Name Philippe Falardeau | ||
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Awards Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay Nominations Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Movies Monsieur Lazhar, The Good Lie, My Internship in Canada, It's Not Me - I Swear, Congorama Similar People Mohamed Fellag, Ger Duany, Arnold Oceng, Emilien Neron, Patrick Huard | ||
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Philippe Falardeau (born 1968 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
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Career
Falardeau studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travelling around the world making 20 short films for the Quebec competitive television series Course Destination Monde. He emerged as the Grand Prize winner.
His first feature film, The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La Moitié gauche du frigo) (2000) won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards. Falardeau also received the Claude Jutra Award at the Canadian Genies in 2001 for this film.
Falardeau's Congorama won him a Genie Award in 2007 for Best Original Screenplay.
His 2011 film Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.