François Girard OC[1] (born January 12, 1963) is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal.

Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit.

He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex, and Alessandro Baricco's Novecento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial, adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh.

Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed, in Tokyo and Zarkana, which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.

[2] In 2013, the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Girard.