the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2012. His 2013 film Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Ozon was voted best screenwriter at the 2013 European Film Awards for his 2012 film In the House. His 2014 film The New Girlfriend premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014. His film Peter von Kant, a gender-flipped reinterpretation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, premiered at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. Awards 1999: Seattle International Film Festival - Emerging Masters Showcase Award 2004: Filmfest Hamburg - Douglas-Sirk-Award 2006: Frameline Film Festival - Frameline Award 2011: Jameson Dublin International Film Festival - Career Achievement Award Filmography Awards and nominations References Further reading Asibong, Andrew, François Ozon, Manchester University Press (2008) Badt, Karin, "Francois Ozon's New Thriller Gains Applause at Cannes Despite Shallowness," Huffington Post (2017). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/592736c8e4b03296e2d11342 Cavitch, Max, "Sex After Death: François Ozon's Libidinal Invasions," Screen 48.3 (2007), 313-26 Padva, Gilad. "Undressed Masculinities and Disrupted Sexualities in Une Robe d'été" in Grandena, Florian and Johnston, Cristina (Eds.). Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films, vol. 2 (Modern French Identities 98) (pp. 215–225). Oxford and New York: Peter Lang (2011). Palmer, Tim, "Style and Sensation in the Contemporary French Cinema of the Body," Journal of Film and Video 58.3 (2006), 22-32 Rees-Roberts, Nick. French Queer Cinema, Edinburgh University Press (2008) Schilt, Thibaut. François Ozon, University of Illinois Press (2011) Wende, Johannes (Ed.), François Ozon, edition text + kritik (2016) External links François Ozon's official site Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database Summer 2006 Interview with Ozon POTICHE Facebook Page 1967 births Living people Best Director Lumières Award winners European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners Film directors from Paris French film editors French film producers French male non-fiction writers French male screenwriters French screenwriters French-language film directors German-language film directors French gay writers LGBT film directors French LGBT screenwriters Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres