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David Paul Cronenberg net worth is
$15 Million

David Paul Cronenberg Wiki Biography

David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. He has been called "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world."

Full Name	David Cronenberg
Net Worth	$15 Million
Date Of Birth	March 15, 1943
Place Of Birth	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	5' 9" (1.75 m)
Profession	Director, Writer, Actor
Education	University of Toronto
Nationality	Canadian
Spouse	Margaret Hindson
Children	Brandon Cronenberg, Caitlin Cronenberg, Cassandra Cronenberg
Parents	Esther Cronenberg, Milton Cronenberg
Siblings	Denise Cronenberg
IMDB	http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343
Awards	Cannes Jury Prize, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay, Golden Screen Award, Bodil Award for Best American Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, Gotham Independent Film Tribute Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Dire...
Nominations	Golden Lion, Grand Jury Prize, Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Direction, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature Film, BAFTA Award for Best British Film, British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film, British Independent Fi...
Movies	The Fly, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Cosmopolis, Scanners, Maps to the Stars, A History of Violence, A Dangerous Method, Shivers, Eastern Promises, The Brood, Existenz, Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Rabid, Crash, M. Butterfly, Spider, Crimes of the Future, Fast Company, Nightbreed, Stereo, From the Drai...
TV Shows	Alias Grace

#	Trademark
1	He often shoots his films in Canada (The Fly (1986), _A History Of Violence (2005)_, Videodrome (1983), Dead Ringers (1988).
2	Frequently casts Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel
3	Movies about crime families
4	Frequently casts Robert A. Silverman
5	Frequently uses the music of Howard Shore
6	Frequent references to the Flesh or the New Flesh
7	Films often include explicit carnage
8	Uses dark backgrounds
9	His films generally involve the horror caused by a mutation, by a parasite, or by particular medical conditions.

