"Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat."
Amy Adams
as Louise Banks
Jeremy Renner
as Ian Donnelly
Forest Whitaker
as Colonel Weber
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Agent Halpern
Mark O'Brien
as Captain Marks
Tzi Ma
as General Shang
Abigail Pniowsky
as 8-Year-Old Hannah
Julia Scarlett Dan
as 12-Year-Old Hannah
Jadyn Malone
as 6-Year-Old Hannah
Frank Schorpion
as Dr. Kettler
Lucas Chartier-Dessert
as Private Lasky
Christian Jadah
as Private Combs
Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld
as CNAC Anchor
Andrew Shaver
as Environmental Tech
Pat Kiely
Sonia Vigneault
as Dr. J. Bydwell
Mark Camacho
as Richard Riley
Sabrina Reeves
as Press Secretary
Julian Casey
as Australian Scientist
Tony Robinow
as British Scientist
Larry Day
as CIA Officer Dan Ryder
Matthew Willson
as Preacher
Ruth Chiang
as Chinese Scientist
Russell Yuen
Sergiy Marchenko
as Russian Officer
Anana Rydvald
as Swedish Scientist
Bineyam Girma
as Sudan Representative
Abdelghafour Elaaziz
as African Representative
Abdul Ayoola
as Sierra Leone Representative
Alex M. Yeuh
as Japanese Minister
Daniel Esteban
as Venezuelan Representative
Albert Kwan
as Chinese Man
Brittany Teo
as Student with Smartphone
Joe Cobden
as Cryptographer
Lorne Brass
Genevieve Sirois
Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
as Science Team Member
Michael Nangreaves
Reda Guerinik
as Communications Operator
Adrien Benn
Sasha Samar
Kathleen Stavert
Kattia Thony
as Nurse
Leisa Reid
Brent Skagford
as Lieutenant
Gurdeep Ahluwalia
as Soldier
Shawn Campbell
as TV Anchor
Brian Dunstan
Dan Duran
Lori Graham
Orla Johannes
John Sanford Moore
Sangita Patel
Hal Roberts
Camille Ross
Ola Sturik
Tammie Sutherland
Max Walker
Marc-André Goulet
as Motion Capture Heptapod
Paul-Antoine Taillefer
Martin Jr Pelletier
Carmela Nozza Guizzo
as 4-Year-Old Hannah (uncredited)
Robert D. Morais
as Master Sergeant Douglas (uncredited)
Mustafa Haidari
as Foreign Correspondent (uncredited)
Philippe Hartmann
as Halpern's Deputy Director (uncredited)
Laurean Adrian Parau
as US Army Major (uncredited)
Nathaly Thibault
as Gala Guest (uncredited)
Leslie Baker
as Middle Aged Woman (uncredited)
Dave Campbell
as Soldier (uncredited)
Alexander Da Mota
as Venezuelan Military (uncredited)
Akul Dang
as Pakistani Scientist (uncredited)
Frank Fiola
Nicolas Lepage
Art Direction
Denis Villeneuve
Director
Michael Jackman
Co-Producer
Glen Basner
Executive Producer
Réjean Goderre
Key Hair Stylist
Hélène Lamarre
Art Department Coordinator
Luc Boudrias
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Eric Heisserer
Screenplay
Jean-Pierre Paquet
Nicolas Becker
Special Sound Effects
Colleen Quinton
Makeup Department Head
Stephen Craig
Scenic Artist
Isabelle Guay
Supervising Art Director
Marianne Bobet
Makeup Artist
Post Production Supervisor
Sylvain Bellemare
Supervising Sound Editor
Olivier Guillaume
Milan Popelka
Dan Levine
Producer
Claude La Haye
Sound Mixer
Francis Péloquin
Boom Operator
Francine Maisler
Casting
Marie-Christine Dormier
Hairstylist
Shawn Levy
Tory Metzger
Stan Wlodkowski
Unit Production Manager
Serge Archambault
Aaron Morrison
Assistant Art Director
Karen Lunder
Aaron Ryder
Meinert Hansen
Conceptual Design
Ted Chiang
Short Story
Sabrina Trudel
Mathieu Beaudin
Sound Effects Editor
Marc Reichel
Special Effects
Robert Parle
Paul Hotte
Set Decoration
Joan Patricia Parris
Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Alain Caporicci
Set Production Assistant
Pierre-Jules Audet
Ilyaa Ghafouri
Sound Design Assistant
David Linde
Joe Walker
Editor
Hélène Ross
Production Manager
André Nicholas Malouf
Set Dressing Artist
Marc Aubry
Animation
Olivier Beaulieu
Digital Compositors
Sébastien Bergeron
Visual Effects Producer
Joanie Croteau
Visual Effects Coordinator
Dominic Dauphin
Emmanuel Gatera
Mathieu Girard
Veronique Guay
Mathieu Lalonde
Modeling
Samuel Boisvert
Heston L'Abbé
Michael Beaulac
Vincent Forand
Samuel Lepage-Bedard
Jose Luis Gomez
Nick Guth
Visual Effects
Lari Karam
Caroline Labrie
Ivan Moran
Visual Effects Supervisor
Matt Belbin
Digital Effects Supervisor
Steve Cady
Jean-Pierre Flayeux
Compositors
Nadine Homier
Peter Konig
Miguel Berube Ouellet
Cynthia Rodriguez del Castillo
Xavier Larocque
Martine Losier
Lafleche Dumais
CG Supervisor
Alexandre Lafortune
Maxime Lapointe
Patrick Lemay-Hardy
Hugo Léveillé
Xavier Bourque
Matthieu Chatelier
Gael Hollard
Bruno-Pierre Jobin
Louis Morin
Julien Dubusset
Alain Lachance
Christopher Ahrens
Thierry Delattre
Olivier Gravel
Yann Jouannic
Richard Martin
Marie-Pier Couture-Alain
Andrew Barry
Meggie Cabral
Jean-Francois Gallant
Maxime Lemieux
Louise Bertrand
Robert De La Cruz
Noémie Jacques
Marie-Claude Lafontaine
Félix Arsenault
Jean-François Ferland
Karina Mariano
Belly Mingmuong
Bradford Young
Director of Photography
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Original Music Composer
Catherine Nadeau
Dan Cohen
André Valade
Jan Thijs
Still Photographer
Eames Gagnon
Gaffer
Renée April
Costume Design
Mary Lukasiewicz
First Assistant Editor
Pierre Daudelin
Best Boy Electric
Frédéric Chamberland
Steadicam Operator
Jean-François Dubé
Rigging Grip
Salomé Villeneuve
Costume Assistant
Shaun Nagorny
Hans Bjerno
Aerial Director of Photography
Isabelle Faivre-Duboz
Script Supervisor
Christian Lalonde
Peter Wilke
Marieke Séguin
Pierre-Luc L'Espérance
Bruce Winant
ADR Voice Casting
Daniel Sauvé
Additional Camera
Dann Fink
Keith Kerr
Key Grip
Alain Bisson Doyal
Techno Crane Operator
Marc Désourdy
Stunt Coordinator
Mario Davignon
Costume Supervisor
Viriya Say
Seamstress
Maude Turcot
Simon Guilbault
Set Designer
Jordana Sapiurka
Casting Assistant
Kathy Ann Thomas
Production Coordinator
Jean Gagnon
Marie-Soleil Dénommé
Michèle St-Arnaud
Location Manager
Leo Yılmaz
Benoît Brière
Pierre Gill
Additional Photography
Clint Bennett
Music Editor
Steve Perski
Sound Recordist
Luc Raymond
Foley Editor
Claire Pochon
Dialogue Editor
Justin Scott Wilson
Valéry Dufort-Boucher
Lise Pharand
Property Master
Donald Sparks
First Assistant Director
Stan Sakellaropoulos
ADR Supervisor
Jennifer Dionne
Assistant Makeup Artist
Martin Doepner
Additional Third Assistant Director
Martha Fernandez
Carl Lessard
Graphic Designer
Luc Houle
Set Dresser
Évelyne Renaud
Marie-José Bourassa
Mario Huot
Assistant Hairdresser
Jocelyn Charbonneau
Luc-Eric Duhamel
Sébastien Gervais
Musician
Kaven MacDonald
Third Assistant Director
Martin Macrae
Concept Artist
Music Arranger
Music Producer
Marie-Christine Cormier
Key Hairdresser
Marie-Julie Dallaire
Second Unit Director
Louis-Antoine Lassonde
ADR Mixer
Moumita Mondal
Marc-Andre Jalbert
Gillian Chandler
Michelle Quinn
Brigitte Goulet
Second Assistant Director
Marco Lavallée
Sandro Di Gioacchino
Marie-Lise Taupier
Hairdresser
Catherine Laniel
Xiao Yun Hu
Karine P. Labelle
Second Second Assistant Director
Martin Henri
Line Producer
Morag Ross
Dandy Thibaudeau
Carl Kouri
Fríða Aradóttir
Louis Frederic Denomme
Olivier Calvert
Sound Designer
Alan Robert Murray
Maxwell Chamberlin
Simon Girard
Assistant Sound Editor
James A. Moore
ADR Recordist
Michelle Child
Anthony Weeden
Orchestrator
Will Slater
Michel Saule
Driver
Andrew A. Kosove
Thanks
Irina Cazazaeva
Production Secretary
Dave Whitehead
Simon Ashdown
Music Sound Design and Processing
Wen Shen
Dialogue Coach
Gabrielle Labelle Joly
Sound Re-Recording Assistant
Conductor
Bernard Guay
Ben Browning
Production Executive
Owen Roberts
Hanna Oldenburg
Production Assistant
Olafur Bjorn Olafsson
Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne
Gilles Montreuil
First Assistant Accountant
Alex Feldman
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Alexandre Juaneda
Transportation Coordinator
David Kristian
Aurelie Poirier
Daniel Capeille
Paul Corley
Mixing Engineer
Tom Di Blasio
Production Accountant
Troy Allen
Jakob Soelberg Hammershøj
Vocals
Signe Asmussen
Cathy Gurvis
Assistant Accountant
Gabriella Ludlow
Legal Services
Sophie Mailloux
Kristin Mulders
Paul Bentley
Adam Wiltzie
Jan Holzner
Score Engineer
Harvey Drouelle
Jean-Francois Hall
Victorine Tamafo
Travel Coordinator
Marc-André Massé
Elenor Wiman
Stephen Wolfram
Scientific Consultant
Nathalie Lagacé
Daniel Kresco
Scoring Mixer
Steve Szewczok
Lise Servant
Payroll Accountant
Colin Stetson
Else Torp
Elizabeth Himelstein
Dialect Coach
Ellen Marie Brink Christensen
Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Broderick Johnson
Francois Ricard-Sheard
Réal Hamel
Picture Car Coordinator
Spiro Tsovras
Denis Doiron
Philippe Montel
Lyssa J. Caster
Transportation Captain
Erik Yelemanov
Caroline Thisdale
Christina Correll
Stand In
Dominic Lapointe
Additional First Assistant Camera
Cyrille Chatelain
Technical Advisor
Max Laferriere
Stunt Double
Jacynthe Labrosse
Grip
Soupharak Keoborakoth
Second Assistant Camera
Mathieu Coderre
Didier Communaux
Unit Manager
Phil Plait
Puelo Deir
Unit Publicist
Dany Racine
First Assistant "A" Camera
Réal Saulnier
Generator Operator
Jean-Francois Tousignant
Chloé Giroux-LaChance
First Assistant Camera
Krista Bell
Paul Viger
Stunts
David Villeneuve
Lighting Technician
Chantal Nolet
Second Assistant Accountant
Christian Caperaa
First Assistant "B" Camera
Claude Gervais
Key Rigging Grip
Henri Normand
Bruno Lemire
Assistant Location Manager
Joe Gawler
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Mariane Carter
Key Dresser
Leon Rivers-Moore
Digital Imaging Technician
Julie Breton
Extras Casting
Mirenda Ouellet
Assistant Editor
John Sylva
Post Production Coordinator
Jean-François Barthélémy
Toby Winder
Hernan Vietri
CG Artist
Marie-Helene Tremblay
Second Assistant "B" Camera
Julie Chénard
Dresser
Caroline Poirier
Assistant Costume Designer
Johanne Baril
Victor Ghizaru
Video Assist Operator
Etienne Laroche
Fanny Berthiaume
Deak Ferrand
Amandine Schelle
Michael Saintsbury
Electrician
Timothy Ferris
Post Production Assistant
Josef Sy
Zach Marshall
Brigitte Renaud
Björn Gottwald
Compositor
Marc Hénaut
Ginette Régis
Élodie Gilbert Lachapelle
Jason Quintana
Compositing Supervisor
Adrien Annesley
Philippe Thibault
Guillaume Mainville
David Monfette
Philippe Bienvenue
Yi Zhang
Digital Compositor
David St-Amant
Jonathan Grégoire
Jean Frédéric Veilleux
David Décoste
Luke Drummond
Lyne Lepage
Micha Sher
Randy Santandrea
Xavier Doyon
Antoine Rouleau
Matte Painter
Jean-Sebastien Guillemette
Simon-Pierre Puech
Visual Effects Art Director
Stéphanie Morin
Didier Bertrand
Alban Kasikci
Antonio Covelo Peleteiro
Visual Effects Technical Director
Dominik Kirouac
VFX Artist
James Dong
Gaël Chopin
Raphael Valle
Laura Kwan
Pipeline Technical Director
Guillaume Laforge
Amélie Rey
Véronique Tremblay
Pierpaolo Navarini
Pier-Luc Verville
Eliott Beaudon
Carine Touraille
Sylvain Theroux
Andris Pakalns
Louis-Martin Duval
Creative Director
Gabriel Roy
Mathieu Tremblay
Camilo Guaman
Guillaume Boulay
Mathieu Goulet-Aubin
3D Artist
Robert Rioux
Vincent Poitras
Nicolas-Alexandre Noel
Bernd Angerer
Nguon Vissal Ong
Michel Frenette
Sébastien Rioux
Owens Bazile
Frederic Schmidt
Lighting Artist
Sith Khay
Eric Mc Guire
Frederic Dupere
Jonathan Niquet
Guillaume Pelletier
Frederic St-Arnaud
Matthew Gray
Thomas Courtois
Simon Devault
Compositing Lead
Dawid Borkiewicz
Catherine Hébert
D.J. Rahming
Jean-Christophe Morin
Mathieu Boudreau
Josiane Fradette
Arnaud Brisebois
VFX Supervisor
Sasha Leigh Izadpanah
VFX Editor
Anna Pacchioni
Pierre Rousseau
Veronique Levesque
Gabriel Morin
Shading
Mario Fraser
Francois Croteau
Jean-Olivier Esther
Kevin R. Browne
Frédérique Schmidt
Christopher Gonnord
Marc-Andre Poulin
Adam Wierzchowski
Julien Dubuisson
Marc-Olivier Rouleau
Jean-Sebastien Letourneau
Josee Chapdelaine
Louis-Philippe Clavet
Rotoscoping Artist
Céline Zapater
Ève Giordani
Visual Effects Production Assistant
Maxime Pearson
Mathieu Raynault
Annie Cliche
Daniel Booty
Félix Clément
Philippe Cournoyer
Béatrice Palin
Marie-Ève Gélinas
Frederic St-Jean
Alexandra Vaillancourt
Ken Mohammed
Alan Fregtman
Marie Fétiveau
Nicholas Verschelde
Stephane Wirtel
Singarajan Praveen
Gabrielle Perreault
Andréanne Lamoureux
Marc-André Roy
William Perreault
Geneviève Gareau
Thibaud Galbois
Guillaume Poulin
Alain Morin
Dominique Richer
Jean-Michel Cristofaro
Martin Fourat
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Katy Savoie
Simon Beaupré
Frédéric Gagnon
Marie-Eve St-Amour
Simon Chassé
Christopher Tuleya
Dominic Vincent
Louis-Alexandre Lord
Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput
Jordi Riera
Marie Soleil Chabot
François Poirier
Sébastien Moreau
Executive Visual Effects Producer
Amelie Poitras
Anthony Luigi Santoro
Jose Luis Gomez Godinez
Pierre Raymond
Head of Production
Martin Chamney
Pre-Visualization Supervisor
Valentin Delbroucq
Maxime Desforges
Kevin Harding
Antonin Messier Turcotte
Deborah Zadzora
Jean-Francois Lafleur
Marina Popova
Karl Alexandre Lamarre-Parent
Melanie La Rue
Vicky Daneau
Philippe Theroux
Nathalie Cyr
Sandra Germain
Patrick Piche
Eric G. Thivierge
Mathieu Leclaire
David Raymond
Sylvain Lebeau
Dave Thomlison
Olivier Péloquin
Melanie Murray
Emmanuel Pelletier
Ahmidou Lyazidi
François Lord
Joseph Kasparian
Sylvain Berger
Yves Bélanger
Second Unit Director of Photography
Bryan Hsu
Jessica Francoeur-Ducharme
Sam Hudecki
Storyboard Artist
Gilles Marsalet
Assistant Foley Artist
Foley Artist
Kyle D. Krajewski
Niels Barletta
Foley Mixer
Steven Ghouti
Tyler Newhouse
Grégory Vincent
Patrice Vermette
Production Design
Jessica Coon
Script Consultant