François Girard

The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex, and Alessandro Baricco's Novecento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial, adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed, in Tokyo and Zarkana, which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011. In 2013, the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Girard. The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike. His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach.

The recorded working language is French and English. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Work by François Girard is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Museum of Modern Art and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Distinctions recorded are Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec, Officer of the Order of Canada, Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay and Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

• Name — François Girard • Born — 12 January 1963 • Birthplace — Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter • Years Active — 1990–present

• Cargo (1990) • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) • The Red Violin (1998) • Silk (2007) • Boychoir (2014) • Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017) • The Song of Names (2019)