Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma is among the directors I trust most right now. Born in Pontoise outside Paris, she has built a body of work devoted to the inner lives of girls and women and to the much-discussed female gaze. Tomboy, Girlhood, and especially Portrait of a Lady on Fire show a filmmaker who lets silence and a single look carry enormous emotional weight. Decorated with European Film Awards and the Order of Arts and Letters, she never raises her voice to be heard. I love that restraint. She seems to change, one quiet frame at a time, how we are allowed to see.

Name (English)

Céline Sciamma

Name (Japanese)

セリーヌ・シアマ

Reading

せりーぬ・しあま

Born

November 12, 1978 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

Origin

Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

Occupation

film director / film screenwriter / actor

Awards & achievements

• 2016 European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film
• 2019 European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
• 2019 European University Film Award
• 2015 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
• 2022 Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2015 Lumière Special Jury Prize

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9line%20Sciamma
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461350

Tags

• Val-d'Oise
• film director
• film screenwriter
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.