Xavier Dolan

Xavier DolanTadros CQ CM born 20 March 1989 is a Canadian filmmaker and actor He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut I Killed My Mother Jai tué ma mère which he also starred in wrote and produced and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section and won three awards from the program Since 2009 he has written and directed eight feature films all of which have premiered at Cannes with the exception of Tom at the Farmwhich premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013and his first Englishlanguage film The Death Life of John F Donovan which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival Dolan has also directed music videos notably with Adele for her singles Hello 2015 and Easy on Me 2021 for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination Dolan has won many accolades for his work including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for Its Only the End of the World He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards Outside of his own films he has also starred in films from other directors such as Elephant Song 2014 Boy Erased 2018 Bad Times at the El Royale 2018 and It Chapter Two 2019 Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Dolan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia