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...

• Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch is a Genie Award-winning actress whose career spans four decades. In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Meatballs...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Louise Portal
  Louise Portal
  Louise Portal is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol.Her other film roles have included Séraphin: un homme et son...
  
  , 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 :...
  
  
• Louise Marleau
  Louise Marleau
  Louise Marleau is a Canadian actress. She won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Femme de l'hôtel and was nominated in the same category in 1980 for her role in L'arrache-coeur a role for which she won the 1979 Montreal World Film Festival.She...
  
  , Heartbreak
• Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...
  
  , A Scream of Silence
• Claire Pimpaire, Yesterday (Gabrielle)

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...

• Marie Tifo
  Marie Tifo
  Marie 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
• Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....
  
  , Final Assignment
  Final Assignment
  Final Assignment is a 1980 Canadian film written by Marc Rosen and directed by Paul Almond.-Plot:In this complex spy caper, Nicole is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former Soviet Union...
  
  
• Jennifer Dale
  Jennifer Dale
  Jennifer Dale, née Ciurluini , is a Canadian television, dancer, and actress.- Early life :She is the sister of Canadian actress Cynthia Dale...
  
  , Suzanne
• Charlotte Laurier, Les Bons débarras
• Andrée Pelletier, 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...
  
  

• Margot Kidder
  Margot Kidder
  Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-born American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Lois Lane in the four Superman movies opposite Christopher Reeve, a role that brought her to widespread recognition....
  
  , Heartaches
• 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Lesleh Donaldson
  Lesleh Donaldson
  Lesleh Donaldson is a Canadian actress who has worked in stage and film.She has appeared in a number of films but is generally best remembered for her roles in several horror movies including Funeral Home , Happy Birthday to Me , Curtains , and Deadly Eyes...
  
  , Funeral Home
  Funeral home
  A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families. These services may include aprepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral....
  
  
• Ronalda Jones, Alligator Shoes
• Monique Spaziani, Les Beaux Souvenirs

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:...

• Rae Dawn Chong
  Rae Dawn Chong
  Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress.-Life and career:Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong. She and her sister Robbi were raised by her grandmother, Tommy Chong's mother. Chong's father is of Chinese and Scottish-Irish ancestry and her...
  
  , La Guerre du Feu
• Sara Botsford
  Sara Botsford
  Sara Botsford is a Canadian television and film actress. She is probably best known for her role of Ann Hildebrand in the television series E.N.G. for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role...
  
  , By Design
• Hélène Loiselle, Doux Aveux
• Monique Mercure
  Monique Mercure
  Monique Mercure, is a Canadian actress.-Career:Mercure was born in Montreal, Quebec. At the 1977 Cannes Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for the film J.A. Martin Photographer...
  
  , La Quarantaine
• Andrée Pelletier, 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...
  
  

• Martha Henry
  Martha Henry
  Martha Henry, is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival.-Background:...
  
  , The Wars
  The Wars
  The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977.-Plot overview:...
  
  
• Carole Laure
  Carole Laure
  Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada.-Career:Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Barbara March
  Barbara March
  Barbara March is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of the Star Trek character Lursa, one of the Duras sisters. She has appeared as Lursa in Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , and Star Trek Generations.Other credits include Total Security, L.A...
  
  , Deserters
• Marie Tifo
  Marie Tifo
  Marie 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...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Marie Tifo
  Marie Tifo
  Marie 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...
  
  , Rien qu'un jeu

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...

• Louise Marleau
  Louise Marleau
  Louise Marleau is a Canadian actress. She won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Femme de l'hôtel and was nominated in the same category in 1980 for her role in L'arrache-coeur a role for which she won the 1979 Montreal World Film Festival.She...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières is a Canadian actress.- Life and work :She is a cinema studies alumna from Concordia University, living in Montreal.- Movies :- TV Series :*1989: Chambres en ville*1991: Marilyn...
  
  , Sonatine
• Linda Griffiths
  Linda Griffiths
  Linda Griffiths is a Canadian actor and playwright.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University....
  
