Denis Villeneuve
Known For
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 recognition for directing science fiction films. His work on Arrival (2016) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. This was followed by Blade Runner 2049 (2017), which was critically lauded but financially unsuccessful. His next projects were Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Both films were critically and commercially successful, with the former earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Oscars
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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Tout le monde en parle
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La semaine des 4 Julie
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Directors on Directors
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La Course Destination Monde
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La Course Destination Monde
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Question de jugement
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Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
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Faire oeuvre utile
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Three Kinds of Close Encounters
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Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
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Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
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Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
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Trumbull Land
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Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
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Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
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