Danièle Thompson

Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson
	Thompson in 2014
Born	3 January 1942 (age 82); Monaco
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1966–present

Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.

She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot and Jet Lag, which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film, Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father,^[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.^[2]

In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case^[1]

In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot in signing the petition in support of Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities.^[2]

Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	La Grande Vadrouille	Writer
1969	The Brain
1971	Delusions of Grandeur
1973	The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1975	Cousin Cousine		Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1978	La Carapate	Writer & Soundtrack
	Va voir maman, papa travaille	Writer
	Claudine		TV series (3 episodes)
1980	The Umbrella Coup
	La Boum
	Petit déjeuner compris		TV Mini-Series
1982	Ace of Aces
1982	La Boum 2
1984	The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
1986	Le Tiroir secret	Writer & Soundtrack	TV Mini-Series
1987	Malady of Love	Writer
1987	Lévy et Goliath
1988	L'Étudiante
1989	Vanille fraise
1991	La neige et le feu
1992	La femme de l'amant		TV movie
1992–present	Une famille formidable	Creator & Writer	TV series (12 episodes)
1993	Les marmottes	Writer
1994	La Reine Margot		Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1997	Le Rouge et Le Noir		TV movie
1997	Des gens si bien élevés		TV movie
1998	Paparazzi
1998	Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train		Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1999	Season's Beatings	Director & writer	Lumières Award for Best Screenplay Nominated - César Award for Best First Feature Film Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1999	Belle maman	Writer & Soundtrack
2000	La bicyclette bleue	Writer	TV Mini-Series
2001	Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre	Writer
2002	Jet Lag	Director & writer
2004	The Giraffe's Neck	Writer
2006	Avenue Montaigne	Director & writer	Nominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated - Globe de Cristal for Best Film
2006	Les grandes occasions	Writer	TV movie
2009	Change of Plans	Director & writer
2013	Des gens qui s'embrassent
2016	Cézanne and I

References

^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !". La Règle du jeu (in French). 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
^ "Polanski : La pétition". 7 June 2010.
^ Janis L. Pallister; Ruth A. Hottell (2005). Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-8386-4046-3. Retrieved 18 February 2012.