1st Genie Awards

1st Genie Awards

The 1st Genie Awards were the first ever Genie Awards. They were presented on March 20, 1980 and honoured films released in 1979. They were given out at a gala event at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto with Bruno Gerussi as host. A luncheon the day before the gala saw the non-feature film...

• The Changeling
  The Changeling (film)
  The Changeling is a 1980 horror film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere . The story is based upon events that writer Russell Hunter said he experienced while he was living in the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion of Denver, Colorado.-Plot:Scott stars as Dr...
  
  (Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Howard Drabinsky, OC is a former Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud and forgery. His sentence is stayed, pending appeal.-Biography:...
  
  , Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels is a film producer and actor. His notable work includes The Changeling for which he won a Best Motion Picture and a Golden Reel Award....
  
  )
• Cordélia
  Cordélia
  Cordélia is a 1980 Canadian French language film based on the book La lampe dans la fenêtre by Pauline Cadieux. It was directed and written by Jean Beaudin.- Plot :...
  
   (Jean-Marc Garand)
• Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...
  
   (Gilbert W. Taylor, Peter Welbeck
  Harry Alan Towers
  Harry Alan Towers was a British-born radio and film producer and screenwriter, regularly using the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. He produced over a hundred feature films and continued to write and produce well into his eighties...
  
  )
• Meatballs
  Meatballs (film)
  Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for the first film appearance of Bill Murray in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes and Ghostbusters , both starring Murray...
  
   (Daniel Goldberg
  Daniel Goldberg
  Daniel Goldberg is a French Socialist politician. A mathematics teacher, he was elected deputy in 2007 to represent La Courneuve.-External links:...
  
  , John Dunning
  John Dunning
  John Dunning may refer to:* John Dunning , American writer of detective fiction* John Dunning * John Harry Dunning , British economist* John Dunning , American film editor...
  
  , André Link)
• Running
  Running (film)
  Running is a 1979 drama/sports film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. It is about the fictional American marathon runner and Olympics hopeful Michael Andropolis and his struggle to compete in the Olympic Games. It stars Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach....
  
   (Robert M. Cooper, John M. Eckert, Ronald I. Cohen)

2nd Genie Awards

2nd Genie Awards

The 2nd Genie Awards were held March 12, 1981, honouring Canadian films 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...

• Les Bons débarras (Claude Godbout, Marcia Couelle)
• L'Homme à tout faire
  L'Homme à tout faire
  L'Homme à tout faire is a 1980 Canadian drama/romance film.- Plot :The Handyman is about the titular character, a shy, self-conscious man , who works for a married woman who turns out to be as shy and self-conscious as him.- Reception :* The film earned 6 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the...
  
   (René Malo)
• The Hounds of Notre Dame
  The 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:...
  
   (Fil Fraser)
• The Lucky Star
  The Lucky Star (film)
  - Plot :A young Jewish boy who escapes from the traumas of war-torn Holland by living in a fantasy world of American westerns - where good triumphs over evil and the outcast becomes a hero.- Recognition :* 1981...
  
   (André Fleury, Claude Léger)
• Tribute
  Tribute (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....
  
   (Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels is a film producer and actor. His notable work includes The Changeling for which he won a Best Motion Picture and a Golden Reel Award....
  
  , Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Howard Drabinsky, OC is a former Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud and forgery. His sentence is stayed, pending appeal.-Biography:...
  
  )

3rd Genie Awards

3rd Genie Awards

The 3rd Genie Awards were awarded March, 1982 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto and honoured Canadian films released in 1981. It was again hosted by Brian Linehan, with magician Doug Henning assisting.Best Motion Picture...

• Ticket to Heaven
  Ticket to Heaven
  Ticket to Heaven is a 1981 Canadian film about the recruiting of a man into a group portrayed to be a cult, and his life in the group until forcibly extracted by his family and friends. The film was directed by Ralph L. Thomas...
  
  (Ronald I. Cohen, Vivienne Leebosh)
• The Amateur (Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Drabinsky
  Garth Howard Drabinsky, OC is a former Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud and forgery. His sentence is stayed, pending appeal.-Biography:...
  
  , Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels
  Joel B. Michaels is a film producer and actor. His notable work includes The Changeling for which he won a Best Motion Picture and a Golden Reel Award....
  
  )
• Heartaches (David Patterson
  David Patterson
  David Patterson may refer to:*David Patterson , American professor of computer science at UC Berkeley*Dave Patterson , baseball player...
  
  , Jerry Raibourn)
• Les Plouffe
  Les Plouffe
  Les Plouffe is a Canadian drama film, based on a novel, about the titular Plouffe family, set during World War II.-Awards:...
  
   (Justine Héroux, Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux, OC is a Canadian film director and producer.-Biography:Héroux wanted to become a teacher when he collaborated with Denys Arcand and Stéphane Venne on the 1962 film about life as a student, Seul ou avec d’autres...
  
  )
• Scanners
  Scanners
  Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...
  
   (Victor Solnicki, Pierre David
  Pierre David
  Pierre David is a Canadian film producer and film financier.David is best known for executive-producing iconic films directed by David Cronenberg, such as Scanners, Videodrome, and The Brood. He is also credited as "production executive" on the Academy Award-winning film Platoon, directed by...
  
  , Claude Héroux)

4th Genie Awards

4th Genie Awards

The 4th annual Genie Awards were held March 23, 1983 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. There ceremony was hosted by comedian Dave Thomas.-Award winners:Best PictureWinner: The Grey Fox, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• The Grey Fox
  The Grey Fox (film)
  The Grey Fox is a 1982 Canadian film written by John Hunter and directed by Phillip Borsos. It is based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged Canada's first train robbery on September 10, 1904. The film stars Richard Farnsworth as Miner...
  
  (Peter O'Brian)
• La Guerre du feu (Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux, OC is a Canadian film director and producer.-Biography:Héroux wanted to become a teacher when he collaborated with Denys Arcand and Stéphane Venne on the 1962 film about life as a student, Seul ou avec d’autres...
  
  , John Kemeny)
• Harry Tracy, Desperado
  Harry Tracy, Desperado
  Harry Tracy, Desperado is a 1982 Canadian drama/western film. It was directed by William A. Graham, and filmed on-location in Historical Barkerville, British Columbia...
  
   (Ronald I. Cohen)
• Latitude 55°
  Latitude 55°
  Latitude 55° is a 1982 Canadian drama/adventure film.- Plot :* Wanda Woodsworth , a field worker for the Department of Culture, is on her way home to the city after a winter assignment in the northern part of Alberta. Her car breaks down on the deserted highway and as the weather worsens she finds...
  
   (August Schellenberg
  August Schellenberg
  August Schellenberg is a Canadian actor. His ethnicity is Mohawk and Swiss-German. He was trained at the National Theatre School of Canada.His first film was Rip-Off in 1971. In 1981, he did voices for the animated film Heavy Metal...
  
  )
• Threshold
  Threshold (1981 film)
  Threshold is a 1981 drama/science fiction film directed by Richard Pearce. It starred Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum. The film was nominated for eight Genie Awards in 1983 and won three of them. Sutherland also won best actor at the 1982 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his...
  
   (Jon Slan, Michael Burns
  Michael Burns
  - Sports :* Michael Burns , in Huyton) is an English football player* Mike Burns , baseball pitcher* Mike Burns , college men's basketball coach, most recently at Eastern Washington University...
  
  )
• Une journée en taxi
  Une journée en taxi
  Une journée en taxi is a 1982 French-language Canadian/French drama film.- Plot :A man named Johnny , who becomes the fall guy for a bank robbery is released from prison on a 36 hour parole. He takes a taxi, driven by Michel...
  
   (Robert Ménard
  Robert Ménard
  Robert Ménard is one of the founders and the former secretary-general of the Paris-based international NGO Reporters Sans Frontières....
  
  )

5th Genie Awards

5th Genie Awards

The 5th Genie Awards were presented on March 21, 1984, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The awards ceremony was hosted by Louis Del Grande.Best Motion PictureWinner: The Terry Fox Story, Robert M...

• The Terry Fox Story
  The Terry Fox Story
  The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 film biopic of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox. It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas. The film stars Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill...
  
  (Robert M. Cooper)
• A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...
  
   (Bob Clark
  Bob Clark
  Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story...
  
  , René Dupont)
• Lucien Brouillard
  Lucien Brouillard
  Lucien Brouillard is a 1983 French Canadian film of the drama genre. It was directed by Bruno Carrière and shot in Montreal. The film was nominated for many Genie Awards in 1984.-Plot:...
  
   (René Gueissaz, Marc Daigle)
• Maria Chapdelaine
  Maria Chapdelaine
  Maria Chapdelaine is a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.-Adaptations:The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud , and Jean Gabin , partly filmed in Péribonka; in...
  
   (Murray Shostak, Robert Baylis)
• The Wars (Richard Neilson)

6th Genie Awards

6th Genie Awards

The 6th Genie Awards is generally considered the pinnacle of the Canadian Genie Awards' popularity. It was the first time the Genies were broadcast live across Canada and they drew 1.9 million viewers, a record never since equalled. The event, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre was...

• The Bay Boy
  The Bay Boy
  The Bay Boy is a 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression...
  
  (Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux, OC is a Canadian film director and producer.-Biography:Héroux wanted to become a teacher when he collaborated with Denys Arcand and Stéphane Venne on the 1962 film about life as a student, Seul ou avec d’autres...
  
  , John Kemeny)
• La Femme de l'hôtel
  La Femme de l'hôtel
  La Femme de l'hôtel is a 1984 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Léa Pool.-Plot:* Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman...
  
   (Bernadette Payeur)
• La Guerre des tuques (Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert is a former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.She was part of the Canadian handball team, which finished sixth in the Olympic tournament. She played four matches and scored ten goals.-References:*...
  
  , Rock Demers
  Rock Demers
  Rock Demers, is a Canadian film producer.He is the founder of the film company Les Productions la Fête and has produced the Tales for All film series for children....
  
  )
• Mario
  Mario (film)
  - Plot :Mario is a 10 year old autistic boy who is mute and hard of hearing. He has an 18 year old brother whom he admires greatly. One day, Simon becomes involved with a woman and, as a result, their relationship becomes strained...
  
   (Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...
  
  , Hélène Verrier)

7th Genie Awards

7th Genie Awards

The 7th Genie Awards were held March 20, 1986 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It was co-hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Catherine Mary Stewart.-Award winners:Best Motion PictureWinner: My American Cousin, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• My American Cousin
  My American Cousin
  My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s...
  
  (Peter O'Brian)
• 90 Days
  90 Days
  90 Days was "a video report about issues, events and people important to you and McDonnell Douglas." The video magazine was produced in St. Louis, MO and distributed at the end of every business quarter through the mail to employees and shareholders of the company in VHS format...
  
   (David Wilson
  David Wilson
  -In arts and literature:*Sir David M. Wilson , British archaeologist and Director of the British Museum*David Henry Wilson , English writer*David Niall Wilson , American writer of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction...
  
  , Giles Walker
  Giles Walker
  -Brief biography:Giles Walker was born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland. He has since moved to Canada, where he has been involved in film and television writing, producing and directing since 1974.-Partial filmography:...
  
  )
• Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now (film)
  Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 film and a TV mini-series, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now. James Woods starred as the adult Joshua, Gabrielle Lazure as his wife, and Alan Arkin as Joshua's father...
  
   (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , Stephen J. Roth)
• Le Matou
  Le Matou
  Le Matou is a 1985 Canadian/French French-language drama film based on the homonymous novel of Yves Beauchemin.- Plot :Florent and his wife Elise always had one dream: to own a restaurant...
  
