FrameThrower · Actors · Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran
5 films · 424 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1996
Born 8 November 1932 · Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France · died 27 March 2018
Stéphane Audran was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles.
She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).
Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 424 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1996
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1973
- Silver Bear for Best Actress1968
- César Award for Best Supporting Actress1979
- Officer of the National Order of Merit1990
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog1988
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1986
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1997
- Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1988
- Silver Shell for Best Actress1970
How their films are shot
Measured across 424 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stéphane takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Stéphane takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
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