- Was at high-school with Volker Schlöndorff.
- Was an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville.
- Directed one Oscar-nominated performance: Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight (1986). Interestingly, Gordon was professionally a musician, not an actor.
- Ciinephile, he writes a DVD blog on the SACD's site (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) . That French authors and composers' association was founded in 1777 by Beaumarchais.
- Tribute in the Memory of Film section at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium. (2001)
- Tavernier began working in films as a publicist and occasional critic and journalist.
- One of his favorite actors is Philippe Noiret.
- He was the father of actor Nils Tavernier.
- In the early 60s worked as a press officer for the producer Georges de Beauregard.
- At one time an influential film critic, notably for the left wing magazine Positif.
- Educated at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.
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