   (Justine Héroux)
• One Magic Christmas
  One Magic Christmas
  One Magic Christmas is a 1985 Canadian-American holiday film from Walt Disney Pictures directed by Phillip Borsos and starring Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1985) (Peter O'Brian)

8th Genie Awards

8th Genie Awards

The 8th annual Genie Awards were held in 1987 to honour Canadian films made the previous year. The awards were dominated by Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain...

• The Decline of the American Empire (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , René Malo)
• Dancing in the Dark (Anthony Kramreither)
• John and the Missus
  John and the Missus
  John and the Missus is a 1986 Canadian drama film. The film was directed by and starred Gordon Pinsent who wrote the screenplay from his 1974 novel of the same name.- Plot :...
  
   (John Hunter, Peter O'Brian)
• Loyalties (Ronald Lillie, William Johnston
  William Johnston
  William Johnston may refer to:*William Johnston , U.S. Representative from Ohio*William Johnston , Irish politician and Orangeman...
  
  )
• Pouvoir intime
  Pouvoir intime
  Pouvoir intime is a 1986 Canadian thriller film.- Plot :A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy figure, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armoured truck...
  
   (Claude Bonin)

9th Genie Awards

9th Genie Awards

The 9th annual Genie Awards were held March 22, 1988 and honoured Canadian films released in 1987. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by Megan Follows and Gordon Pinsent...

• Night Zoo
  Night Zoo
  Night Zoo is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The drama made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Raoul Gendron, was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962....
  
  )
• Family Viewing
  Family Viewing
  - Plot :Van's father, Stan , is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen . Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline , whose...
  
   (Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  )
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 theatrical-release feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.-Plot:...
  
   (Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Television was severely restricted and she didn’t go to a movie theatre until she...
  
  , Alexandra Raffe
  Alexandra Raffé
  Alexandra Raffé is a Canadian film and television producer. Among her projects are the films Zero Patience and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, for which she was nominated for a Genie Award in 1987 for Best Picture.-External links:...
  
  )
• Life Classes
  Life Classes
  Life Classes is a 1987 Canadian drama film directed by William D. MacGillivray.- Plot :Mary Cameron lives on the Canadian island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There, she enjoys a warm relationship with an old woman she calls Nanny , who regales her with stories of the Gaelic past...
  
   (Stephen Reynolds
  Stephen Reynolds (artist)
  Stephen Sarre Reynolds, , is an Australia born artist, currently residing in Los Angeles. Reynolds is married to Sarah Reynolds , step-granddaughter of former US president Jimmy Carter-Biography:...
  
  )
• Train of Dreams
  Train of Dreams
  Train of Dreams is a 1987 Canadian film starring Jason St. Armour, Christopher Neil and Fred Ward as a popular teacher. It was directed by nominee John N...
  
   (Sam Grana)

10th Genie Awards

10th Genie Awards

The 10th annual Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC that caused the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards in sympathy. The awards were dominated by David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers which won ten awards...

• Dead Ringers
  Dead Ringers (film)
  Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Director David Cronenberg co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider; their script was based on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland...
  
  (David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , Marc Boyman)
• The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick is a 1990 Canadian film based on the novel by Morley Torgov.-Plot:The story is about a young Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community who has an overbearing family. To make matters more difficult, he likes a Christian girl, whom he later competes with in a...
  
   (Stephen Foster)
• Les Portes tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes is a Canadian-French French-language drama film.-Cast:* Monique Spaziani - Céleste* Gabriel Arcand - Madrigal Blaudelle* Miou-Miou - Lauda* François Méthé - Antoine...
  
   (Francyne Morin, René Malo)
• A Winter Tan
  A Winter Tan
  A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder....
  
   (Aerlyn Weissman, John Frizzell
  John Frizzell
  John B. Frizzell is a Canadian screenwriter and film producer.After several years writing, directing and co-producing the documentary series A Different Understanding for TVOntario, Frizzell joined partners Niv Fichman, Barbara Willis Sweete and Larry Weinstein to found the Canadian production...
  
  , Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs
  Jackie Burroughs
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...
  
  , John Walker)
• À corps perdu
  À corps perdu
  À corps perdu is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film.- Plot :Pierre is a photojournalist from Montreal who's working on a reportage in Nicaragua. There he sees many people being executed and he takes photographs of them...
  
   (Robin Spry
  Robin Spry
  Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...
  
  , Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  )

11th Genie Awards

11th Genie Awards

The 11th annual Genie Awards were presented March 20, 1990 and honoured Canadian films released the previous year. For the first time ever the awards were broadcast by CTV, rather than CBC. Despite an extensive advertising campaign the ratings plummeted with only half as many people watching...

• Jesus of Montreal
  Jesus of Montreal
  -Plot and allegory:The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage to present a Passion play in its gardens....
  
  (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Raoul Gendron, was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962....
  
  )
• Bye Bye Blues
  Bye Bye Blues (film)
  Bye Bye Blues is a Canadian film, released in 1989. It was written and directed by Anne Wheeler and produced by Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation with assistance of Allarcom Limited.-Plot:...
  
   (Arvi Liimatainen, Anne Wheeler
  Anne Wheeler
  Anne Wheeler, OC is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of...
  
  )
• Cold Comfort (Ray Sager, Ilana Frank)
• Speaking Parts
  Speaking Parts
  Speaking Parts is a 1989 Canadian drama film from Atom Egoyan. It earned a Best Motion Picture nomination, including five others, at the 1989 Genie Awards.- Plot :...
  
   (Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  )
• Termini Station
  Termini Station (film)
  Termini Station is a Canadian drama film, released in 1989. It was directed by Allan King, and written by Colleen Murphy.The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and Micheline Dushane, a mother and daughter living in a small Northern Ontario town...
  
   (Allan King
  Allan King
  Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...
  
  )

12th Genie Awards

12th Genie Awards

The 12th annual Genie Awards were held on November 26, 1991, and honoured Canadian films released in 1990. The awards were moved from their previous March date after the disastrous ratings of the previous awards. The format was also changed and the eligible voters reduced to 130. The ceremony was...

• Black Robe
  Black Robe (film)
  Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....
  
  (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , Sue Milliken, Stéphane Reichel)
• Chaindance
  Chaindance
  Chaindance is a 1990 Canadian drama film. The film stars Michael Ironside, Brad Dourif, Rae Dawn Chong, and Don S. Davis as "Sergeant".- Plot :...
  
   (Richard Davis)
• Perfectly Normal
  Perfectly Normal
  Perfectly Normal is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1991. Directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Eugene Lipinski and Paul Quarrington, the film starred Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley and Kenneth Welsh.-Cast:*Robbie Coltrane as Alonzo Turner...
  
   (Michael Burns)
• The Company of Strangers
  The Company of Strangers
  The Company of Strangers is a Canadian film, released in 1990. It was directed by Cynthia Scott, and written by Scott, Sally Bochner, David Wilson and Gloria Demers...
  
   (David Wilson)
• Une histoire inventée
  Une histoire inventée
  Une histoire inventée is a 1990 Canadian drama film.-Plot:Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up and paid by the same uncle...
  
   (Claudio Luca, Robin Spry
  Robin Spry
  Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...
  
  )

13th Genie Awards

13th Genie Awards

The 13th annual Genie Awards were held 1992 and honoured Canadian films released in 1991. They were dominated by the Canadian/British/Japanese co-production Naked Lunch.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch (film)
  Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name...
  
  (Gabriella Martinelli
  Gabriella Martinelli
  Gabriella Martinelli is an Italian-Canadian film and television producer. She is president and CEO of Toronto-based Capri Films Inc., a vertically integrated production and distribution company that she founded in 2000....
  
  , Jeremy Thomas
  Jeremy Thomas
  Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE is a British film producer, founder of the Recorded Picture Company. He was the producer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World...
  
  )
• Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...
  
   (Louise Gendron)
• Léolo
  Léolo
  Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon.The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon , a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the...
  
   (Aimée Danis, Lyse Lafontaine)
• Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur (Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert is a former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.She was part of the Canadian handball team, which finished sixth in the Olympic tournament. She played four matches and scored ten goals.-References:*...
  
  , Lorraine Dufour)
• La Sarrasine (Marc Daigle, Lise Abastado)

14th Genie Awards

14th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Niv Fichman, producer*La Florida, Pierre Sarrazin and Claude Bonin, producers*Harmony Cats, Richard Davis and Alan Morinis, producers*The Lotus Eaters, Sharon McGowan, producer...

• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is an award-winning 1993 film about the piano prodigy Glenn Gould played by Colm Feore. The film's screenplay was written by François Girard and Don McKellar....
  
  (Niv Fichman
  Niv Fichman
  -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...
  
  )
• La Florida
  La Florida (film)
  La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...
  
   (Pierre Sarrazin, Claude Bonin)
• Harmony Cats
  Harmony Cats
  - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...
  
   (Richard Davis
  Richard Davis
  Richard Davis is an American jazz bassist who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1977. Originally from Chicago, he first became known in that city before establishing himself in New York City for twenty-three years. He teaches bass, jazz history, and...
  
  , Alan Morinis
  Alan Morinis
  Alan Morinis is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer who has been a leading figure in the contemporary revival of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement....
  
  )
• The Lotus Eaters (Sharon McGowan)
• Le Sexe des étoiles (Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Gendron
  Pierre Raoul Gendron, was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962....
  
  , Jean-Roch Marcotte)

15th Genie Awards

15th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Exotica, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Double Happiness, Rose Lam Waddell and Stephen Hegyes, producers*Louis 19, le roi des ondes, Jacques Dorfmann and Richard Sadler, producers...

• Exotica
  Exotica (film)
  Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around the Exotica strip club in Toronto, Canada. It was written and directed by Atom Egoyan. Music used includes "Montagues and Capulets".-Synopsis:...
  
  (Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  , Camelia Frieberg)
• Double Happiness
  Double Happiness (film)
  Double Happiness is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada....
  
   (Rose Lam Waddell, Stephen Hegyes)
• Louis 19, le roi des ondes
  Louis 19, le roi des ondes
  Louis 19, le roi des ondes is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1994.The film stars Martin Drainville as Louis Jobin, a television fanatic who wins a contest to be on TV...
  
   (Jacques Dorfmann, Richard Sadler
  Richard Sadler
  Richard Sadler is a producer, scenarist and Director .- As a producer :* 1984 : The Gunrunner directed by Nardo Castillo...
  
  )
• Mon amie Max
  Mon amie Max
  My Friend Max is a Canadian 1994 film, written by Guy Fournier and Jefferson Lewis, directed by Michel Brault.-Plot summary:The film is set in contemporary Québec City, Québec....
  
   (Aimée Danis, Danièle Bussy)
• Whale Music
  Whale Music (film)
  Whale Music is a 1994 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis. It is based on the comic novel of the same name by Paul Quarrington .-Plot:...
  
   (Raymond Massey
  Raymond Massey
  Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian/American actor.-Early life:Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Anna , who was born in Illinois, and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Massey's family could trace their ancestry back to the American...
  
  , Steven DeNure)

16th Genie Awards

16th Genie Awards

The 16th Genie Awards were held on January 14, 1996, to honour films released in 1995. The ceremony took place in Montreal, at Société Radio-Canada's Studio 42....

• The Confessional (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  )
• Liste noire (Marcel Giroux)
• Magic in the Water
  Magic in the Water
  Magic in the Water is a 1995 family film directed by Rick Stevenson and starring Mark Harmon, Sarah Wayne and Joshua Jackson. It is about a fictional lake monster in British Columbia...
  
   (Rick Stevenson
  Rick Stevenson
  Rick Stevenson is a writer, director, and producer from Seattle, Washington. In 2006, his film Expiration Date won both Audience and Jury Award for Best Film at the Omaha Film Festival and took Best Film honors at the American Indian Film Festival...
  
  , Matthew O'Connor
  Matthew O'Connor
  Matthew O'Connor is a Canadian soccer player who plays for York Region Shooters.-Career:O'Connor began his career on the University of Ottawa CIS Soccer squad and joined than to Erin Mills SC...
  
