David Cronenberg
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.
47 directing credits · 86 acting credits
Directing · 47
A History of Violence
2005
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987
The Fly
1986
Crash
1996
Eastern Promises
2007
Videodrome
1983
Crimes of the Future
2022
eXistenZ
1999
The Shrouds
2025
The Dead Zone
1983
A Dangerous Method
2011
Spider
2002
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Naked Lunch
1991
Scanners
1981
Maps to the Stars
2014
Rabid
1977
Cosmopolis
2012
The Brood
1979
Peep Show
1975
Dead Ringers
1988
Shivers
1975
M. Butterfly
1993
Teleplay
1976
Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)
1969
Fast Company
1979
Crimes of the Future
1970
Preludes
2000
Camera
2000
Programme X
1971
Scales of Justice
1990
The Nest
2013
Jim Ritchie Sculptor
1971
Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection
2023
Tourrettes
1971
From the Drain
1967
Winter Garden
1972
Transfer
1966
Fort York
1972
Scarborough Bluffs
1972
The Death of David Cronenberg
2021
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
2007
Lakeshore
1972
Don Valley
1972
In the Dirt
1972
The Lie Chair
1976
Letter from Michelangelo
1971
Acting · 86
Ready or Not: Here I Come
2026
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Kulturzeit
1995
Slasher
2016
Prisoners of Gravity
1989
The Fly
1986
Alias
2001
Crash
1996
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
Pig Goat Banana Cricket
2015
Cérémonie des César
1976
SexTV
1998
Le Cercle
2005
Alias Grace
2017
Jason X
2001
The Newsroom
1996
Videodrome
1983
Humane
2024
Happy Town
2010
To Die For
1995
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Falling
2020
Extreme Measures
1996
Nightbreed
1990
Into the Night
1985
Resurrection
1999
Dead Ringers
1988
Shivers
1975
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
The Stupids
1996
Barney's Version
2010
The Judge
2001
Slasher: Flesh & Blood
2021
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
2020
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
Last Night
1998
Blood & Donuts
1995
The Judge
2001
Rewind
2013
A Special Day
2012
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Citizens of Cosmopolis
2012
Trial by Jury
1994
Room 999
2023
Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
2000
Moonshine Highway
1996
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
The American Nightmare
2000
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982
Sangre del Toro
2025
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
Boozecan
1994
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X"
2002
Too Commercial for Cannes
2006
Take One: Fear on Film
1982
The Nest
2013
Masters of Horror
2002
Blue
1992
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006
David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
1997
Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
2019
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988
Henry & Verlin
1994
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004
Palace of Pleasure
1967
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
L’inquiétante absence
2019
Tomorrow's Shadows
2016
On Screen!: Shivers
2008
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
1999
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
1987
Naked Making Lunch
1992
Tales from the Organ Trade
2013
A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now
2019
Ape Sodom
2016
The Death of David Cronenberg
2021
The Grace of God
1998
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
2007
David Cronenberg, en chair et en os
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The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter
2005
Acts of Violence
2006
Buffalo Airport Visions
1967
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
1990
Cronenberg: The Early Years
2011
Cronenberg, à corps ouvert
2025