Jean-Louis Milesi
Jean-Louis Milesi
- AWARDS
- BIO
- AWARD-WINNING FILMS
- CV
REWARDS
REWARDS
novelist
LIVR’À VANNES LITERARY FAIR
City of Vannes Literary Prize
screenwriter
ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best Screenplay
Prix des Lumières de Paris
Best Screenplay
HENRI JEANSON AWARD (SACD)
Winner
SAN SEBASTIAN
Special mention for the screenplay
MONS FILM FESTIVAL
Best Screenplay
CHARLES SPAAK AWARD, Belgium
Winner
Director
LUCHON
Special Mention from the Jury
TOKYO
Special Jury Prize
Nominations: screenwriter
CÉSAR
Best Screenplay
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Best Screenplay
BIO
Jean-Louis Milesi was born in Italy and arrived in France at the age of two months. After finishing nursery school, he dropped out of university after just a few weeks.
This was followed by a string of odd jobs that took him to the heart of a nuclear power station, a desert region on the Iran-Iraq border, and building sites buffeted by the Mistral wind...
He moved to Paris to try his hand at filmmaking and became a screenwriter without really intending to (he just wanted to write his own stories). The films he wrote for Robert Guédiguian enjoyed national and international success (Marius and Jeannette, The City Is Quiet, Marie-Jo and Her Two Loves, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...).
He moved to California for a family project, and this land that trembles shook him to the core. He ended all collaboration with Guédiguian, finished his first novel (Clint Eastwood’s Boots), directed a feature film (Don’t Give Up The Ghost) and wrote the screenplay for the animated film *Josep* for director Aurel. It was the most award-winning film of his career.
Back in France, he wrote a second film for Aurel, *Désert*. And he devoted himself increasingly to writing novels. He published *Au loin, quelques chevaux* and *Deux plumes* with Presses de la Cité and Pocket. And *Flamboyante Zola*, also with Presses de la Cité and Pocket...
AWARD-WINNING FILMS
JOSEP
Cannes Film Festival 2020: Official Selection
Athens International Film Festival (Greece): Best Screenplay Award / Audience Award
Plaisance-du-Touch International Historical Fiction Film Festival: Audience Award
War on Screen in Châlons-en-Champagne: Press Award
Namur International Francophone Film Festival (Belgium): Special Jury Prize
Abycine – Albacete International Film Festival: Young Film Award
Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain) – Best Director
Acadie International Francophone Film Festival (Canada): Best International Film
Guadalajara Film Festival (Mexico): Best Animated Film
Mérida Unreleased Film Festival (Spain): Audience Award / Best Film Award (awarded for the first time to an animated film)
European Film Awards 2020: Best Animated Film Award
TVE2 (Spanish national television’s ‘Cinéma Historique’ programme): Best Animated Film Award
Audience Award at the Protestant Cultural Workshop: Grand Prize
Les Lauriers du Club Média Ciné 2021: Best French Film
2021 International Press ‘Lumières’ Awards: ‘Lumière’ for Best Animated Film for *Aurel* / ‘Lumière’ for Best Original Score for Sílvia Pérez Cruz
Louis Delluc Prize: First Film Award (awarded for the first time to an animated film)
My French Film Festival: International Press Award / Audience Award
Anima Festival in Belgium: BeTV Award for Best Feature Film in the Official Selection
International Cinephile Society: Best Animated Film
French Film Critics’ Union: Best Debut Film
César 2021: Best Animated Film
Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2021: Grand Prix
Miami Jewish Film Festival: Critics’ Choice Award
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS): Special Mention from the Jury
FICDH International Human Rights Film Festival: Honourable Mention
Meknès International Animation Film Festival: Audience Award
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019: Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO
Les Lumière de Paris: Best Screenplay
Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection
Luz Award: Winner
Turia Awards: Best Foreign Film
Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film
Étoiles d’Or (France): Best New Actress – Anaïs Demoustier
César Awards: Best Actress nomination – Ariane Ascaride
Globes de Cristal Awards: Best Actor nomination – Jean-Pierre Darroussin
LINO
D-Cinema International Festival, Japan: Special Jury Prize.
Turin Film Festival: in competition.
Cinemed, Montpellier: in competition.
Festivals in Lunel, Colmar, Lyon, Albi...
FRAGILE
Luchon Film Festival: Special Jury Mention / Best Actor – Martin Lamotte / Jury’s Favourite – Alain Cauchi / Most Promising Newcomer – Jean-Jérôme Esposito.
