1960
Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Atom Egoyan
Canadian filmmaker (born 1960)
- Born
- 1960
Atom Egoyan 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.