🎬Denis Villeneuve

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Dune: Part Three (2026)	Director / Writer		8
2	Dune: Part Two (2024) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Director / Writer		8.5
3	Dune (2021) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer		8
4	Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' (2017)	Self		8
5	Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' (2017)	Self		7
6	Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer		8.1
7	Arrival (2016) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer		7.9
8	Sicario (2015) Oscars 2016	Director / Writer		7.6
9	Enemy (2014)	Director / Writer		7.3
10	Prisoners (2013) Oscars 2014	Director / Writer		7.9
11	Rated R for Nudity (2011)	Director / Writer		3.5
12	Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision (2011)	Director / Writer		2
13	Incendies (2010) Oscars 2011	Director / Writer		7.7
14	Polytechnique (2009)	Director / Writer		7.5
15	Next Floor (2008)	Director / Writer		7.4
16	120 Seconds to Get Elected (2006)	Director / Writer		4
17	Maelström (2000)	Director / Writer		8
18	August 32nd on Earth (1999)	Director / Writer		7
19	Cosmos (1996)	Director / Writer	-	-
20	Cleopatra	Director / Writer	-	-
21	The Son	Director / Writer	-	-
22	Bond 26	Director / Writer	-	-