Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
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Born in Mirande, Gers, in southwestern France, he pursued studies in law and journalism while in Paris, a background that later informed his investigative documentary style. After an initial stint in journalism, he turned to documentary filmmaking in the early 1990s, earning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature with Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001), which examined a wrongful-arrest case…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
