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FILM DIRECTOR

Denys Arcand

1941 - Today

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Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (French: [dəni aʁkɑ̃]; born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denys Arcand has received more than 259,131 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Denys Arcand is the 428th most popular film director (down from 368th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Canada (down from 95th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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  • 260k

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  • 54.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Denys Arcand ranks 428 out of 1,581Before him are Wolfgang Reitherman, Georges Lautner, Alberto Lattuada, Mike Leigh, Kira Muratova, and Édouard Molinaro. After him are Kon Ichikawa, Anton Corbijn, Alexander Sokurov, Curtis Hanson, Edward Yang, and Jacques Doillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Denys Arcand ranks 176Before him are Sara Nazarbayeva, Kim Hye-ja, Kenji Tochio, Élisabeth Depardieu, Myron Scholes, and Beniamino Stella. After him are Yoshiyuki Tomino, Geoff Hurst, Théoneste Bagosora, Eric Braeden, Hagen Kleinert, and Edmund Stoiber.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 135 out of 1,350Before him are Paul Watson (1950), John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Maye Musk (1948), William B. Davis (1938), Myron Scholes (1941), and Bruce Greenwood (1956). After him are Nelly Furtado (1978), Elliot Page (1987), Tom Cavanagh (1963), Eric McCormack (1963), Shawn Mendes (1998), and Lorne Greene (1915).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 7Before him are James Cameron (1954), David Cronenberg (1943), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Jack L. Warner (1892), and Norman Jewison (1926). After him are Arthur Hiller (1923), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Jean-Marc Vallée (1963), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Paul Haggis (1953), and Allan Dwan (1885).

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