Denys Arcand

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand 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. For The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.

25 June 1941

Born on the same birth date (25 June 1941): John Albert Raven

Born on the same birth day (25 June): A. J. Quinnell • Anne Revere • Bobbie Vaile • Celia Franca • Eric Carle • Georges Courteline • Johnny Herbert • Johnny Smith • Judy Howe • Mario Lessard • Neil Lennon • Nisha Ganatra • Taufiq Ismail • Tony Lanfranchi • Tracey Spicer • William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury

Born in the same month (June 1941): Aloysius Paul D'Souza • Chick Corea • David Walker (racing driver) • Delia Smith • Ed Bradley • Erasmo Carlos • George Pell • Gudrun Sjödén • Harry Nilsson • Jürgen Prochnow • Krzysztof Kieślowski • Lamont Dozier • Marv Albert • Mickey Jones • Nicholas C. Handy • Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician) • Roger Lemerre • Shirley Owens • Terttu Savola • Yves Beauchemin