Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan is a realizer, producer and Canadian scenario writer of origin Arménie, born the July 19th 1960 with the Cairo (Egypt).

Biography

It approaches in its films the topics of alienation and loneliness, with characters with the catches with technology, the bureaucracy and other structures of control.

Egoyan was born from Joseph and Shushan Yeghoyan with the Cairo, and grew with Victoria in the Canadian province of the Colombia-British. It started to be impassioned for and to write plays. Its principal influences are Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. It is graduate Université of Toronto. Egoyan lives mainenant Toronto with his wife, Arsinée Khanjian, an appeared actress with various recoveries in its films, and their son, Arshile.

Egoyan carried out a dozen films feature films, various episodes of series of television, and several short-measurings. Its first films were based on its own scenarios. It met success with the film Exotica (1994), but it is with its first adaptation that it met success, Of beautiful following days (1997), which been worth to him a nomination with the Oscar as a better realizer. The film Ararat (2002) to him also been worth some fame, the film being the first film of importance evoking the Armenian genocide. Ararat gained the Prix Genius better film, festival which rewarded it with various recoveries in the past for best film, better realizer, and other categories.

Atom Egoyan received the Price of the International Critical for Exotica in 1994 with the Cannes festival. It receipt Grand Prix of the Jury in 1997 for Of beautiful following days . He was member of the jury in 1996.

Catalog of films

1979 : Howard in Particular (short-measuring)
1980: After Grad with Dad (short-measuring)
1981: Peep Show (short-measuring)
1982: Open House (short-measuring)
1984: Close relatives ( Next off Kin )
1985: (short-measuring)
1985: In This Corner (TV)
1985: the Fourth Dimension ( The Twilight Zone ) (series TV) (episode The Wall )
1985: Alfred Hitchcock Present (series TV)
1987: Family Viewing
1987 : Friday the 13th ( Friday the 13th ) (series TV)
1988: Looking for Nothing (TV)
1989: Speaking Shares
1991: Montreal seen by… (segment While passing )
1991: The Adjuster
1993 : Large Misconduct (TV)
1993: Calendar
1994 : Exotica
1995 : has off Portrait Arshile (short-measuring)
1997: Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (series TV)
1997: Of beautiful following days ( The Sweet Hereafter )
1997: Bach Cello Continuation #4: Saraband
1999: the Voyage of Félicia ( Felicia' S Journey )
2000: The Line (short-measuring)
2000: Krapp' S Last Types (TV)
2001: Diaspora (short-measuring)
2002: Ararat
2005 : Naked truth ( Where the Truth Dregs )

Distinctions

Price Genius of the best film in 1994 for Exotica .
Price Genius of best film in 1997 for Of beautiful following days .
Price Genius of best film in 2003 for Ararat .

External bond

Atom Egoyan on Internet Movie Database

Simple: Atom Egoyan

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