Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker of Armenian descent. Egoyan is a member of the faculty at the European Graduate School. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, where events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.

Egoyan was born to Joseph and Shushan Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt. He and his sister Eve Egoyan (who is now a concert pianist based in Toronto) were raised by their parents in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. As a teenager, he became interested in reading and writing plays. Significant influences included Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. He graduated from Trinity College in the University of Toronto. Egoyan is now based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife, Arsinée Khanjian, an actress who appears in many of Egoyan's films, and their son, Arshile.

Egoyan has directed a dozen full-length films, several television episodes, and a few shorter pieces. His early work was based on his own material, and he received some notice for the film Exotica (1994), but it was Egoyan's first attempt at adapted material that resulted in his best-known work, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which landed him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He also directed Sarabande featuring Khanjian and Lori Singer, a drama which flanks cellist Yo-Yo Ma's performance of Bach's Fourth Suite for Unaccompagnied Cello, as part of the latter's Inspired by Bach series for Sony Classical. The film Ararat (2002) also generated some publicity for Egoyan, as it was the first major motion picture to deal directly with the Armenian Genocide. Ararat later won the Best Picture prize at the Genie Awards (ironically, he failed to receive a Best Director nomination for the same film).

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Atom Egoyan's "Adoration." By far among his best works. Egoyan knows introspective wistfulness down to a T.
MovieLover29 (MovieLover) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:38:06 -0000
Atom Egoyan's "Adoration." By far among his best works. Egoyan knows introspective wistfulness down to a T.
Sat across from Atom Egoyan at dinner... Almost told him I wrote a paper on him in high school, but I resisted.
tracybriggs (Tracy Briggs) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:46:51 -0000
Sat across from Atom Egoyan at dinner... Almost told him I wrote a paper on him in high school, but I resisted.
A palette of white, black and orange - with a dash of Peter Sellers - at the Hugo Boss opening. Atom Egoyan, is that you?
shinangovani (shinan govani) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:01:51 -0000
A palette of white, black and orange - with a dash of Peter Sellers - at the Hugo Boss opening. Atom Egoyan, is that you?
gonna attend private screening of Atom Egoyan's "Chloe", can't believe it'll have wide distribution (well 2-3 copies is wide enough for it).
BdMd (Jirasin Jarupornchai) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:28:34 -0000
gonna attend private screening of Atom Egoyan's "Chloe", can't believe it'll have wide distribution (well 2-3 copies is wide enough for it).
Photo: suicideblonde:Julianne Moore + Amanda Seyfried + Atom Egoyan? florencio: http://tumblr.com/xuz4jqnod
siddman (siddman) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:28:07 -0000
Photo: suicideblonde:Julianne Moore + Amanda Seyfried + Atom Egoyan? florencio: http://tumblr.com/xuz4jqnod
Atom Egoyan volta a boa forma: ADORAÇÃO é filme pra descobrir em DVD. Dicas de Cinéfilo www.kinemail.com.br/kinemail_dicas_cinefilo.asp
kinemail (fernando vasconcelos) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:15:31 -0000
Atom Egoyan volta a boa forma: ADORAÇÃO é filme pra descobrir em DVD. Dicas de Cinéfilo www.kinemail.com.br/kinemail_dicas_cinefilo.asp

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