Alain Guiraudie (French: [giʁodi]; born 15 July 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter.

He has directed ten mostly LGBT-related films since 1990.

[1] Guiraudie has named Georges Bataille as an important influence.

[2] His 2013 film Stranger by the Lake was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival[3] where he won the award for Best Director.

[4] In 2014, he won the Prix Sade for his novel Now the Night Begins (Ici commence la nuit).