  , Reno and the Doc
• Isabelle Mejias, Unfinished Business
• Andrée Pelletier, Walls
• Sonja Smits
  Sonja Smits
  Sonja Smits is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including Falcon Crest, Airwolf, Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, Street Legal, Traders and The Eleventh Hour.She also played Bianca O'Blivion in the David Cronenberg horror movie, Videodrome.Sonja went to Bell High...
  
  , That's My Baby!

• Margaret Langrick
  Margaret Langrick
  Margaret Langrick is a Canadian actress. She won a 1986 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for My American Cousin and was also nominated in the same category in 1990 for Cold Comfort. She was also nominated for a Gemini Award in 1987 for Best Guest Performance in a...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Charlotte Laurier, La Dame en couleurs
• Christine Pak, 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...
  
  
• Monique Spaziani, 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...
  
  
• Mary Steenburgen
  Mary Steenburgen
  Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard, which earned her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.-Early life:...
  
  , 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:...
  
  

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...

• Martha Henry
  Martha Henry
  Martha Henry, is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival.-Background:...
  
  , Dancing in the Dark
• Dorothée Berryman
  Dorothée Berryman
  Dorothée Berryman is a noted Canadian actress and singer.- Biography :Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she has played roles in many stage productions, films, and television series including The Red Violin, Rivière-des-Jérémie, Le Déclin de l'empire américain, Les Invasions barbares, Scanners II: The...
  
  , Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Québécois comedy/drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It was followed by a sequel, The Barbarian Invasions in 2003.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• 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 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 :...
  
  
• Tantoo Cardinal
  Tantoo Cardinal
  Rose Marie "Tantoo" Cardinal, CM is a Canadian film and television actress.-Career:Cardinal was born in Anzac, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Her mother, Julia Cardinal, was a Métis of Cree descent...
  
  , Loyalties
• Helen Shaver
  Helen Shaver
  Helen Shaver is a Canadian actress and film and television director.-Early life:Shaver was born and raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, a small city located near London, Ontario, with five sisters...
  
  , Lost!
  Lost!
  "Lost!" is a song by the English alternative rock band Coldplay. The band co-produced it with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends...
  
  
• Marie Tifo
  Marie Tifo
  Marie 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  

• Sheila McCarthy
  Sheila McCarthy
  Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer. She is one of the most honoured actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards , two Gemini Awards , and two Dora Awards among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series Little...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Frédérique Collin, Marie s'en va-t-en ville
• Jacinta Cormier, 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...
  
  
• Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch is a Genie Award-winning actress whose career spans four decades. In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Meatballs...
  
  , Taking Care
• Gabrielle Rose
  Gabrielle Rose (actress)
  Gabrielle Rose is an accomplished Canadian actress. She has an extensive resume that includes multiple nominations for Genie Awards and Gemini Awards...
  
  , 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...
  
  

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...

• 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...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Kerrie Keane
  Kerrie Keane
  Kerri Keane is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for the 1989 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Obsessed...
  
  , Hitting Home
  Obsessed (1987 film)
  Hitting Home is a 1987 Canadian drama film. The story is based on a book by Tom Alderman.- Plot :A Canadian mother and businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex , is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private...
  
  
• Josette Simon
  Josette Simon
  Josette Patricia Simon OBE is a British actor of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.-Career:...
  
  , Milk and Honey
• Monique Spaziani, 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...
  
  

• Rebecca Jenkins
  Rebecca Jenkins
  -Acting:She had starring roles in the 1990s CBC series Black Harbour, and the films Bye Bye Blues, Marion Bridge, Wilby Wonderful, Whole New Thing, South of Wawa and Supervolcano. She also had a supporting role in the 1992 film Bob Roberts, as Dolores Perrigrew...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Colleen Dewhurst
  Colleen Dewhurst
  Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Megan Follows
  Megan Follows
  Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian/American actress. She is most known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.-Biography:Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Margaret Langrick
  Margaret Langrick
  Margaret Langrick is a Canadian actress. She won a 1986 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for My American Cousin and was also nominated in the same category in 1990 for Cold Comfort. She was also nominated for a Gemini Award in 1987 for Best Guest Performance in a...
  
