Denis Villeneuve

Denis Villeneuve OC CQ born October 3 1967 is a FrenchCanadian filmmaker He is a fourtime recipient of the Canadian Screen Award formerly Genie Award for Best Direction winning 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 2013 and Sicario 2015 as well as the science fiction films Arrival 2016 and Blade Runner 2049 2017 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 film Dune 2021 based on Frank Herberts novel of the same name premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival the film received critical acclaim was a commercial success at the box office internationally is currently his highest grossing film to date and earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture with the film itself winning a leading six Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards