Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film maker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2009, Incendies in 2010 and Enemy in 2013. The first three of these films also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture, while the latter was awarded the prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Internationally, he is known for directing several critically acclaimed films, including the thrillers Prisoners and Sicario, as well as the science fiction films Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. For his work on Arrival, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was awarded the prize of Director of the Decade by the Hollywood Critics Association in December 2019. His latest film, Dune, based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name, premiered on September 3, 2021, at the Venice Film festival.
