Lilas (1957) Gate of Lilacs The Gates of Paris Tout l'or du monde (1961) All the Gold in the World Les Fêtes galantes (1965) The Lace Wars Short films Entr'acte (1924) La Tour (1928) (documentary) Forever and a Day (1943) (segment "1897") La Française et l'Amour (1960) (segment "Mariage, Le") Love and the Frenchwoman Les Quatre Vérités (1962) (segment "Les Deux Pigeons") Three Fables of Love Television Les Fables de La Fontaine (1964) (episodes "?") Awards and honours René Clair held the national honours of Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-croix de l'ordre national du Mérite. He received the Grand Prix du cinéma français in 1953. In 1956 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge. In 1960 he was elected to the Académie française; he was not the first film-maker so honoured (he was preceded by Marcel Pagnol (1946), Jean Cocteau (1955), and Marcel Achard (1959)) but he was the first to be elected primarily as a film-maker. In 1994 the Académie established the Prix René-Clair as an annual prize awarded to a distinguished film-maker. In 1967 he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. As well as many awards made for individual films, Clair received an honorary prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979 for his contribution to cinema. Place René Clair in Boulogne-Billancourt, on the outskirts of Paris and near the site of the former film studios in that district, is named after him. See also List of ambulance drivers during World War I Cinema pur References External links Bibliography of books and articles about Rene Clair via UC Berkeley Media Resources center 1898 births 1981 deaths Male actors from Paris French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French film directors French film producers French male film actors French male silent film actors Members of the Académie Française Lycée Montaigne (Paris) alumni Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Dada French experimental filmmakers French surrealist artists Surrealist filmmakers 20th-century French male actors French male non-fiction writers Burials at Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers