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): Adrian Garvey • Alastair Bruce of Crionaich • Allen Fox • Celia Franca • Dimitar Isakov • Don Demeter • Francesco Marchisano • Ingeborg Bachmann • Jack W. Hayford • Rain (entertainer) • Whipper Billy Watson • Álvaro Siza Vieira

Born in the same month (June 1941): Al Downing (baseball) • Ed Bradley • Graham McKenzie • Gudrun Sjödén • John Albert Raven • John Boccabella • Keith Newton (footballer) • Kenneth G. Ross • Lamont Dozier • Lucille Roybal-Allard • Lyman Ward (actor) • Marcel Lachemann • Mickey Jones • Paul Mayersberg • Peter Pollock • Spalding Gray • Stokely Carmichael • Toyo Ito • Yves Beauchemin • Ünal Aysal