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Atom Egoyan CC (/ ɛ ˈ ɡ ɔɪ ə n /; Armenian: Ատոմ Եղոյեան; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. Emerging in the 1980s as part of the Toronto New Wave, he made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set in a strip club.
Atom Egoyan. Director: The Sweet Hereafter. Born in Egypt to Armenian parents, he was raised in Western Canada. Both his parents were painters, and he planned to be a playwright, but after making a short film, he became hooked on telling stories visually.
Jan 8, 2024 · Atom Egoyan is a Cairo-born Canadian filmmaker of Armenian descent who broke through in the early '90s with a string of sharp and experimental dramas, including Exotica and his magnum opus, The...
July 19, 1960 · Cairo, Egypt. Birth name. Atom Yeghoyan. Height. 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Bio. Born in Egypt to Armenian parents, he was raised in Western Canada. Both his parents were painters, and he planned to be a playwright, but after making a short film, he became hooked on telling stories visually.
Apr 30, 2024 · Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-born Canadian writer and director who was known for his nuanced character studies of people in unconventional circumstances. His notable movies included Next of Kin, The Sweet Hereafter, and Felicia’s Last Journey. Learn more about Egoyan’s life and career.
Jul 27, 2020 · Egoyan’s plotlines, with their shuffled timelines and accordingly unwieldy relationship to cause-and-effect dramaturgy, inspire curiosity—that most thrilling and weightless of moviegoing sensations—while also requiring completion in the viewer’s consciousness.
Jan 28, 2015 · Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has directed fourteen features, including The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Ararat (2002), and, most recently, The Captive (2014). He writes, “Rather than a top ten, these are ten films with which I have some sort of personal relationship. I saw them at a certain point in my life ...
