The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the Cinema of France given annually since 1951 to a French film director in homage to Jean Vigo. It was founded by French writer Claude Aveline. Since 1960, the award is given to a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film.
The award is usually given to a young director, for his or her independent spirit and stylistic originality.
1951: La Montagne est verte (short) by Jean Leherissey1952: La Grande Vie by Henri Schneider1953: Crin Blanc (short) by Albert Lamorisse1954: Les statues meurent aussi (short) by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker1955: Émile Zola (short) by Jean Vidal1956: Nuit et brouillard (short) by Alain Resnais1957: Léon la lune (short) by Alain Jessua1958: Les Femmes de Stermetz (short) by Louis Grospierre1959: Le Beau Serge by Claude Chabrol1960: À bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard1961: La Peau et les os by Jean-Paul Sassy and Jacques Panuel1962: La Guerre des boutons by Yves Robert1963: Mourir à Madrid by Frédéric Rossif1964: La Belle Vie by Robert Enrico1965: not awarded1966: La Noire de... by Ousmane Sembène1967: Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein1968: O Salto by Christian de Chalonge1969: L'Enfance nue by Maurice Pialat1970: Hoa Binh by Raoul Coutard1971: Remparts d'argile by Jean-Louis Bertucelli1972: Continental Circus by Jérôme Laperroussaz1973: Absences répétées by Guy Gilles1974: Un homme qui dort by Bernard Queyssanne and Georges Perec1975: Histoire de Paul by René Féret1976: L'Affiche rouge by Frank Cassenti1977: Paradiso by Christian Bricout1978: Bako-l'autre rive by Jacques Champreux1979: Certaines nouvelles by Jacques Davila1980: Ma blonde entends-tu dans la ville ? by René Gilson1981: Le Jardinier by Jean-Pierre Sentier1982: L'Enfant secret by Philippe Garrel1984: Vive la sociale! by Gérard Mordillat1985: Le Thé au harem d'Archimède by Medhi Charef1986: Maine Océan by Jacques Rozier1987: Buisson ardent by Laurent Perrin1988: La Comédie du travail by Luc Moullet1989: Chine ma douleur by Sijie Daï1990: Mona et moi by Patrick Grandperret1991: Le Brasier by Eric Barbier1992: Paris s'éveille by Olivier Assayas1993: Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général by Anne Fontaine1994: Trop de bonheur by Cédric Kahn1995: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir by Xavier Beauvois1996: Encore by Pascal Bonitzer1997: La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont1998: Dis-moi que je rêve by Claude Mourieras1999: La vie ne me fait pas peur by Noémie Lvoski2000:Saint-Cyr by Patricia MazuyDe l'histoire ancienne by Orso Miret2000: Les Filles de mon pays (short) by Yves Caumon2001: Candidature by Emmanuel Bourdieu ex-æquo with Ce vieux rêve qui bouge by Alain Guiraudie2002: Royal Bonbon by Charles Najman2003: Toutes ces belles promesses by Jean-Paul Civeyrac2004: Quand je serai star by Patrick Mimouni2005: Les Yeux clairs by Jérôme Bonnell2006: Le Dernier des fous by Laurent Achard2007: La France by Serge Bozon2008: Nulle part, terre promise by Emmanuel Finkiel2009: L'Arbre et la Forêt by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau2010: Un poison violent by Katell Quillévéré2011: Les Chants de Mandrin by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche2012: L'Âge atomique by Héléna Klotz2013: L'Enclos du temps by Jean-Charles Fitoussi2014: Mange tes morts by Jean-Charles Hue2015: La Peur by Damien Odoul2016: La Mort de Louis XIV by Albert Serra1960: Enfants des courants d'air by Édouard Luntz1961: not awarded1962: 10 juin 1944 by Maurice Cohen1963: La Jetée by Chris Marker1964: La Saint-Firmin by Robert Destanque1965: Fait à Coaraze by Gérard Belkin1966: not awarded1967: not awarded1968: Désirée by Fernand Moszkowicz1969: Le Deuxième Ciel by Louis-Roger1970: La Passion selon Florimond by Laurent Gomes1971: Derniers hivers by Jean-Charles Tacchella1972: not awarded1973: Le Soldat et les trois sœurs by Pascal Aubier1974: Septembre chilien by Bruno Muel and Théo Robichet1975: La Corrida by Christian Broutin1976: Caméra by Christian Paureilhe1977: not awarded1978: not awarded1979: Nuit féline by Gérard Marx1980: not awarded1981: not awarded1982: Lourdes, l'hiver by Marie-Claude Treilhou1983: La Fonte de Barlaeus by Pierre-Henri Salfati1984: not awarded1985: Épopine ou le Fer à repasser by Michel Chion1986: Poussières d'étoiles by Agnès Merlet1987: Pondichéry, juste avant l'oubli by Joël Fargès1988: Elle et lui by François Margolin1989: Le Porte-plume by Marie-Christine Perrodin1990: Elli Fat Man by Michel Such1991: La Vie des morts by Arnaud Desplechin1992: Des filles et des chiens by Sophie Fillières1993: Faits et gestes by Emmanuel Descombes1994: 75 centilitres de prières by Jacques Maillot1995: Tous à la manif by Laurent Cantet1996: not awarded1997: Soyons amis ! by Thomas Bardinet1998: Les Corps ouverts by Sébastien Lifshitz1999: Le Bleu du ciel by Christian Dor2000: Les Filles de mon pays by Yves Caumon2001: Ce vieux rêve qui bouge by Alain Guiraudie2002: L'Arpenteur by Michel Klein and Sarah Petit2003: La Coupure by Nathalie Loubeyre2004: La nuit sera longue by Olivier Torres2005: La Peau trouée by Julien Samani2006: De sortie by Thomas Salvador2007: Silêncio by F.J. Ossang2008: Les Paradis perdus by Hélier Cisterne2009: Montparnasse by Mikhael Hers2010: La République by Nicolas Pariser2011: La Dame au chien by Damien Manivel2012:La Règle de trois by Louis GarrelLa Vie Parisienne by Vincent Dietschy2013: Le Quepa sur la vilni ! by Yann Le Quellec2014: Inupiluk by Sébastien Betbeder2015: Le Dernier des Céfrans by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun2016: Le Gouffre by Vincent Le PortThe Spanish documentary film Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival 1 presents, for the first time in Spain, the Premio Jean Vigo al mejor director (Jean Vigo Prize to the best director).
The new award aims to strengthen both the spirit which inspired the festival in the first place and its commitment to the work of Jean Vigo. The creation of this prize has been made possible thanks to the close ties between Punto de Vista and the family of the French filmmaker.
Punto de Vista paid tribute to the director of Zero de Conduite on the centenary of his birth in 2005. Luce Vigo, film critic and daughter of Vigo and Elizabeth Lozinska, attended that year. The festival provided an opportunity to look back on Vigo’s entire filmography and also represented the first step in a relationship which has now fructified in the form of this award. The Festival took its name, Punto de Vista (Point of View), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, back in the 30’s, to a “documented point of view” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking which commits the filmmaker.
