Louis Delluc Prize
He directed three short films under his production company Port Royal Films, including the "Poor Man's Soliloquies" (1951) and "Auditorium" (1957), then made his feature film debut with "On n'enterre pas le dimanche" (1959), a study on the existential solitude of a black person in Paris, which coincided with the French New Wave and earned him the Louis Delluc Prize.