Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Daniel Toscan du Plantier ( born April 7, 1941 in Chambéry, † February 11, 2003 in Berlin) was a French film producer.
Life
Daniel Toscan du Plantier began in the mid -1970s, thus producing films. These included collaborations with Werner Herzog, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Greenaway and João César Monteiro. An appearance as an actor, he has 101 Night - Dreams of M. Cinema ( Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, 1996, Director: Agnès Varda )
Plantier was a professor at the L' IDHEC, between 1975 and 1985 President of the Gaumont studios, president of Unifrance film producer for Erato Films and president of the César Academy. Since 1992, he also served as President of the French Academy of Arts and Technology. In 1995 he donated to the American journalist Edward Behr the Prix Lumière. Plantier died in Berlin when he was staying with the local film festival. His third wife Sophie Bouniol was murdered in 1996 in Cork. The crime was never solved.
Director's Award
Since 2008, the Director's Award "Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier " is awarded. Prize winners were:
- 2008: Claude Berri et le Papillon Le Scaphandre by Julian Schnabel
- 2009: Pascal Caucheteux for Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin of
- Thomas Langmann for the films Mesrine and Astérix at the Olympic Games (film )