AWARDED MOVIES

The snows of Kilimanjaro

• Lumiere Awards (Paris): best screenplay
• Luz Prize: Winner
• Turia Awards: Best Foreign Film
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film
• Étoiles d'Or (France): Best Female Newcomer / Anaïs Demoustier 
• Cannes Films Festival: in competition
• César Awards: Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• Globes de Cristal Awards, France: Nominated Best Actor / Jean-Pierre Darroussin 

Lino

• Festival International D-Cinema, Japan : special Prize of the Jury.
• Torino Film Festival : in competition
• Cinemed, Montpellier : in competition
• Festivals de Lunel, Colmar, Lyon, Albi...

Fragile

• Luchon films Festival : special Mention of the Jury.
• Luchon films Festival : best actor / Martin Lamotte.
• Luchon films Festival : «Coup de Cœur» of the Jury / Alain Cauchi.
• Luchon films Festival : promising young actor / Jean-Jérôme Esposito.

Lady Jane

• Berlinale : in competition

Marie-Jo and her two lovers

• Cannes Films Festival : in competition
• César Awards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• European Film Arwards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride

The town is quiet

• Mons films Festival : best screenplay
• European Film Arwards : nomination best scriptwriter
• European Film Arwards : Critics’ Prize
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film

Where the heart is

• San Sebastian films Festival : best screenplay - honorable Mention

Marius and Jeannette

• Cannes Films Festival : in competition
• Césars : Nomination best screenplay
• César Awards : Best Actress to Ariane Ascaride
• Prix Louis Delluc: Winner
• Prix Henri Jeanson: Winner
• Lumiere Awards (Paris) : best movie
• Geneva International Film Festival : Grand Prix

À la vie, à la mort !

• Namur International Festival: Best Film

L'argent fait le bonheur

• Rencontres Européennes de Reims: Prix Michel Kûhn

Jean-Louis Milesi was born in Italy, came to France at 2 months old, to Paris at 27 years old, to California at 54.

Graduated from Kindergarden, he flees the university after a few weeks.

He does odd jobs that permit him to discover (among other things) the heart of a nuclear power plant, also a desert region at the Iran-Iraq border, and some heady vapors of wine tanks in Provence.

He goes to Paris to try film making and becomes a screenwriter without really wanting to, (he just wanted to write his own stories). The films that he writes for Robert Guédiguian are a national and international success (Marius and Jeannette, The town is quiet, Marie-Jo and her 2 lovers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro…).

He goes to California to write some projects. This quaking land shakes his neurons like a tree, some new ideas fall on the floor: his first american movie Don't Give Up The Ghost (script, direction, production, editing, acting...), the script The Blood Remains The Same (will be directed by Pitof), a french novel Les bottes de Clint Eastwood (Clint Eastswood's Boots)...