  , Cold Comfort
• Gabrielle Rose
  Gabrielle Rose (actress)
  Gabrielle Rose is an accomplished Canadian actress. She has an extensive resume that includes multiple nominations for Genie Awards and Gemini Awards...
  
  , 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 :...
  
  
• Catherine Wilkening, Jésus de Montréal

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...

• Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit is a French Canadian actress, born in 1961. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's H and in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's Savage Messiah, 2 Gémeaux Awards, a Jutra Award and a Mons International Festival of Love Films award. She is also a well-known stage...
  
  , H
  H (1990 film)
  -Plot summary:H is about two heroin addicts, Michele, Pascale Montpetit and Snake, Martin Neufeld, who struggle to withdraw from the drug. They do it “cold turkey”. Snake nails the apartment door shut: they are determined to come clean. Michele awakens to discover she has been “betrayed” by her...
  
  
• Alice Diabo, 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...
  
  
• Cissy Meddings, 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...
  
  
• Kate Nelligan
  Kate Nelligan
  Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan is a Canadian BAFTA award winning stage, film and television actress.-Early life:Nelligan, the fourth of six children, was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of Josephine Alice , a schoolteacher, and Patrick Joseph Nelligan, a factory repairman and municipal...
  
  , White Room
  White Room (film)
  White Room is a Canadian drama film, released in 1990.The film, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, stars Maurice Godin, Kate Nelligan and Sheila McCarthy. Godin plays Norm, a confused young man who is drawn into events after witnessing the murder of rock star Madeleine X...
  
  
• Nina Petronzio
  Nina Petronzio
  Nina Petronzio is an American interior designer, furniture designer, and ASID Industry member best known for her high-end, Transitional style interior designs and Plush Home furniture line.Nina is married to martial artist Steven Ho....
  
  , Vincent et moi

• Janet Wright
  Janet Wright
  Janet Wright is a Canadian actress and theatre director. She is best known for her role as Emma Leroy on the hit Canadian sitcom Corner Gas. She won a 2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for her role in Betrayed...
  
  , Bordertown Café
  Bordertown Café
  Bordertown Café is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 1992. The screenplay was written by Kelly Rebar based on her award-winning 1990 play of the same name, and the film was directed by Norma Bailey. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan...
  
  
• Viveca Lindfors
  Viveca Lindfors
  Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress.-Life and career:...
  
  , North of Pittsburgh
• Enrica Maria Modugno, La Sarrasine
• Janet-Laine Green
  Janet-Laine Green
  Janet-Laine Green) is a Canadian actress, director, producer and teacher, active for over 25 years. Best known for her roles in She's the Mayor, Seeing Things and This is Wonderland, this Toronto-based film and television personality has also been a voice actor for animated series such as Jacob...
  
  , The Shower
• Valerie Pearson, Solitaire
  Solitaire (film)
  Solitaire is an independent coming of age drama film in pre-production from director Victor Franko and Rand Alan Sabatini of Rand Alan Studios with a planned cast of 10. This was late pornstar/actress Marilyn Chambers' final film.-Featured cast :-External links:**...
  
  

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...

• Sheila McCarthy
  Sheila McCarthy
  Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer. She is one of the most honoured actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards , two Gemini Awards , and two Dora Awards among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series Little...
  
  , The Lotus Eaters
• Élise Guilbault
  Élise Guilbault
  Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film La Femme qui boit, and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente...
  
  , Cap Tourmente
• Andrée Lachapelle
  Andrée Lachapelle
  Andrée Lachapelle, OC, CQ is a French Canadian actress.She had roles in the films Léolo and Don't Let the Angels Fall....
  
  , Cap Tourmente
• Pauline Lapointe, 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:...
  
  
• Aloka McLean, The Lotus Eaters

• Sandra Oh
  Sandra Oh
  Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Nancy Beatty, Henry & Verlin
• Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Valérie Kaprisky
  Valérie Kaprisky
  Valérie Kaprisky is a French actress.She was born Valerie Chérès in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Kaprisky is her mother's maiden name....
  
  , Mouvements du désir
• Marie Tifo
  Marie Tifo
  Marie 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 Pots cassés

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....

• Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières is a Canadian actress.- Life and work :She is a cinema studies alumna from Concordia University, living in Montreal.- Movies :- TV Series :*1989: Chambres en ville*1991: Marilyn...
  
  , Eldorado
• Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit is a French Canadian actress, born in 1961. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's H and in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's Savage Messiah, 2 Gémeaux Awards, a Jutra Award and a Mons International Festival of Love Films award. She is also a well-known stage...
  
  , Eldorado
• Isabel Richer, Eldorado
• Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières is a Canadian actress.- Life and work :She is a cinema studies alumna from Concordia University, living in Montreal.- Movies :- TV Series :*1989: Chambres en ville*1991: Marilyn...
  
  , When Night is Falling
  When Night is Falling
  When Night is Falling is a 1995 Canadian drama film directed by Patricia Rozema.-Plot:The film stars Pascale Bussières as Camille Baker, a university literature professor at a religious college struggling with both her tenure-track career and her troubled relationship with fellow professor Martin...
  
  

• Martha Henry
  Martha Henry
  Martha Henry, is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival.-Background:...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Helene Clarkson
  Helene Clarkson
  Helene Clarkson is a Canadian actress. She has worked in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. She has most notably starred in the 1995 Canadian movie, Blood and Donuts, earning a Genie Award nomination in 1995 for Best Actress. She has also acted in several TV movies, as well as...
  
  , Blood and Donuts
  Blood and Donuts
  Blood and Donuts is a Canadian comedy/horror motion picture directed by Holly Dale, and starring Gordon Currie and Helene Clarkson, with David Cronenberg playing a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep, and starts to...
  
  
• Marie Brassard
  Marie Brassard
  Marie Brassard is a Quebec actress, author and theatre director living in Montreal. For many years her professional endeavors were closely linked with Robert Lepage...
  
  , Le Polygraphe
• Louise Portal
  Louise Portal
  Louise Portal is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol.Her other film roles have included Séraphin: un homme et son...
  
  , Sous-sol
• Brenda Fricker
  Brenda Fricker
  Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She had appeared in more than 30 films and television roles...
  
  , Swann

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...

• Molly Parker
  Molly Parker
  Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...
  
  , 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"...
  
  
• Isabelle Cyr, Karmina
  Karmina
  Karmina is an American pop/rock music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Rudisill and Kamille Rudisill . Karmina means “song” in Latin...
  
  
• Alberta Watson
  Alberta Watson
  Faith Susan Alberta Watson , known professionally as Alberta Watson, is a Canadian movie and television series actress.-Early life:...
  
  , Shoemaker
• Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  , The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children...
  
  
• Gabrielle Rose
  Gabrielle Rose (actress)
  Gabrielle Rose is an accomplished Canadian actress. She has an extensive resume that includes multiple nominations for Genie Awards and Gemini Awards...
  
  , The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children...
  
  

• Sandra Oh
  Sandra Oh
  Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the...
  
  , Last Night
• Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
  
  , C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux
• Pierrette Robitaille, C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux
• Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit
  Pascale Montpetit is a French Canadian actress, born in 1961. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's H and in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's Savage Messiah, 2 Gémeaux Awards, a Jutra Award and a Mons International Festival of Love Films award. She is also a well-known stage...
  
  , Le Coeur au poing
• Anne-Marie Cadieux
  Anne-Marie Cadieux
  Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Le Coeur au Poing and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Toi .- External links :...
  
  , Nô
  Nô (film)
  Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...
  
  

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...

• Sylvie Moreau
  Sylvie Moreau
  Sylvie Moreau, , is a Canadian actress.Sylvie Moreau was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 30, 1964. Both of her parents were teachers and they had 5 children. Sylvie Moreau has two brothers and two sisters, and she herself is a twin to her sister Nathalie. Her siblings all went into the acting...
  
