# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-catonne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:50.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-catonne"
name: "François Catonné"
slug: "francois-catonne"
description: "François Catonné is a French cinematographer. He won the 1993 César Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Indochine. In 2011, he met the painter Vladimir Veličković with whom he decided to make a film. Since then, he has been making documentaries about painters with the principle of filming only in the artist's studio and showing him at work. He has already made ten and continues this work."
tagline: "Cinematographer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/HpO7U7Mw7bMyovYK3GfUZe4vNf.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1944-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.20342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146281/"
    handle:    "nm0146281"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Catonn%C3%A9"
    title: "François Catonné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Catonn%C3%A9"
    title: "François Catonné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Catonn%C3%A9"
    title: "François Catonné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Катонне, Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5"
    title: "Франсуа Катонне"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسوا كاتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Catonn%C3%A9"
    title: "François Catonné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q657194"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27716"
    title: "François Catonné"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump