Biography
Denis Villeneuve OC CQ (born October 3, 1967) is a French-Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2009, Incendies in 2010 and Enemy in 2013. The first three of these films also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture, while the latter was awarded the prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Internationally, he is known for directing several critically acclaimed films, including the thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Sicario (2015), as well as the science fiction films Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). For his work on Arrival, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was awarded the prize of Director of the Decade by the Hollywood Critics Association in December 2019.
His film, Dune (2021), based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival; the film received critical acclaim, was a commercial success at the box office internationally, is currently his highest grossing film to date, and earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, with the film itself winning a leading six Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards.
Filmography
all 52
Movies 43
self 19
Director 17
TV Shows 9
Producer 6
Writer 1
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous (2024)
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel (2022)
The Sound of Dune (2022)
Dune (2021)
Question de jugement (2021)
Last and First Men (2020)
La semaine des 4 Julie (2020)
Thlípsi (2018)
Le cri du rhinocéros (2018)
Trumbull Land (2018)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Three Kinds of Close Encounters (2017)
Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival' (2017)
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' (2017)
Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' (2017)
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival' (2017)
Arrival (2016)
Sicario (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Prisoners (2013)
Whitewash (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Mars and April (2012)
Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision (2011)
Hope (2011)
Rated R for Nudity (2011)
Incendies (2010)
Polytechnique (2009)
Next Floor (2008)
Happiness Bound (2007)
120 Seconds to Get Elected (2006)
Tout le monde en parle (2004)
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)
Maelström (2000)
August 32nd on Earth (1999)
Cosmos (1996)
Zigrail (1995)
REW-FFWD (1994)
Icewarrior (1994)
The Oscars (1953)
Rendezvous with Rama
Dune: Prophecy
Nuclear War
Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve
The Son
Dune: Messiah
Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
Cleopatra
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1967-10-03 (56 years old)
Birth NameDenis Villeneuve
Birth PlaceBécancour, Canada
ChildrenSalomé Villeneuve
SiblingsMartin Villeneuve, Claude Villeneuve
CitizenshipsCanada
Also Known As드니 빌뇌브, 丹尼斯·维勒弗, Дени Вильнёв, Дени Вильнев, 丹尼斯·维伦纽瓦, Denis Villeneuve OC CQ RCA
AwardsGovernor General's Performing Arts Award, Genie Awards, National Order of Quebec, Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec, Officer of the Order of Canada, Hugo Award, Order of Canada
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