Oscar Directors: Triet, Justine–Background, Career, Awards (Only 8th in 96 Years Woman to be Nominated for Best Director)

Justine Triet Career Pattern

 

Justine Triet, French film director, screenwriter and editor, was born July 17, 1978.

In 2023, Triet won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Fest for the courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall, becoming the third female director to win the award.

Triet is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Her directorial debut, Age of Panic, was presented as part of the ACID program at the 2013 Cannes Film Fest, and was ranked 10th on Cahiers du Cinéma’s Top Ten List in 2013.

In 2016, she wrote and directed the romantic comedy-drama In Bed with Victoria, which was nominated for the César Awards for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.

In 2019, her comedy-drama Sibyl premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Fest, competing for the Palme d’Or.

In 2023, her courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall was presented at the 2023 Cannes Film Fest, where it won the Palme d’Or, making Triet the third female director to win the award.

In 2024, Triet became the first female French filmmaker and the eighth female director to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar.

She also earned nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Anatomy of a Fall and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Cesar Award nomination for best director

in January 2024, she was one of the people who signed a petition against Javier Milei’s reforms on Argentine film schools.

Triet is in a relationship with French filmmaker Arthur Harari, with whom she has two children. The couple frequently works together.

Triet is a member of the French gender equality group Collectif 50.

While receiving her Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Triet declared her support for the pension reform protest movement and opposed to President Emmanuel Macron’s repression of it. She accused the “neo-liberal government” of fostering cultural commercialization and weakening France’s cultural exceptionalism.

Triet dedicated her prize to new directors and those facing challenges in the film industry, urging greater chances and support for rising talent. Her remarks linked to debates in France in October 2022 at the Appel aux Etats Generaux (Call for General Assemblies), an exhibition conference, during which industry insiders blamed French “auteur” filmmaking for dwindling box office and urged for reduction in French film output.

Triet’s speech was criticized by Macron’s party, right-wing politicians, and French culture minister Rima Abdul Malak, who said she was “flabbergasted by such unfair comments.”

Triet’s speech received support from left-wing politicians and the SRF, the French directors’s guild. Insiders claimed that Triet was “punished” for criticizing Macron when France’s Oscar committee chose to submit The Taste of Things over Anatomy of a Fall to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 96th Academy Awards.

 

Filmography

Director Screenwriter Editor

2007: Sur place, Documentary short (also cinematographer and producer)

2007: L’Ordre des mots, Documentary (co-editor)

2009: Solférino, Documentary (also cinematographer and producer)

2010 Des ombres dans la maison, Documentary (also  cinematographer)

2012: Two Ships

Berlin Film Festival – Prix UIP
Nominated—Berlin Film Festival – Short Film Golden Bear
Nominated—European Film Award for Best Short Film

2013: Age of Panic

Nominated—César Award for Best First Feature Film
Nominated—Zurich Film Festival – Golden Eye

2016: In Bed with Victoria

Nominated—César Award for Best Film
Nominated—César Award for Best Original Screenplay

2019 Sibyl

Nominated—Palme d’Or—Cannes Film Festival

2023 Anatomy of a Fall

Palme d’Or—Cannes Film Festival
European Film Award for Best Director, Best Screenwriter