Olivier Assayas (born January 25, 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ...

He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short-films and writing for influential film magazine Cahiers du cinema. Other big name directors such as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard also started as writers for the same magazine. Cahiers du cin ma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by Andr Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. ... François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932–October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) was one of the most influential members of the nouvelle vague. ...

Assaya's father was French director/screenwriter Jacques Remy (1910-1981). He started his career in the industry by helping him. He ghostwrote episodes for TV shows his father was working on when his health failed.

His biggest hit to date has been Irma Vep, starring Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, that manages to be both a tribute to French director Louis Feuillade and to Hong Kong cinema. Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by the notorious French director Olivier Assayas, which stars Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung who plays herself in a story about the many disasters that ensue when a middle-aged French film maker (played by François Truffauts actor Jean-Pierre L... Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; pinyin: zhāng màn yù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a Hong Kong film star who has been cast in more than 80 films since the 1980s. ... Louis Feuillade (February 19, 1873 - February 25, 1925) was a French film director from the silent era. ... The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: the Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan. ...

While working at Cahiers du cinema, Assayas wrote lovingly about European film directors he admires but also about Asian directors. One of his latest films is a documentary about Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Cahiers du cin ma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by Andr Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. ... Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east, but gradually transitions to gently sloping plains in the west (satellite photo by NASA). ... Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: ; April 8, 1947) is an award-winning film director and leading figure of Taiwans New Wave cinema movement. ...

He married Maggie Cheung in 1998. They divorced in 2001. Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; pinyin: zhāng màn yù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a Hong Kong film star who has been cast in more than 80 films since the 1980s. ...

Awards

• Prix Jean Vigo 1992 with Paris Awakens (Paris s'éveille)

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Filmography as director

• Clean (2004)
• Demonlover (2002)
• Sentimental Destinies (2001)
• Late August, Early September (1998)
• HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)
• Irma Vep (1996)
• Cold Water (1994)
• A New Life (1993)
• Paris Awakens (1991)
• Winter's Child (1989)
• Disorder (1986)en:Olivier Assayas