
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
—

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