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Denis Villeneuve
Gentilly, Québec, Canada
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, a…
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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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2026
Dune: Part Three
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2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
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2025
A Part Of It
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2025
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
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2024
Dune: Part Two
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2024
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
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2023
Je viens vers toi
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2022
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
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- 2022
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2021
The Dune Saga by Denis Villeneuve
TV show Creator
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2021
Dune
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2021
Question de jugement
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2021
Directors on Directors
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2020
Last and First Men
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2020
La semaine des 4 Julie
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2018
Thlípsi
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2018
Le cri du rhinocéros
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2018
Faire oeuvre utile
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2018
Trumbull Land
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- 2018
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2017
Blade Runner 2049
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2017
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
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2017
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
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2017
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
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- 2017
- 2017
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2016
Arrival
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2016
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
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2015
Sicario
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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2014
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
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2014
Enemy
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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2013
Prisoners
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2013
Whitewash
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2012
Mars and April
Movie Production Consultant
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2011
Hope
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2011
Rated R for Nudity
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