  )
• Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum....
  
   (Christopher Zimmer, Mort Ransen, Claudio Luca, Steve Clark-Hall)
• Rude
  Rude (film)
  Rude is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maurice Dean Wint - General* Rachael Crawford - Maxine* Clark Johnson - Reece...
  
   (Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King)

17th Genie Awards

17th Genie Awards

The 17th Genie Awards were held on November 27, 1996, to honour films released in late 1995 and 1996. They were the second Genie Award ceremony held in that year; the 16th Genie Awards were delayed from the fall of 1995 and took place in January 1996 instead.-Best Motion Picture:*Lilies, Robin...

• Lilies
  Lilies (film)
  Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...
  
  (Robin Cass
  Robin Cass
  Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer. His projects include the feature films High Life, Falling Angels, and Lilies...
  
  , Arnie Gelbart, Anna Stratton
  Anna Stratton
  Anna Stratton is an award-winning Canadian film and television producer. Her projects include the feature films Zero Patience , Lilies , and Emotional Arithmetic...
  
  )
• Crash
  Crash (1996 film)
  Crash is a 1996 Canadian/British drama thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film generated considerable...
  
   (David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  )
• Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. Director Bruce McDonald illustrates the self-destruction of punk rock...
  
   (Brian Dennis, Christine Haebler)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...
  
   (Niv Fichman
  Niv Fichman
  -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...
  
  , Daniel Iron
  Daniel Iron
  - Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away From Her - Won * 2007 Genie Award for Best Documentary - Manufactured Landscapes - Won * 2007 Gemini Award for Best TV movie - Last Exit - Nominated * 2006 Gemini Award...
  
  )
• Le Polygraphe (Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Jobin, Jean-Pierre St-Michel, Ulrich Felsberg)

18th Genie Awards

18th Genie Awards

-Best Picture:*The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Cosmos, Roger Frappier, producer*The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald and Louise Garfield, producers*Karmina, Nicole Robert, producer...

• The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter (film)
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.-Plot:...
  
  (Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  , Camelia Frieberg)
• Cosmos
  Cosmos (film)
  Cosmos is a 2010 Turkish-Bulgarian drama film, written and directed by Reha Erdem, starring Sermet Yeşil as a thief and a miracle-worker who is welcomed into a tiny, snowbound border village after resuscitating a half-drowned boy who...
  
  
• The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....
  
   (Thom Fitzgerald
  Thom Fitzgerald
  Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...
  
  , Louise Garfield
  Louise Garfield
  Louise Garfield is a Canadian film and television producer. Her works include the films Zero Patience and The Hanging Garden, for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Motion Picture....
  
  )
• Karmina
  Karmina
  Karmina is an American pop/rock music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Rudisill and Kamille Rudisill . Karmina means “song” in Latin...
  
   (Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert is a former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.She was part of the Canadian handball team, which finished sixth in the Olympic tournament. She played four matches and scored ten goals.-References:*...
  
  )
• Kissed
  Kissed
  Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look On Love"...
  
   (Dean English, Lynne Stopkewich
  Lynne Stopkewich
  Lynne Stopkewich is a Canadian film director, particularly notable as the director of the film Kissed .-History:In 1987, Stopkewich obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from Concordia University, followed in 1996 by a Master of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from the...
  
  )

19th Genie Awards

19th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*The Red Violin, Niv Fichman, producer*Last Night, Daniel Iron and Niv Fichman, producers*Regeneration, Allan Scott and Peter Simpson, producers*Rupert's Land, Bill Thumm and Scott Kennedy, producers...

• The Red Violin
  The Red Violin
  The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...
  
  (Niv Fichman
  Niv Fichman
  -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...
  
  )
• Last Night (Daniel Iron
  Daniel Iron
  - Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away From Her - Won * 2007 Genie Award for Best Documentary - Manufactured Landscapes - Won * 2007 Gemini Award for Best TV movie - Last Exit - Nominated * 2006 Gemini Award...
  
  , Niv Fichman
  Niv Fichman
  -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...
  
  )
• Regeneration (Allan Scott
  Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)
  Allan Scott, the alias of Allan Shiach, is a Scottish screenwriter and producer, nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a Genie Award for his 1997 film Regeneration...
  
  , Peter R. Simpson)
• Rupert's Land
  Rupert's Land (film)
  Rupert's Land is a 1998 road movie produced and filmed in Canada. It was released at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and was nominated at the 1999 Genie Awards and Leo Awards.- Primary Cast :* Samuel West - Rupert McKay* Ian Tracey - Dale McKay...
  
   (Bill Thumm, Scott Kennedy)
• Such a Long Journey (Paul Stephens, Simon MacCorkindale
  Simon MacCorkindale
  Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. MacCorkindale spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father's commission with the Royal Air Force. Poor eyesight prevented him from following a similar career in the RAF, so he instead...
  
  )

20th Genie Awards

20th Genie Awards

The 20th Genie Awards were held in 2000 to honour films released in 1999. The ceremony was hosted by Patrick McKenna.-Best Motion Picture:*Sunshine, Andras Hamori and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Sunshine
  Sunshine (1999 film)
  Sunshine is a 1999 historical film written by Israel Horovitz and István Szabó, directed and produced by István Szabó. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the...
  
  (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , András Hámori)
• eXistenZ
  EXistenZ
  eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror/science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law....
  
   (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , András Hámori)
• Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...
  
   (Bruce Davey
  Bruce Davey
  Bruce Davey is an Australian film producer.A partner in Icon Entertainment alongside Mel Gibson, Sydney-born Davey has produced many films including Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ, Push, and Braveheart for which he won an Academy Award. Davey began as Gibson’s CPA after being recommended by...
  
  )
• The Five Senses
  The Five Senses (film)
  The Five Senses is a 1999 Canadian drama film directed, written and produced by Jeremy Podeswa.- Plot :The Five Senses is about interconnected stories linked by a building which examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by Ruth Seraph, a massage therapist who is treating...
  
   (Camelia Frieberg, Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...
  
