Georges Cravenne

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Georges Cravenne (left) together with Sigourney Weaver and Alain Delon at the César Awards 2000

Georges Cravenne (actually Joseph-Raoul Cohen ; born January 24, 1914 in Kairouan , † January 10, 2009 in Paris ) was a French journalist , publicist , advertising specialist and film producer .

biography

Georges Cravenne grew up with his six years older brother Marcel (1908–2002), who later made a name for himself as a film director in France. Cravenne himself embarked on a career as a film journalist and publicist. In 1935 he found a job with the Ciné-Magazine led by Marcel Carné . He later worked with Pierre Lazareff at the Paris-Soir newspaper , where he started a cinema section. After the Second World War , Cravenne promoted the reopening of the Parisian cabaret Lido and founded the first public relations agency in France. He organized numerous important evening parties in the 1950s and 1960s, including the opening of the Parisian Théâtre de l'Odéon . As a press agent, he was involved in the feature film productions Dick and Doof erben ein Insel (1951) by Léo Joannon , Max Ophül's literary film adaptation Pläsier (1952) and Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle-Vague representative The Story of Nana S. (1962).

Cravenne became known to a broad French cinema audience in 1975 when he founded the César film award . The César Young Talent Award forerunner "Prix Révélation de la nuit du Cinéma", which was created annually by Cravenne, has existed since 1969. Inspired by the US Academy Awards , the César honors the best French cinema productions (including co-productions) and filmmakers of the previous year and was able to establish itself as France’s national film award in the coming decades. Cravenne was Secretary General of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (the French counterpart to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ), which awards the film prizes, and was appointed President of the Film Academy in 1995.

In 1980 Cravenne also distinguished himself as the initiator of the French television award Nuit des 7 d'Or , and in 1987 as the founder of the national theater award Molière . In these positions, the French often made controversial decisions. In 1993, the news of the exclusion of English-language films with French participation from future César awards, which at that time would have meant disqualification for large-scale productions such as Jean-Jacques Annaud's Marguerite Duras film The Lover or Louis Male's erotic film, doomed met with fierce criticism in the French press . After the negative response, Cravenne revised the decision and announced at short notice that only the prize for the best film of the year would be reserved for French-language film productions. In the same year, his adherence to the Molière award categories for theater in public ownership moved negatively into the media focus.

The Frenchman, who publicly condemned actors nominated for the César for not attending the award ceremony, also appeared as a film producer and actor in Claude Lelouch's works Also Murderers Have Nice Dreams (1980) and Die Entführer let greet (1972). He was also appointed as a jury member in award committees. In 1993, Cravenne was a member of the competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival , while in 2006 he and the journalists Gérard Lefort, Pierre Bouteiller, Jérôme Garcin and Marie-Noëlle Tranchant awarded Pascale Ferrans the literary adaptation of Lady Chatterley with the Louis Delluc Prize , which in 2007 also should triumph at the César Awards .

Georges Cravenne was married several times, including the French actress Françoise Arnoul . A private stroke of fate he experienced in 1973, one as his second wife Danielle Batisse Boeing 727 of Air France on its way from Paris to Nice to land at the airport Marseille forced and was killed there by police. Cravenne's lawsuit against the French state was dismissed. His son, François-David Cravenne (* approx. 1968) followed his father into the film business and later worked as an advisor to the French politician Christian Estrosi . In 2000, at the age of 86, Georges Cravenne was awarded the César of Honor, which was presented to him by Alain Delon . In 2008 he was appointed Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy .

Filmography

actor

  • 1972: The kidnappers send their regards ( L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure )

film producer

  • 1980: Even murderers have nice dreams (Pile ou face)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d cf. Disparition de Georges Cravenne, le père des César at france2.fr, January 10, 2009 (accessed January 10, 2009)
  2. ↑ cf. Magné, Régine: Que d'anniversaires . In: Sud Ouest, January 31, 1995, France, Radio-TV
  3. ↑ cf. Rockwell, John: The Talk of Paris: French Strike a Linguistic Blow In Their Film Industry's Oscars . In: New York Times , Jan. 18, 1993, Section C; P. 11; Column 2, Cultural Desk
  4. ↑ cf. Schmitt, Olivier: THE TRE, La querelle des Molières: Commentaire; Cache misère . In: Le Monde , December 18, 1993
  5. ↑ cf. Kuchenbecker, Tanja: César: French stars are rare . In: Die Welt , March 8, 1999
  6. ↑ cf. Villa, Monique: Laurie McInness: les grands espaces, la solitude et l'amitie . In: Agence France-Presse , May 21, 1993, Informations Generales
  7. ↑ cf. Le Prix Louis-Delluc 2006, “Goncourt du cinéma”, à “Lady Chatterley” (PAPER GENERAL) . In: Agence France Presse, December 18, 2006
  8. ↑ cf. Sept détournements d'avions de la compagnie nationale depuis 1973 . In: Le Monde, December 27, 1994, Etranger
  9. ↑ cf. Suisse-detournement-doc . In: Agence France Presse, September 3, 1995, Magazine, Paris
  10. ↑ cf. L'événement: Le pouvoir de Bridget Jones… In: Nouvel Economiste, February 22, 2007, 1 À 5
  11. ↑ cf. Nataf, Isabelle: CANAL + En attendant la cérémonie: Les césars en coulisses . In: Le Figaro , February 19, 2000, Télévision et Radio
personal data
SURNAME Cravenne, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Joseph-Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, publicist, advertising man and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Kairouan
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2009
Place of death Paris