Jean-Pierre Coursodon (23 July 1935 – 31 December 2020) was a French film critic and historian.
In 1967, Coursodon began living in the United States where he contributed essays to Film Comment (1973–1975) and Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui (1975–1976).
The book was updated in 1991 as 50 ans de cinéma américain to encompass two more decades.
Coursodon was the co-editor (along with Pierre Sauvage) of the two-volume, English-language work American Directors (1983).
Coursodon also worked as a translator, being responsible for the French editions of Michael Powell's autobiography, the memoirs of André de Toth, and biographies of Roberto Rossellini, Howard Hawks, and John Ford.