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Denys Arcand

1941 - Today

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Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (French: [dəni aʁkɑ̃]; born June 25, 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films." His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. For The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Denys Arcand is the 417th most popular film director (up from 535th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Canada (up from 160th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Denys Arcand ranks 417 out of 2,041. Before him are Roland Joffé, M. Night Shyamalan, Gustav Ucicky, Olivier Assayas, Jacques Copeau, and John Landis. After him are Karel Reisz, Saul Bass, John Guillermin, Christian-Jaque, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Bo Widerberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Denys Arcand ranks 182. Before him are Ghena Dimitrova, Na Moon-hee, Fritz Wepper, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Eleni Karaindrou, and Andrei Mironov. After him are Emmett Till, Michael Apted, Maurice White, Walid Muallem, Esther Ofarim, and Salvador Sadurní.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 145 out of 1,622. Before him are Ryan Gosling (1980), Rachel McAdams (1978), Stephen Harper (1959), Paul Martin (1938), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), and Robin Sharma (1965). After him are Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Napoleon Sarony (1821), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Louis Nirenberg (1925), and Myron Scholes (1941).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 9. Before him are David Cronenberg (1943), Mark Robson (1913), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Edward Dmytryk (1908), and Norman Jewison (1926). After him are Arthur Hiller (1923), Paul Haggis (1953), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), Shawn Levy (1968), and Mary Harron (1953).

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