#	Quote
1	The Brood (1979) is my version of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), but more realistic.
2	[on being an auteur] But for me, my movie-making is like a diamond, in the sense that it has many facets but when you look in each facet, you are looking into the inner core of the same diamond. That diamond is really my experience of life, that's all it is, and so it's inevitable I return to the same themes and tropes and considerations but from slightly different angles.
3	[on philosophy] I consider myself a junior existentialist. When I started to read Jean-Paul Sartre and by association Martin Heidegger I thought, "Oh wow, this is what I've been thinking." There's a great lecture Sartre gave called 'Existentialism is a Humanism'. He basically said, "Look, we humans are really all we've got, forget about the afterlife, it doesn't exist. Forget about God, there is no God. We should accept that and if we did and realised that compassion and humanistic empathy were valuable - more than valuable but crucial - then the world would be a better place." So that's really my approach to life.
4	[on his imagination and humor] My imagination is not full of horrors at all. This is the misunderstanding of what my movies are. First of all, I think all my movies are funny. Not everything in them is funny, but they are full of humour. And second, it's not really my imagination. Anybody looking at the news on the internet or in a newspaper, there's horror there every day - compared with that, my imagination is a wonderful playground!
5	[on what's the most frightening film ever made] That's totally subjective because what frightens some people is like a laugher to somebody else. For each person there might be a different answer to that question. Bambi (1942) is a terrifying film for a kid because Bambi's mother is killed. When you're a child that's a terrifying thing. So does that qualify? There's a movie called The Blue Lagoon (1949), which was really scary for me as a kid. It's kids on a boat, the boat sinks, the parents drown, the kids are alone on the island with a drunken sailor. There's a scene in a cave with a snake and a skeleton and all that stuff, and that was a scary movie for me. Probably for an adult not so scary. Then, as an adult, for me, Don't Look Now (1973), Nic Roeg's film with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. That really got to me, that was very effective film-making, its anticipation of death was so palpable. On the other hand if the person who asked this question saw it maybe it wouldn't have any effect. There's no absolute universal.
6	[on the University of Toronto and Winter Kept Us Warm (1965), 2014] I can't say the University of Toronto led me to horror, but what it did do was lead me to cinema, though I never studied cinema. There was a student called David Secter who was making a movie called Winter Kept Us Warm (1965), which starred some friends of mine. And it never occurred to me that you could make a movie. It was unlike someone growing up in LA where everybody's parents were in the business. In Toronto, no one's parents were in the movie business because there wasn't a movie business.(...) The number of films I've seen that have impressed me is endless. But actually, Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) is the most influential film of my life in a weird way. It wasn't a horror film - it was a drama about students coping with life at the 'University of Toronto' - and it wasn't because of its artistry. It was just the fact it was made. It's hard to reproduce the shock I felt when I saw my classmates on screen in a real movie, acting. It was like magic: you are watching TV and suddenly you are in the TV, acting in some TV series. It was that kind of shock.
7	There's an entire generation of Americans who have been spawned in the back seat of a 1954 Ford. So it's not like I invented sex in cars.
8	[on a reluctance to revisit his earlier movies for re-editing purposes] I really think of a film as being part of an archaeological dig, you know? And you want it to be as close to what it was in its time as possible.
9	I think I can say that the characters in my films don't really I respond to a political stance or a schematic. They're not meant to be an illustration of a theory.. I never really worry about a character being sympathetic or not. That, to me, is a very Hollywood attitude, but it's not an attitude you find in, let's say, European films of that time.
10	I'm a totally anti-storyboard person.
11	Frankly, I don't like seeing my old films. When you make a movie, it's yours. It's in your control, up to a certain point. And, after that, you let it go. It flies out. It's like having a kid. It's a cliche but your 'kid' becomes an individual creature in the world. It intersects with people you don't know, and it has experiences you don't control anymore, and that's what you want. So, unlike your children, whom you might invite home to dinner, I don't invite my films home to dinner.
12	[on superhero movies] But a superhero movie, by definition, you know, it's comic book. It's for kids. It's adolescent in its core. That has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying, you know, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is, you know, supreme cinema art, I don't think they know what the fuck they're talking about.
13	[on Christopher Nolan] What he is doing is some very interesting technical stuff, which, you know, he's shooting IMAX and in 3-D. That's really tricky and difficult to do. I read about it in American Cinematography Magazine, and technically, that's all very interesting. The movies, to me, they're mostly boring.
14	[on The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as 'art'] I don't think they are making them an elevated art form. I think it's still Batman running around in a stupid cape. I just don't think it's elevated. 'Christopher Nolan''s best movie is Memento (2000), and that is an interesting movie. I don't think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they're 20 million times the expense.
15	[on working with Patrick McGoohan on Scanners (1981)] He's a brilliant actor; the voice, the charisma, the presence, the face. Phenomenal. And he was aging so well; he looked so great in that beard. But he was so angry. His self-hatred came out as anger against everybody and everything. He said to me, 'If I didn't drink I'd be afraid I'd kill someone.' He looks at you that way and you just say, 'Keep drinking.' It's all self-destructive, because it's all self-hating. That's my theory. He was also terrified. The second before we went to shoot he said, 'I'm scared.' I wasn't shocked; Olivier said that he was terrified each time he had to go on stage. With Patrick, though, it was just so raw and so scary-full of anger and potent. But he was sensing the disorganization; the script wasn't there, so he was right to worry about it. He didn't know me. He didn't know whether I could bring it off or not. We parted from the film not on very good terms ultimately.
