Atom Egoyan CC (/ɛˈɡɔɪən/; Armenian: Ատոմ Եղոյեան, romanized: Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Egoyan's other significant films include The Adjuster (1991), Ararat (2002), Where the Truth Lies (2005), Adoration (2008), Chloe (2009), Devil's Knot (2013), and Remember (2015). His 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. Many of his films also draw on his experiences as a first-generation immigrant, and as a member of the Armenian diaspora. In addition to his Oscar nods, Egoyan has won eight Genie/Canadian Screen Awards, out of 25 total nominations. He received the 2008 Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past" and the 2015 Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He has been a member of the Order of Canada since 1999, and was ascended to Companion in 2015. 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

• 2025Seven Veils — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2020Guest of Honour — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2019Mouthpiece — Thanks
• 2017Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts — Thanks
• 2016Missing
• 2015Remember — Director
• 2015Sculpting Memory
• 2014The Captive — Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
• 2013Devil's Knot — Director
• 2013Invisible World — Director
• 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded — Director
• 2012Stories We Tell — Thanks
• 2010Barney's Version — O'Malley Director #1
• 2010Chloe — Director
• 2009Adoration — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2007Away from Her — Executive Producer
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Director, Writer
• 2006Citadel — Self, Director
• 2005Mouth to Mouth — Executive Producer
• 2005Where the Truth Lies — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2004Childstar — Thanks
• 2004Luck — Executive Producer
• 2003Foolproof — Executive Producer
• 2003The Saddest Music in the World — Executive Producer
• 2002Ararat — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2002Gambling, Gods and LSD — Executive Producer
• 2001Close — Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 2001Diaspora — Director
• 2000Krapp's Last Tape — Director, Editor
• 2000Preludes — Director
• 2000The Line — Director, Screenplay
• 1999Felicia's Journey — Director, Screenplay
• 1999Formulas for Seduction: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
• 1997Sarabande — Director, Writer
• 1997The Sweet Hereafter — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1996Curtis's Charm — Executive Producer
• 1996The Stupids — TV Studio Guard
• 1995A Portrait of Arshile — Voice, Director, Writer
• 1994Camilla — Sea Bunnies Director
• 1994Exotica — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1993Calendar — Photographer, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator
• 1993Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer — Director
• 1991In Passing — Director, Writer
• 1991Montreal Stories — Director, Writer
• 1991The Adjuster — Director, Writer, Producer, Co-Editor
• 1990Speaking Parts — Director, Writer, Producer, Co-Editor
• 1989Roadkill — Thanks
• 1988Looking for Nothing — Director, Screenplay
• 1988The Box of Sun
• 1987Family Viewing — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• Friday the 13th: The Series — Director
• 1986In This Corner — Director
• 1985Men: A Passion Playground — Director
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Director
• 1984Next of Kin — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1982Open House — Director
• 1981Peep Show — Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Director
• 1980After Grad with Dad — Director
• 1979Howard in Particular — Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Director
• 1977Lust of a Eunuch — Director
• Embers — Executive Producer
• Notes for a Possible Sequel — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2024"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov — Himself
• 2023Viva Varda ! — Self
• 2021Talking Heads 2021 — Self
• 2018Le cri du rhinocéros — Self
• 2013Rewind This! — Self
• 2012The Rep - A Documentary — Himself
• 2009It Came from Kuchar — Self
• Indie Sex — Self
• 2006François Girard en trois actes — Self
• 2006This Film Is Not Yet Rated — Self - Director of 'Where the Truth lies'
• 2004Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche — Self
• 2003Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")
• 1995At Sundance — Self