FILM DIRECTOR

Denys Arcand

1941 - Today

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denys Arcand has received more than 287,900 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Denys Arcand is the 535th most popular film director (down from 427th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Canada (down from 135th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Denys Arcand ranks 535 out of 2,041. Before him are Ken Annakin, Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, Ferdinand Zecca, Alain Corneau, and Andrzej Munk. After him are Philip Kaufman, Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, Olivier Assayas, Dadasaheb Phalke, and Wojciech Has.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Denys Arcand ranks 211. Before him are Harald Nielsen, Edmund Stoiber, Prince William of Gloucester, Leslie Lamport, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Wilson Pickett. After him are Robert D. Putnam, Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, Walid Muallem, Percy Sledge, Sonny Landham, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 160 out of 1,622. Before him are Ted Kotcheff (1931), Brian Kernighan (1942), Fay Wray (1907), Hayden Christensen (1981), Albert W. Tucker (1905), and John Tuzo Wilson (1908). After him are Shawn Mendes (1998), Brian Mulroney (1939), Raymond Massey (1896), Jeff Wall (1946), Stephen Harper (1959), and Joe Shuster (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 9. Before him are Norman Jewison (1926), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Jack L. Warner (1892), Arthur Hiller (1923), and Ted Kotcheff (1931). After him are Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), Mark Robson (1913), Paul Haggis (1953), Michel Brault (1928), and Mary Harron (1953).

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