  , Post Mortem
• Elaine Cassidy
  Elaine Cassidy
  Elaine Cassidy is an award-winning Irish actress and is best known for playing the lead character Abby Mills in the American CBS TV series Harper's Island, Felicia in Felicia's Journey opposite Bob Hoskins, Runt in Disco Pigs opposite Cillian Murphy, and Lydia in The Others.-Early life:Elaine...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Jennifer Ehle
  Jennifer Ehle
  Jennifer Ehle is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.-Early life:...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Rosemary Harris
  Rosemary Harris
  Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Throughout her career she has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and has won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Tony Award, an Obie, and five Drama Desk Awards.-Early life:Harris was born in...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Mary-Louise Parker
  Mary-Louise Parker
  Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress, known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006...
  
  , 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...
  
  

• Marie-Josée Croze
  Marie-Josée Croze
  -Career:Croze was born in Montreal, QC. She won the award for Best Actress at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in The Barbarian Invasions. She was cast by prominent Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for his film Munich which was released in December 2005...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire...
  
  , Here's to Life!
• Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
  
  , Laura Cadieux...La Suite
• Pierrette Robitaille, Laura Cadieux...La Suite
• Tilda Swinton
  Tilda Swinton
  Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...
  
  , Possible Worlds
  Possible Worlds
  Possible Worlds may refer to:* Possible worlds, a concept in philosophy* Possible Worlds , by John Mighton** Possible Worlds , by Robert Lepage, based on the Mighton play* Possible Worlds , by Peter Porter...
  
  

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...

• Élise Guilbault
  Élise Guilbault
  Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film La Femme qui boit, and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente...
  
  , La Femme qui boit
• Katja Riemann
  Katja Riemann
  Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann is a German actress.- Life and work :Born as the daughter of two teachers, Katja Riemann spent her childhood in Weyhe, near Bremen. After high school she went to Hamburg to study music and theater...
  
  , Desire
• Jillian Fargey, Protection
  Protection (film)
  Protection is a 2001 thriller film directed by John Flynn. In this movie, a former mobster, now in the Witness Protection Program, finds himself unable to change his ways. Filming took place in Canada.-Cast:* Stephen Baldwin as Sal...
  
  
• Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  , The Law of Enclosures
  The Law of Enclosures (film)
  The Law of Enclosures is a Canadian drama film, released in 1999. The film was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck....
  
  
• Anna Friel
  Anna Friel
  Anna Louise Friel is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK as Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside.-Early life:...
  
  , The War Bride

• Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Deborah Kara Unger
  Deborah Kara Unger
  Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Crash , The Game , The Hurricane , White Noise , Silent Hill and 88 Minutes...
  
  , Between Strangers
  Between Strangers
  -Cast:*Sophia Loren as Olivia*Mira Sorvino as Natalia Bauer*Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine*Pete Postlethwaite as John*Julian Richings as Nigel*Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alexander Bauer*Malcolm McDowell as Alan Baxter*Len Doncheff as Grocery Store Owner...
  
  
• Molly Parker
  Molly Parker
  Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...
  
  , Men With Brooms
  Men with Brooms
  Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the...
  
  
• Polly Walker
  Polly Walker
  Polly Walker is an English actress.- Early life :Walker was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Her first school was Silverdale Preparatory West Acton, London. At 16, Walker graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but had to abandon dancing after a leg...
  
  , Savage Messiah
• Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais is a Canadian film and television actress and singer.-History:Isabelle Blais was born in 1975 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She is a graduate of the Montreal campus of the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec...
  
  , Savage Messiah

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...

• Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  , My Life Without Me
  My Life Without Me
  My Life Without Me is a 2003 Spanish/Canadian film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the book Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of the dying process of a 23-year-old woman who has a husband...
  
  
• Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...
  
  , Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause
• Molly Parker
  Molly Parker
  Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...
  
  , Marion Bridge
• Rebecca Jenkins
  Rebecca Jenkins
  -Acting:She had starring roles in the 1990s CBC series Black Harbour, and the films Bye Bye Blues, Marion Bridge, Wilby Wonderful, Whole New Thing, South of Wawa and Supervolcano. She also had a supporting role in the 1992 film Bob Roberts, as Dolores Perrigrew...
  
  , Marion Bridge
• Karine Vanasse
  Karine Vanasse
  Karine Vanasse is a French Canadian actress. She currently appears in the role of Colette in the ABC TV series Pan Am. Vanasse is the daughter of council worker Conrad Vanasse and Renée Gamache, who was her manager at the beginning of her career.-Life and career:Vanasse was born in Drummondville,...
  
