Cast · Producer

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1910 – 1997

Active years (films on this site)

1956–1964

Genres

DocumentaryAdventure

Schools and movements

Documentary and Essay FilmFrench Poetic Realism and Classical Cinema

Directors worked with

Jacques Cousteau2 films

Biography

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.

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Awards and honours

International

• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 1957
• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film 1960
• Founder’s Medal 1963
• Howard N. Potts Medal 1970
• Commander of the Legion of Honour 1972
• BAFTA Fellowship 1975
• John Muir Award 1976
• Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit 1979
• honorary doctor of Harvard University 1979
• Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 1985
• Presidential Medal of Freedom 1985
• honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1989
• Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia 1990
• Catalonia International Prize 1991
• National Inventors Hall of Fame 2010
• Benjamin Franklin Medal
• Genesis Award
• Officer of the Order of Maritime Merit
• honorary doctor of Brandeis University
• honorary doctorate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
• honorary doctorate of the Polytechnic University of Valencia

National / local

• Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• Croix de guerre 1939–1945
• Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès

2 films on this site

1. The Silent World 1956 · Jacques Cousteau · IMDb 6.9 · Cast
2. World Without Sun 1964 · Jacques Cousteau · IMDb 7.4 · Producer