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Denis Villeneuve OC CQ RCA OAL (French: [dÉ™ni vilnœv]; 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.
Year Nominated work Category Result 2000 Maelström: Best Canadian Film: Won 2008 Next Floor: Best Canadian Short Film: Won 2011 Incendies: Best Canadian Feature Film
Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve and Jacques Davidts.Starring Maxim Gaudette, Sebastien Huberdeau, and Karine Vanasse, the film is based on the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre and re-enacts the events of the incident through the eyes of two students (Huberdeau and Vanasse) who witness a gunman (Gaudette) murder fourteen young ...
Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts.It serves as a sequel for Dune (2021), all adapted from Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.
Denis Villeneuve said that adapting Dune was a lifelong ambition. He was hired to direct in February 2017. In 2011, Mary Parent, vice chair of worldwide production for Legendary Pictures, and her producer partner Cale Boyter, acquired adaptation rights for Dune. [21] Legendary obtained film and TV rights for Dune in November 2016.
Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
Director Denis Villeneuve first saw Wajdi Mouawad's play Incendies at Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal in 2004, commenting "I had this strong intuition that I was in front of a masterpiece". [9] Villeneuve acknowledged unfamiliarity with Arab culture, but was drawn to Incendies as "a modern story with a sort of Greek tragedy element". [10]
Maelström is a 2000 Canadian absurdist psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve.It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident.