Atom Egoyan
Born: 1960-07-19 in Cairo, Egypt
Known For: Directing
Biography
Atom Egoyan CC (/ɛˈɡɔɪən/; Armenian: Ատոմ Եղոյեան; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. Emerging in the 1980s as part of the Toronto New Wave, he made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set in a strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations. His biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009). Egoyan's works often explore themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy, or other power structures. His films often follow non-linear plot structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. He received the 2008 Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past" and the 2015 Governor General's Performing Arts Award. Egoyan is married to actress Arsinée Khanjian, whom he has often cast in his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Atom Egoyan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Seven Veils ... (Director)
2024
2023
- Viva Varda! as Self
2021
- Talking Heads 2021 as Self
2020
- Guest of Honour ... (Director)
2019
- Mouthpiece ... (Thanks)
2018
- Le cri du rhinocéros as Self
2017
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts ... (Thanks)
2016
2015
- Remember ... (Director)
- Sculpting Memory
2014
- The Captive ... (Director)
2013
- Invisible World ... (Director)
- Rewind This! as Self
- Devil's Knot ... (Director)
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded
- Butterfly ... (Director)
2012
- Stories We Tell ... (Thanks)
- The Rep - A Documentary as Himself
2010
- Chloe ... (Director)
- Barney's Version as O'Malley Director #1
2009
- Adoration ... (Director)
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
2007
- Away from Her ... (Executive Producer)
- To Each His Own Cinema ... (Director)
- Indie Sex as Self
2006
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated as Self - Director of 'Where the Truth lies'
- Citadel as Self
2005
- Where the Truth Lies ... (Director)
2004
- Childstar ... (Thanks)
- Luck ... (Executive Producer)
- Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche as Self
2003
- The Saddest Music in the World ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- Ararat ... (Director)
- Gambling, Gods and LSD ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- Preludes ... (Director)
- Krapp's Last Tape ... (Director)
- The Line ... (Director)
1999
1997
- Sarabande ... (Director)
- The Sweet Hereafter ... (Director)
1996
- The Stupids as TV Studio Guard
- Curtis's Charm ... (Executive Producer)
1995
- At Sundance as Self
- A Portrait of Arshile as Voice
1993
- Calendar as Photographer
- Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer ... (Director)
1991
- The Adjuster ... (Director)
- Montreal Stories ... (Director)
- In Passing ... (Director)
1990
- Speaking Parts ... (Director)
1989
- Roadkill ... (Thanks)
1988
- The Box of Sun
- Looking for Nothing ... (Director)
1987
- Friday the 13th: The Series ... (Director)
- Family Viewing ... (Director)
1986
- In This Corner ... (Director)
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... (Director)
- Men: A Passion Playground ... (Director)
1984
- Next of Kin ... (Director)
1982
- Open House ... (Director)
1981
- Peep Show ... (Writer)
1980
- After Grad with Dad ... (Director)
1979
- Howard in Particular ... (Writer)
1977
- Lust of a Eunuch ... (Director)