Denis Villeneuve
Directing
1967-10-03 · Gentilly, Québec, Canada
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.
Filmography
TheatersDune: Part Three
2026 · Movie
TheatersMaverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026 · Movie
TheatersDigger
2026 · Movie
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
2025 · Movie
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Movie
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
2024 · Series
Je viens vers toi
2023 · Series
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022 · Movie
The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve
2022 · Movie
The Dune Saga by Denis Villeneuve
2021 · Series
Dune
2021 · Movie
Question de jugement
2021 · Series
Directors on Directors
2021 · Series
Last and First Men
2020 · Movie
La semaine des 4 Julie
2020 · Series
Thlípsi
2018 · Movie
Le cri du rhinocéros
2018 · Movie
Faire oeuvre utile
2018 · Series
Trumbull Land
2018 · Movie
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Movie
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
2017 · Movie
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
2017 · Movie
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017 · Movie
Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival'
2017 · Movie
Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival'
2017 · Movie
Arrival
2016 · Movie
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016 · Movie
Sicario
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
2014 · Movie
Enemy
2014 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Prisoners
2013 · Movie
Whitewash
2013 · Movie
Mars and April
2012 · Movie
Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision
2011 · Movie
Hope
2011 · Movie
Rated R for Nudity
2011 · Movie
Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
2010 · Movie
Incendies
2010 · Movie
Polytechnique
2009 · Movie
Next Floor
2008 · Movie
Happiness Bound
2007 · Movie
120 Seconds to Get Elected
2006 · Movie
Tout le monde en parle
2004 · Series
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004 · Movie
Maelström
2000 · Movie
August 32nd on Earth
1999 · Movie
Cosmos
1996 · Movie
Zigrail
1995 · Movie
REW-FFWD
1994 · Movie
Icewarrior
1994 · Movie
L'ozone n'a qu'une bosse
1991 · Movie
Land of Men
1991 · Movie
Black Ink
1991 · Movie
In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
1990 · Movie
La Course Destination Monde
1988 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Untitled James Bond Film
Movie
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Movie
Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve
Movie