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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.
Denis Villeneuve
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Lone Wolf — Chapter One: A Reckoning (also known as just Lone Wolf — A Reckoning), is a 2025 American Western film written, co-produced, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Lionsgate Films, it is the first installment in the Lone Wolf franchise. Starring Cara Delevingne as Harley Stone, the film co-stars an ensemble cast that includes Emma Roberts, Michael Shannon, Scott Eastwood, Diane Lane, Viola Davis, Don Johnson, Ethan Hawke, Jeff Bridges, and Samuel L. Jackson. Set in 1875 Nevada, Harley Stone returns to Reno, her hometown, to discover the whereabouts of her father's murderer, and reunites with her childhood best friend in the process while also allying with Reno's marshall and its sheriff to complete her revenge. Lone Wolf — Chapter One: A Reckoning had its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on November 14th, 2025, and opened in theaters on December 12th. The film received generally positive reviews, with praise for the story, visuals, direction, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, Delevingne's performance, screenplay, themes, and emotional weight, but criticism for its long running time of 190 minutes. It was also a box-office success, earning $945 million worldwide and becoming the fourth-highest-grossing Western film of all time and the highest-grossing Western film to be rated PG-13. A sequel is in development.
