--- name: "Éric Toledano" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-toledano" fi1m_id: "eric-toledano" imdb_id: "nm0865918" tmdb_id: 84425 wikidata_id: "Q2778106" roles: ["Director"] born: "3 July 1971" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:10:31.343952+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Éric Toledano ## Identity Éric Toledano - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-toledano - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** eric-toledano - **IMDb ID:** nm0865918 - **TMDB ID:** 84425 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2778106 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84425 Director. Born 3 July 1971 in Paris, France. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 3 July 1971, Paris, France - **Also known as:** אריק טולדנו - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84425 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Intouchables*](https://film.one/film/the-intouchables.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Éric Toledano > Éric Toledano makes sociable comedies with Olivier Nakache, bringing people across class divides into one another's company. We like their warmth and their faith in actors, but their eagerness to reconcile everyone can make difficult lives look too easily repaired. In *The Intouchables* (2011), Omar Sy's Driss brings irreverence to his job caring for François Cluzet's Philippe, a wealthy aristocrat with quadriplegia. The writing by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache presses the contrast, but the actors make the friendship worth watching. We warmed to the pair because Sy and Cluzet make their enjoyment of each other's company convincing. This is the strongest reason to spend an evening with the film. Toledano's work is inseparable from Nakache's: they began making shorts together in 1995 and moved into features with *Let's Be Friends* (2005) and *Those Happy Days* (2006). *The Intouchables* brought their international breakthrough. Their recurring interest is in people who have little reason to meet learning to work or live alongside one another. Comedy lets them approach difficult subjects without making every conversation sound like a lesson. The trouble in *The Intouchables* is how much that friendship is asked to prove. Driss, an ex-con from the banlieues, too often supplies vitality for a rich man's benefit, while Philippe becomes an opportunity for Driss to demonstrate his worth. Sy works to give Driss more individuality than this arrangement allows. The screenplay leaves too little room for either man to behave in ways that might complicate its reassurance about class and race, and that limits an otherwise enjoyable film. The later films keep placing social questions inside relationships and groups. *Samba* (2014) brings an undocumented worker together with an immigration caseworker; *The Specials* (2019) turns to carers for autistic young people, drawing on real associations. *A Difficult Year* (2023) approaches consumerism, debt and climate activism through comedy. These choices suggest a continuing belief that an audience will stay with an uncomfortable subject if it has people to care about. *Just an Illusion* (2026), a coming-of-age story set in 1980s Paris and drawn from the directors' adolescence, turns towards more personal material. That may give them less need to make each character stand for a social group. We would welcome that freedom after the tidiness of *The Intouchables*. Start with that film for Sy and Cluzet, and be prepared to question what the screenplay finds so readily reassuring. ## Biography Éric Toledano is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and director. He was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris. He has worked in long-term collaboration with Olivier Nakache on writing and directing feature films since the mid-1990s. Their credits include *Those Happy Days* (2006), *The Intouchables* (2011), *Samba* (2014), *C'est la vie!* (2017) and *The Specials* (2019). Toledano and Nakache also created the television series *In Therapy* (2021–2022). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Intouchables* (2011), Fi1m 72, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-intouchables.md) ## Complete filmography (25) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Just an Illusion* (2026), as Gino dans 'La ruée vers Laure' (uncredited) · Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Yan Yana* (2025), Original Film Writer - *Dans le Rétro* (2024), series, Actor - *Phantom Youth* (2024), Producer - *Au cœur du Papotin* (2023), Producer - *A Difficult Year* (2023), Director, Writer - *Il giorno più bello* (2022), Original Film Writer - *In Treatment* (2021), series, Director, Creator - *The Specials* (2019), Director, Screenplay - *The Upside* (2019), Original Film Writer - *C'est la vie!* (2017), Director, Writer - *150 Milligrams* (2016), as Pharmaco commission lab expert - *Inseparables* (2016), Original Story - *Learn by Heart* (2015), Associate Producer - *On devrait en faire un film* (2015), as lui-même · Director, Writer, Cinematography - *Le Bon vivant* (2015), Director, Writer - *Samba* (2014), as The bartender (uncredited) · Director, Writer - *The Intouchables* (2011), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-intouchables.md) - *So Happy Together* (2009), Director, Screenplay - *Those Happy Days* (2006), as le pizzaïolo · Director, Writer - *Let's Be Friends* (2005), Director - *Ces jours heureux* (2002), Director - *Les Petits Souliers* (1999), Director, Writer - *The Intouchables*, Original Film Writer - *Lady Liberty*, Producer ## Gallery - ![Éric Toledano](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-5973d61bf3ad.jpg) Éric Toledano — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Eric_Toledano_d%C3%A9jeuner_C%C3%A9sar_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache au déjeuner des nommés des César du cinéma (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-606a4a4875ea.jpg) Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache au déjeuner des nommés des César du cinéma (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Eric_Toledano_Olivier_Nakache_D%C3%A9jeuner_C%C3%A9sar_2018.jpg/1280px-Eric_Toledano_Olivier_Nakache_D%C3%A9jeuner_C%C3%A9sar_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Avant-première d'"Une année difficile" au Grand Rex en présence de l'équipe: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï et Mathieu Amalric. (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-834db46ec146.jpg) Avant-première d'"Une année difficile" au Grand Rex en présence de l'équipe: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï et Mathieu Amalric. (2023) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Une_ann%C3%A9e_difficile_%C3%A9quipe_1.jpg/1280px-Une_ann%C3%A9e_difficile_%C3%A9quipe_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Avant-première d'"Une année difficile" au Grand Rex en présence de l'équipe: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï, Danièle Lebrun et Mathi (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-61333fcac53d.jpg) Avant-première d'"Une année difficile" au Grand Rex en présence de l'équipe: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï, Danièle Lebrun et Mathi (2023) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Une_ann%C3%A9e_difficile_%C3%A9quipe_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Éric Toledano](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-68816e8287e9.jpg) Éric Toledano — Image via TMDB - ![Éric Toledano et Olivier Nakache présentant "Intouchables" à l'Arlequin, en septembre 2024.](https://film.one/media/person/102430/gallery-b58da07fa75d.jpg) Éric Toledano et Olivier Nakache présentant "Intouchables" à l'Arlequin, en septembre 2024. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/%C3%89ric_Toledano_et_Olivier_Nakache_2024.jpg/1280px-%C3%89ric_Toledano_et_Olivier_Nakache_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 7 nominated - Knight of the Legion of Honour 2020: Knight of the Legion of Honour (nominated) - European Film Award for Best Comedy 2018: European Film Award for Best Comedy (nominated), for *C'est la vie!* - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2018: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *C'est la vie!* - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2015: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Samba* - European Film Award for Best Film 2012: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *The Intouchables* - European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2012: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *The Intouchables* - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2012: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Intouchables* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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