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Denis Villeneuve
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.
As director
Dune: Part Three
Dune: Part Two
Dune
Blade Runner 2049
Arrival
Sicario
Enemy
Prisoners
Rated R for Nudity
Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision
Incendies
Polytechnique
Next Floor
Happiness Bound
120 Seconds to Get Elected
Maelström
August 32nd on Earth
Cosmos
REW-FFWD
Land of Men
L'ozone n'a qu'une bosse
Black Ink
In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
I'm Waiting for You
Bond 26
As actor
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve
Le cri du rhinocéros
Trumbull Land
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival'
Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival'
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Zigrail
In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve