---
name: "Jacques Saulnier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacques-saulnier"
fi1m_id: "jacques-saulnier"
imdb_id: "nm0766687"
tmdb_id: 24297
wikidata_id: "Q1678097"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "8 September 1928"
died: "9 November 2014"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:24:31.460462+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."
---

# Jacques Saulnier

## Identity

Jacques Saulnier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jacques-saulnier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jacques-saulnier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0766687
- **TMDB ID:** 24297
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1678097
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766687/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24297

Production designer. Born 8 September 1928 in Paris, France. Died 9 November 2014.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 8 September 1928, Paris, France
- **Died:** 9 November 2014
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766687/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24297

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Last Year at Marienbad*](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jacques Saulnier was a French production designer and art director. Born in Paris in 1928, he studied architecture before training at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). He began his career as an assistant art director in the 1950s and made his mark as a chief decorator with *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961).

Saulnier maintained a long collaboration with director Alain Resnais, designing the sets for films including *Muriel, or the Time of Return* (1963), *Providence* (1977), *My American Uncle* (1980) and *Smoking/No Smoking* (1993). He also worked on *The Sicilian Clan* (1969), *French Connection II* (1975), *I... for Icarus* (1979) and *Swann in Love* (1984). He won three César Awards for best production design.

Saulnier died in Paris in 2014.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, lesinrocks.com, cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), Fi1m 82, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

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

- *Life of Riley* (2014), Production Design
- *You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet* (2012), Production Design
- *Wild Grass* (2009), Production Design
- *Private Fears in Public Places* (2006), Production Design
- *Not on the Lips* (2003), Production Design
- *Same Old Song* (1997), Production Design
- *Smoking / No Smoking* (1993), Production Design
- *Archipel* (1993), Production Design
- *The Austrian* (1990), Production Design
- *I Want to Go Home* (1989), Production Design
- *Exploits of a Young Don Juan* (1986), Production Design
- *Mélo* (1986), Production Design
- *The Twin* (1984), Production Design
- *Love Unto Death* (1984), Production Design
- *Swann in Love* (1984), Production Design
- *Life Is a Bed of Roses* (1983), Production Design
- *A Thousand Billion Dollars* (1982), Production Design, Set Decoration
- *My American Uncle* (1980), Production Design
- *I... for Icarus* (1979), Production Design
- *West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty* (1979), Production Design
- *Your Turn, My Turn* (1978), Production Design
- *Providence* (1977), Production Design
- *The Cage* (1975), Production Design
- *French Connection II* (1975), Production Design
- *Stavisky...* (1974), Production Design
- *The Last Train* (1973), as Set Decoration
- *The Serpent* (1973), Production Design
- *The Son* (1973), Production Design
- *The Burglars* (1971), Production Design
- *The Widow Couderc* (1971), Production Design
- *One Way Ticket* (1971), Production Design
- *The Cat* (1971), Production Design
- *Le Cinema de Papa* (1971), Producer
- *The Horse* (1970), Production Design
- *The Sicilian Clan* (1969), Production Design
- *Woman in Chains* (1968), Production Design
- *Ho !* (1968), Production Design
- *The Thief of Paris* (1967), Production Design, Set Decoration
- *Mademoiselle* (1966), Production Design, Art Direction
- *The War Is Over* (1966), Production Design
- *A Matter of Resistance* (1966), Production Design
- *Cloportes* (1965), Production Design
- *Marco the Magnificent* (1965), Production Design
- *What's New Pussycat?* (1965), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Muriel, or the Time of Return* (1963), Production Design
- *Chicken Feed for Little Birds* (1963), as Set Decoration
- *Bluebeard* (1963), Production Design
- *Sentimental Education* (1962), Production Design
- *A View from the Bridge* (1962), Production Design
- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)
- *The Season for Love* (1961), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Shadows of Adultery* (1961), Production Design
- *The Joker* (1961), Production Design
- *The Love Game* (1960), Production Design
- *The Wretches* (1960), Production Design
- *À double tour* (1959), Production Design, Art Direction
- *The Verdict* (1959), Production Design
- *The Cousins* (1959), Production Design
- *The Lovers* (1958), as Set Decoration
- *La Parisienne* (1957), Assistant Art Director
- *That Is the Dawn* (1956), Assistant Art Director
- *On Trial* (1954), Assistant Art Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Officer of Arts and Letters 2014: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)

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

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