LADY JANE
Berlin Film Festival: in competition
MARIE-JO AND HER TWO LOVES
Cannes Film Festival: in competition
César Awards: Best Actress nomination – Ariane Ascaride
European Film Awards: Best Actress nomination – Ariane Ascaride
THE TOWN IS QUIET
Mons Film Festival: Best Screenplay Award.
European Film Awards: Best Screenplay nomination.
European Film Awards: Critics’ Award
Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actress – Ariane Ascaride
Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film
IN PLACE OF THE HEART
San Sebastian Film Festival: Special Mention for the screenplay
MARIUS AND JEANNETTE
Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection.
Césars: Nomination for Best Screenplay
César: Best Actress – Ariane Ascaride
Louis Delluc Prize
Henri Jeanson Prize
Les Lumières de Paris: Best Film
Geneva International Film Festival: Grand Prix
TO LIFE, TO DEATH
Namur International Festival: Special Jury Prize
MONEY BRINGS HAPPINESS
Reims European Film Festival: Michel Kûhn Prize
CV
CV
2027 – THE OCTOPUS’S DAUGHTER (Moby Dick)
2026 – FLAMBOYANT ZOLA (Pocket)
2025 – FLAMBOYANTE ZOLA (Presses de la Cité)
2024 – FAR AWAY, A FEW HORSES, TWO FEATHERS (Pocket)
2023 – FAR AWAY, A FEW HORSES, TWO FEATHERS (Presses de la Cité)
2017 – CLINT EASTWOOD’S BOOTS (Éditions Le Passage)
2012 – DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST (UNPUBLISHED)
2008 – LINO
2004 – Camille des Lilas and the Child Thieves (unpublished)
2002 – FRAGILE
2000 - NAG, THE BOMB
1984/2010 – VARIOUS SHORT FILMS
2026 - DESERT, by Aurel (in production)
2024 – DU BOUT DES DOIGTS, by Aurel (in production)
2023 – THE LITTLE PRINCE, BIRTH OF A STAR, documentary by Vincent Nguyen
2020 – JOSEP, animated film by Aurel
2010 – THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, Robert Guédiguian
2008 - LADY JANE, directed by Robert Guédiguian
2007 – SEMPRE VIVU, a film by Robin Renucci
2005 - TALENTS CANNES: 5 short films
2003 – MY FATHER IS AN ENGINEER, directed by Robert Guédiguian
2002 - MARIE-JO AND HER TWO LOVERS (Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers), Robert Guédiguian
2001 - CHARMANT GARÇON, a film by Patrick Chesnais
2000 – LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE (The Town Is Quiet) Robert Guédiguian
2000 - CHARGE! Robert Guédiguian
1998 - WHERE THE HEART IS Robert Guédiguian
1997 - MARIUS AND JEANNETTE (Marius and Jeannette) Robert Guédiguian
1995 - 'Til Death Do Us Part Robert Guédiguian
1992 – MONEY BRINGS HAPPINESS Robert Guédiguian
2026 – *Boule de Suif* (based on Maupassant), Cie du Bélouga, directed by Taïra
2010 – VIVA! Reading at Les Actuelles, Festival of Dramatic Writing, Strasbourg
2007 – À LA VIE! directed by Pierre-Loup Rajot – Théâtre Mouffetard (Paris), Théâtre du Toursky (Marseille) and TMR (Montreux, Switzerland)
1995 - LA STRADA (adaptation of Fellini’s film), directed by Yvan Garouel – Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
1984 – A SMALL PROBLEM A LITTLE BIGGER THAN A FINGER
(based on *Jacques the Fatalist*), directed by Jean-Louis Milesi – La Tarasque (Avignon)
1981 – NÉANT CAGE, directed by Jean-Louis Milesi – 1000 Clubs (Bagnols-sur-Cèze)
2013 - THE REFUGEES (by Clara Bijl), the baker
2012 – DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST: the father & the guard
2008 – LINO Tirelire (lead role)
2010 – DANS SA BULLE by Pierre-Loup Rajot, role of the customer
1981 – NÉANT CAGE, role of God
WRITER OF THE SONGS for my films and several of Robert Guédiguian’s.
PERFORMER of the song ‘Vieux Con’ in CAMILLE DES LILAS, and ‘Lunedi’ in the short film LUNDI
EDITING: DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST, LINO, CAMILLE DES LILAS, LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR (feature film by Caroline Chaumiène)
SOUND EDITING: LINO, CAMILLE DES LILAS, LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR, UN MÉDECIN DES LUMIÈRES (TV film by René Allio, 3 x 90’)
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