Atom Egoyan is a Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan’s most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009). Below are his top 10 choices for Sight & Sound’s Director film poll for 2012.
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| Bicycle Thieves, The | 1948 | Vittorio de Sica |
Breathless |
1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Godfather: Part I, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
Metropolis |
1927 | Fritz Lang |
| Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
Persona |
1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
Speaking Parts by Zeitgeist Films by Atom Egoyan (DVD)
Adoration / While She Way Out / Nothing but the Truth by Atom Egoyan (DVD)
Where the Truth Lies (Rated Edition) by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment by Atom Egoyan (DVD)
Adoration by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment by Atom Egoyan
