His 1976 film, C'était un rendez-vous purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car. Legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and created a soundtrack of the radically different sounding Italian sports car for effect. He collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a great hit with the theme song for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh, and more than 300 versions of the song exist. In 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2020 Lelouch filmed his own modern 'remake' of his 1976 short film (in collaboration with Ferrari) C'était un rendez-vous entitled Le Grand Rendez-vous, set in Monaco instead of Paris and starring Monegasque racing driver Charles Leclerc. Filming for the new version took place on the Circuit de Monaco on 24 May 2020 and features Leclerc driving a Ferrari SF90 Stradale. It was released on 13 June 2020. The film was criticised by The Verge as 'lifeless'. Top Gear's Chris Harris said on Twitter this version was 'lazy and badly executed'. Honours 2016: Commander in the Order of the Crown. 2005: Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Awards Lelouch's A Man and a Woman won the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, as well as two Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film Vivre pour vivre, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. In 1971, he won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Directing for Le Voyou. Filmography References External links 1937 births Living people Film directors from Paris French screenwriters French film producers Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners Directors of Palme d'Or winners Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners David di Donatello winners 20th-century French Jews French people of Algerian-Jewish descent