Radu Mihaileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 to study in Paris, and his best known film is Le concert/Concertul, from 2009, which won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards in 2010.

It was also nominated for two Magritte Awards in the category of Best Co-Production and Best Editing for Ludo Troch in 2011, and Best Foreign Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.

Mihaileanu was born in 1958 in Bucharest. His father, of Jewish origin, changed his name to Ion Mihaileanu after escaping a Nazi camp during the Second World War.

The young Mihaileanu graduated the Cinema Institute in Paris.