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Cannes Film Festival Best Director 1959 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles 1961 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film and British Film 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Story and Screenplay - Written Directly 1960 · Nominated
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Academy Awards, USA. 1960 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. François Truffaut. Marcel Moussy.
The 400 Blows received numerous awards and nominations, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director, the OCIC Award, and a Palme d'Or nomination in 1959, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1960.
The 400 Blows: Directed by François Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble. A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- François Truffaut
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The 400 Blows received numerous awards and nominations, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director, the OCIC Award, and a Palme d'Or nomination in 1959. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing in 1960.
- Francois Truffaut
Jul 26, 2023 · Antoine Doinel can’t win. The 400 Blows is boisterous, exuberant—until it isn’t. On Léaud’s face you see both stony, preternaturally adult defiance but also childlike vulnerability—because he,...
Truffaut then became an auteur himself, starting with The 400 Blows, which won him the best director award at Cannes and led the French new-wave charge. The 400 Blows remains Truffaut’s seminal film, yet he continued to reinvigorate cinema throughout the sixties, with such thrilling works as Shoot the Piano Player and Jules and Jim .
Aug 8, 1999 · Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" (1959) is one of the most intensely touching stories ever made about a young adolescent. Inspired by Truffaut's own early life, it shows a resourceful boy growing up in Paris and apparently dashing headlong into a life of crime.
