---
name: "Michel Seydoux"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michel-seydoux"
fi1m_id: "michel-seydoux"
imdb_id: "nm0786733"
tmdb_id: 70181
wikidata_id: "Q3310868"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 September 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:32.074871+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."
---

# Michel Seydoux

## Identity

Michel Seydoux

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michel-seydoux
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michel-seydoux
- **IMDb ID:** nm0786733
- **TMDB ID:** 70181
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3310868
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Seydoux, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3310868, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70181

Producer. Born 11 September 1947 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 September 1947, Paris, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Seydoux, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3310868, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70181

## Coming up

- *Thanks for Coming* (2026-11-25), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Cyrano de Bergerac*](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md) (88)

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

## Biography

Michel Seydoux is a French film producer. He founded the production company Caméra One in 1971 and has produced numerous feature films.

His credits include *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), *Close to Eden* (1991), *Smoking/No Smoking* (1993), *Burnt by the Sun* (1994), *The Barber of Siberia* (1998) and *Jodorowsky's Dune* (2013). He was nominated for BAFTA Awards for best film not in the English language for *Cyrano de Bergerac* and *Burnt by the Sun*, and won the European Film Award for *Urga* (1991).

Seydoux served as president and chairman of the football club Lille OSC from 2002 to 2017. He is the grand-uncle of actress Léa Seydoux.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *Thanks for Coming* (2026), Producer
- *L'Amitié* (2023), Producer
- *De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire* (2022), Producer
- *Heart of an Oak* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Outremer.ledoc* (2022), series, Producer
- *La ligne bleue Outre-mer* (2020), series, Producer
- *Living and Knowing You Are Alive* (2019), Producer
- *Six portraits XL : 2 Jacquotte et Daniel* (2018), Producer
- *Six portraits XL : 1 Léon et Guillaume* (2018), Producer
- *The Sense of Wonder* (2015), Producer
- *Le Caravage* (2015), Producer
- *Paradise* (2014), Producer
- *Jodorowsky's Dune* (2013), Co-Producer
- *The Dance of Reality* (2013), Producer
- *Pater* (2011), Producer, Presenter
- *Leaving* (2009), Producer
- *René* (2002), Producer
- *The Barber of Siberia* (1998), Producer
- *Same Old Song* (1997), Associate Producer
- *Death in Therapy* (1996), Producer
- *Burnt by the Sun* (1994), Producer
- *Anna* (1993), Co-Producer
- *Smoking / No Smoking* (1993), Associate Choreographer, Associate Producer
- *No Smoking* (1993), Producer
- *Smoking* (1993), Producer
- *Toxic Affair* (1993), as L'homme de l'abribus · Producer
- *Close to Eden* (1991), Producer
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *A Man in Love* (1987), Producer
- *Houston, Texas* (1981), Producer
- *Don Giovanni* (1979), Executive Producer
- *Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived* (1978), Producer
- *L'Exercice du pouvoir* (1978), Producer
- *Shadow of the Castles* (1977), Producer
- *Lily, aime-moi* (1975), Producer
- *Vaudou* (1973), Producer

## Gallery

- ![Salariés et membres du Lille OSC faisant une haie d'honneur à Michel Seydoux pour son dernier match comme président avant Lille/Saint-Etienne, comptant pour la  (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/77911/gallery-3ab4d055fd11.jpg) Salariés et membres du Lille OSC faisant une haie d'honneur à Michel Seydoux pour son dernier match comme président avant Lille/Saint-Etienne, comptant pour la  (2017) — Supporterhéninois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Lille_-_Saint-Etienne_%2813-01-2017%29_31.jpg/1280px-Lille_-_Saint-Etienne_%2813-01-2017%29_31.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michel Seydoux et Gérard Lopez donnant le coup d'envoi fictif de la rencontre Lille/Saint-Etienne, comptant pour la vingtième journée du championnat de France d (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/77911/gallery-4aa3464e85a2.jpg) Michel Seydoux et Gérard Lopez donnant le coup d'envoi fictif de la rencontre Lille/Saint-Etienne, comptant pour la vingtième journée du championnat de France d (2017) — Supporterhéninois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Lille_-_Saint-Etienne_%2813-01-2017%29_34.jpg/1280px-Lille_-_Saint-Etienne_%2813-01-2017%29_34.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michel Seydoux at Cannes Q&A for Alain Cavalier's 'Thanks for Coming' (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/77911/gallery-64c8162166d0.jpg) Michel Seydoux at Cannes Q&A for Alain Cavalier's 'Thanks for Coming' (2026) — Danielle Varenhorst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Michel_Seydoux_at_Cannes_01.jpg/1280px-Michel_Seydoux_at_Cannes_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michel Seydoux at Cannes Q&A for Alain Cavalier's 'Thanks for Coming' (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/77911/gallery-6875c23dadf2.jpg) Michel Seydoux at Cannes Q&A for Alain Cavalier's 'Thanks for Coming' (2026) — Danielle Varenhorst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Michel_Seydoux_at_Cannes_02.jpg/1280px-Michel_Seydoux_at_Cannes_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michel Seydoux](https://film.one/media/person/77911/gallery-51bde01f0912.jpg) Michel Seydoux — Danielle Varenhorst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Michel_Seydoux_at_Cannes_02_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- European Film Award for Best Film 1993: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *Close to Eden*

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

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