Rémy Belvaux
Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux (10 November 1966 – 4 September 2006) was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He was the brother of Lucas Belvaux, also an actor and film director, and of Bruno Belvaux, a theater director. In 1992, he was with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, director, producer and actor of the feature film Man Bites Dog.
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Rémy Belvaux
- Full name
- Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux.
- Born
- 1966. · Namur.
- Died
- 2006. · Orry-la-Ville.
- Nationality
- Belgium.
- Occupation
- film producer, film editor, screenwriter, actor, director and painter.
- Fields
- Postmodernism and pseudo-documentary.
- Honours
- Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award.
- Languages
- French.
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Confrontation with Bill Gates
Confrontation with Bill Gates
This film, which was his most famous movie, and originally titled "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" (translated as: "It happened near your home") (1992), is about a camera crew filming a documentary about the life of a serial killer. Belvaux plays one of the journalists. The film won the Special Jury Prize for Belvaux and Bonzel at the 5th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994 and the André Cavens Award for Best Film. He died by suicide on 4 September 2006.
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Rémy Belvaux lived from 1966 to 2006 and was a director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. Rémy Belvaux was born in 1966 and died in 2006 in Orry-la-Ville.
On 4 February 1998 he was in a four-person gang (alongside Noël Godin and Jan Bucquoy), all of whom were fined for throwing a cream pie in the face of the American businessman and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, who was on a visit to Brussels at the time.
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Rémy Belvaux was born in Namur, Belgium, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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1966
Rémy Belvaux was born on 10 November 1966.
2006
Rémy Belvaux died on 5 September 2006.
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Namur.
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Orry-la-Ville.
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- 1.Caroline Hanotte, Rémy Belvaux, CinéArtistes.com, Septembre 8, 2006. Retrieved on 11 September 2006.
- 2.According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) entry for Rémy Belvaux. Retrieved on 11 September 2006.
- 3.hln.be, Regisseur Rémy Belvaux overleden , 6 September 2006. Retrieved on 6 September 2006.
- 4.La Libre Belgique, Décès inopiné du réalisateur Rémy Belvaux, 6 September 2006. Retrieved on 8 September 2006.
- 5.yubarifanta.com. YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'94.
- 6.Vantroyen, Jean-Claude. Rémy Belvaux s'est tué. Le Soir.
- 7.BBC News. Americas 'Pie terrorists' fined for Gates attack.
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