best Editing - Z (nominated)
  • 1983: Best editing - missing

César

  • 1978 : Best Editing - Le Passé simple (nominated)
  • 1984 : Best Editing - Hanna K. (nominated)
  • 1999 : Best Editing - Place Vendôme (nominated)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de la monteuse Françoise Bonnot. In: critique-film.fr. June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Sonia Bressler: Françoise Bonnot  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on soniabressler.com , accessed June 20, 2011 /@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.soniabressler.com  
  3. ↑ Bill Desowitz: Monteuse Françoise Bonnot et 'La Tempête' on editorsguild.com , January / February 2011, Volume 32 / Number 1, accessed June 20, 2011
  4. ↑ Membership List of the American Cinema Editors . Filmeditors.org . Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 14, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ace-filmeditors.org
personal data
SURNAME Bonnot, Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bois-Colombes , France
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2018
Place of death Paris