
Directing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
October 3, 1967 (age 58)
Born in
Gentilly, Québec, Canada
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.

Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
Self
2025

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
2022

The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve
Self
2022

Le cri du rhinocéros
Self
2018

Trumbull Land
Self
2018

Three Kinds of Close Encounters
Self
2017

Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival'
Self
2017
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
Self
2017
Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival'
Self
2017

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
Self
2017

Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
Self
2016

Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
Self
2014

Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
2010
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Self
2004
Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve

Zigrail
Denis
1995

In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
Pilot / Engineer / Teacher / Narrator (voice)
1990

Dune: Part Three
Director
2026

Dune: Part Two
Director
2024

Dune
Director
2021

Blade Runner 2049
Director
2017

Arrival
Director
2016

Sicario
Director
2015

Enemy
Director
2014

Prisoners
Director
2013

Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision
Director
2011

Rated R for Nudity
Director
2011

Incendies
Director
2010

Polytechnique
Director
2009

Next Floor
Director
2008

Happiness Bound
Director
2007

120 Seconds to Get Elected
Director
2006

Maelström
Director
2000
Cleopatra
Director

Rendezvous with Rama
Director
I'm Waiting for You
Director

Untitled James Bond Film
Director