  )
• Histoires d'hiver (Claude Gagnon
  Claude Gagnon
  Claude Gagnon is a Canadian born director, actor, and producer. Born in 1949 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He help produce several films such as Visage pâle , Heaven , and looking for Anne .-References:...
  
  , Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon)
• Post Mortem (Lorraine Dufour)

21st Genie Awards

21st Genie Awards

The 21st Genie Awards were held in 2001 to honour films released in 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Maelström, Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal, producers...

• Maelström
  Maelström (film)
  Maelström is a 2000 Canadian film by Québécois writer-director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident....
  
  (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , Luc Vandal)
• Love Come Down
  Love Come Down
  "Love Come Down" is a hit single by Evelyn "Champagne" King. It was produced by Morrie Brown and written by Kashif. "Love Come Down" was the first single culled from her multi-platinum, number-one R&B album, Get Loose . In the U.S., it reached number one on the R&B and dance charts and number...
  
   (Eric Jordan, Damon D'Oliveira, Clément Virgo
  Clement Virgo
  Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...
  
  )
• New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl is a Canadian drama-comedy film, released in 1999. The film was directed by Allan Moyle, and written by Tricia Fish.New Waterford Girl stars Liane Balaban as Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, a teenager in New Waterford, Nova Scotia who dreams of life beyond her small-town home...
  
   (Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny)
• Possible Worlds
  Possible Worlds (film)
  Possible Worlds is a 2000 Canadian film adaptation of the play of the same name. The film is directed by Robert Lepage, and stars Tom McCamus and Tilda Swinton...
  
   (Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Jobin)
• Stardom
  Stardom
  Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency...
  
   (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  , Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  )
• To Walk with Lions
  To Walk With Lions
  To Walk with Lions is a 1999 film starring Richard Harris as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn.Adamson spends the latter part of his life protecting the lions and other wildlife in the Kora National Reserve, Kenya...
  
   (Pieter Kroonenburg, Julie Allan)

22nd Genie Awards

22nd Genie Awards

The 22nd Genie Awards were held in 2002 to honour films released in 2001. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Atanarjuat, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong and Paul Apak Angilirq, producers...

• Atanarjuat
  Atanarjuat
  Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...
  
  (Norman Cohn
  Norman Cohn
  Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA was a British academic, historian and writer who spent fourteen years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex.-Life:...
  
  , Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk
  Zacharias Kunuk
  Zacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut...
  
  , Germaine Wong)
• Eisenstein
  Eisenstein (film)
  Eisenstein is a 2000 film about Sergei Eisenstein, starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie....
  
   (Martin Paul-Hus, Regine Schmid)
• Treed Murray
  Treed Murray
  Treed Murray is a 2001 Canadian drama/thriller film. It was written and directed by William Phillips and features Stargate Atlantis star David Hewlett...
  
   (Helen Du Toit)
• Un crabe dans la tête (Joseph Hillel, Luc Déry
  Luc Déry
  - Producer :* Monsieur Lazhar * C'est pas moi, je le jure! * Continental, un film sans fusil * Congorama * Next: A Primer on Urban Painting * Familia...
  
  )
• The War Bride (Alistair MacLean-Clark, Douglas Berquist)

23rd Genie Awards

23rd Genie Awards

The 23rd Genie Awards were held in 2003 to honour films released in 2002. The ceremony was hosted by Arsinée Khanjian and Peter Keleghan.-Best Motion Picture:*Ararat, Atom Egoyan and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Ararat
  Ararat (film)
  Ararat is a 2002 film directed, written, and co-produced by Atom Egoyan based loosely on the Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is disputed by the government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the...
  
  (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  )
• Bollywood/Hollywood
  Bollywood/Hollywood
  Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...
  
   (David Hamilton
  David Hamilton (Canadian producer)
  David Hamilton is a Canadian film producer. Hamilton has been nominated twice for a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Bollywood/Hollywood and Water.-Filmography:* Cooking with Stella * Water * Bollywood/Hollywood...
  
  , Robert Wertheimer
  Robert Wertheimer
  Robert Wertheimer is an award-winning writer, producer, director and executive producer of film and television productions...
  
  )
• Québec-Montréal (Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert
  Nicole Robert is a former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.She was part of the Canadian handball team, which finished sixth in the Olympic tournament. She played four matches and scored ten goals.-References:*...
  
  )
• Rare Birds
  Rare Birds
  Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy/drama film. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel. This movie features spectacular scenery from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada. It also features music by the The Pogues and characteristic Canadian Maritime...
  
   (Paul Pope
  Paul Pope
  Paul Pope is an American alternative comic book artist. Influenced by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pope's stories evoke poignant, under-explored aspects of youth culture...
  
  , Janet York)
• Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked is a 2001 drama film directed by Anne Wheeler and written by Elyse Friedman.-Plot:Jackie York is a famous novelist with a secret: she is suffering from writer's block and is unable to write her much-anticipated novel. After being used and then dumped by a wannabe movie director,...
  
   (Gavin Wilding)

24th Genie Awards

24th Genie Awards

The 24th Genie Awards were held in 2004, to honour films released in 2003. The ceremony was hosted by Scott Thompson.-Best Motion Picture:*Les invasions barbares, Denise Robert, Daniel Louis and Fabienne Vonier, producers...

• The Barbarian Invasions (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  , Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis is a Canadian film producer. He is co-founder, with Denise Robert, of Cinémaginaire....
  
  , Fabienne Vonier)
• La Face cachée de la lune (Bob Krupinski, Mario St-Laurent)
• La Grande séduction (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , Luc Vandal)
• Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt.-Plot:...
  
   (András Hámori, Alessandro Camon
  Alessandro Camon
  Alessandro Camon is a writer and film producer.Born in Padua, Italy, he currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Camon is a graduate of the University of Padua, School of Philosophy, and received a Masters in Film from UCLA in Los Angeles, California....
  
  , Seaton McLean
  Seaton McLean
  Seaton McLean is a Canadian film and television producer. He co-founded Atlantis Films.- External links :...
  
