Denis Villeneuve

Directing · Born 1967-10-03 in Gentilly, Québec, Canada

Biography

Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in his home country, directing four French-language dramas: August 32nd on Earth (1998); Maelström (2000); Polytechnique (2009), a dramatisation of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and Incendies (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He expanded to English-language films by directing the thrillers Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Sicario (2015). Villeneuve gained wider…

Filmography

• Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel as Self
• Zigrail as Denis
• Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche as Self
• Le cri du rhinocéros as Self
• Trumbull Land as Self
• Three Kinds of Close Encounters as Self
• Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' as Self
• Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival' as Self
• Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival' as Self
• Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' as Self