Guillaume de Fontenay (born March 6, 1969) is a

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film director and screenwriter from

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. He is most noted for his feature film debut '' Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable)'', which received three

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nominations at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020."Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations"
Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020. Prior to releasing ''Sympathy for the Devil'', de Fontenay worked primarily in theatre and advertising, and directed the short film ''Le Retour triptyque'' in 2012."Guillaume de Fontenay: regarder l’horreur en face"
'' Le Soleil'', November 22, 2019. He first signed on to direct ''Sympathy for the Devil'' in the mid-2000s after reading war correspondent Paul Marchand's book, but the film was delayed by various production complications, including Marchand's death in 2009, and was not completed or released until 2019. At the Canadian Screen Awards, de Fontenay was nominated alongside

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and Jean Barbe for

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, and the film was also nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award. Vigneault, Barbe and de Fontenay also received a Prix Iris nomination for

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at the

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, where de Fontenay was also a nominee for

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