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Also known as Georges-Henri Denys Arcand

Canadian film director

Person · Open Library

Born
1941
Works
12

Top works

  • Euchariste Moisan
  • La Maudite galette
  • Denys Arcand
  • Gina
  • La Maudite galette

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Directing · Deschambault, Quebec, Canada

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand CC GOQ (born June 25, 1941) is a French-Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer based in Montreal, who crafts deeply personal and thought-provoking films, earning international acclaim. His career began with features like "Une Maudite Galette" (1972) and "Gina" (1975), exploring diverse narratives. "The Decline of the American Empire" (1986) depicted Quebecois…

Known for

  • À la lumière du soir — Self2025
  • Good Men — Self2024
  • At the End of Nothing at All — Self2024
  • La plus belle province — Narrator (voice)2022
  • Forgotten Flowers — Captain2019
  • Le cri du rhinocéros — Self2018
  • Le prix du paradis — Narrator2017
  • Stealing Alice2016
  • Kiss Me With All Your Love — Édouard Montpetit2016
  • Ti-Mé Show — Self - Guest Star2015

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Saskatchewan

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
13

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Key facts

Born
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand , ( 1941-06-25 ) June 25, 1941 (age 84) , Deschambault , Quebec , Canada
Alma mater
Université de Montréal
Occupations
Film director , screenwriter , film producer
Years active
1962–present
Spouse
Denise Robert
Relatives
Bernard Arcand (brother) Gabriel Arcand (brother) Adrien Arcand (grand-uncle)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand CC GOQ RCA ( French: [dəni aʁkɑ̃]; born June 25, 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized directors 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Denys Arcand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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