Alice Doyard is an Oscar winning French film maker.[1] Her area of specialism 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.[2] In the same year she was named as one of the 50 Most influential French people by Vanity Fair magazine.[3] 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.