François Ozon (born November 15, 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually distinguished by sharp satirical humor and a free view of human sexuality.

He gained international recognition for the films 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003). Ozon is considered one of the most significant young French film directors of the new "New Wave" in French cinema, alongside Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos and Yves Caumon, as well as a group of French filmmakers associated with the "cinema of the body."