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{{Short description|Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter (born 1950)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Deepa Mehta
| image              = Canadian director Deepa Mehta (48198952367).jpg
| caption            = Deepa Mehta in 2005
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|09|15}}
| birth_place        = [[Amritsar]], [[East Punjab]], India
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| nationality        = Canadian
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| education          = 
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| occupation         = Film director, screenwriter, film producer
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| known_for          = [[Elements Trilogy]]
| notable_works      = 
| children           = [[Devyani Saltzman]] (daughter)
| parents            = 
| relatives          = [[Dilip Mehta]] (brother)
| website            = {{URL|https://www.hamiltonmehta.com/}}
| yearsactive        = 1976–present
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Paul Saltzman]]|1973|1983|reason=divorced}} <br />[[David Hamilton (Canadian producer)|David Hamilton]] (– present)
}}

'''Deepa Mehta''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OOnt}} ({{IPA|hi|diːpa ˈmeːɦta|}}; born 15 September 1950)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUGtBAAAQBAJ&dq=deepa+mehta+january+1&pg=PA320 | title=Canadian Immigration and South Asian Immigrants | isbn=9781499058741 | last1=Rahim | first1=Abdur | year=2014 | publisher=Xlibris Corporation }}</ref> is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her [[Elements Trilogy]], [[Fire (1996 film)|''Fire'']] (1996), ''[[Earth (1998 film)|Earth]]'' (1998), and ''[[Water (2005 film)|Water]]'' (2005), the last being nominated for [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[79th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]].

''Earth'' was submitted by [[List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|India as its official entry]] for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]], and ''Water'' was Canada's official entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]], making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after [[Attila Bertalan]]'s 1990 invented-language film ''[[A Bullet in the Head (1990 film)|A Bullet to the Head]]'' and [[Zacharias Kunuk]]'s 2001 [[Inuktitut]]-language feature ''[[Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner]]''.

She co-founded [[Hamilton-Mehta Productions]], with her husband, producer [[David Hamilton (Canadian producer)|David Hamilton]] in 1996. She was awarded a [[Genie Award]] in 2003 for the screenplay of ''[[Bollywood/Hollywood]]''.<ref name="Can">{{cite web |title=Deepa Metha |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/deepa-mehta |website=[[Canadian Encyclopedia]] |access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref> In May 2012, Mehta received the [[Governor General's Performing Arts Award]] for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deepa Mehta biography|url=http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2012/mehta-deepa.aspx|publisher=Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation|access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref>