David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg was given a Best Director Genie in 2003 for his film, Spider. His 2005 film, A History of Violence received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for writer Josh Olson. Cronenberg received France’s Légion d’honneur on April 1st, 2009. It is France’s oldest and highest military and civilian distinction. He is pictured with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. His recently announced 2023 project, The Shrouds features Vincent Cassel as Karsh, a man who invents a device that lets people watch their buried loved ones decompose.

Learn more about David Cronenberg.
Also see: Fun and Furor: An Interview with Ron Sanders
Also see: Stripped to the Bone: David Cronenberg’s Spider
Also see: Inside Québec: Fall 2019.
Also see: Crimes of the Future Begins.

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Transfer (1966, short)
From the Drain (1967, short)
Stereo (1969)

Crimes of the Future (1970)
Tourettes (TV-1971)
Letter from Michelangelo (TV-1971)
Jim Ritchie Sculptor (TV-1971)
Winter Garden (TV-1972)
Scarborough Bluffs (TV-1972)
Lakeshore (TV-1972)
In the Dirt (TV-1972)
Fort York (TV-1972)
Don Valley (TV-1972)
Shivers (1975)
Rabid (1977)
Fast Company (1979)
The Brood (1979)

Scanners (1981)
Videodrome (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Fly (1986)
Dead Ringers (1988)

Naked Lunch (1991)
M Butterfly (1993)
Crash (1996)
eXistenZ (1999)

Camera (2000, short)
Spider (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)
Eastern Promises (2007)
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007, short)

The Matarese Circle (2010)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Cosmopolis (2012)
The Nest (2013, short)
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Consumed (VR-2014)

Crimes of the Future (2021)
The Shrouds (2023)

TV Series – at least 1 episode:
Programme X (1972)
Peep Show (1975)
Teleplay (1976)
Friday the 13th (1987)
Scales of Justice (1990)
Dead Ringers (2006, mini-series)

Knifeman (2012)

Credits as a Screenwriter:
Transfer (1966)
From the Drain (1967)
Stereo (1969)

Crimes of the Future (1970)
Tourettes (TV-1971)
Letter from Michelangelo (TV-1971)
Jim Ritchie Sculptor (TV-1971)
Winter Garden (TV-1972)
Scarborough Bluffs (TV-1972)
Lakeshore (TV-1972)
In the Dirt (TV-1972)
Fort York (TV-1972)
Don Valley (TV-1972)
Shivers (1975)
Rabid (1977)
Fast Company (1979)
The Brood (1979)

Scanners (1981)
Videodrome (1983)
The Fly (1986)
Dead Ringers (1988)

Naked Lunch (1991)
Crash (1996)
eXistenZ (1999)

Camera (2000)
Spider (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)

Crimes of the Future (2021)

Credits as an Actor:
Shivers (1975)
Videodrome (1983)
Into the Night (1986)
The Fly (1986)
Dead Ringers (1988)

Nightbreed (1990)
Blue (1992, short)
Trial by Jury (1994)
Boozecan (1994)
To Die For (1995)
Blood & Donuts (1995)
Moonshine Highway (TV-1996)
Crash (1996)
Henry & Verlin (1996)
The Stupids (1996)
Extreme Measures (1996)
Last Night (1998)
The Grace of God (1998)
Resurrection (1999)

Jason X (2001)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Barney’s Version (2010)
Rewind (TV-2013)
The Nest (voice, 2013, short)
Consumed (voice, VR-2014, short)
Ape Sodom (Narrator, 2016, short)
Tomorrow’s Shadows (2017, short)
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019)

Falling (2020)