  )
• The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker is a 2003 Canadian film based on the short story "Walk Well, My Brother" by Farley Mowat. It was written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starred Barry Pepper, James Cromwell, and Annabella Piugattuk....
  
   (Rob Merilees, William Vince
  William Vince
  William Vince was a Canadian film producer who produced Air Bud , Dead Heat , Saved! and Capote – for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. His alternate name are Bill Vince and William D...
  
  )

25th Genie Awards

25th Genie Awards

The 25th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 2005 to honour the best Canadian films released in 2004. The awards took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.Andrea Martin was the host.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Les Triplettes de Belleville
  Les Triplettes de Belleville
  The Triplets of Belleville is a 2003 animated comedy film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as Belleville Rendez-vous in the United Kingdom...
  
  (Paul Cadieux
  Paul Cadieux
  Paul Cadieux is a Canadian film and television producer. He won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Les Triplettes de Belleville.- Filmography :* Zixx Level One...
  
  )
• Being Julia
  Being Julia
  Being Julia is a 2004 drama film with comic undertones directed by István Szabó and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1937 novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham...
  
   (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  )
• Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
  Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
  Love, Sex and Eating the Bones is a 2003 Canadian romantic comedy film directed and written by Sudz Sutherland featuring a mostly African American leading cast...
  
   (Jennifer Holness
  Jennifer Holness
  Jennifer Holness is a Canadian film and television producer and screenwriter, who is the business partner of Sudz Sutherland, also her husband, in Hungry Eyes Film & Television...
  
  )
• Ma vie en cinémascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope is a Quebec, Canada movie released in 2004. This biographical drama depicted the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi, as portrayed by Pascale Bussières...
  
   (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  , Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis is a Canadian film producer. He is co-founder, with Denise Robert, of Cinémaginaire....
  
  )
• Mémoires affectives
  Mémoires affectives
  Mémoires affectives is a French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Francis Leclerc. Marcel Beaulieu also wrote the script...
  
   (Barbara Shrier)

26th Genie Awards

26th Genie Awards

The 26th Genie Awards were held on March 13, 2006 to honour films released in 2005. The ceremony was held at the Carlu theatre in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Lisa Ray and Terry David Mulligan.-Best Picture:...

• C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...
  
  (Pierre Even
  Pierre Even
  Pierre Even is a Luxembourgian composer.He is a descendant of the Even family from Beaufort, Luxembourg and Metz...
  
  , Jean-Marc Vallée
  Jean-Marc Vallée
  Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...
  
  )
• Familia
  Familia (film)
  Familia is a 2005 multi-award–winning French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Louise Archambault.- Plot :The story revolves around two main characters: Michèle , a free-spirited aerobics instructor with a penchant for gambling, and Janine , a suburban housewife and home...
  
   (Luc Déry
  Luc Déry
  - Producer :* Monsieur Lazhar * C'est pas moi, je le jure! * Continental, un film sans fusil * Congorama * Next: A Primer on Urban Painting * Familia...
  
  )
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
  It's All Gone Pete Tong
  -CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...
  
   (Elizabeth Yake
  Elizabeth Yake
  Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian film producer. She is founder and president of True West Films.In 2005 she won the Leo Award, Best Feature Length Drama for It's All Gone Pete Tong....
  
  , Allan Niblo
  Allan Niblo
  Allan Niblo is a British film producer and director. He co-founded Vertigo Films.- Producer :* Monsters * Outlaw * WΔZ * The Business * It's All Gone Pete Tong * The Football Factory...
  
  , James Richardson
  James Richardson
  James Richardson may refer to:*James Richardson , Canadian businessman, Chief Marketing Officer of Cisco Systems*James Richardson , British...
  
  )
• Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph is a 2004 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenaged boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from a coma....
  
   (Michael Souther
  Michael Souther
  Michael Souther is a Canadian television director, producer and television writer. He also earned a nomination for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Saint Ralph. He works at Amaze Film and Television.- External links :...
  
  , Teza Lawrence
  Teza Lawrence
  Teza Lawrence is a Canadian producer and television writer. She also earned a nomination for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Saint Ralph. She works at Amaze Film and Television.-External links:...
  
  , Andrea Mann
  Andrea Mann
  Andrea Mann is a Canadian film and television producer, film director, screenwriter and actress. She works at Amaze Film and Television.-Producer:*Saint Ralph *Foolproof *Sweet Sixteen...
  
  , Seaton McLean
  Seaton McLean
  Seaton McLean is a Canadian film and television producer. He co-founded Atlantis Films.- External links :...
  
  )
• Water (David Hamilton
  David Hamilton (Canadian producer)
  David Hamilton is a Canadian film producer. Hamilton has been nominated twice for a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Bollywood/Hollywood and Water.-Filmography:* Cooking with Stella * Water * Bollywood/Hollywood...
  
  )

27th Genie Awards

27th Genie Awards

The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto....

• Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about an Ontarian and a Québécois police officer who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...
  
  (Kevin Tierney
  Kevin Tierney
  Kevin Tierney is a Irish-Canadian film producer from Montreal who earned a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, for which he also wrote the script. He has also produced other titles including One Dead Indian, Good Neighbours and Twist. He is the father of Canadian...
  
  )
• The Little Book of Revenge (Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier
  Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter born April 14, 1945.-As Producer:* 1971 : Le Grand film ordinaire* 1974 : On a raison de se révolter* 1977 : Le Manitoba ne répond plus...
  
  , Luc Vandal)
• The Rocket (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  , Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis is a Canadian film producer. He is co-founder, with Denise Robert, of Cinémaginaire....
  
  )
• Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (Barrie Dunn
  Barrie Dunn
  Barrie Dunn is a Canadian actor, film and television producer best known for his character Ray on the Canadian mockumentary television program Trailer Park Boys....
  
  , Mike Clattenburg
  Mike Clattenburg
  Mike Clattenburg is a Canadian TV and film director best known as creator/director of the TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys , and This Hour Has 22 Minutes...
  
