- Has directed 4 actors to Oscar-nominated performances: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. Leto and McConaughey won the award for their performances in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
- Was set to direct the Janis Joplin biopic "Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can" in 2014, with Amy Adams attached to the lead role. In 2015, the project was halted by lawsuits involving the production companies. On January 22, 2017, Vallée announced that the project had been canceled during an interview with Collider.
- Insists on a production workday that typically runs from 9 am to 6 pm.
- Has directed 3 Emmy Award-winning performances: Laura Dern, Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies (2017).
- Studied film at the Université du Québec.
- John Mac McMurphy is his pseudonym.
- Born in 1963 in Montréal, Canada, Jean-Marc Vallée studied Film Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
- Father of Émile Vallée and Alex Vallée.
- He has directed one film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
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