Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre.
17 Facts About Alexandre Aja
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Alexandre Aja rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension.
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Alexandre Aja has directed the films The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha 3D, Horns and Crawl.
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Alexandre Aja was born in Paris, France, and is the son of Jewish French Pied-Noir director Alexandre Arcady and French cinema critic Marie-Jo Jouan.
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Alexandre Aja acted at a very young age in minor roles in his father's films such as Le Grand Carnaval, and the two Le Grand Pardon films.
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Alexandre Aja made his directorial debut at the age of eighteen with the short film Over the Rainbow, which received a Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm Award nomination for best short film.
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Alexandre Aja directed Haute Tension, which released in 2003 in France and in 2005 in the US, and placed Alexandre Aja on the map of the horror movie genre.
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Alexandre Aja's next project was a horror film entitled Mirrors, about a mysterious mirror that brings out the worst aspects of people whenever they look at themselves in it.
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Alexandre Aja directed Piranha 3D, a horror movie about prehistoric piranhas in Arizona.
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In 2004, Alexandre Aja was named by Variety on the Ten Directors to Watch list.
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Alexandre Aja is a member of the so-called Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for a new wave of directors making brutally violent horror films.
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Alexandre Aja has been associated with the New French Extremity film movement.
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Alexandre Aja produced a remake of the 1980 horror slasher Maniac, starring Elijah Wood.
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Alexandre Aja produced the 2014 horror film The Pyramid directed by Gregory Levasseur and starring Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O'Hare, and James Buckley.
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Alexandre Aja produced and directed the 2016 psychological thriller film The 9th Life of Louis Drax, which is based on a novel by Liz Jensen.
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Alexandre Aja is set to direct a live action adaptation of the manga series Space Adventure Cobra, and the Mice and Mystics film for Dreamworks Animation.
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In 2019, Alexandre Aja directed his highest grossing and best reviewed film yet, Crawl.