Biography
Denis Villeneuve OC CQ RCA OAL (French: [dənivilnœv]; 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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dune: Part Three
2026
Screenplay, Director, Producer
The third installment in the Dune franchise, based on the second novel in the series, Dune: Messiah. Details TBA.

Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
2025
as Self
Conversations with collaborators and friends, alongside special live performances from Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena and beyond, from the dunes of the Arabi...

Dune: Part Two
2024
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed hi...

Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
2024
as Self
Karine Vanasse goes behind the scenes of our cinema and showcases the talent of our artists and artisans. The objective? Make as many people as possib...

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
as Self
An in-depth look of the 40 year journey, from post-war Germany to Hollywood royalty, of Hans Zimmer, the man who’s become the dominant force in the wo...

The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve
2022
as Self
Visionary director Denis Villeneuve discusses the creative benefits of early collaboration with his sound team, the process of crafting Dune's unique ...

Dune
2021
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the un...

Last and First Men
2020
Thanks
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is bot...

Thlípsi
2018
Thanks
A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

Le cri du rhinocéros
2018
as Self
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him....

Trumbull Land
2018
as Self
Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounte...

Blade Runner 2049
2017
Director
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge wh...

Three Kinds of Close Encounters
2017
as Self
This new extra begins with a look back at the movie's impact at the time it was made. It goes on to explore filmmaking techniques, the human character...
Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
This piece offers a fascinating discussion of how the music was made and why it compliments the story and tone.

Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
A discussion of the film's use of sound, its positioning as a character in the film, what it represents, technical details of the sound design, and mo...
Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
An in-depth discussion of the movie's editing process and, like the music piece, it discusses rather intelligently how the process makes and enhances ...

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters ...

Arrival
2016
Director
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are ...

Sicario
2015
Director
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexi...

Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
2014
as Self
The cast and crew of 'Enemy' guide the audience through the making of the film and the possible meanings behind its enigmatic imagery.

Enemy
2014
Director
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Prisoners
2013
Director
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minute...

Whitewash
2013
Thanks
In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunk...

Mars and April
2012
Production Consultant
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments...
Empirical Study on the Influence of Sound on the Persistence of Vision
2011
Director
An experimental short about the relationship between music and color.
Hope
2011
Thanks
Hope explores the fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surren...

Rated R for Nudity
2011
Director
A playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Bergman, Spi...

Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes
2010
In Jordan, in the heart of the Middle East, Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese refugees are working on the filming of "Incendies", an adaptation of Wajdi...

Incendies
2010
Director, Screenplay
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaime...

Polytechnique
2009
Director, Writer
A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

Next Floor
2008
Director
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritual...

Happiness Bound
2007
Director
Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.

120 Seconds to Get Elected
2006
Director, Writer
A politician has just a couple of minutes to convince people to vote for him, and tries to seduce his audience with promises he thinks they want to he...
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
as Self
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
Thanks
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...

Maelström
2000
Writer, Director
A young woman's life spirals into chaos after she is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then she encounters a mysterious man named Evian who offers h...

August 32nd on Earth
1999
Director, Writer
After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She ...

Cosmos
1996
Director, Writer
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man,...

Zigrail
1995
as Denis

REW-FFWD
1994
Writer, Director
A young photographer is on assignment in Jamaica. It's a cultural shock! First anguished, he later becomes quite fascinated by the people he meets, th...

Icewarrior
1994
Intern
Not far from the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, for one hundred and twenty days, a watchful camera stalks a beast of fleece and hoof, the ancient mus...

L'ozone n'a qu'une bosse
1991
Camera Operator, Director
The last film Denis Villeneuve made during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in w...

Land of Men
1991
Camera Operator, Editor, Director
Denis Villeneuve created this film during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in w...

Black Ink
1991
Camera Operator, Director
Denis Villeneuve created this film during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in wh...

In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
1990
as Pilot / Engineer / Teacher / Narrator (voice)
Described as a self-portrait, this early auto-biographical short by Denis Villeneuve was presented by host Michel Désautels to introduce the young fil...

In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur
1990
Camera Operator, Director, Editor
Described as a self-portrait, this early auto-biographical short by Denis Villeneuve was presented by host Michel Désautels to introduce the young fil...
Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve
N/A
Composer Hans Zimmer and director Denis Villeneuve speak with Tim Greiving about the music of Dune. Presented by the SCL.

The Making of 'Dune: Part Two'
N/A
Go behind the scenes of Dune: Part Two with exclusive footage and interviews that reveal the epic scale of production. Discover how Denis Villeneuve a...
Cleopatra
N/A
Director
Planned adaptation of Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff.

Rendezvous with Rama
N/A
Director
In the 2130s, a team of astronauts is tasked with intercepting a mysterious 50-by-20-kilometre cylindrical alien starship that enters the solar system...
Nuclear War: A Scenario
N/A
Producer, Director
Explores a ticking-clock scenario about what would happen in the event of a nuclear war, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and...
I'm Waiting for You
N/A
Director
A man journeys through time and space in an increasingly desperate and unlikely attempt to reunite with his fiancée. However, small incidents wreak ha...

Untitled James Bond Film
N/A
Director, Executive Producer