Atom Egoyan Filmography

Born:: July 19, 1960 in Cairo, Egypt
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the most distinctive members of the film industry -- Canadian or otherwise -- to emerge in the 1990s, director, writer, editor, and producer Atom Egoyan has left an indelible imprint on audiences everywhere with his haunting, beautifully wrought work. The son of Armenian refugees, Egoyan...Read More

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Adoration

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman, Noam Blanchard, Devon Bostick, Noam Jenkins, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon (Devon Bostick) who reinvents his life on the internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions from around the globe. Rachel Blanchard Read More

2008
40 x 15

Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
40x15

2008
Away From Her

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan - a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young thesp Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) - executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short story Read More

5/4/07
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Actors: Kimberly Peirce, Alison Andres, Jon Lewis, David Ansen, Martin Garbus, Wayne Kramer

Synopsis: In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by Read More

9/1/06
Mouth to Mouth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ellen Page, Eric Thal, Natasha Wightman, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos

Synopsis: A disillusioned young girl looking to carve her own path in life and live on her own terms hits the road with a volatile collection of radical revolutionaries in director Alison Murray's uncompromising coming-of-age road film. Sherry (Ellen Page) is a teenage contradiction of sorts; she wants to Read More

5/19/06
Citadel

Crew: Director

2006
Where the Truth Lies

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard, David Hayman

Synopsis: A reporter unexpectedly gets a personal perspective on a legendary show-business story in this adaptation of Rupert Holmes' novel, scripted and directed by noted Canadian independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In the mid-'50s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly Read More

10/14/05
Sabah

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Shawn Doyle, Setta Keshishian, Roula Said, Fadia Nadda

Synopsis: When a devout, forty year old Muslim woman from a traditional family falls in love with a handsome Canadian man, the stress of balancing her secret romance with her highly demanding family life gradually begins to take a heavy emotional toll. As a young girl, Sabah (Arsinée Khanjan) was always Read More

2005
The Saddest Music in the World

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest Read More

4/30/04
Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

2004
Foolproof

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi

Synopsis: A harmless game among friends escalates into a dangerous game of wits against a master criminal in writer/director William Phillips' taut sophomore thriller. For seven years, Kevin (Ryan Reynolds), Samantha (Kristin Booth), and Rob (Joris Jarsky) have mastered the homespun game Foolproof, in which Read More

2003
Ararat

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Alpay, Charles Aznavour, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Marie-Josée Croze

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan explores his Armenian heritage, and how the country's tragic history has touched several generations of the nation's expatriates, in this ambitious drama. Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about Read More

11/15/02
Krapp's Last Tape

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: John Hurt

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan directed this film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's single-character play, in which Krapp (John Hurt), an elderly man, sits at a desk and looks back at the events of his life. Every year, Krapp has made a point of recalling the most remarkable events of the past 12 months and reciting Read More

2000
Felicia's Journey

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia's Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural Ireland. She has fallen in love with a boy named Read More

11/12/99
Babyface

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lenore Zann, Elisabeth Rosen, Shawn Doyle, James Gallanders, William Dunlop

Synopsis: Toronto TV scripter and stage director Jack Blum made his feature directorial debut with this Canadian family psychological drama. Blond 13-year-old Lisa (Elisabeth Rosen), who flirts with the school busdriver, lives with the sister of her mother Margaret (Lenore Zann), a boozing, man-chasing Read More

1998
Jack & Jill

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Kalangis, Shauna MacDonald, Kathryn Zenna, Scott Gibson, Tara Johnson

Synopsis: In this lightweight Canadian romantic comedy, a couple in their thirties discovers that love in the '90s can be a messy and complicated proposition. Jack (John Kalangis, who also directs) and Jill (Shauna MacDonald) are going to get married, until Jack changes his mind and coldly announces his Read More

1998
The Sweet Hereafter

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured Read More

1997
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Jan Rubes, George Sperdakos

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

1997
Curtis's Charm

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maurice Dean Wint, Callum Keith Rennie, Rachael Crawford, Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Aron Tager

Synopsis: This raw, grungy Canadian comedy-drama chronicles the conversations between two friends, Jim, a black guy who has recently kicked his heroin habit, and Curtis, his white buddy who attended rehab with him but remains addicted to crack cocaine. Curtis and Jim are opposites in many ways. Curtis is Read More

1995
Exotica

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber

Synopsis: The action in Canadian provocateur Atom Egoyan's cryptic Exotica revolves largely around the strip club, which lends the film its name, a faux-tropical hothouse where young female dancers cater to their customers' sexual and psychological needs. Among the regulars is Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a Read More

1994
Calendar

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Atom Egoyan

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan casts himself as the lead character in Calendar. He portrays a shutterbug who brings an array of different women to his apartment. Every time one of the women makes a phone call, the character notices a calendar consisting of photographs he took while in Armenia. The film flashes back Read More

1993
The Adjuster

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, The Adjuster is an examination of the sexual quirks of a married couple. Starring such Egoyan regulars as Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, and Don McKellar, the film focuses on Noah Render (Koteas), an insurance adjuster who Read More

5/29/92
Gross Misconduct

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Kash, Peter MacNeill

1992
Montréal Vu Par...

Crew: Director

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, Charlotte Laurier, Robert Lepage, Denys Arcand

Synopsis: Six short movies by six successful Canadian directors are gathered in this anthology film, commissioned to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Montréal in 1992. The first film, directed by Patricia Rozema, humorously follows a bewildered Toronto housewife as she frantically attempts to enjoy her Read More

1991
Speaking Parts

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Patricia Collins

Synopsis: "In my films, you're always encouraged to remember that you're watching a collection of designed images." Thus spake Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan in describing his calculatedly non-realistic style. In keeping with his earlier works, Egoyan's Speaking Parts, though grounded in reality, could Read More

1989
La Boite à Soleil

Actors: Joseph Champagne, Arsinée Khanjian, Simon Esterez, Barbara Easton, Atom Egoyan

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Lefebvre's direction is apparent in this symbolic, avant garde film. An elderly man sits in a chair in a snow-covered woods. Children cut out colorful pictures from magazines that later become animated. A woman in a black veil wheels a baby carriage to the sea. The old man gives a Read More

1988
Family Viewing

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian

Synopsis: Ignore the title: Family Viewing makes for fascinating viewing, though it is not designed as entertainment for the whole family. This Canadian film stars David Hemblen as Stan, a profoundly disturbed young man. Upon the disappearance of his mother, Stan feverishly tries to piece together existing Read More

1987
Next of Kin

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Tierney, Sirvant Fazlian, Arsinée Khanjian, Margaret Loveys, Thomas Tierney

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's first feature finds him using the formal and thematic elements he has combined throughout his career: allegory, family bonds, the corruption of desire, and a perverse view of technology. In the midst of a familial trauma, a young man discovers a videotape of a family who gave up a Read More

1984
Peep Show

Crew: Director

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