François Truffaut

François Truffaut is, to me, the purest proof that loving cinema can become a vocation. He began as a critic, a kid who devoured films in dark theaters, then picked up a camera and became a flagbearer of the French New Wave. That he made the aching autobiographical The 400 Blows in his twenties and took Best Director at Cannes is staggering. He moved film history not through theory but through unguarded affection for the medium itself. His death at fifty-two in 1984 still feels like a theft. I salute a man who made watching and making movies feel like one continuous act of devotion.

Name (English)

François Truffaut

Name (Japanese)

フランソワ・トリュフォー

Reading

ふらんそわ・とりゅふぉー

Born

February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

film director / film producer / film critic / actor / director

Awards & achievements

• 1959 Cannes Best Director Award
• 1959 Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film
• 1962 Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film
• 1964 Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film
• 1968 Louis Delluc Prize
• 1970 National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• 1970 National Board of Review Award for Best Director
• 1973 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film

• Official sitehttps://www.francoistruffaut.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Truffaut
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53002

Tags

• film director
• film producer
• film critic

Last updated

2026-06-17

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.