  , Séraphin: un homme et son péché
  Séraphin: un homme et son péché
  Séraphin: un homme et son péché is a Quebec film released in 2002. The script is based on a novel by Claude-Henri Grignon...
  
  

• Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières
  Pascale Bussières is a Canadian actress.- Life and work :She is a cinema studies alumna from Concordia University, living in Montreal.- Movies :- TV Series :*1989: Chambres en ville*1991: Marilyn...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais is a Canadian film and television actress and singer.-History:Isabelle Blais was born in 1975 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She is a graduate of the Montreal campus of the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec...
  
  , Les Aimants
• Emily Hampshire
  Emily Hampshire
  Emily Hampshire is a Canadian film and television actress.She is most widely known to international audiences for her role as Angelina to Sean Astin's Michael in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl, and Vivienne in the 2006 film Snow Cake, in which she starred opposite Sigourney Weaver and...
  
  , Blood
• Jacinthe Laguë, Elles étaient cinq
  Elles étaient cinq
  Elles étaient cinq is a Québécois film, directed and written by Ghyslaine Côté...
  
  
• Céline Bonnier
  Céline Bonnier
  Céline Bonnier is a French Canadian actress from Quebec. She has been nominated for four awards including Genie Awards and Gemini Awards.-Biography:Céline Bonnier was the youngest of eight children, six boys and two girls...
  
  , Monica la mitraille

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:...

• Seema Biswas
  Seema Biswas
  Seema Biswas is an Indian film and theatre actress from Assam who shot into prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen . She has a reputation for performing strong character roles.Biswas won the 1996 National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film...
  
  , Water
• Gina Chiarelli, See Grace Fly
  See Grace Fly
  See Grace Fly is an independent film directed and written by Pete McCormack and starring Gina Chiarelli and Paul McGillion. Its dramatic and often heartwrenching plot revolve around siblings, Grace and Dominic McKinley as they struggle to cope with their mother's death and Grace's mental...
  
  
• Macha Grenon, 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...
  
  
• Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian
  Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...
  
  , Sabah
  Sabah (film)
  Sabah is a 2005 film directed by Ruba Nadda.The film stars Arsinée Khanjian as Sabah, a traditional Muslim woman living in Canada. She falls in love with a non-Muslim Canadian man ....
  
  
• Sylvie Moreau
  Sylvie Moreau
  Sylvie Moreau, , is a Canadian actress.Sylvie Moreau was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 30, 1964. Both of her parents were teachers and they had 5 children. Sylvie Moreau has two brothers and two sisters, and she herself is a twin to her sister Nathalie. Her siblings all went into the acting...
  
  , 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...
  
  

• Julie LeBreton
  Julie LeBreton
  Julie Le Breton is a French Canadian actress born in Quebec. She predominantly appears in French spoken television series and films.-Biography:...
  
  , Maurice Richard
• Jodelle Ferland
  Jodelle Ferland
  Jodelle Micah Ferland is a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Sharon and Alessa in the 2006 horror film Silent Hill, Mary Jensen in the 2004 miniseries Kingdom Hospital and her portrayal of Bree Tanner in the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.-Life and career:Ferland was born in Nanaimo,...
  
  , Tideland
  Tideland (film)
  Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004...
  
  
• Fatou N'Diaye, Un dimanche à Kigali (A Sunday in Kigali)
• Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno
  Ginette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
  
  , Le secret de ma mère
• Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver is an American actress. She is best known for her critically acclaimed role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition .Other notable roles include Dana...
  
  , Snow Cake
  Snow Cake
  Snow Cake is a 2006 independent drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, and Callum Keith Rennie...
  
  

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...

• Julie Christie
  Julie Christie
  Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school....
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Anne-Marie Cadieux
  Anne-Marie Cadieux
  Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Le Coeur au Poing and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Toi .- External links :...
  
  , Toi
• Ellen Page
  Ellen Page
  Ellen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...
  
  , The Tracey Fragments
  The Tracey Fragments (film)
  The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....
  
  
• Molly Parker
  Molly Parker
  Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...
  
