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Olivier Assayas

French film director, screenwriter and film critic (born 1955)

3.78body-of-work score · ranked #295 of 2631 directors · 10 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
January 25, 1955 · 15th arrondissement of Paris
Nationality
France
Work
screenwriter, film director, film critic
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Olivier Assayas
Manfred Werner - Tsui · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Summer HoursL'Heure d'été

    2008 · France · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #3 · Criterion Collection spine #513

    0.662 citations
  2. 2
    Personal Shopper

    2016 · France / Belgium / Czech Republic · thriller, drama, mystery

    Film Comment year-end poll 2017 #3 · Criterion Collection spine #899

    0.662 citations
  3. 3
    Clouds of Sils Maria

    2014 · France / Germany / Switzerland · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2015 #4 · Criterion Collection spine #822

    0.592 citations
  4. 4
    Irma Vep

    1996 · France · comedy, drama

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1997 #3 · Criterion Collection spine #1074 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.523 citations
  5. 5
    Paris AwakensParis s'éveille

    1991 · France · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1991 #10

    0.291 citation
  6. 6
    Demonlover

    2002 · France · thriller, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #11

    0.281 citation
  7. 7
    Clean

    2004 · Canada / France / United Kingdom · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #24

    0.221 citation
  8. 8
    Something in the AirAprès mai

    2012 · France / Germany · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2013 #28

    0.211 citation
  9. 9
    Late August, Early SeptemberFin août, début septembre

    1998 · France · drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1999 #5

    0.191 citation
  10. 10
    Carlos

    2010 · France / Germany · drama

    Criterion Collection spine #582

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 25 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.