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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
Director
for Director in Star Wars: The Eidolon Wrath
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At an ambiguous time in the dystopian Outer Rim, an Isopter revolutionary Drace Kattal leads a brutal fundamentalist militant group, the Shahadi, to fight against the tyrannical Malvada dictatorship. Contention divides the galaxy when the Shahadi grow rapidly and their once freedom-based insurgence quickly turns to a barbarous extinction of not only the governing empire, but the patriots who support them. Only one person stands in their way: Nomi Hunt, a young prostitute who finds herself on a path of fate toward the jedi, and eventually to face Drace Kattal himself.
