Oscar Honors Godard, Brownlow
After a documentary and several shorts, Godard made his first feature, "Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)" (1960), a brisk dark comedy starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a petty thief and Jean Seberg as an American ex-pat. It was a hybrid of Continental and Hollywood styles that paid homage to Godard's American hero Howard Hawks, while also reveling in an untethered narrative.
Credit: Rialto Pictures
