2nd Genie Awards
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The 2nd Genie Awards were held March 12, 1981, honouring Canadian film
s released the previous year. The ceremony was held at the Royal Alexandria Theatre and were hosted by Brian Linehan
. The most notable sight of the evening was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
escorting starlet Kim Cattrall
. Most of the major awards were swept by the French Canadian film Les bons débarras.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s released the previous year. The ceremony was held at the Royal Alexandria Theatre and were hosted by Brian Linehan
Brian Linehan
Brian Richard Linehan was a Canadian television host from Hamilton, Ontario. Linehan was best known for his celebrity interviews. Linehan was one of seven children...
. The most notable sight of the evening was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...
escorting starlet Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...
. Most of the major awards were swept by the French Canadian film Les bons débarras.
Award winners
- Best Motion PictureGenie Award for Best Motion PictureThe Genie Award for Best Motion Picture is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian motion picture.-1st Genie Awards:*The Changeling *Cordélia...
- Claude Godbout and Marcia Couelle, Les bons débarras - Director - Francis MankiewiczFrancis MankiewiczFrancis Mankiewicz was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis would spend all his childhood. He was a relative of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman J...
, Les bons débarras - Actress - Marie TifoMarie TifoMarie Tifo is a Canadian actress, and a major star in French-speaking Canada. She won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 1980 drama film Les Bons Débarras.She will star in La Déraison d'amour at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal...
, Les bons débarras - Actor - Thomas PeacockeThomas PeacockeThomas Peacocke is a Canadian actor. He won the Genie Award for Best Actor in 1981 for his role in The Hounds of Notre Dame.Peacocke studied acting at the University of Alberta and directing at Carnegie Mellon University, and began teaching drama at the University of Alberta in 1961.His other roles...
, The Hounds of Notre DameThe Hounds of Notre Dame- Plot :* Father Athol Murray is a hard working man who inspires his students to become better people through education and athletics.- Reception :* The film earned 9 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the categories of:... - Supporting actor - Germain HoudeGermain HoudeGermain Houde is a Quebec Genie Award-winning actor. He has won two Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in Les bons débarras and Un Zoo la Nuit.- External links :...
, Les bons débarras - Supporting actress - Kate ReidKate ReidKate Reid, OC was a Canadian stage, film and television actress.-Life and career:Daphne Kate Reid was born in London, England, the daughter of Canadian parents, Helen Isabel and Walter Clarke Reid, who was a former Bengal Lancer in the Indian army and a retired colonel...
, Atlantic City, U.S.A. - Foreign actor - Jack LemmonJack LemmonJohn Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
, TributeTribute (film)Tribute is a play by Bernard Slade.The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility. When he discovers he is terminally ill with leukemia, he attempts to reconnect with his long-estranged son.... - Foreign actress - Susan SarandonSusan SarandonSusan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
, Atlantic City, U.S.A. - Original screenplay - Réjean DucharmeRéjean DucharmeRéjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...
, Les bons débarras - Adapted screenplay - Max Fischer and Jack RosenthalJack RosenthalJack Morris Rosenthal CBE was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.-Biography:...
, The Lucky Star - Art direction - Anne Pritchard, Atlantic City, U.S.A.
- Costume design - Anne Pritchard, FantasticaFantastica (film)Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carole Laure - Lorca* Lewis Furey - Paul* Serge Reggiani - Euclide Brown* Claudine Auger - Johanne McPherson...
- Cinematography - Michel BraultMichel BraultMichel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...
, Les bons débarras - Editing - André CorriveauAndré Corriveau (filmmaker)André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
, Les bons débarras - Sound - Henri Blondeau and Michel Descombes, Les bons débarras
- Sound editing - Jean-Guy Montpetit, The Lucky Star
- Short subject - Halya Kuchmij, The Strongest Man in the WorldThe Strongest Man in the WorldThe Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell, still a student in the fictional Medfield College. It is the sequel to the 1972 film Now You See Him, Now You Don't, itself a sequel to the 1969 film, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.-Plot:Medfield College's Dean Higgins is being...
- Documentary - Guy Simoneau, Plusiers Tombent en Amour