---
name: "François Ozon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francois-ozon"
fi1m_id: "francois-ozon"
imdb_id: "nm0654830"
tmdb_id: 4387
wikidata_id: "Q266535"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 November 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:43:31.575700+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."
---

# François Ozon

## Identity

François Ozon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francois-ozon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francois-ozon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0654830
- **TMDB ID:** 4387
- **Wikidata ID:** Q266535
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266535, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4387

Director. Born 15 November 1967 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 November 1967, Paris, France
- **Also known as:** Francois Ozon
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 other
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (1), 2020s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266535, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4387

## Coming up

- *Summer Of Fire* (2027-02-10), Director

## Biography

François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter. He was born on 15 November 1967 in Paris and studied at La Fémis film school.

Ozon directed and wrote the screenplay for *Potiche* (also known as *Trophy Wife*, 2010). His other films include *8 Women* (2002), *Swimming Pool* (2003), *In the House* (2012), *Young & Beautiful* (2013), *Frantz* (2016), *By the Grace of God* (2019), *Summer of 85* (2020) and *The Crime Is Mine* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, twi-ny.com, movieweb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Trophy Wife* (2010), Fi1m 74, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/trophy-wife.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Passages* (2023), Fi1m 77, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/passages.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Summer Of Fire* (2027), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *The Stranger* (2025), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *When Fall Is Coming* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Passages* (2023), Thanks — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/passages.md)
- *The Crime Is Mine* (2023), Director, Screenplay
- *Ozon: Remastered & Uncut* (2022), Director
- *Peter von Kant* (2022), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *7 Women and a Murder* (2021), Original Film Writer
- *Everything Went Fine* (2021), Director, Screenplay
- *Summer of 85* (2020), Director, Screenplay
- *By the Grace of God* (2019), Writer, Director
- *Double Lover* (2017), Director, Screenplay
- *Frantz* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *The New Girlfriend* (2014), as Homme cinéma · Director, Screenplay
- *Young & Beautiful* (2013), Director, Writer
- *In the House* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Trophy Wife* (2010), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/trophy-wife.md)
- *Hideaway (Le refuge)* (2009), Director, Novel
- *Ricky* (2009), Director, Writer
- *A Curtain Raiser & Other Shorts* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Angel* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *When Fear Eats the Soul* (2007), Director
- *A Curtain Raiser* (2006), Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Time to Leave* (2005), Screenplay, Director, Writer
- *Five Times Two* (2004), Director, Screenplay
- *Swimming Pool* (2003), Screenplay, Director
- *Far West* (2003), Thanks
- *Porn Theatre* (2002), Thanks
- *Courts mais Gay : Tome 3* (2002), Director
- *Erstes Mal - Schwule Kurzfilme* (2002), Director
- *8 Women* (2002), Director, Screenplay
- *Under the Sand* (2001), Director, Screenplay
- *X2000: The Collected Shorts of Francois Ozon* (2001), Director
- *Water Drops on Burning Rocks* (2000), Screenplay, Director
- *Criminal Lovers* (1999), Director, Screenplay
- *X2000* (1998), Director, Screenplay
- *Bed Scenes* (1998), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Sitcom* (1998), Screenplay, Director
- *See the Sea* (1997), Director, Screenplay
- *The Virgins* (1997), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *The Black Hole* (1997), Director
- *A Summer Dress* (1996), Writer, Director, Producer
- *L'Homme idéal* (1996), Director
- *Little Death* (1995), Director, Writer
- *Jospin s'éclaire* (1995), Director
- *Truth or Dare* (1994), Director, Writer
- *A Rose Between Us* (1994), as The boy in the toilet (uncredited) · Director, Writer
- *Victor* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Thomas reconstitué* (1992), Director, Writer
- *Deux plus un* (1991), Director
- *Peau contre peau (les risques inutiles)* (1991), Director
- *Le Trou madame* (1991), Director
- *Une goutte du sang* (1991), Director
- *My Parents on a Summer Day* (1990), Director, Writer
- *Fingers on the Belly* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Family Photo* (1988), Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![François Ozon at Berlinale 2022](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-c8e3c97bbf84.jpg) François Ozon at Berlinale 2022 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_Berlinale_2022_cropped.jpg/1280px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_Berlinale_2022_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![François Ozon, director, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film L'etranger. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-0617c26cf8fb.jpg) François Ozon, director, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film L'etranger. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![François Ozon, director, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film L'etranger. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-e1951614294c.jpg) François Ozon, director, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film L'etranger. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg/1280px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-f11d2cd6403e.jpg) François Ozon — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-250666e9a431.jpg) François Ozon — Image via TMDB
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-8f29742e9e68.jpg) François Ozon — Image via TMDB
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-26116d1c5afb.jpg) François Ozon — Image via TMDB
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-64cd238091a5.jpg) François Ozon — Image via TMDB
- ![François Ozon](https://film.one/media/person/357698/gallery-37609a15f92b.jpg) François Ozon — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 2019: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (won), for *By the Grace of God*

### Other awards — 7 won, 11 nominated

- René Clair Award 2026: René Clair Award (won)
- European Film Award for Best Director 2020: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Summer of 85*
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2018: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2017: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Frantz*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2017: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Frantz*
- Sebastiane Award 2014: Sebastiane Award (won), for *The New Girlfriend*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2013: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *In the House*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2013: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (won), for *In the House*
- Golden Shell 2012: Golden Shell (won), for *In the House*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2011: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Potiche*
- Officer of Arts and Letters 2011: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- European Film Award for Best Film 2003: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Swimming Pool*
- European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director 2003: European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Swimming Pool*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2002: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *8 Women*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2002: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *8 Women*
- European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director 2002: European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director (nominated), for *8 Women*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2001: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Under the Sand*
- Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award 1999: Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award (won), for *Criminal Lovers*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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