Denis Villeneuve
Directing
Born: Oct 03, 1967
From: Gentilly, Québec, Canada
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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.
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert | Self | 2025 | 8.2 |
| Dans un cinéma près de chez vous TV | Self | 2024 | — |
| Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel | Self | 2022 | 7.2 |
| The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve | Self | 2022 | 2.0 |
| Question de jugement TV | Self | 2021 | — |
| Directors on Directors TV | Self | 2021 | — |
| La semaine des 4 Julie TV | Self - Guest | 2020 | 2.0 |
| Le cri du rhinocéros | Self | 2018 | 5.0 |
| Trumbull Land | Self | 2018 | 7.333 |
| Faire oeuvre utile TV | Self | 2018 | 10.0 |
| Three Kinds of Close Encounters | Self | 2017 | 6.0 |
| Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival' | Self | 2017 | 7.0 |
| Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' | Self | 2017 | 7.0 |
| Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival' | Self | 2017 | 7.0 |
| Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' | Self | 2017 | 7.0 |
| Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario | Self | 2016 | — |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self - Guest | 2015 | 6.144 |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self | 2015 | 6.144 |
| Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter TV | Self | 2015 | 6.2 |
| Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy | Self | 2014 | — |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV | Self | 2014 | 5.873 |
| Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes | 2010 | 5.0 | |
| Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche | Self | 2004 | 6.0 |
| Tout le monde en parle TV | Self | 2004 | 4.45 |
| Zigrail | Denis | 1995 | 7.25 |
| In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur | Pilot / Engineer / Teacher … | 1990 | — |
| La Course Destination Monde TV | Self - Judge | 1988 | — |
| La Course Destination Monde TV | Self | 1988 | — |
| The Oscars TV | Self | 1953 | 7.0 |
| Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve | — | ||
| Known for | Directing |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1967 |
| From | Gentilly, Québec, Canada |