16	[on working with Patrick McGoohan on Scanners (1981)] He had extreme Catholic views about sexuality, which came onto the set. My leading lady... came to me incredibly distraught and said, 'Patrick said, 'Are you a whore? Are you a slut?' And he started to lay into her because she'd had, like, five husbands. That was Patrick, and those were the things I had to deal with as a relatively young director. He was probably the most difficult actor I ever worked with, though he gave a fantastic performance.
17	[on his son Brandon Cronenberg's developing interest in film-making] I noticed he was incredibly sensitive to the music of film. He knew what scary music was. He'd run away.
18	I have no demons. I was always a nature boy. I loved nature and animals and insects. And [Brandon] proved to have that same kind of sensibility, which undoubtedly has something to do with the kind of movies I've made and that he seems to be making as well. It comes from a real affection for the strangeness of animal life on earth. I's very pure and very direct.
19	[on embracing digital film recording] I have no particular affection for 'film'. It's about time film died its natural death. However, the filmmaking process is exactly the same. Why would you ever want to shoot film? Well, I don't.
20	[on Michael Fassbender] Even with an intellectual character, his approach is visceral. He jokingly likes to say the only research he did was read 'The Idiots Guide to Carl Jung'. He's just so perky it drives you crazy. One day I found him standing out in the sun in his costume and makeup, with this big smile. I said to him, 'Michael, why are you smiling like that?' He said, 'I don't know... life.' I said, 'It's so irritating that you're happy all the time.'
21	[on awards] It can be very exhausting if you're nominated, so at a certain moment, part of you is almost praying you don't get any nominations.
22	People ask me how is it to direct special effects? Is it fun? And in fact it's kind of like getting a performance out of a bowl of shrimp salad actually, because it lies there and it's kind of you know, it's agonizing and I hate it, directing special effects I like working with actors and it's much more fun.
23	[on M. Night Shyamalan] I HATE that guy! Next question.
24	When I am doing art, I have absolutely no social responsibilities whatsoever -- it's like dreaming.
25	If I were doing a comedy with somebody slipping on a banana peel, I wouldn't show the reality of slipping on a banana peel, which could be quite horrific, involving cracked skulls and broken spines and crippling. You have to do what's appropriate to the movie.
26	When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies. You can't really photograph an abstract concept, whereas a novelist can write about that. You have to photograph something physical. So that combination of things suggests to me a particular way to deal with violence. And it's not a bad thing that people really understand what violence is. It's not, however, a politically correct thing I do. I'm not a big fan of political correctness. It's very detrimental to art in general. An artist's responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you start to think about social or political responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist. You are plugging into a very restrictive system that is going to push and mold you, and is going to make your art totally useless and ineffective.
27	I identify with the parasites.
28	[on being voted the People's Choice Award at the 2007 T.I.F.F.] I feel like I've just been elected prime minister of Canada!
29	I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian.
30	To me, the life that we live is heaven. My idea of paradise is life on Earth. But we often don't know it, and can't see it that way, until, I'm sure, we start to leave it. I guess that's the way I feel about film.
31	We question a country's self-mythology. Perfect town and perfect family are - like Westerns - part of America's mythology, involving notions of past innocence and naïveté. But is it possible for innocence to exist while something heinous transpires elsewhere? What does it take for a country to be rich and prosperous? What does that country do to the world?
32	My movies are body-conscious. The first fact of human existence is the human body. If you get away from physical reality, you're fudging, in fantasy land, not coming to grips with what violence does.
33	As filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
34	We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.
35	I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.
36	The versions of The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986) that you find on video carry my name, and they are the films that I made, but I hate the way they look on tape. Too bright.
37	If religion is used to allow you to come to terms with death, and also to guide you in how you live your life, then I think art can do the same thing. But in a schematic way, in a much less rigid and absolute way, which is why it appeals to me and religion doesn't.
38	You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.
39	Civilization is repression. You don't get civilization without repression of the unconscious, of the id. And the basic appeal of art is to the unconscious. Therefore, art is somewhat subversive of civilization. And yet at the same time it seems necessary for civilization. You don't get civilization without art.
40	If you look at a baby, the most fascinating thing to a baby, a newborn, is the human face. The baby will look at your face and watch your face move and want to touch it. If it's a fantastic head and what it's talking about is fantastic, then you can't have anything better. It's the best!
41	I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
42	Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
43	All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
44	When you're in the muck, you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck, but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
45	[on the exploding head in Scanners (1981)] Yeah, it is metaphorical...it isn't just a special effect in a vacuum.
46	Drugs and creativity don't go together for me. Like everybody in the '60s, I had one acid trip and some cocaine and hash, you know, the stuff everyone did. But it's been 30 or 40 years since I bothered to do that. What I need is clarity. Even not having enough sleep is a problem for me, never mind doing any kind of drugs.
47	Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
48	You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
49	My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
50	Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
51	It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well.

#	Fact
1	Inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame in 1999.
2	He once said that Scanners (1981) was the most frustrating directing job he'd ever had.
3	Has directed 2 actors to Oscar nominations: William Hurt (Best Supporting Actor, A History of Violence (2005)) and Viggo Mortensen (Best Actor, Eastern Promises (2007)).
4	Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). [2010]
5	Has often referred to The Brood (1979) as his own twisted version of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
6	His father was a journalist and his mother played the piano. These roles are reversed in The Fly (1986), in which Jeff Goldblum plays the piano to impress Geena Davis, who plays a journalist.
7	His regular cinematographer until 1988 was Mark Irwin until Dead Ringers (1988), on which Irwin was unable to work because of his commitment to The Blob (1988). Cronenberg then hired Peter Suschitzky, who became his regular cinematographer, and Cronenberg and Irwin have not worked together since then.
8	Turned down the chance to direct RoboCop (1987).
9	Turned down the chance to direct Top Gun (1986).
10	At one point he was in line to direct The Singing Detective (2003), with Al Pacino in the lead.
11	Has admired bugs and insects since childhood. This fascination has lingered on, and can be felt through many of his films.
12	Cites Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) as his inspiration for becoming a filmmaker. It was screened at the University of Toronto when he was a student.
13	Father of Assistant Director Cassandra Cronenberg.
14	Deferred his own salary to make Spider (2002).
15	Father died at age 61.
16	Father was a bookstore owner and sometime columnist for the Toronto Telegram. Mother was a piano rehearsal accompanist for the National Ballet.
17	His crew referred to the final Brundlefly monster seen in the climax of The Fly (1986) as the Space Bug.
18	Was offered the chance to direct Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) but he declined.
19	Directed an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series (1987), The Services, called Faith Healer. 13 years later, he appeared in the Friday the 13th film (unreleated to the series), Jason X (2001).
20	President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 52nd Cannes International Film Festival in 1999.
21	John Carpenter paid homage to him in Escape from New York (1981). One of the United States Police Force guards is on the line with Hauk, then adds that Cronenberg is on the line for him. Another person paid homage to in the movie was George A. Romero, who had Isaac Hayes's right-hand man named after him.
22	His father was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and his mother was born in Toronto, Ontario. All of his grandparents were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.
23	Uncle of Aaron Woodley
24	Father of Caitlin Cronenberg and Brandon Cronenberg.
25	Brother of costume designer Denise Cronenberg.
26	Was set to direct Total Recall (1990). He even wrote a few drafts of the script before Paul Verhoeven took over.
27	Costumes in his films are usually designed by his sister Denise Cronenberg.

All pictures

Director

Title	Year	Status
Consumed	2014	Video
Maps to the Stars	2014
The Nest	2013/II	Short
Cosmopolis	2012
A Dangerous Method	2011
Eastern Promises	2007
Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence	2007	segment "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World"
A History of Violence	2005
Spider	2002
Short6	2001	segment "Camera"
Camera	2000/III	Short
eXistenZ	1999
Crash	1996
M. Butterfly	1993
Naked Lunch	1991
Scales of Justice	1990-1991	TV Series 2 episodes
Dead Ringers	1988
Friday the 13th: The Series	1988	TV Series 1 episode
The Fly	1986
The Dead Zone	1983
Videodrome	1983
Scanners	1981
The Brood	1979
Fast Company	1979
Rabid	1977
Teleplay	1976	TV Series 1 episode
Peep Show	1976	TV Series 2 episodes
Shivers	1975
Don Valley	1972	TV Short
Fort York	1972	TV Short
In the Dirt	1972	TV Short
Lakeshore	1972	TV Short
Scarborough Bluffs	1972	TV Short
Winter Garden	1972	TV Short
Programme X	1972	TV Series 1 episode
Jim Ritchie Sculptor	1971	TV Movie
Letter from Michelangelo	1971	TV Movie
Tourettes	1971	TV Movie
Crimes of the Future	1970
Stereo	1969
From the Drain	1967	Short
Transfer	1966	Short

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Consumed	2014	Video screenplay / story
Cosmopolis	2012	screenplay
Short6	2001	segment "Camera"
Camera	2000/III	Short
eXistenZ	1999	written by
Crash	1996	written by
Scanner Cop II	1995	Video characters
Scanner Cop	1994	Video characters
Naked Lunch	1991	written by
Scanners III: The Takeover	1991	Video characters
Scanners II: The New Order	1991	characters
Dead Ringers	1988	written by
The Fly	1986	screenplay
Videodrome	1983	written by
Scanners	1981	written by
The Brood	1979	written by
Fast Company	1979	screenplay
Rabid	1977	written by
Teleplay	1976	TV Series written by - 1 episode
Shivers	1975	written by
Don Valley	1972	TV Short
Fort York	1972	TV Short
In the Dirt	1972	TV Short
Lakeshore	1972	TV Short
Scarborough Bluffs	1972	TV Short
Winter Garden	1972	TV Short
Jim Ritchie Sculptor	1971	TV Movie
Letter from Michelangelo	1971	TV Movie
Tourettes	1971	TV Movie
Crimes of the Future	1970
Stereo	1969	writer
From the Drain	1967	Short
Transfer	1966	Short

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Grace of God	1998		Psychiatrist
Last Night	1998/I		Duncan
Extreme Measures	1996		Hospital Lawyer
The Stupids	1996		Postal Supervisor
Henry & Verlin	1996		Doc Fisher
Crash	1996		Auto Wreck Salesman (voice, uncredited)
Moonshine Highway	1996	TV Movie	Clem Clayton
Blood & Donuts	1995		Crime Boss
To Die For	1995		Man at Lake
Trial by Jury	1994		Director
Boozecan	1994		Stan Coleburn
Blue	1992	Short
Nightbreed	1990		Dr. Philip K. Decker
Dead Ringers	1988		Obstetrician (uncredited)
The Fly	1986		Gynecologist
Into the Night	1985		Group Supervisor
Videodrome	1983		Max Renn in helmet (uncredited)
Shivers	1975		Infected in the crowd / The stabbed shoulder (uncredited)
Alias Grace	2017	TV Series post-production
Tomorrow's Shadows	2016	Short completed	G.O.D.
Pig Goat Banana Cricket	2017	TV Series	Dr. Cronenbird
Ape Sodom	2016	Short	Narrator (voice)
Consumed	2014	Video	Interviewer (voice)
The Nest	2013/II	Short	Dr. Molnar (voice)
Rewind	2013	TV Movie	Rourke
Happy Town	2010	TV Series	Dr. Leichman
Barney's Version	2010		O'Malley Director #2
Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence	2007		The suicidal man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew in the world in the last cinema in the world")
Alias	2003	TV Series	Dr. Brezzel
Jason X	2001		Dr. Wimmer
The Judge	2001	TV Movie	Det. Stobel
Resurrection	1999		Father Rousell

Cinematographer

Title	Year	Status
Don Valley	1972	TV Short
Fort York	1972	TV Short
In the Dirt	1972	TV Short
Lakeshore	1972	TV Short
Scarborough Bluffs	1972	TV Short
Winter Garden	1972	TV Short
Jim Ritchie Sculptor	1971	TV Movie
Letter from Michelangelo	1971	TV Movie
Tourettes	1971	TV Movie
Crimes of the Future	1970
Stereo	1969
From the Drain	1967	Short
Transfer	1966	Short

Editor

Title	Year	Status
Don Valley	1972	TV Short
Fort York	1972	TV Short
In the Dirt	1972	TV Short
Lakeshore	1972	TV Short
Scarborough Bluffs	1972	TV Short
Winter Garden	1972	TV Short
Jim Ritchie Sculptor	1971	TV Movie
Letter from Michelangelo	1971	TV Movie
Tourettes	1971	TV Movie
Crimes of the Future	1970
Stereo	1969
From the Drain	1967	Short
Transfer	1966	Short

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Consumed	2014	Video executive producer
The Plan	2008/I	Short executive producer
Spider	2002	producer
eXistenZ	1999	producer
I'm Losing You	1998	executive producer
Crash	1996	producer
Dead Ringers	1988	producer
Jim Ritchie Sculptor	1971	TV Movie producer
Crimes of the Future	1970	producer
Stereo	1969	producer
Transfer	1966	Short producer

Production Manager

Title	Year	Status	Character
Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors	1973	Documentary assistant production manager

Sound Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Transfer	1966	Short sound

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Mental Saboteur	2014	Video short special thanks
The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in 'Scanners'	2014	Video documentary short special thanks
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk	2014	special thanks
Candy	2013/I	Short special thanks
The Double	2013	thanks
Pacific Rim	2013	special thanks
Citizens of Cosmopolis	2012	Video documentary very special thanks
Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter	2011	special thanks
Down to Sleep	2011	special thanks
Crank Up	2010	Short special thanks
Tub	2010	Short special thanks
Skinwalkers	2006	the producers wish to thank
Shortbus	2006	thanks
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of 'The Fly'	2005	Video documentary very special thanks
Imagining 'Total Recall'	2001	Video documentary short special thanks
Resolving Power	2001	Short thanks
The Directors	1999	TV Series documentary acknowledgment - 1 episode
Highway 61	1991	special thanks
Escape from New York	1981	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Le petit journal	2016	TV Series	Himself
Breakthrough	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself
Cinema 3	1989-2015	TV Series	Himself
Rencontres de cinéma	2011-2014	TV Series	Himself
Katie Chats	2014	TV Series	Himself
Tales from the Organ Trade	2013	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (voice)
In Studio: Genie Awards	2012	TV Special	Himself
Citizens of Cosmopolis	2012	Video documentary	Himself
The Hour	2012	TV Series	Himself
Janela Indiscreta	2011-2012	TV Series	Himself
Kulturzeit	2012	TV Series	Himself
Une journée particulière	2012	Documentary	Himself
Film '72	2012	TV Series	Himself
Le grand journal de Canal+	2005-2011	TV Series documentary	Himself
Días de cine	2011	TV Series	Himself
Tavis Smiley	2011	TV Series	Himself
55th BFI London Film Festival	2011	TV Special	Himself
At the Movies	2011	TV Series	Himself
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!	2011	Video documentary	Himself
Long Story Short: CBC Turns 75	2011	TV Special	Himself
Cronenberg: The Early Years	2011	Video documentary short	Himself
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	2010	Documentary	Himself
Jornal Nacional	2009	TV Series	Himself
Deutschland, deine Künstler	2008	TV Series documentary	Himself
28th Annual Genie Awards	2008	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
On Screen!	2008	TV Series documentary	Himself
Eastern Promises: Secrets and Stories	2007	Video short	Himself
Eastern Promises: Two Guys Walk Into a Bathhouse	2007	Video short	Himself
The Culture Show	2007	TV Series documentary	Himself
Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián	2007	TV Movie	Himself
El blog de Cayetana	2007	TV Series	Himself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan	2007	TV Series	Himself
Tracks	2007	TV Series documentary	Himself
Memories from 'The Dead Zone'	2006	Video short	Himself
The Look of 'The Dead Zone'	2006	Video short	Himself
The Politics of 'The Dead Zone'	2006	Video short	Himself
Visions and Horror from 'The Dead Zone'	2006	Video short	Himself
Torrent	2006	TV Series	Himself
L'hebdo cinéma	2006	TV Series documentary	Himself
Too Commercial for Cannes	2006	Short	Himself
Acts of Violence	2006	Video documentary	Himself
The Unmaking of Scene 44	2006	Video short	Himself
Violence's History: United States Version vs. International Version	2006	Video documentary short	Himself
Dusty Wright's Culture CatchCulture Catch	2005	TV Series	Himself
SexTV	2003-2005	TV Series documentary	Himself
Tout le monde en parle	2005	TV Series	Himself
El Magacine	2005	TV Series	Himself
Go' morgen Danmark	2005	TV Series	Himself
HBO First Look	2005	TV Series documentary short	Himself
Comme au cinéma	2005	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter	2005	Documentary	Himself
Je t'aime... moi non plus: Artistes et critiques	2004	Documentary	Himself
La caja negra	2004	TV Series documentary	Himself
100 Greatest Sexy Moments	2003	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Open Mike with Mike Bullard	2003	TV Series	Himself
Charlie Rose	2003	TV Series
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Jason X'	2002	Video short documentary	Himself
Masters of Horror	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Record Man: The Life and Times of Sam Sniderman	2002	Documentary short	Himself
Festival Pass with Chris Gore	2002	TV Series documentary	Himself
The American Nightmare	2000	Documentary	Himself
Royal Canadian Air Farce	1999	TV Series	Himself
Cinéma, de notre temps	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
Festival international de Cannes	1996-1999	TV Series	Himself
The Directors	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
Cronenberg Interview: Rabid	1998	Video documentary short	Himself
Cronenberg Interview: Shivers	1998	Video documentary short	Himself
David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme	1997	TV Short documentary	Himself
The Newsroom	1997	TV Series	Himself
Late Review	1996	TV Series	Himself - Interview at London Film Festival
Naked Making Lunch	1992	Documentary	Himself
Maniac Mansion	1992	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with David Letterman	1992	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Untitled 'Naked Lunch' Featurette	1991	Short	Himself
The Media Show	1988-1989	TV Series documentary	Himself
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg	1987	TV Movie documentary	Himself
De película	1987	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
Take One: Fear on Film	1982	TV Movie	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Welcome to the Basement	2013	TV Series	Himself
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics	2010	Video documentary	Himself
Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián	2008	TV Movie	Himself (uncredited)
Un écran nommé désir	2006	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of 'The Fly'	2005	Video documentary	Himself
Cinema mil	2005	TV Series	Himself
X-Rated	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche	2004	TV Movie documentary	Duncan
The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect	2000	TV Movie documentary	Himself
To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie	1990	Video Game	Dr. Philip K. Decker

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2015	DGC Lifetime Achievement Award	Directors Guild of Canada
2014	Filmmaker on the Edge Award	Provincetown International Film Festival
2012	DGC Craft Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Direction - Feature Film	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2012	DGC Team Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Feature Film	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2012	VFCC Award	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Best Director - Canadian Film	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2011	Tribute Award	Gotham Awards
2008	DGC Team Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Feature Film	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	DGC Craft Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Direction - Feature Film	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	Fotogramas de Plata	Fotogramas de Plata	Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	VFCC Award	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Best Director in a Canadian Film	Eastern Promises (2007)
2007	Douglas Sirk Award	Hamburg Film Festival
2007	People's Choice Award	Toronto International Film Festival		Eastern Promises (2007)
2006	Golden Coach	Cannes Film Festival
2006	COFCA Award	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	CFCA Award	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	DGC Craft Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Outstanding Direction - Feature Film	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	DGC Team Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Outstanding Feature Film	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Critics Award	French Syndicate of Cinema Critics	Best Foreign Film	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	ICS Award	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	OFCS Award	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Sonny Bono Visionary Award	Palm Springs International Film Festival
2006	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Audience Award	SESC Film Festival, Brazil	Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Bodil	Bodil Awards	Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film)	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	Billy Wilder Award	National Board of Review, USA
2005	Lifetime Achievement Award	Stockholm Film Festival
2005	TFCA Award	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	VVFP Award	Village Voice Film Poll	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2003	DGC Team Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film	Spider (2002)
2003	DGC Craft Award	Directors Guild of Canada	Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Feature Film	Spider (2002)
2003	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Spider (2002)
2003	Audience Award	Jeonju Film Festival		Spider (2002)
2002	Special Jury Prize	Ghent International Film Festival		For his whole work as a film maker.
2002	Time-Machine Honorary Award	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
2002	Best Director	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival		Spider (2002)
2002	Best Canadian Feature Film	Toronto International Film Festival		Spider (2002)
1999	Silver Scream Award	Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival		eXistenZ (1999)
1999	Silver Berlin Bear	Berlin International Film Festival	Outstanding Artistic Contribution	eXistenZ (1999)
1996	Jury Special Prize	Cannes Film Festival		Crash (1996)
1996	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Crash (1996)
1996	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Screenplay, Adapted	Crash (1996)
1996	Golden Reel Award	Genie Awards		Crash (1996)
1992	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Naked Lunch (1991)
1992	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Director	Naked Lunch (1991)
1992	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Screenplay	Naked Lunch (1991)
1991	BSFC Award	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Screenplay	Naked Lunch (1991)
1991	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Screenplay	Naked Lunch (1991)
1989	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Motion Picture	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Screenplay, Adapted	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	Golden Horse Award	Golden Horse Film Festival	Best Foreign Director	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	Grand Prize	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	C.S.T. Award	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		Dead Ringers (1988)
1988	LAFCA Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Dead Ringers (1988)
1987	Special Jury Award	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		The Fly (1986)
1984	Best Science-Fiction Film	Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)		Videodrome (1983)
1984	Best Film	Fantafestival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1984	Audience Award	Fantafestival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1984	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Videodrome (1983)
1984	Suspense Award	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1984	Critics Award	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1984	Antennae II Award	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1983	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Film	Scanners (1981)
1981	Prize of the International Critics' Jury - Special Mention	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival		The Brood (1979)
1977	Medalla Sitges en Plata de Ley	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival	Best Screenplay	Rabid (1977)
1975	Medalla Sitges en Oro de Ley	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival	Best Director	Shivers (1975)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2015	Canadian Screen Award	Canadian Screen Awards, CA	Achievement in Direction	Maps to the Stars (2014)
2014	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Maps to the Stars (2014)
2013	Canadian Screen Award	Canadian Screen Awards, CA	Adapted Screenplay	Cosmopolis (2012)
2013	ICS Award	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	Cosmopolis (2012)
2013	OFCS Award	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	Cosmopolis (2012)
2013	VFCC Award	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Best Director - Canadian Film	Cosmopolis (2012)
2012	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Cosmopolis (2012)
2012	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2012	Maria	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival	Best Motion Picture	Cosmopolis (2012)
2012	VVFP Award	Village Voice Film Poll	Best Director	Cosmopolis (2012)
2011	Golden Lion	Venice Film Festival		A Dangerous Method (2011)
2011	VVFP Award	Village Voice Film Poll	Best Director	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2011	Black Pearl Award	Abu Dhabi Film Festival	Best Narrative Feature	A Dangerous Method (2011)
2008	César	César Awards, France	Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	IOMA	Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)	Best Picture (Miglior film)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	IOMA	Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)	Best Director (Miglior regia)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	OFCS Award	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Director	Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film	BAFTA Awards		Eastern Promises (2007)
2008	Bodil	Bodil Awards	Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)	Eastern Promises (2007)
2007	British Independent Film Award	British Independent Film Awards	Best Director	Eastern Promises (2007)
2007	Satellite Award	Satellite Awards	Best Director	Eastern Promises (2007)
2007	TFCA Award	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	Eastern Promises (2007)
2006	César	César Awards, France	Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	David	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero)	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Gold Derby Award	Gold Derby Awards	Motion Picture	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Gold Derby Award	Gold Derby Awards	Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	IOMA	Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)	Best Director (Miglior regia)	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Director of the Year	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	OFTA Film Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Picture	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	OFTA Film Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	Scream Award	Scream Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2006	VFCC Award	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		A History of Violence (2005)
2005	Gotham Independent Film Award	Gotham Awards	Best Feature	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	SLFCA Award	St. Louis Film Critics Association, US	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	ACCA	Awards Circuit Community Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2002	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Spider (2002)
2002	Screen International Award	European Film Awards		Spider (2002)
2002	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Live Action Short Drama	Camera (2000)
2002	Grand Prix	Ghent International Film Festival		Spider (2002)
2002	Best Film	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival		Spider (2002)
2000	Chlotrudis Award	Chlotrudis Awards	Best Screenplay	eXistenZ (1999)
2000	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Motion Picture	eXistenZ (1999)
1999	Best Film	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival		eXistenZ (1999)
1999	Golden Berlin Bear	Berlin International Film Festival		eXistenZ (1999)
1996	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Crash (1996)
1996	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Motion Picture	Crash (1996)
1992	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Film	Naked Lunch (1991)
1992	Golden Berlin Bear	Berlin International Film Festival		Naked Lunch (1991)
1990	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Writing	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Film	Dead Ringers (1988)
1989	Silver Ribbon	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)	Dead Ringers (1988)
1987	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Film	The Fly (1986)
1987	Hugo	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	The Fly (1986)
1987	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Director	The Fly (1986)
1984	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Screenplay	Videodrome (1983)
1984	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Director	The Dead Zone (1983)
1984	Grand Prize	Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival		The Dead Zone (1983)
1982	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Achievement in Direction	Scanners (1981)
1982	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Screenplay, Original	Scanners (1981)

2^nd Place Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2005	LAFCA Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
2005	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Director	A History of Violence (2005)
1989	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Screenplay	Dead Ringers (1988)

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