Denys Arcand Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Denys Arcand Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand CC GOQ (French: [dÉ™ni aÊ kÉ'̃]; 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. Also for The Barbarian Invasions, he received an

Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia

Coppola for Lost in Translation.During his four decades career, he

became the most globally recognized director from Quebec, winning many

awards from the Cannes Film Festival, including the Best Screenplay

Award, the Jury Prize, and many other prestigious awards worldwide. He

won three César Awards in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions: Best

Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film, being the only

Canadian director to have accomplished this.Arcand has directed three

Canadian films that have received an Academy Award nomination for Best

Foreign Film and three films in the Toronto International Film

Festival's 2004 list of the top 10 Canadian films of all time.Arcand

was born in Deschambault, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a devoutly

Roman Catholic home in a village about 40 km southwest of Quebec City.

He attended Jesuit school for nine years. Entering his teen years, the

family moved to Montreal and although he dreamed about being a

professional tennis player, while studying for a master's degree in

history at the Université de Montréal he became involved in film

making, which gave him a new sense of direction.
Denys Arcand Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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