Jacques Aumont

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Jacques Aumont
Born	25 February 1942 (1942-02-25) (age 82) Avignon, France
Occupation(s)	Writer, essayist, university professor

Jacques Aumont (born 25 February 1942) is a French academic and writer on film theory.

Born in Avignon he initially trained as an engineer but started contributing film criticism to Cahiers du cinéma in the late 1960s.^[1] He is professor emeritus at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.^[2]