1941 - Today
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 160,992 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Denys Arcand is the 367th most popular film director (down from 282nd in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Canada (down from 78th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Denys Arcand ranks 367 out of 1,580. Before him are Roland Joffé, Mamoru Oshii, Adolph Zukor, Jacques Tourneur, Edward Zwick, and Chen Kaige. After him are Park Chan-wook, Donald P. Bellisario, Víctor Erice, Denis Villeneuve, Hideaki Anno, and Richard Thorpe.
1945 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 361
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 362
1873 - 1976
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 363
1904 - 1977
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 364
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 365
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 366
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 367
1963 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 368
1935 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 369
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 370
1967 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 371
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 372
1896 - 1991
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 373
Among people born in 1941, Denys Arcand ranks 140. Before him are Akiko Wakabayashi, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Mario Corso, Sergei Dovlatov, Beniamino Stella, and Ghena Dimitrova. After him are Sigmar Polke, Sergio Oliva, Rosa Maria Sardà, Andrei Mironov, Charles Whitman, and Myron Scholes.
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 134
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 135
1941 - 2020
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 136
1941 - 1990
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 137
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 138
1941 - 2005
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 139
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 140
1941 - 2010
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 141
1941 - 2012
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 142
1941 - 2020
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 143
1941 - 1987
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 144
1941 - 1966
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 145
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 146
Among people born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 95 out of 1,130. Before him are Gerald Bull (1928), James Doohan (1920), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Simon Newcomb (1835), Eric McCormack (1963), and Denny Doherty (1940). After him are Deanna Durbin (1921), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Gordie Howe (1928), Norman Bethune (1890), Bruce Greenwood (1956), and William B. Davis (1938).
1928 - 1990
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 89
1920 - 2005
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 90
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 91
1835 - 1909
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 92
1963 - Present
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 93
1940 - 2007
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 94
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 95
1921 - 2013
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 96
1967 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 97
1928 - 2016
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 98
1890 - 1939
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 99
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 100
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 101
Among film directors born in Canada, Denys Arcand ranks 6. Before him are James Cameron (1954), David Cronenberg (1943), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Norman Jewison (1926), and Jack L. Warner (1892). After him are Denis Villeneuve (1967), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Arthur Hiller (1923), Mark Robson (1913), Paul Haggis (1953), and Roger Spottiswoode (1945).
1954 - Present
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 1
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 2
1908 - 1999
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 3
1926 - Present
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 4
1892 - 1978
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 5
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 6
1967 - Present
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 7
1931 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 8
1923 - 2016
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 9
1913 - 1978
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 10
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 12