Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche
at the Elysee Biarritz movie theatre in Paris on 22 October 2009
Born	(1964-03-09) 9 March 1964 Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Partner	André Halle (1991–1993)

Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛt binɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1983. While appearing in amateur productions in her teens, Binoche studied acting. She became a leading actress firstly in French cinema with her role in the successful André Téchiné's drama Rendez-vous, then gained international acclaim for her performance in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). She won a César Award for Best Actress and the Venice Film Festival for Best Actress for Three Colors: Blue (1993), and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in The English Patient (1996). Other notable performances include Les Amants du Pont Neuf (1991), Damage (1992), Chocolat (2000), Caché (2005), The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), and Certified Copy (2010) for which she received the Best Actress Award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, making her the first actress to win the European "triple crown".

Early life and career

Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Binoche's mother is of Polish descent, and her maternal Polish-Catholic grandparents were imprisoned at Auschwitz because they were intellectuals. Binoche also has French, Flemish, Brazilian and Moroccan ancestry. Her parents divorced when she was four and Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a boarding school.

Binoche began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. The next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris (CNSAD). She found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe in which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym of "Juliette Adrienne".

After quitting the CNSAD, she began acting lessons with famed coach Vera Gregh. Following in her mother's footsteps, she became a stage actress, occasionally taking small parts in French feature films. Her first screen role was a small part in the 1983 television film Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten, which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. After Binoche secured her first big screen appearance with a small supporting role in Pascal Kané's Algeria-themed Liberty Belle, she decided to pursue a career in cinema.

1984–1991

Juliette Binoche in 1985.

Binoche's early films saw her firmly established as a French star of some renown. The recurring themes of these films were of contemporary young women exploring their lives and their sexuality. Small roles in Les Nanas and Adieu blaireau led to more significant exposure in Jean-Luc Godard's Je vous salue, Marie and Jacques Doillon's La Vie de Famille which cast her as the teenage stepdaughter of Sami Frey's character. This film was to set the theme and tone of the early career.

In 1985, Binoche secured the lead role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year, winning Best Director. Rendez-Vous is the story of a provincial actress, Nina (Binoche), who arrives in Paris and embarks on a series of liaisons with a number of different men, including the moody suicidal Quentin (Lambert Wilson)). However it is her collaboration with theatre director Scrutzler, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant that defines Nina. In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César Award for Best Actress for performance in the film.

Binoche's next film was a role in Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur by Jacques Rouffio, which was a critical and commercial failure. Later that year, she starred opposite Michel Piccoli in Léos Carax's Mauvais Sang. This film, however, was a critical and commercial success, leading to Binoche's second César Award nomination. The film is an avante-garde thriller in which Binoche plays Anna vastly younger lover of Marc, played by veteran Michel Piccoli.

In August 1986, Binoche began shooting Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being based on the Milan Kundera novel. Binoche portrayed the young and innocent Tereza. This was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike following its 1988 premiere. Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina (Lena Olin). After this success, Binoche decided to return to France rather than pursue an international career.

In 1988, she filmed the lead in Pierre Pradinas's Un tour de manège, a little-seen French film. Later that year she began work on Léos Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. The film was beset by problems and took three years to complete. When it was released in 1991, The Lovers on the Bridge was a critical success. Binoche won a European Film Award for best actress as well as securing her third César Award nomination. In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives on the streets of Paris, where she meets another young vagrant (Denis Lavant) on Paris's oldest bridge. This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate affair and some of the most visually arresting images of the city ever created.

1992–2000

Juliette Binoche at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

The 1990s saw Juliette Binoche inaugurated as a European leading lady in a series of international films that were critical and commercial successes winning Binoche numerous awards for her performances. This period saw her persona develop from that of a young gamine to a more melancholic, tragic presence. Critics noted that many of her roles were notable for her almost passive intensity in the face of tragedy and despair. In fact Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her "sorrowful sisters".

Following the long shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Binoche relocated to London for the 1992 productions of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Damage, both of which considerably enhanced her international reputation. For Damage Binoche received her fourth César Award nomination.

In 1993, she appeared in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue to much critical acclaim. The film premiered at the 1993 Venice Film Festival, landed Binoche the Best Actress Prize in Venice, a César Award for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe nomination. Three Colors Blue is the story of a composer’s wife who must try to rebuild her shattered life following the death of her husband and child in a car accident.

After this success, she took a short sabbatical during which she gave birth to her son, Raphael.

In 1995, Binoche appeared in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The film was a box-office success around the world and Binoche was again nominated for a César Award for Best Actress. This role as a romantic heroine was to color the direction of many of her roles in the late 1990s.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in A Couch in New York by Chantal Akerman. Co-starring William Hurt, this screw-ball comedy tells the story of a New York psychiatrist who swaps homes with a Parisian dancer. The film was a commercial failure, but Binoche's next film, The English Patient, based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit.

The English Patient, the story of a badly burned, mysterious man found in the wreckage of a plane during World War II, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Binoche. With this film, she became the second French cinema actress to win an Oscar. She said in her acceptance speech that it was such a surprise, and that she had thought fellow nominee Lauren Bacall was going to win; she started to thank people, but only got past her director Anthony Minghella before laughing that it "must be a dream... a French dream!"

After this international hit, Binoche returned to France and began work opposite Daniel Auteuil on Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac, which was based on a true story. However, Binoche was released from this film six weeks into the shoot, over differences with Berri regarding the authenticity of his script.

Next she worked again with André Téchiné on Alice et Martin (1998), the story of a relationship between a damaged Parisian musician and her younger lover who hides a dark family secret. The film failed to find an audience in France, although it was critically acclaimed in the UK.

This was followed in 1999 by Children of the Century in which she played 19th-century French writer George Sand in a film that depicted Sand's affair with the poet and dandy Alfred de Musset played by Benoit Magimel.

Binoche at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

2000 saw Binoche in four successful, but different, roles. Firstly was La Veuve de Saint-Pierre by Patrice Leconte for which she was nominated for a César Award for best actress. This period drama saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

Next she appeared in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown, a film which was made following Binoche's approach to the Austrian director. The film appeared in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. This critically acclaimed role was a welcome change for Binoche from playing the romantic heroine in a series of costume dramas.

Binoche made her Broadway debut in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Back on screen, Binoche was the heroine of the Lasse Hallstrom film Chocolat for which she won a European Film Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA. Based on the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat is the story of a mysterious stranger who opens a ‘chocolaterie’ in a conservative French village in 1959. The film was a world wide hit.

Between 1995 and 2000, Binoche was the advertising face of the Lancôme scent Poème, her image adorning print campaigns and a TV advertising campaign. There were three commercials featuring Binoche for the perfume, including an advert directed by Anthony Minghella and scored by Gabriel Yared.

By the end of this period and following roles in a number of prestige productions, critics were wondering if Binoche was typecast as the tragic, despairing muse. In a feature article entitled "The Erotic Face" in the June 2000 edition of British film magazine Sight and Sound, Ginette Vincendeau pondered Binoche's persona. Vincendeau suggested that the fixation of numerous directors upon her face had led to an erasure of her body, and to her being perceived only as a romantic icon rather than a versatile actress.

2001–2006

Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno at Cannes, 2002

Following the success of Chocolat, the early 2000s saw Binoche firmly established as an A-list movie star. However, her persona seemed to be somewhat fixed following a series of period roles where Binoche played the always stoic heroine.

Ever keen to try something new, Juliette Binoche returned to France for an unlikely role; Jet Lag (2002) opposite Jean Reno saw Binoche play a ditzy beautician. The film, directed by Daniele Thompson was a box-office hit in France and saw Binoche once again nominated for a César Award for best actress. The film tells the story of a couple who meet in an airport during a strike. Initially the pair despises each other, but, over the course of a night, they find common ground and maybe even love.

In 2003, Binoche featured in an Italian TV commercial for the chocolates Ferrero Rocher. This ad played upon her Chocolat persona and featured Binoche handing Rochers to people on the streets of Paris.

Next Binoche went to South Africa to film John Boorman's In My Country (2004) opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Based on the book ‘’Country of My Skull’’ by Antjie Krog the film examines The Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings following the abolition of Apartheid. Although the film premiered at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, it received much criticism for it inclusion of a love affair and it’s depiction of black South Africans.

Binoche then teamed up with Michael Haneke again for Caché in 2005. The film was an immediate success, winning best director at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Binoche was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actress for her role. The film tells the story of a bourgeois Parisian couple played by Binoche and Daniel Auteuil who begin to receive anonymous videotapes featuring footage seemingly filmed outside their home. The film went on to feature on numerous lists of the top 10 films of the 2000s, including the number one position in a list published by The Times.

Binoche's next film was Bee Season with Richard Gere. Based on the celebrated novel by Myla Goldberg the film was not a success with audiences or critics. The film depicts the emotional disintegration of a family just as their daughter begins to win spelling bees. For many critics the film, although intelligent, was “distant and diffuse”.

Mary (2005) saw Binoche collaborate with Abel Ferrara for an investigation of modern faith and Mary Magdalene's position in the Catholic Church. The film was an immediate success, winning the Grand Prix at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Although the film won favourable reviews in France, particularly from the influential cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles, it failed to secure a distributor in key markets such as the US and the UK.

2006 saw Binoche take part in the portmanteau work Paris, je t'aime appearing in a section directed by Nobuhiro Suwa. Place des Victoires is the story of a grief stricken mother who manages to have a final brief moment with her dead son.

Binoche appeared at the 2006 Venice Film Festival to launch A Few Days in September, by Santiago Amigorena. The film was not successful and was the recipient of very harsh criticism from the press for its perceived trivialisation of the events of 11 September 2001.

Next she travelled to the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of Breaking and Entering, her second film with Anthony Minghella in the director's chair, where she played opposite Jude Law as a Bosnian refugee in London. Although Binoche was praised for her performance the film did not ring true for critics and failed to find an audience.

Although Binoche began the decade on a high with an Academy Award nomination for Chocolat, she struggled in the first part of the 2000s to find roles that did not confine her to the persona developed in the 1990s. Despite the huge success of Caché, other high profile films such as In My Country, Bee Season and Breaking and Entering failed critically and commercially. At this point Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.

2007–present

Binoche at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2007 Cannes Film Festival saw the premiere of Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge by the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. The film was well received by international critics and went on to debut around the world in early 2008. In a homage to Albert Lamorisse's 1957 short Le Ballon Rouge, Hou's film tells the story of a single mother's struggles to juggle her responsibilities as a mother with her commitment to her career as a voice artist. The film was number 1 on the influential critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 List for 2008 published in The Village Voice.

Peter Hedges co-wrote and directed her in Dan in Real Life, a romantic comedy opposite Steve Carell. It was released in October 2007, becoming a popular commercial success in the US, before debuting around the world in 2008. To date the film has grossed over $85 million at the worldwide boxoffice.

Back in France Binoche was seen to popular and critical success in Paris by Cédric Klapisch. The ensemble film, a personal ode to the French capital, features an impressive ensemble of French talent including; Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini and Melanie Laurent. Paris is one of the most successful French films internationally in recent years having grossed $22,850,194 at the world box office.

L'Heure D'été by Olivier Assayas is the critically acclaimed story of three siblings who struggle with the responsibility of disposing of their late mother's valuable art collection following her death. The film premiered in France in March 2008 and debuted at the 2008 New York Film Festival, before going on general release in the US on 19 May 2009. Widely acclaimed the film appeared on numerous Top 10 lists including first place on David Edelstein's Top 10 of 2009 list in New York Magazine, and J.R. Jones's list in the Chicago Reader.

Disengagement by Amos Gitai followed in which Binoche played a French woman of Dutch/Palestinian origins who finds herself on the Gaza Strip searching for a daughter she abandoned 20 years before.

In the Autumn of 2008 Binoche appeared in a theatrical dance production titled in-i with Akram Khan, which featured stage design by Anish Kapoor and music by Philip Sheppard premiering at the National Theatre in London before moving to New York, L.A., Sydney and Paris. The production was part of a 'Binoche Season' called 'Ju'Bi'lations' which also featured a retrospective of her film work and an exhibition of her paintings, which were published in a bilingual book Portraits in Eyes.

At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Binoche revealed that she was developing projects with Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen.

In June 2009 Binoche began work on Certified Copy for Abbas Kiarostami. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the festival for her performance. The film went on general release in France on 19 May 2010 to very positive reviews. Her win at the 2010 Cannes Film festival makes Binoche the first actress in history to win the European 'triple crown': Best Actress at Venice for Trois Couleurs Bleu, Best Actress at Berlin for The English Patient and Best Actress at Cannes for Certified Copy.

In interviews at the 2010 festival, Binoche revealed that she is currently developing film projects with Jia Zhangke and Peter Kosminsky, who directed her in her 1992 film Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

In April 2010, Binoche began shooting Son of No One for American director Dito Montiel. The film also stars Channing Tatum, Al Pacino and Ray Liotta. It is due for release in the US in December 2010.

In June 2010, Binoche started work on Sponsoring for Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska.

She is due to shoot Relative Insanity for Larry Moss later in 2010.

Personal life

Binoche has two children: Raphaël (born on 2 September 1993), whose father is André Halle, a professional scuba diver, and Hana (born on 16 December 1999), whose father is actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 film Children of the Century.

She previously had romantic relationships with Leos Carax, Olivier Martinez, a brief relationship with Daniel Day-Lewis and a relationship with Argentine writer/director Santiago Amigorena between 2005 and 2008.

Painting

In the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, in which Binoche portrays an artist, the paintings used in the film were Binoche's own work. She also designed the poster for the film.

In 1993, Binoche exhibited work done in collaboration with the French designer and artist Christian Fenouillat. They plan to collaborate again in the future and are currently working on pieces themed by Cinema.

In November 2008, Juliette Binoche published a bilingual large format book entitled "Juliette Binoche, Portraits In-Eyes". The book contains large full page portraits of each director she has worked with to date as well as self portraits of her as each character. Binoche also wrote a few lines dedicated to each director. The book was published by French house "Editions Place des Victoires".

Charities

Binoche has been involved with a number of charities, including being a patron of the Cambodian charity Aspecta since 1992. She is also godmother to five Cambodian orphans.

In 2004, Binoche organised an auction on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières, in which disposable cameras were given to numerous celebrities and then auctioned off; the winner of each camera would then develop the pictures to reveal that celebrity's chosen subject.

Political views

In 2007, Binoche said she disagreed with the official version of the September 11 attacks, and that US government agencies must have had fore-knowledge of the attacks.

She supported José Bové in the 2007 French presidential elections which were won by Nicolas Sarkozy. She has disclosed on a number of occasions that she does not approve of the Sarkozy administration, stating that the president is creating a monarchic republic.

At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Binoche spoke out against the detention of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, incarcerated in Teheran's Evin Prison since 1 March 2010 without charge or conviction. At the press conference following the press screening of Copie Conforme, Binoche was informed that Panahi had begun a hunger strike.

The following day Binoche attended a press conference called especially to demand the release of Panahi. Also in attendance were Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Gilles Jacob. Binoche read a letter which pointed out that Panahi's detention was "unwarranted and intolerable".

When Binoche was awarded the Best Actress award at the festival, brandishing his name on a placard, she used her speech as an opportunity to raise Panahi's plight once again. On May 25 it was announced that Panahi had been released on bail. It was generally agreed that the publicity Binoche and Kiarostami elicited for his case was a strong factor in his release.

Depardieu/Binoche Controversy

In a provocative interview with Stefan Grisseman, published in the September 2010 issue of the Austrian magazine Profil, leading French actor Gérard Depardieu made scathing comments in relation to Juliette Binoche. According to a translation that appeared in The Guardian, Depardieu said:

“I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She [Binoche] has nothing. Absolutely nothing! She is nothing, compared with her, Isabelle Adjani is great, even if she's totally nuts. Or Fanny Ardant – she is magnificent, extremely impressive. But Binoche? What has she ever had going for her?”

Depardieu then went on to criticize Leos Carax and the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf:

"Carax needed six years to shoot his film with Binoche, which turned out not even to be a film but just a piece of shit."

While promoting her film Copie Conforme in the UK, Binoche responded to film magazine Empire Magazine saying:

“I don't know him [Depardieu] and I don't know what I did to him. I understand you don't have to like everyone and you can dislike someone's work. But I don't understand the violence [of his statements]. He is allowed to not like me as an actress, but I do not understand why he is behaving like this. It is his problem.”

Following these comments Jean-Michel Frodon, previously editor of Cahiers du Cinema and French actress Catherine Deneuve commented on the controversy. In response to a query in relation to the matter from Ali Naderzad, Frodon commented:

“Gérard Depardieu is a giant actor who often talks out his mind. What he said is pure bullshit, about Juliette Binoche, about Leos Carax... The best explanation I can think of regarding the insults to Juliette Binoche, whom I consider the best actress of her generation, and also a very generous and daring person, is heavy drinking. It's only a guess, but other explanations would be worse.”

In an interview with the French magazine Têtu, Catherine Deneuve commented:

“In my opinion, he [Depardieu] did not realize the scope of what he said. He must feel that Juliette is too praised. [...] Well, I understand that actors do not have to like others and vice versa. The same for Juliette. But it was very shocking. Gerard can certainly act in bad faith.”

Filmography and awards

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Dorothée, danseuse de corde	minor role	aka: Dorothy the Rope Dancer Television
	Liberty belle	La fille du rallye
1985	Le Meilleur de la vie	Une amie de Véronique au bar	aka: A Better Life
	Rendez-vous	Nina/Anne Larrieux	Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
	Adieu blaireau	Brigitte B., dite B.B.	aka: Farewell Blaireau
	La Vie de famille	Natacha	aka: Family Life
	Les Nanas	Antoinette	aka: The Chicks
	'Je vous salue, Marie'	Juliette	aka: Hail Mary
	Fort bloqué	Nicole	Television
1986	Mauvais sang	Anna	aka: Bad Blood Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
	Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur	Esther Bouloire	aka: My Brother-in-law Has Killed My Sister
1988	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Tereza
1989	Un tour de manège	Elsa	aka: Roundabout
1991	Les Amants du Pont-Neuf	Michèle Stalens	aka: The Lovers on the Bridge European Film Award for Best Actress Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
	Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules	Mara	Television
1992	Damage	Anna Barton	Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
	Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights	Cathy Linton / Catherine Earnshaw
1993	Trois couleurs: Bleu	Julie Vignon (de Courcy)	aka: Three Colors: Blue César Award for Best Actress Venice Film Festival for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1994	Trois couleurs: Blanc	Julie Vignon (de Courcy)	aka: Three Colors: White
	Trois couleurs: Rouge	Julie Vignon (de Courcy)	aka: Three Colors: Red
1995	The Horseman on the Roof	Pauline de Théus	Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
1996	The English Patient	Hana	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Berlin Film Festival for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
	A Couch in New York	Beatrice Saulnier
1998	Alice et Martin	Alice	aka: Alice and Martin
1999	Children of the Century	George Sand/Baroness Aurore Dudevant
2000	Chocolat	Vianne Rocher	European Film Award for Best Actress Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
	Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys	Anne Laurent
	La Veuve de Saint-Pierre	Pauline (Madame La)	aka: The Widow of Saint-Pierre Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
2002	Jet Lag	Rose	Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
2004	In My Country	Anna Malan
2005	Mary	Marie Palesi / Mary Magdalene
	Bee Season	Miriam
	Caché	Anne Laurent	aka: Hidden Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actress
2006	Breaking and Entering	Amira
	Quelques Jours en Septembre	Irène Montano	aka: A Few Days in September
	Paris, je t'aime	Suzanne	aka: Paris, I Love You segment "Place des Victoires"
2007	Dan in Real Life	Marie
	Disengagement	Ana
	Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge	Suzanne	aka: Flight of the Red Balloon
2008	Paris	Elise
	L'Heure d'été	Adrienne	aka: Summer Hours
	Shirin	Woman in audience
2009	Certified Copy	Elle	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
2011	The Son of No One	Lauren	post-production
	Sponsoring	Anne	post-production

Other awards

Won

• 1986 – Prix Romy Schneider
• 1992 – European Film Award – Best Actress – Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
• 1993 – Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Camera
• 1993 – Venice Film Festival – Best Actress – Three Colors: Blue
• 1996 – National Board of Review – Best Supporting Actress – The English Patient
• 1997 – Berlin International Film Festival – Best Actress – The English Patient
• 1997 – European Film Award – Best Actress – The English Patient
• 1997 – Screen Actors Guild Award – Best Supporting Actress – The English Patient
• 2010 – Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress – Certified Copy
• 2010 – Kerry Film Festival – Maureen O'Hara Award
• 2010 – Cairo International Film Festival – Lifetime achievement

Nominations

• 2001 – Screen Actors Guild Award – Best Actress – Chocolat
• 2001 – Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role – Chocolat
• 2001 – Screen Actors Guild Award – Outstanding Cast – Chocolat
• 2005 – European Film Award Best Actress; – Caché
• 2005 – London Critics Circle Film Awards – Best Actress – Caché
• 2006 – British Independent Film Award – Best Actress – Breaking & Entering

External links

• Juliette Binoche at IMDb
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• Juliette Binoche at AllMovie
• Juliette Binoche at filmsdefrance.com
• Juliette Binoche Interview at AMCtv.com