---
name: "Olivier Dahan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/olivier-dahan"
fi1m_id: "olivier-dahan"
imdb_id: "nm0196860"
tmdb_id: 16919
wikidata_id: "Q673103"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 June 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:05:50.919899+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."
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# Olivier Dahan

## Identity

Olivier Dahan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/olivier-dahan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** olivier-dahan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0196860
- **TMDB ID:** 16919
- **Wikidata ID:** Q673103
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Dahan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q673103, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16919

Director. Born 26 June 1967 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 June 1967, La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Dahan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q673103, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16919

## Coming up

- *Nana* (2027-10-27), Director

## Biography

Olivier Dahan is a French film director and screenwriter. He was born on 26 June 1967 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône. He studied at the École d'Art de Marseille, graduating in 1991, and began his career making short films and music videos before directing his first feature, *Déjà mort*, in 1998.

Dahan wrote and directed *La Vie en Rose* (2007), a biopic of Édith Piaf starring Marion Cotillard. The film won two Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Cotillard—the first for a French-language performance—and Best Makeup. His other films include *Le Petit Poucet* (2001), *Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse* (2004), *My Own Love Song* (2010), *Grace of Monaco* (2014) and *Simone: Woman of the Century* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *La Vie en Rose* (2007), Fi1m 66, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/la-vie-en-rose.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Nana* (2027), Director, Screenplay
- *Simone: Woman of the Century* (2022), Director, Screenplay
- *A Folk Horror Tale* (2021), Editor, Director
- *Grace of Monaco* (2014), Director
- *The Dream Team* (2012), Adaptation, Director
- *Mozart l'opéra Rock 3D* (2011), Stage Director
- *My Own Love Song* (2010), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Mozart, l'Opéra Rock* (2009), Stage Director, Director
- *La Vie en Rose* (2007), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/la-vie-en-rose.md)
- *Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse* (2004), Director
- *The Promised Life* (2002), Director, Writer
- *Docteur Renaud, Mister Renard* (2002), Director
- *Tom Thumb* (2001), Director, Writer, Camera Operator
- *Already Dead* (1998), Director, Writer
- *Les fantômes du samedi soir* (1997), Director
- *Brothers: Red Roulette* (1995), Director, Writer
- *All the Boys and Girls of Their Time* (1994), series, Director
- *Short cuts : La Môme de Olivier Dahan*, Original Film Writer

## Gallery

- ![Olivier Dahan at Tribeca Film Festival 2010](https://film.one/media/person/3935448/gallery-a156e1151a40.jpg) Olivier Dahan at Tribeca Film Festival 2010 — David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Olivier_Dahan_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Olivier_Dahan_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Olivier Dahan](https://film.one/media/person/3935448/gallery-e95d5d850fff.jpg) Olivier Dahan — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Olivier_Dahan.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![French film director Olivier Dahan, photographed at the Neptune Theater during the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, after a showing of his film about E](https://film.one/media/person/3935448/gallery-f75b690b90a9.jpg) French film director Olivier Dahan, photographed at the Neptune Theater during the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, after a showing of his film about E — Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Olivier_Dahan_03.jpg/1280px-Olivier_Dahan_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![French film director Olivier Dahan, photographed at the Neptune Theater during the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, after a showing of his film about E](https://film.one/media/person/3935448/gallery-a5cfc9600af8.jpg) French film director Olivier Dahan, photographed at the Neptune Theater during the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, after a showing of his film about E — Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Olivier_Dahan_02.jpg/1280px-Olivier_Dahan_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2007: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *La Vie en Rose*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2007: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *La Vie en Rose*

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

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