--- name: "Olivier Nakache" canonical: "https://film.one/person/olivier-nakache" fi1m_id: "olivier-nakache" imdb_id: "nm0619923" tmdb_id: 84426 wikidata_id: "Q74428" roles: ["Director"] born: "15 April 1973" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:10:28.548250+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." --- # Olivier Nakache ## Identity Olivier Nakache - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/olivier-nakache - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** olivier-nakache - **IMDb ID:** nm0619923 - **TMDB ID:** 84426 - **Wikidata ID:** Q74428 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84426 Director. Born 15 April 1973 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 15 April 1973, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84426 ## 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 Olivier Nakache > Olivier Nakache's comedies with Éric Toledano find humour in people meeting across social divides. We enjoy the warmth and the actors' comic rapport, but the writing can be too keen to reassure us. Omar Sy and François Cluzet make the unequal friendship in *The Intouchables* (2011) feel convincing. Cluzet's Philippe is a wealthy aristocrat with quadriplegia, Sy's Driss his carer, an ex-con from the banlieues. We enjoyed their company because the comic rapport gives us something to watch beyond the obvious contrast between their circumstances. Olivier Nakache and his co-writer and co-director Éric Toledano are persuasive here when they let those actors do the work. The film is worth an evening, despite the screenplay's tidy treatment of class and race. Nakache and Toledano moved from shorts to features in the mid-2000s, with comedies drawn from personal experience. *The Intouchables* was their breakthrough, and *Samba* (2014) continued the collaboration with Sy through a story concerned with immigration and precarious work. *The Specials* (2019) turned to support for autistic young people and people working together across communities. These are different subjects, but the repeated interest is in how people separated by social circumstances find common ground. Directing episodes of *En thérapie* (2021–2022) took Nakache into television. The difficulty comes when the writing treats goodwill as an answer to the differences it has set up. In *The Intouchables*, Driss is too often required to supply vitality and irreverence for Philippe's benefit. Sy makes him particular enough for that restriction to matter; we can see the character being narrowed to serve the reassuring story. Philippe is also made useful as a chance for Driss to prove himself. Neither man is given enough room to be awkward or inconvenient once the screenplay has decided what their friendship means. That does not cancel the pleasure of watching Sy and Cluzet together. Nakache and Toledano give their comic rapport enough attention to make this cautious story worth following. We would like them to leave more room for the awkwardness their screenplay keeps tidying away. Start with *The Intouchables* for the actors, without expecting their friendship to explain much about class or race. ## Biography Olivier Nakache is a French screenwriter, director and producer. He was born on 15 April 1973 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. Nakache has worked in partnership with Éric Toledano since the mid-1990s, writing and directing a series of features together. Their breakthrough came with *The Intouchables* (2011), which they wrote and directed. Subsequent collaborations include *Those Happy Days* (2006), *Samba* (2014), *C'est la vie!* (2017), *The Specials* (2019) and *A Difficult Year* (2023). Nakache is also known for creating the television series *In Therapy* (2021–2022). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.* ## 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 Alban 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 - *Inseparables* (2016), Original Story - *Oopiri* (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), Writer, Director - *Samba* (2014), as The Pony Club Host (uncredited) · Director, Writer - *The Intouchables* (2011), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-intouchables.md) - *So Happy Together* (2009), Screenplay, Director - *Those Happy Days* (2006), as le médecin 2 · 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 - ![Alexis Rosenstiehl, Olivier Nakache et Marc-Henri Dufresne lors d'une rencontre organisée dans la salle Gad Elmaleh du campus Jaurès au cours Florent de Paris, (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/102428/gallery-d16265585e38.jpg) Alexis Rosenstiehl, Olivier Nakache et Marc-Henri Dufresne lors d'une rencontre organisée dans la salle Gad Elmaleh du campus Jaurès au cours Florent de Paris, (2026) — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Alexis_Rosenstiehl%2C_Olivier_Nakache_et_Marc-Henri_Dufresne_2026.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Rosenstiehl%2C_Olivier_Nakache_et_Marc-Henri_Dufresne_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache au déjeuner des nommés des César du cinéma (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/102428/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) - ![Olivier Nakache lors d'une rencontre organisée dans la salle Gad Elmaleh du campus Jaurès au cours Florent de Paris, le 10 juin 2026.](https://film.one/media/person/102428/gallery-303e0cbd19f3.jpg) Olivier Nakache lors d'une rencontre organisée dans la salle Gad Elmaleh du campus Jaurès au cours Florent de Paris, le 10 juin 2026. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Olivier_Nakache_2026.jpg/1280px-Olivier_Nakache_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Olivier Nakache](https://film.one/media/person/102428/gallery-7ab8ac743a7f.jpg) Olivier Nakache — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Olivier_Nakache_d%C3%A9jeuner_C%C3%A9sar_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Olivier Nakache](https://film.one/media/person/102428/gallery-2a877d8e8538.jpg) Olivier Nakache — Image via TMDB - ![Olivier Nakache](https://film.one/media/person/102428/gallery-0aab657f6d55.jpg) Olivier Nakache — Image via TMDB - ![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/102428/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) ## 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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