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Marcel Camus

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Marcel Camus was a French film director who lived from 21 April 1912 to 13 January 1982. He is best known for Orfeu Negro, released in English as Black Orpheus, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Black Orpheus is listed here as a work among the world and international narrative cinema. The facts recorded here come from the English Wikipedia article on this person, who is named as a creator in the infobox of at least one work listed in this atlas.

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Classification
Award
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film 1
Award
Palme d'Or 1
Birth Year
1912 1
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Source Wikipedia: Marcel Camus

Works Created

Source Black Orpheus (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Marcel Camus
  • Infobox: birth_date
    21 April 1912
  • Article body: Palme d'Or
    He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • Article body: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
    He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • Associated With: Film, Lead sentence
    was a French film director
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Black Orpheus (Wikipedia)
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Marcel Camus
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