Trivia

Graduated from l'IDHEC (La Fémis)

Best known for his political thrillers and cop stories.

Was hired by MGM to find some documents about the moon, for Stanley Kubrick who prepared 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace (1968). In that purpose, Boisset spend many months around the world with scientists. But when he began to direct himself he had no more time to work directly for Kubrick. Eventually, the material which he purchased for 2001 Space Odyssey was never used.

Boisset frequently contributed to the scripts he shot and is known for his fast-paced action-adventures and his social and political thrillers.

Boisset began his career as an assistant director.

He sued Arnold Schwarzenegger and 20th Century Fox over The Running Man, which he believed had plagiarized his film Le prix du danger. He won the lawsuit.

In the 1970s , he embodied a left-wing cinema, often inspired by real events: the police ( Un condé ), racism ( Dupont Lajoie ) for which he asked for co-writing of the screenplay with Jean-Pierre Bastid and Michel Martens, the intrusion of politics into the judiciary ( Le Juge Fayard known as "le Shériff" ). He was also one of the first to tackle the Algerian war ( RAS ).

In 2011, he published his autobiography "Life is a Choice" .

After working with such directors as Hossein, Ciampi, Melville and Clement, he began directing short films until the late 1960s when he made his feature film debut.

His 1972 film L'Attentat (based on the Ben Barka affair) entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.

His parents were professors. He was first a film critic and was awarded the first prize at IDHEC.