Frédéric Bonnaud, born June 27, 1967, is the head of the Cinémathèque française[1] and a French journalist. He was the head of Les Inrockuptibles from 2013 to 2015.[2] [3]
After starting his career as a cinema programmer in Paris, he became a cinema critic at Les Inrockuptibles. In 2006, he was offered to create a radio show on the French public radio France Inter. Quickly gaining public and critical praise, the show was nonetheless removed from antennas a year later, triggering an intense polemic and a strike of the journalists of Radio France.[4]
In August 2009, he joined Guillaume Durand on France 2 to participate in his program the subject of the scandal. He also holds on Europe 1 a daily chronicle dedicated to television.[5]
He continued his journalistic career, featuring in TV and radio shows, before taking the head of Les Inrocks in 2013[6] and being nominated by the President of the Republic as the head of La cinémathèque française in December 2015.[7]
He is the son of Robert Bonnaud.