
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Born October 3, 1967 in Gentilly, Québec, Canada24 films
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.
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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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Ranked by acclaim and reachFilmography
24 films as director- TBAUntitled James Bond FilmDirector
- 2026Dune: Part ThreeDirector
- 2024Dune: Part TwoDirector
- 2021DuneDirector
- 2017Blade Runner 2049Director
- 2016ArrivalDirector
- 2015SicarioDirector
- 2014EnemyDirector
- 2013PrisonersDirector
- 2011Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of VisionDirector
- 2011Rated R for NudityDirector
- 2010IncendiesDirector
- 2009PolytechniqueDirector
- 2008Next FloorDirector
- 2007Happiness BoundDirector
- 2006120 Seconds to Get ElectedDirector
- 2000MaelströmDirector
- 1999August 32nd on EarthDirector
- 1996CosmosDirector
- 1994REW-FFWDDirector
- 1991L'ozone n'a qu'une bosseDirector
- 1991Land of MenDirector
- 1991Black InkDirector
- 1990In the Footsteps of the CamerosaurDirector







