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Georges-Henri Denys Arcand was born on June 25, 1941 in Deschambault, south of Quebec City. He married Denise Robert.
Denys is the most decorated French Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer in history. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. He has also been nominated three other times, for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989. Along with his work on feature films, he is also a noted director of documentary film, having gotten his start at the National Film Board in the 1960's.
He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2004.[1]
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