Age: 58
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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 The Iliad & the Odyssey
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These two foundational epics of Western literature follow the greatest heroes of ancient Greece across decades of warfare, adventure, and divine intervention. The Iliad chronicles the brutal ten-year Trojan War, focusing on the mighty Achilles, noble Hector, and the armies clashing over Helen of Troy, while gods above take sides in the conflict. The Odyssey follows the cunning Odysseus as he struggles for another ten years to return home to Ithaca after Troy's fall, facing monsters, enchantresses, and the wrath of Poseidon, while his faithful wife Penelope fends off suitors and his son Telemachus searches for him. Both epics explore themes of honor, fate, mortality, and the cost of glory. Through vivid battle scenes, intimate character moments, and encounters with the supernatural—from the Cyclops to Circe to the Sirens—these tales establish archetypes of heroism, loyalty, and human struggle against impossible odds. Written in dactylic hexameter, they blend martial grandeur with emotional depth, creating timeless stories of war's devastation and the yearning for home that resonate across millennia.
