Atom Egoyan - Net Worth 2021, Salary, Age, Height, Bio, Family, Career

Atom Egoyan is an award-winning Armenian-Canadian director who has made fifteen feature films, five of which have won honors at the Cannes Film Festival, two Academy Award nominations, and four at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Egoyan’s work frequently investigates how the pervasiveness of technology corrodes human interactions. He is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ryerson University and The European Graduate School / EGS, and has lectured at the University of Toronto.

What is Atom Egoyan’s net worth and Salary?

Atom Egoyan’s net worth is believed to be $3 million, according to his successful career as a director. A director’s average yearly salary is $85,000, though he may earn more. Marc Evans, a three-time BAFTA Award-winning director, has a net worth of $1 million as of 2021.

Atom Egoyan has an estimated net worth of $3 million.(Image Source: screendaily.com)

At the start of his career, Atom wanted to be a dramatist, but his films made him famous. He grew enamored with the medium after making his first short film. He began to find that expressing oneself through visuals made him feel more at ease. Barbara Bialowas is a film director from Poland. Barbara’s net worth is estimated to be around $3 million, according to the most recent poll.

Wiki-Bio

Atom Egoyan was born on July 19, 1960, in Cairo, Egypt, to Shushan and Joseph Yeghoyan. Both of them were painters. They relocated to Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada. Eve, Atom’s older sister, is his best friend. She is currently working as a concert pianist in Toronto.

Atom Egoyan Was born in Cairo City, Egypt.(Image Source: variety.com)

Atom decided to be assimilated into Canadian culture and society over his Armenian culture when he was a child. However, as his interest in Armenian culture increased, he enrolled in college to study it.

Atom began creating plays as a youngster, influenced by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s works. After graduating, Atom began his collegiate career at the University of Toronto. He studied Armenian culture and history at Trinity College.

Atom Egoyan’s Wife: Who Is She?

Arsinée Khanjian, who has appeared in practically all of Atom Egoyan’s films, is his happily married wife. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master’s degree in administrative science from the University of Toronto.

Atom Egoyan is married to Arsinée Khanjian.(Image Source: Bigwigwiki.com)

Khanjian is a civil rights activist who was briefly imprisoned in Armenia in 2016 for speaking out against human rights violations. They tied a knot together. Only family and relatives were invited to the ceremony, which was held in a private venue.

Their wedding destination, on the other hand, is still a mystery. Arshile was named after the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky.

Exotica and Atom Egoyan’s Best Movie Calendar

Calendar, perhaps Egoyan’s most personal film to date, starred him as a Canadian photographer who returns to Armenia and develops a strong bond with his homeland.

Calendar was nominated for Genie Awards for director and writing, and it featured some of Egoyan’s most overt thoughts on cultural identity.

Following Calendar’s essay, Egoyan’s sexual book Exotica was published. The film was awarded the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize by international film critics at the Cannes Film Festival, and it went on to become the most successful English-Canadian film export since the low-brow Porky’s 1982.

Exotica won eight Genie Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Achievement in Direction, and Best Motion Picture, among other accolades. It’s an engrossing ensemble drama about the employees and customers of a Toronto strip joint.

Birth Date	July 19,1970
Full Name	Atom Egoyan
Profession	Director
Nationality	Egyptian
Ethnicity	Egyptian
Birth City	Cairo City
Birth Country	Egypt
Gender Identity	Male
Horoscope	Cancer
Networth	3000000
Education	University of Toronto

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