Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 –  February 12, 1979) is a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

As a film director and actor, he makes more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s.

His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.

He was ranked by the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time.

Among numerous honors accrued during his lifetime, he receives a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.

Renoir is the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

He is one of the first filmmakers to be known as an auteur.

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