Jean Beaudin
{{Short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter (1939–2019)}}
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| name = Jean Beaudin
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1939|02|06}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|05|18|1939|02|06}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1966–2019
}}
Jean Beaudin (6 February 1939 – 18 May 2019) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.{{cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/non-classe/554815/le-realisateur-jean-beaudin-est-decede|title=Le cinéaste Jean Beaudin est décédé|work=ledevoir.com|date=21 May 2019|access-date=22 May 2019}} He directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress.{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2015/year/1977.html |title=Festival de Cannes: J.A. Martin Photographer |access-date=10 May 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure won best Actress awards at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards. He was nominated (but did not win) for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 1986, 1992 and 2003 for his films The Alley Cat (Le Matou), Being at Home with Claude and The Collector (Le Collectionneur), respectively.{{cite book|last1=Wise|first1=Wyndham|title=Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film|date=2001|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=0-8020-3512-4|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oveMBgAAQBAJ&q=take+one%27s+essential+guide+to+canadian+film|access-date=30 March 2017}}
Actress Domini Blythe (1947–2010) was his partner of more than 20 years.Domini Blythe obituary London Independent, 23 February 2011.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/domini-blythe-britishborn-actress-who-became-one-of-canadas-leading-stage-performers-2222882.html]
Early career
Jean Beaudin received a diploma from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and studied at the School of Design in Zurich. He first joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1964, working initially in the animation studios, then subsequently directing educational films. He made a number for a mathematical series, then Veritge, a psychological study, before he directed his first feature, Stop, in 1971. Although Beaudin took a few shots at wild and visionary moviemaking, he was best known for the restrained performances and fastidious visuals of pictures such as his 1977 masterpiece J.A. Martin, photographe, which has been consistently nominated by critics as one of the best Canadian features ever made. Since J.A. Martin, Beaudin's career was focused exclusively in Quebec with Cordélia, Mario, the film version of the stage hit Being at Home with Claude, and the hugely popular television series, Les Filles de Caleb.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/portraits/jean_beaudin/ |title=Jean Beaudin |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |work=NFB Profiles |access-date=15 June 2012 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Filmography
=Features and shorts=
- Stop - 1971
- The Possession of Virginia (Le diable est parmi nous) - 1972
- Les indrogables - 1972, short film
- Trois fois passera - 1973, short film
- Par une belle nuit d'hiver - 1974, short film
- Cher Théo - 1975, short film
- J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin, photographe) - 1977
- Cordélia - 1979
- Mario - 1984
- The Alley Cat (Le Matou) - 1985
- La bioéthique: une question de choix - L'homme à la traîne - 1986, short film
- Being at Home with Claude - 1992
- Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes) - 1998
- The Collector (Le Collectionneur) - 2002
- Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) - 2004
- Without Her (Sans elle) - 2006
=Other work=
- Géométrie (Documentary series, 1966)
- Mathématiques (Documentary series, 1967)
- Vertige (Documentary short, 1969)
- Et pourquoi pas? (Documentary short, 1969)
- Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe olympiade) (Documentary Co-Directed with Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux, and Jean-Claude Labrecque, 1977)
- Une journée dans les parcs nationaux (Documentary short, 1979)
- Mount-Royal (TV series, 1987)
- L'or et le papier (TV series, 1989)
- Les filles de Caleb (TV series, 1990–1991)
- Shehaweh (TV mini-series, 1992)
- Les minutes du patrimoine (TV series, 1993)
- Craque la vie! (TV movie, 1994)
- Miséricorde (TV mini-series, 1994)
- Ces enfants d'ailleurs (TV mini-series, 1997)
- The Hunger (TV series, 1998)
- Big Wolf on Campus (TV series, 2000)
- Willie (TV mini-series, 2000)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0064394|Jean Beaudin}}
- [http://www.onf.ca/explorer-tous-les-cineastes/jean-beaudin View films by Jean Beaudin], National Film Board of Canada website (in French)
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Category:Film directors from Montreal
Category:Writers from Montreal
Category:Canadian screenwriters in French
Category:Canadian film editors
Category:Film producers from Quebec
Category:National Film Board of Canada people
Category:Best Director Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Category:Best Editing Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Category:Governor General's Award winners
Category:Directors of Genie Award winners for Best Theatrical Short