  , Michael Volpe)
• A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide.Directed by Robert Favreau, it relates the story of Bernard Valcourt, a documentary film maker and journalist who falls in love with a young Rwandan woman, Gentille, who works at the Hôtel Des Mille Collines...
  
   (Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca)

28th Genie Awards

28th Genie Awards

The 28th Genie Awards were held on March 3, 2008 to honour films released in 2007. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

• Away From Her
  Away From Her
  Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  (Daniel Iron
  Daniel Iron
  - Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away From Her - Won * 2007 Genie Award for Best Documentary - Manufactured Landscapes - Won * 2007 Gemini Award for Best TV movie - Last Exit - Nominated * 2006 Gemini Award...
  
  , Simone Urdl
  Simone Urdl
  Simone Urdl is a film producer. She co-founded Film Farm Productions with Jennifer Weiss.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away from Her - Won...
  
  , Jennifer Weiss
  Jennifer Weiss (producer)
  Jennifer Weiss is a film producer. She co-founded Film Farm Productions with Simone Urdl.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away from Her - Won...
  
  )
• L'Âge des ténèbres [Days of Darkness] (Denise Robert
  Denise Robert
  Denise Robert is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...
  
  , Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis
  Daniel Louis is a Canadian film producer. He is co-founder, with Denise Robert, of Cinémaginaire....
  
  )
• Continental, un film sans fusil
  Continental, un film sans fusil
  Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...
  
   [Continental, a Film Without Guns] (Luc Déry
  Luc Déry
  - Producer :* Monsieur Lazhar * C'est pas moi, je le jure! * Continental, un film sans fusil * Congorama * Next: A Primer on Urban Painting * Familia...
  
  , Kim McCraw)
• Eastern Promises (Robert Lantos
  Robert Lantos
  -Life and career:Lantos was born in Budapest, the son of Agnes and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family had fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...
  
  , Paul Webster
  Paul Webster (producer)
  Paul Webster is a British film producer. He has worked both as an independent, and with several production companys. He worked with Working Title Films for five years, setting up their Los Angeles office. Between 1995 and 1997 he was Head of Production for Miramax Films. In 1998 he joined Channel...
  
  )
• Shake Hands With the Devil (Laszlo Barna
  Laszlo Barna
  Lazslo Barna is a Gemini Award-winning executive producer of television programs and films. Born in Hungary but living and working in Canada, Barna produced prominent television shows such as Da Vinci's Inquest and Blue Murder.-Biography:...
  
  , Michael Donovan)

29th Genie Awards

29th Genie Awards

The 29th Genie Awards were held on April 4, 2009 to honour films released in 2008. The ceremony was held at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, and was broadcast on Global...

• Passchendaele
  Passchendaele (film)
  Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film from Alliance Films, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. The film, which was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Fort Macleod, Alberta, and in Belgium, focuses on the experiences of a Canadian soldier, Michael Dunne, at the Battle of...
  
   (Niv Fichman
  Niv Fichman
  -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...
  
  , Francis Damberger, Paul Gross
  Paul Gross
  Paul Michael Gross is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in...
  
  , Frank Siracusa)
• Amal
  Amal (film)
  Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....
  
   (David Miller, Steven Bray)
• Ce qu'il faut pour vivre [The Necessities of Life] (Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier)
• Normal (Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai)
• Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait is a French Canadian film directed by Yves-Christian Fournier. It tells the story of a young man trying to cope with the simultaneous suicide of his four friends....
  
   [Everything Is Fine] (Nicole Robert)

30th Genie Awards

30th Genie Awards

The 30th Genie Awards were on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009. Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.-Controversy:Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy...

• Polytechnique
  Polytechnique (film)
  Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film from Quebec written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre , the film documents the events of December 6, 1989 through the eyes of two students who witness...
  
   (Maxime Rémillard, Don Carmody
  Don Carmody
  Don Carmody has been producing films for nearly 40 years. He was vice-president of production for Canada’s Cinepix , where he co-produced David Cronenberg’s early shockers THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID as well as the popular comedy MEATBALLS.Starting his own production company in 1980, Carmody...
  
  , producers)
• 3 saisons
  3 saisons
  3 saisons is a Canadian drama film directed by Jim Donovan.- Plot :The film tells three stories. The first two are about two couples whose lives are extreme opposites but they share one thing in common: an unexpected pregnancy...
  
   (Maude Bouchard, Jim Donovan, Sandy Martinez, Bruno Rosato, producers)
• Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow is a Canadian drama film, released in 2008. Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, the film is an adaptation of the novel For Morgendaggen by Danish writer Jørn Riel...
  
   (Stéphane Rituit, producer)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name...
  
   (Shawn Williamson, Stephen Hegyes, Peter La Terriere, Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Career:Skogland started directing award-winning television commercials and music videos. She moved on to television shows with 1996's Traders...
  
  , producers)
• Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 2008.The film stars Karen LeBlanc as Jude, a widowed single mother undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. While working as a night-shift nurse to support her son Ciel Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally...
  
   (Ingrid Veninger
  Ingrid Veninger
  Ingrid Veninger is a Canadian actress and director.Her start in show business was in an advertisement for Bell Canada with Megan Follows at age 11...
  
  , producer)

31st Genie Awards

31st Genie Awards

The 31st Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 10, 2011 to honour films released in 2010. Nominations were announced on February 2, 2011.William Shatner was announced as the ceremony's host on February 16.-Motion Picture:*Incendies*10½...

• Incendies
  Incendies
  Incendies is a 2010 Quebec film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, Scorched, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...
  
  
• 10½
• Les Amours imaginaires
  Heartbeats (film)
  Heartbeats is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It follows the story of two friends who both fall in love with the same man. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• Barney's Version
  Barney's Version (film)
  Barney's Version is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler...
  
  
• Splice
  Splice (film)
  Splice is a 2009 Canadian/French science fiction horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The story concerns experiments in genetic engineering being done by a young scientist couple who attempt to introduce human DNA into their work of splicing animal...