Denis Villeneuve
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscars
La semaine des 4 Julie
Tout le monde en parle
Directors on Directors
All Movies (18)
- Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean2026 · as Self
- Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert2025 · as Self
- Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel2022 · as Self
- The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve2022 · as Self
- Le cri du rhinocéros2018 · as Self
- Trumbull Land2018 · as Self
- Three Kinds of Close Encounters2017 · as Self
- Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival'2017 · as Self
- Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'2017 · as Self
- Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival'2017 · as Self
- Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'2017 · as Self
- Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario2016 · as Self
- Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy2014 · as Self
- Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes2010
- Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche2004 · as Self
- Zigrail1995 · as Denis
- In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur1990 · as Pilot / Engineer / Teacher / Narrator (voice)
- Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve—
All TV Shows (13)
- Dans un cinéma près de chez vous2024 · as Self
- Question de jugement2021 · as Self
- Directors on Directors2021 · as Self
- La semaine des 4 Julie2020 · as Self - Guest
- Faire oeuvre utile2018 · as Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
- Tout le monde en parle2004 · as Self
- La Course Destination Monde1988 · as Self - Judge
- La Course Destination Monde1988 · as Self
- The Oscars1953 · as Self