Denis Villeneuve
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The ThumbScore for Denis Villeneuve (79.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Denis's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Audiences rate Denis Villeneuve’s films higher than 92% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Polytechnique (Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Arrival (Kanopy, Pluto TV) · Maelström (Cineverse, Kanopy) · August 32nd on Earth (Kanopy) · Enemy (Fandango at Home, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla).
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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.
Born 1967-10-03 in Gentilly, Québec, Canada.
On ThumbScore, Denis Villeneuve appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 79.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
