Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès

director, actor, producer

Georges Méliès was born on Dec 08, 1861 in France. Georges Méliès's big-screen debut came with Card Party directed by Georges Méliès in 1896, strarring Un joueur de cartes (uncredited). Georges Méliès is known for Le voyage à travers l'impossible directed by Georges Méliès, Georges Méliès stars as Mabouloff and Fernande Albany as Madame Latrouille. The most recent award Georges Méliès achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Georges Méliès plays is À la conquête du pôle which will be released on Jan 01, 1912.

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color.His films include Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) and Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films.Méliès died of cancer on 21 January 1938 at the age of 76.In 2016, a Méliès film long thought lost, Match de prestidigitation (1904), was discovered in a Czechoslovak film archive.

  • Birthday

    Dec 08, 1861
  • Place of Birth

    Paris, France

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Awards

3 wins & 0 nominations

Online Film & Television Association
2021
Architect
Winner - OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Visual Effects Society Awards
2017
Winner - Hall of Fame
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