Denis Villeneuve
- Directing
- October 3, 1967 · Gentilly, Québec, Canada
Biography
Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a French-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 dramatization 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Dune: Part Three · Screenplay, Director
- Digger · Thanks
- Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean · Self
- Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert · Self
- Dune: Part Two · Screenplay, Director
- Dans un cinéma près de chez vous · Self
- Je viens vers toi · Self
- Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel · Self
- The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve · Self
- The Dune Saga by Denis Villeneuve · Creator
- Dune · Director, Producer
- Question de jugement · Self
- Directors on Directors · Self
- Last and First Men · Thanks
- La semaine des 4 Julie · Self
- Thlípsi · Thanks
- Le cri du rhinocéros · Self
- Faire oeuvre utile · Self
- Trumbull Land · Self
- Blade Runner 2049 · Director
- Three Kinds of Close Encounters · Self
- Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival' · Self
- Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' · Self
- Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival' · Self
- Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' · Self
- Arrival · Director
- Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario · Self
- Sicario · Director
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy · Self
- Enemy · Director
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Prisoners · Director
- Whitewash · Thanks
- Mars and April · Production Consultant
- Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision · Director
- Hope · Thanks
- Rated R for Nudity · Director
- Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
- Incendies · Director, Screenplay
- Polytechnique · Director, Writer
- Next Floor · Director
- Happiness Bound · Director
- 120 Seconds to Get Elected · Director, Writer
- Tout le monde en parle · Self
- Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche · Self, Thanks
- Maelström · Director, Screenplay
- August 32nd on Earth · Director, Screenplay
- Cosmos · Director, Writer
- Zigrail · Denis
- REW-FFWD · Writer, Director
- Icewarrior · Intern
- L'ozone n'a qu'une bosse · Camera Operator, Director
- Land of Men · Camera Operator, Editing
- Black Ink · Camera Operator, Director
- In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur · Pilot / Engineer / Teacher / Narrator (Voice), Camera Operator
- La Course Destination Monde · Self
- The Oscars · Self
- Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve
- Nuclear War: A Scenario · Producer
- Untitled James Bond Film · Director