David Cronenberg

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David Paul Cronenberg (born 15 March 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981),  Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986). However, he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers, and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences; he has earned critical acclaim and sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. The Village Voice called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity". From the 2000s to the 2020s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Crimes of the Future (2022). Seven of his films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, the most recent being The Shrouds (2024), which was screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Cronenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• The Flesh and the Soul (2026)
• Joie de vivre (2026)
• Music, Fashion, Film (2026)
• Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
• Cronenberg, à corps ouvert (2025)
• The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld (2025)
• Sangre del Toro (2025)
• The Shrouds (2025)
• Humane (2024)
• Room 999 (2023)
• Leo (2023)
• Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection (2023)
• The Death of David Cronenberg (2023)
• Crimes of the Future (2022)
• Falling (2020)
• Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)
• Rabid (2019)
• Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece (2019)
• A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now (2019)
• L’inquiétante absence (2019)
• The Dead Don't Die (2019)
• The Drema (2019)
• Ape Sodom (2016)
• Tomorrow's Shadows (2016)
• The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in 'Scanners' (2014)
• Maps to the Stars (2014)
• Mental Saboteur (2014)
• The Double (2014)
• Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014)
• The Nest (2013)
• Tales from the Organ Trade (2013)
• Candy (2013)
• Rewind (2013)
• Pacific Rim (2013)
• Citizens of Cosmopolis (2012)
• Cosmopolis (2012)
• A Special Day (2012)
• A Dangerous Method (2011)
• Down to Sleep (2011)
• Produce Your Own Damn Movie! (2011)
• Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter (2011)
• Cronenberg: The Early Years (2011)
• Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
• Barney's Version (2010)
• Crank Up (2010)
• Tub (2010)
• The Plan (2008)
• On Screen!: Shivers (2008)
• To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
• Eastern Promises (2007)
• At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007)
• Karim (2007)
• Shortbus (2006)
• The Politics of the Dead Zone (2006)
• Skinwalkers (2006)
• Too Commercial for Cannes (2006)
• Acts of Violence (2006)
• Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly (2005)
• A History of Violence (2005)
• The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter (2005)
• Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh (2004)
• Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)
• 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2003)
• Masters of Horror (2002)
• Spider (2002)
• By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X" (2002)
• Jason X (2001)
• The Judge (2001)
• Resolving Power (2001)
• Imagining 'Total Recall' (2001)
• Preludes (2000)
• The American Nightmare (2000)
• Camera (2000)
• Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier (2000)
• David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh (1999)
• Resurrection (1999)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Last Night (1998)
• I'm Losing You (1998)
• The Grace of God (1998)
• David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme (1997)
• Extreme Measures (1996)
• The Stupids (1996)
• Crash (1996)
• Moonshine Highway (1996)
• To Die For (1995)
• Blood & Donuts (1995)
• Scanner Cop II (1995)
• Boozecan (1994)
• Trial by Jury (1994)
• Scanner Cop (1994)
• Henry & Verlin (1994)
• M. Butterfly (1993)
• Naked Making Lunch (1992)
• Scanners III: The Takeover (1992)
• Blue (1992)
• Naked Lunch (1991)
• Highway 61 (1991)
• Scanners II: The New Order (1991)
• Nightbreed (1990)
• Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard (1990)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• The Making of Dead Ringers (1988)
• Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
• The Fly (1986)
• Into the Night (1985)
• Crimes of the Future (1984)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1982)
• Take One: Fear on Film (1982)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• Scanners (1981)
• The Brood (1979)
• Fast Company (1979)
• Rabid (1977)
• Shivers (1975)
• Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors (1973)
• Winter Garden (1972)
• Lakeshore (1972)
• Scarborough Bluffs (1972)
• In the Dirt (1972)
• Don Valley (1972)
• Fort York (1972)
• Tourrettes (1971)
• Letter from Michelangelo (1971)
• Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971)
• Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969)
• Palace of Pleasure (1967)
• From the Drain (1967)
• Buffalo Airport Visions (1967)
• Transfer (1966)
• David Cronenberg, en chair et en os