Pierre Uytterhoeven

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Pierre Uytterhoeven is a French screenwriter who, along with director Claude Lelouch, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for A Man and a Woman (1966) at the 1967 Academy Awards .

biography

Uytterhoeven started out as an assistant director and received the Prix ​​Vulcain de l'artiste technicien in 1966 , before he received the Oscar for the best original screenplay in 1967 for his second work as an author, the screenplay for Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman .

Together with Lelouch, he was nominated again in 1976 for the Oscar for the best original screenplay for A Lifetime (1974). Other films with scripts and scenarios written by him were Die Entführer let greet (1971) by C. Lelouch, Candlelight (1972) by Serge Korber , A Happy Year (1973) by C. Lelouch, And Now… Ladies & Gentlemen (2002) by C. Lelouch and Roman de gare (2007), another collaboration between him and Claude Lelouch. With Lelouch he also wrote the script for the French episode of 11'09 "01 - September 11 (2002).

Between 1993 and 1998 he also wrote several scripts for episodes of the television series about the private detective Nestor Burma, invented by Léo Malet .

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

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Individual evidence

  1. Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).