{{Short description|French filmmaker (born 1972)}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Alice Doyard | birth_date = 1972 | birth_place = Grenoble, France | occupation = Film director, producer }}
'''Alice Doyard''' (born 1972) is an Oscar winning French filmmaker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021|title=The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021|website=Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref> Her specialty is history and the effects of international conflict. She was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Nous-connaitre/Organisation/Conseil-de-l-Ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Arretes-de-Nominations-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Nomination-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres-ete-2021|title=Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres – été 2021|website=www.culture.gouv.fr}}</ref> In the same year, she was named as one of the 50 Most Influential French People by ''Vanity Fair'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Doyard |first1=Alice |title=Vanity Fair 50 |url=https://www.vanityfair.fr/pouvoir/galerie/les-50-francais-les-plus-influents-du-monde-en-2021 |website=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Doyard was born in Grenoble in 1972, one of four children of Jean Doyard, an engineer, and his wife Catherine, a freelance journalist. She moved to Paris in her early teens.
Doyard was educated at the Lycée Carnot in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. After obtaining her baccalaureate, she studied at Paris Dauphine University where she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in Mathematics. She also studied media and cinema at De Paul University in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |last1=University |first1=De Paul |title=Education |url=https://www.cdm.depaul.edu/about/pages/school-of-cinematic-arts.aspx |website=De Paul University |publisher=De Paul |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref>
Before becoming a filmmaker, Doyard worked in banking as a risk analyst and later as a statistician at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
==Work== She became a filmmaker in 2006, beginning as a researcher and assistant producer on documentary projects with the BBC, ARTE, ITV and others.
In 2021, Doyard won an Oscar for her work as creative producer on the film ''Colette'', which follows the journey of a young historian from the north of France, Lucie Fouble, and Colette Marin-Catherine, a 92-year-old former Resistance member, who together retrace the journey of Colette's brother Jean-Pierre, who was deported to Nazi Germany at the age of 19.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/oculus-studios-electronic-arts-respawn-entertainment-colette-oscar-documentary-win-1234743711/|title=Gamers Oculus Studios And EA's Respawn Entertainment Celebrate Oscar Win For Short Doc 'Colette'|first1=Matthew|last1=Carey|date=April 26, 2021}}</ref> The film was distributed by Guardian Films of the United Kingdom and also won Best Documentary Short at the Big Sky Festival in Montana and the Young Cineastes Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/nov/18/colette-a-former-french-resistance-member-confronts-a-family-tragedy-75-years-later|title=Colette: former French resistance member confronts a family tragedy 75 years later - Guardian documentary|website=the Guardian}}</ref>
In 2022, Doyard won the Foreign Press Association award for Best Documentary and Feature Story of the year for ''I Call Him By His Name'', a BBC film she directed and produced about the war crimes committed in Bucha, Ukraine. For BBC2, she made ''Platform 5 – Escape from Ukraine'', a film about the first days of the Russo-Ukrainian War, followed by ''Return to Platform 5 - Families at War'' in 2024.
In 2023, she produced and directed the BBC One programme ''Brave Britain with Fergal Keane'', which saw the BBC reporter Fergal Keane revisit the people and locations from the three-part series ''Forgotten Britain''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-05-15 |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d743fc1f73ea484ab6fcd45d95125a44 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717170623/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d743fc1f73ea484ab6fcd45d95125a44 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2023 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3fd49cfaa47e43188fe10d9de71af117 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717165120/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3fd49cfaa47e43188fe10d9de71af117 |archive-date=2023-07-17 |access-date=2025-10-25 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/63ef6d46ffe245de8b75e8790aef6086 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717165119/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/63ef6d46ffe245de8b75e8790aef6086 |archive-date=2023-07-17 |access-date=2025-10-25 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> for a second time, in places like Cornwall, Glasgow and Leeds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Brave Britain with Fergal Keane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nqg5 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2024, Doyard was nominated for an Emmy award as News Producer for the BBC.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Wrap |url=https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/news-and-doc-45th-program-news.pdf |access-date=25 Oct 2025 |website=theemmys.tv}}</ref> She has been deployed in Europe, Ukraine, the Middle East, the Congo, Zimbabwe and the Central African Republic, and was a member of the BBC team which won a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 2018 for covering the fall of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tva.onscreenasia.com/2018/07/golden-nymph-award-winners-honoured-at-monte-carlo-tv-festival/|title=Golden Nymph Award winners honoured at Monte-Carlo TV Festival|date=July 4, 2018}}</ref> She has also worked extensively for the BBC on terrorism and the European migrant crisis.
Her other credits include ''Living with PTSD'' (BBC), ''Remembering Nuremberg, 75 Years On'' (BBC), ''The Confined: A Story of Hidden Children'' (BBC), ''The Remarkable Resistance of Lilo'' (BBC), ''Resistance Women: The Fight Against Hitler in Berlin'' (BBC), ''World War One from Above'' (BBC), ''Teenage Tommies'' (BBC), ''Terres de Cinéma: Bridget Jones et London'' (Arte), ''Les Apprentis Sorciers du Climat/Clockwork Climate'' (Arte), ''Immortalité/Waiting for Immortality'' (Arte), and ''Enfants Forçats/Child Slave Labourers'' (Arte).
==Personal life== Alice Doyard is married to the author and war correspondent Fergal Keane. She is the mother of three daughters and has two step children. She lives between Paris and London.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|3550163}} * [https://x.com/alicedoyard @AliceDoyard] at Twitter
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