History Creator / FrancoisTruffaut

In 1973, he made ''Film/DayForNight'' (''La Nuit Americaine'') a movie about the making of a movie, which won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm, making him the only director of his group to recieve that honour.

* FaceOfTheBand: [[invoked]] For the entire UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave. He was the most famous to American audiences and the general public and the only one to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In his early years, Truffaut used his fame to promote his friends work.

Truffaut is probably most famous for his first autobiographical film, ''Film/The400Blows'', which helped bring in the New Wave and was the first of several films featuring the character [[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Antoine Doinel]]. He is also notable for directing the adaptation of Creator/RayBradbury's book ''Film/{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' -- his only English-language film. To do so, he turned down the chance to direct the landmark film ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', but inadvertently set Creator/WarrenBeatty on the course of not only starring in it, but producing it and getting Arthur Penn direct it instead. In this manner, Truffaut could be said to have helped spark the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era of American film in a roundabout way.

** ''Love on the Run'' (1979)

Former trope namer for DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

* ''Film/TheManWhoLovedWomen'' (1977)
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' [Actor - Claude Lacombe] (1977)

* ''Love on the Run'' (1979)

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential French filmmaker. He is hailed as one of the progenitors of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave, and as one of the greatest directors of all time.

* ''The Wild Child'' (''L'Enfant sauvage'') (1970)

* ''Hitchcock[=/=]Truffaut'' (1966): A series of interviews with Hitchcock with Helen Scott serving as Truffaut's translator. This is considered in many circles, by the likes of Creator/StevenSoderbergh among others, to be the best book on cinema of all time. It was the subject of a 2015 documentary by Kent Jones, which discussed the book with its BigNameFan: Creator/DavidFincher, Creator/WesAnderson among others. Note the official title of the book in English was ''Hitchcock'' by Truffaut and in France it was ''Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock'' ("The Cinema according to Alfred Hitchcock")[[note]]A BlasphemousBoast since it was a LiteraryAllusionTitle to Literature/TheFourGospels usually rendered in French/English as ''L'Evangile selon...''/''The Gospel According to...'', with Truffaut equating Cinema and Hitchcock to well, WordOfGod. Truffaut might have toned down the English title on account of Hitchcock's Catholic sensibilities[[/note]].

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* ''Hitchcock[=/=]Truffaut'' (1966): A series of interviews with Hitchcock with Helen Scott serving as Truffaut's translator. This is considered in many circles, by the likes of Creator/StevenSoderbergh among others, to be the best book on cinema of all time. It was the subject of a 2015 documentary by Kent Jones, which discussed the book with its BigNameFan: Creator/DavidFincher, Creator/WesAnderson among others. Note the official title of the book in English was ''Hitchcock'' by Truffaut and in France it was ''Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock'' ("The Cinema according to Alfred Hitchcock")[[note]]A BlasphemousBoast since it was a LiteraryAllusionTitle to Literature/TheFourGospels usually rendered in French/English as ''L'Evangile selon...''/''The Gospel According to...'', with Truffaut equating Cinema and Hitchcock to [[LamePun well]], WordOfGod. Truffaut might have toned down the English title on account of Hitchcock's Catholic sensibilities[[/note]].

* ''Film/Fahrenheit451'' (1966)

* ''The Man Who Loved Women'' (1977)

* YourCheatingHeart: It would perhaps be easier to list spouses who ''stay'' faithful rather than list the many examples of faithless lovers, husbands and wives in Truffaut's films.

* ''The Bride Wore Black'' (''La Mariée était en noir'') (1968)

* ''Mississipi Mermaid'' (''La sirène du Mississipi'') (1969)

* Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel series
** ''Film/The400Blows'', first and by far the most famous installment
** ''Film/AntoineAndColette'', a short film
** ''Film/StolenKisses'' (''Baisers volés'')
** ''Film/BedAndBoard'' (''Domicile conjugal'')
* ''Film/ShootThePianoPlayer'' (''Tirez sur le pianiste'')
* ''Film/JulesAndJim'' (''Jules et Jim'')
* ''The Soft Skin'' (''La peau douce'')
* ''Film/Fahrenheit451''
* ''The Bride Wore Black'' (''La Mariée était en noir'')
* ''Mississipi Mermaid'' (''La sirène du Mississipi'')
* ''The Wild Child'' (''L'Enfant sauvage'')
* ''Two English Girls'' (''Les Deux anglaises et le continent'')
* ''Film/DayForNight'' (''La Nuit américaine'')
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' [Actor - Claude Lacombe]
* ''Film/TheStoryOfAdeleH'' (''L'Histoire d'Adèle H.'')
* ''The Green Room''
* ''Film/TheLastMetro'' (''Le Dernier métro'')
* ''Film/TheWomanNextDoor'' (''La Femme d'à Côté'')
* ''Film/ConfidentiallyYours'' (''Vivement dimanche!'')