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 Leherissey
1952: La Grande Vie by Henri Schneider
1953: Crin Blanc (short) by Albert Lamorisse
1954: Les statues meurent aussi (short) by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker
1955: Émile Zola (short) by Jean Vidal
1956: Nuit et brouillard (short) by Alain Resnais
1957: Léon la lune (short) by Alain Jessua
1958: Les Femmes de Stermetz (short) by Louis Grospierre
1959: Le Beau Serge by Claude Chabrol
1960: À bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard
1961: La Peau et les os by Jean-Paul Sassy and Jacques Panuel
1962: La Guerre des boutons by Yves Robert
1963: Mourir à Madrid by Frédéric Rossif
1964: La Belle Vie by Robert Enrico
1965: not awarded
1966: La Noire de... by Ousmane Sembène
1967: Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein
1968: O Salto by Christian de Chalonge
1969: L'Enfance nue by Maurice Pialat
1970: Hoa Binh by Raoul Coutard
1971: Remparts d'argile by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
1972: Continental Circus by Jérôme Laperroussaz
1973: Absences répétées by Guy Gilles
1974: Un homme qui dort by Bernard Queyssanne and Georges Perec
1975: Histoire de Paul by René Féret
1976: L'Affiche rouge by Frank Cassenti
1977: Paradiso by Christian Bricout
1978: Bako-l'autre rive by Jacques Champreux
1979: Certaines nouvelles by Jacques Davila
1980: Ma blonde entends-tu dans la ville ? by René Gilson
1981: Le Jardinier by Jean-Pierre Sentier
1982: L'Enfant secret by Philippe Garrel
1984: Vive la sociale! by Gérard Mordillat
1985: Le Thé au harem d'Archimède by Medhi Charef
1986: Maine Océan by Jacques Rozier
1987: Buisson ardent by Laurent Perrin
1988: La Comédie du travail by Luc Moullet
1989: Chine ma douleur by Sijie Daï
1990: Mona et moi by Patrick Grandperret
1991: Le Brasier by Eric Barbier
1992: Paris s'éveille by Olivier Assayas
1993: Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général by Anne Fontaine
1994: Trop de bonheur by Cédric Kahn
1995: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir by Xavier Beauvois
1996: Encore by Pascal Bonitzer
1997: La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
1998: Dis-moi que je rêve by Claude Mourieras
1999: La vie ne me fait pas peur by Noémie Lvoski
2000:
Saint-Cyr by Patricia Mazuy
De l'histoire ancienne by Orso Miret
2000: Les Filles de mon pays (short) by Yves Caumon
2001: Candidature by Emmanuel Bourdieu ex-æquo with Ce vieux rêve qui bouge by Alain Guiraudie
2002: Royal Bonbon by Charles Najman
2003: Toutes ces belles promesses by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
2004: Quand je serai star by Patrick Mimouni
2005: Les Yeux clairs by Jérôme Bonnell
2006: Le Dernier des fous by Laurent Achard
2007: La France by Serge Bozon
2008: Nulle part, terre promise by Emmanuel Finkiel
2009: L'Arbre et la Forêt by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
2010: Un poison violent by Katell Quillévéré
2011: Les Chants de Mandrin by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
2012: L'Âge atomique by Héléna Klotz
2013: L'Enclos du temps by Jean-Charles Fitoussi
2014: Mange tes morts by Jean-Charles Hue
2015: La Peur by Damien Odoul
2016: La Mort de Louis XIV by Albert Serra
1960: Enfants des courants d'air by Édouard Luntz
1961: not awarded
1962: 10 juin 1944 by Maurice Cohen
1963: La Jetée by Chris Marker
1964: La Saint-Firmin by Robert Destanque
1965: Fait à Coaraze by Gérard Belkin
1966: not awarded
1967: not awarded
1968: Désirée by Fernand Moszkowicz
1969: Le Deuxième Ciel by Louis-Roger
1970: La Passion selon Florimond by Laurent Gomes
1971: Derniers hivers by Jean-Charles Tacchella
1972: not awarded
1973: Le Soldat et les trois sœurs by Pascal Aubier
1974: Septembre chilien by Bruno Muel and Théo Robichet
1975: La Corrida by Christian Broutin
1976: Caméra by Christian Paureilhe
1977: not awarded
1978: not awarded
1979: Nuit féline by Gérard Marx
1980: not awarded
1981: not awarded
1982: Lourdes, l'hiver by Marie-Claude Treilhou
1983: La Fonte de Barlaeus by Pierre-Henri Salfati
1984: not awarded
1985: Épopine ou le Fer à repasser by Michel Chion
1986: Poussières d'étoiles by Agnès Merlet
1987: Pondichéry, juste avant l'oubli by Joël Fargès
1988: Elle et lui by François Margolin
1989: Le Porte-plume by Marie-Christine Perrodin
1990: Elli Fat Man by Michel Such
1991: La Vie des morts by Arnaud Desplechin
1992: Des filles et des chiens by Sophie Fillières
1993: Faits et gestes by Emmanuel Descombes
1994: 75 centilitres de prières by Jacques Maillot
1995: Tous à la manif by Laurent Cantet
1996: not awarded
1997: Soyons amis ! by Thomas Bardinet
1998: Les Corps ouverts by Sébastien Lifshitz
1999: Le Bleu du ciel by Christian Dor
2000: Les Filles de mon pays by Yves Caumon
2001: Ce vieux rêve qui bouge by Alain Guiraudie
2002: L'Arpenteur by Michel Klein and Sarah Petit
2003: La Coupure by Nathalie Loubeyre
2004: La nuit sera longue by Olivier Torres
2005: La Peau trouée by Julien Samani
2006: De sortie by Thomas Salvador
2007: Silêncio by F.J. Ossang
2008: Les Paradis perdus by Hélier Cisterne
2009: Montparnasse by Mikhael Hers
2010: La République by Nicolas Pariser
2011: La Dame au chien by Damien Manivel
2012:
La Règle de trois by Louis Garrel
La Vie Parisienne by Vincent Dietschy
2013: Le Quepa sur la vilni ! by Yann Le Quellec
2014: Inupiluk by Sébastien Betbeder
2015: Le Dernier des Céfrans by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun
2016: Le Gouffre by Vincent Le Port
The 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.
