Jean Dujardin

Jean Dujardin won the Academy Award for best actor in 2012 for his work in The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius and released in 2011. Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt stood in the category with him. On the César side he has twice been a nominee and twice lost, in 2020 for Roman Polanski's An Officer and a Spy and in 2023 for Cédric Jimenez's November, with the awards going to Roschdy Zem and Benoît Magimel. He has worked with Hazanavicius three times, and OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is the earliest of those in the catalogue. Little White Lies is among his fifteen films here. The Artist also brought him the male lead award at Film Independent's 2012 ceremony.