  , Who Loves the Sun
  Who Loves the Sun
  Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian comedy/drama/romance film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette.- Plot :Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his...
  
  
• Béatrice Picard
  Béatrice Picard
  Béatrice Picard is a Canadian actress. She is best known as the Quebec French voice of Marge Simpson in The Simpsons. She is a nominee in the 2008 Genie Awards for Best Lead Actress in Ma tante Aline in which she plays the titular character.- External links :...
  
  , Ma tante Aline
  Ma tante Aline
  Ma tante Aline is a 2007 Canadian comedy film.- Plot :* Geneviève Saint-Louis is a successful career woman who does nothing but work. One day, her aunt Aline shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep penniless and just one step away from a retirement home...
  
  

• Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
  
  , The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel (film)
  The Stone Angel is a 2007 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kari Skogland. The screenplay is based on the 1964 novel of the same title by Margaret Laurence.-Plot:...
  
  
• Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Blais
  Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais is a Canadian film and television actress and singer.-History:Isabelle Blais was born in 1975 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She is a graduate of the Montreal campus of the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec...
  
  , Borderline
• Marianne Fortier
  Marianne Fortier
  Marianne Fortier grew up in Quebec City, Canada.Her breakthrough came with a leading role in the film Aurore, for which she fought off 11,000 other candidates...
  
  , Maman est chez le coiffeur
  Maman est chez le coiffeur
  -Synopsis:It's summer 1966. Time to enjoy summer vacation, total freedom, running wild in the fields, and crazy giggles with friends. But as she becomes more aware of the dreams, sorrows and lies of the people closest to her, Élise sees her mother's sudden abandonment thoroughly disrupt her family...
  
  
• Susan Sarandon
  Susan Sarandon
  Susan 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...
  
  , Emotional Arithmetic
• Preity Zinta
  Preity Zinta
  Preity Zinta is an Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi films of Bollywood, as well as Telugu, Punjabi and English language films. After graduating with a degree in criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se in 1998 followed by a role in Soldier the same year...
  
  , Heaven on Earth
  Heaven on Earth (film)
  Heaven on Earth a.k.a Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj...
  
  

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...

• Karine Vanasse
  Karine Vanasse
  Karine Vanasse is a French Canadian actress. She currently appears in the role of Colette in the ABC TV series Pan Am. Vanasse is the daughter of council worker Conrad Vanasse and Renée Gamache, who was her manager at the beginning of her career.-Life and career:Vanasse was born in Drummondville,...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Madeline Ivalu
  Madeline Ivalu
  Madeline Ivalu is a Canadian Inuk filmmaker and actor. One of the cofounders of Arnait Video Productions, a women's video and filmmaking collective in Nunavut, she co-directed, co-wrote and starred in Arnait's first feature film production, Before Tomorrow....
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Karen LeBlanc, 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...
  
  
• Carinne Leduc, 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...
  
  
• Gabrielle Rose
  Gabrielle Rose (actress)
  Gabrielle Rose is an accomplished Canadian actress. She has an extensive resume that includes multiple nominations for Genie Awards and Gemini Awards...
  
  , Mothers & Daughters

• Lubna Azabal
  Lubna Azabal
  Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress, born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. After studing at the Conservatoire royal of Brussels, she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker Vincent Lannoo chose her to act beside Olivier...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Tatiana Maslany
  Tatiana Maslany
  -Acting career:Maslany is one of the stars of the Canadian TV series 2030 CE and is best known in her role as the character Ghost in Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed...
  
  , Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media...
  
  
• Molly Parker
  Molly Parker
  Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...
  
  , Trigger
  Trigger (film)
  Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement....
  
  
• Rosamund Pike
  Rosamund Pike
  Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is a British actress. Her film roles include villainous Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Helen in An Education, Lisa in Made in Dagenham, Miriam Grant-Panofsky in Barney's Version and Kate Sumner in Johnny English...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Tracy Wright
  Tracy Wright
  Tracy Wright was a Canadian actress who was known for her stage and film performances, as well as her presence in Canada's avant-garde for over 20 years...
  
  , Trigger
  Trigger (film)
  Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement....