Nicholas Ray
- Naissance
- 7 août 1911
- Décès
- 16 juin 1979
- Origine
- Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
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His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death.
During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists.
Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."
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Réalisation 22
À l’étudeLightning Over Water1980
À l’étudeWe Can't Go Home Again1973
Les 55 Jours de Pékin1963
Le Roi des rois1961
À l’étudeLes Dents du diable1960
Traquenard1958
À l’étudeLa Forêt interdite1958
À l’étudeAmère Victoire1957
À l’étudeLe Brigand bien-aimé1957
À l’étudeBigger Than Life1956
À l’étudeHot Blood1956
La Fureur de vivre1955
À l'ombre des potences1955
Johnny Guitare1954
À l’étudeLes Indomptables1952
À l’étudeOn Dangerous Ground1951
Les Diables de Guadalcanal1951
À l’étudeLa Femme aux Maléfices1950
Le Violent1950
Les Amants de la nuit1949
Les Ruelles du malheur1949
À l’étudeSecret de femme1949
Interprétation 13
À l’étudeFilms to Die For2025
À l’étudeDon't Expect Too Much2011
À l’étudeJames Dean: A Portrait1995- À l’étudeLightning Over Water1980
Hair1979
L'Ami américain1977
À l’étudeJohnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast1977
À l’étudeJames Dean: The First American Teenager1975
À l’étudeI'm a Stranger Here Myself1975- À l’étudeWe Can't Go Home Again1973
- Les 55 Jours de Pékin1963
- La Fureur de vivre1955
Le Lys de Brooklyn1945
