François Séguin

François Séguin


Canada

Biography

A French-Canadian based in Montreal, François Séguin has designed feature films, television series and live theatrical stage productions all around the world. He has won five Genie Awards for Achievement in Art Direction from the Canadian Academy of Film and Television, and has been nominated twice more. Séguin has collaborated with director François Girard on films such as THE RED VIOLIN and SILK, as well as on the Cirque du Soleil show, Zed, in Japan.

He designed Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas show Michael Jackson: One, and travelled to China to design Dragon's production of The Han Show. Feature film credits include LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN and PUSH for director Paul McGuigan; Billy Ray's SHATTERED GLASS; THE KARATE KID and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, for director Harald Zwart; and the Denys Arcand-directed JESUS OF MONTREAL and THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS.

Séguin also designed the acclaimed Showtime television series "The Borgias," for director Neil Jordan, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Art Direction.

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