Jean Renoir - Awards

Awards

  • Prix Louis Delluc, for Les Bas-Fonds (The Lower Depths), 1936
  • Chevalier de Légion d'honneur, 1936
  • National Board of Review, Top Ten Foreign Film, for The Lower Depths, 1937
  • International Jury Cup, Venice Film Festival, for La Grande Illusion, 1937
  • National Board of Review, Best Foreign Language Film, for La Grande Illusion, 1938
  • National Board of Review, Top Ten Film and Best Director, for The Southerner, 1945
  • Best Film, Venice Festival, for The Southerner, 1946
  • National Board of Review, Top Ten Film, for The Diary of a Chambermaid, 1946
  • Venice Film Festival: International Award The River, 1951
  • National Board of Review, Top Five Foreign Films, for The River, 1951
  • Grand Prix de l'Academie du Cinéma for French Cancan, 1956
  • Selznick Golden Laurel Award for lifetime work, Brazilian Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, 1958
  • Prix Charles Blanc, Académie française, for Renoir, My Father, biography of father, 1963
  • Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1963
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1964
  • Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film), Bodil Awards, for The Rules of the Game (Spillets regler), 1966
  • Osella d'Oro as a master of the cinema, Venice Festival, 1968
  • Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London, 1971
  • Honorary Academy Award for Career Accomplishment, 1974
  • Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, 1975

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