1969Nominee
Best Performance
Contras' City
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Dakar, Senegal
January 1, 1945
Biography
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1970Nominee
Best Performance
Badou Boy
1992Nominee
Best Performance
Hyenas
Career Highlights
1973Highlight
Best Writing
Touki Bouki
1996Highlight
Best Performance
Grandma's Grammar