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...

• 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....
  
  , Murder by Decree
  Murder by Decree
  Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper...
  
  
• Patricia Collins, Summer's Children
• Frances Hyland
  Frances Hyland
  Frances Hyland, OC was a well-known Canadian theatre actress.Hyland studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, making her professional debut in London as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite John Gielgud. In 1954, she returned to Canada, becoming a regular at the Stratford Festival in...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Helen Burns
  Helen Burns
  Helen Burns is a British actress mostly known for playing comedic roles. Burns is best known for her performance in the 1994 production of The Last Yankee at the Duke of York's in Brighton, England, for which she won a Laurence Olivier Award, and for her role in the British television series And...
  
  , The Changeling
• Barbara Gordon
  Barbara Gordon
  Barbara Gordon is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and in related media, created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino...
  
  , Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank is a movie filmed in 1978 directed by Eric Till starring Linda Blair, Michael Wincott and Richard Crenna. The movie is based on the teen novel The Wild Horse Killers, written by Mel Ellis in 1978.- Plot :...
  
  

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...

• Kate Reid
  Kate Reid
  Kate Reid, OC was a Canadian stage, film and television actress.-Life and career:Daphne Kate Reid was born in London, England, the daughter of Canadian parents, Helen Isabel and Walter Clarke Reid, who was a former Bengal Lancer in the Indian army and a retired colonel...
  
  , Atlantic City
• 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...
  
  , L'Affaire Coffin
• Frances Hyland, 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:...
  
  
• Gale Garnett
  Gale Garnett
  Gale Zoë Garnett is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Garnett has since carved out a career as a writer and actress.-Biography:...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• 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'...
  
  , Tribute

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...

• Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault, OC, OQ is a Canadian actress and director.In 1982, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Juliette Huot, Les Plouffe
• Anne Létourneau, Les Plouffe
• Chapelle Jaffe, The Amateur
• Dixie Seatle, 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...
  
  

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:...

• 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...
  
  , The Grey Fox
• Clare Coulter, By Design
  By Design
  By Design is a Canadian film directed by Claude Jutra and was released in 1982. It stars Sara Botsford and Patty Duke Astin.-Synopsis:Angie , and Helen , are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a...
  
  
• Geneviève Brassard, Doux Aveux
• Patricia Nolin, La Quarantine
• Trudy Young, Melanie

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...

• 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...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Tedde Moore, 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...
  
  
• Linda Sorgini, Bonheur d'occasion
• Amulette Garneau, 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...
  
  
• Elva Mai Hoover, 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...
  
  

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...

• Linda Sorenson
  Linda Sorenson
  Linda Sorenson is a Canadian actress best known for playing Mrs. Stegman in Class of 1984, Warden Howe in Murphy Brown, Virginia Reeves in Material World and Isabelle Carrington in Road to Avonlea....
  
  , Draw!
  Draw!
  Draw! is a 1984 American/Canadian comedy-western film by Steven Hilliard Stern-Plot:In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.-Recognition:...
  
  
• Barbara Law
  Barbara Law
  Barbara Law is a British singer. She performed in many radio and TV shows on the BBC from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She now lives in Tenerife, the largest of the seven Canary Islands, near Spain....
  
  , Bedroom Eyes
• Leah Pinsent
  Leah Pinsent
  Leah Pinsent is a Canadian television and film actress.She was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Canadian actors Gordon Pinsent and Charmion King....
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Jane McKinnon, The Bay Boy
• Jackie Burroughs, The Surrogate
  The Surrogate (1995 film)
  The Surrogate is a 1995 television movie drama directed by Jan Egleson and Raymond Hartung and aired on ABC. The movie had a limited VHS release in the United Kingdom in April 1996. It has also been released on video in Asia.-Plot:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Leigh-Milne, Walls

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:...

• Linda Sorenson
  Linda Sorenson
  Linda Sorenson is a Canadian actress best known for playing Mrs. Stegman in Class of 1984, Warden Howe in Murphy Brown, Virginia Reeves in Material World and Isabelle Carrington in Road to Avonlea....
  
  , Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler, first published in 1980 by McClelland and Stewart. Richler adapted it into the feature film Joshua Then and Now, starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously...
  
  
• Fernanda Tavares, 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...
  
  
• Barbara Gordon
  Barbara Gordon
  Barbara Gordon is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and in related media, created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino...
  
  , Overnight
• Lally Cadeau
  Lally Cadeau
  Lally Cadeau is a Canadian actress. An accomplished stage and television actress, she has been a mainstay with the Stratford Festival since 1998. She is best known for her role as Janet King in the CBC Television series Road to Avonlea...
  
  , Separate Vacations

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...

• 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...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Lucie Laurier
  Lucie Laurier
  Lucie Laurier is a Québécoise actress. She has a sister named Charlotte Laurier. She has one son, Tim.- Filmography :* 1985 : Le Vieillard et l'enfant* 1986 : Henri : Liliane...
  
  , Anne Trister
  Anne Trister
  Anne Trister is a 1986 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Albane Guilhe as Anne* Louise Marleau as Alix* Lucie Laurier as Sarah* Guy Thauvette as Thomas...
  
  
• Andreé Pelletier, Bach et Botine
• Genevieve Rioux, Le Déclin de l'empire américain
• 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 Fous de Bassan

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...

• Paule Baillargeon
  Paule Baillargeon
  Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for Le Sèxe des étoiles.Her other film roles have included Un 32 août sur terre, Jésus de...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Fran Gebhard, Blue City Slammers
• Maruska Stankova, Dreams Beyond Memory
• Ann-Marie MacDonald
  Ann-Marie MacDonald
  Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....
  
  , I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
• Jayne Eastwood
  Jayne Eastwood
  Jayne Eastwood , also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress most famous for appearing in the 2002 film Chicago. She was one of the original cast members of the Toronto branch of The Second City, and was a semi-regular on SCTV...
  
  , Night Friend

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...

• 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'...
  
  , Obsessed
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Cowboys Don't Cry
• Miou Miou
  Miou Miou
  Miou Miou is an East Bohemia indie pop band formed in the spring of 2003. Miou Miou’s music is characterized by girlish vocals in French, catchy lyrics, playfulness, repetitive elements, dynamic contrasts and searching for new sounds...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Helen Hughes, Martha, Ruth, Edie
• Susan Douglas Rubes
  Susan Douglas Rubes
  Susan Douglas Rubes is an Austrian-born actress and producer.She was born Zuzka Zenta in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Alfred and Charlotte Burstein. When she was young, her parents moved to a ranch in central Bohemia, Czechoslovakia...
  
  , 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...
  
  

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...

• Robyn Stevan
  Robyn Stevan
  Robyn Stevan is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role in the film Bye Bye Blues, for which she won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress.- External links :...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Johanne Marie Tremblay, Jesus de Montreal
• Pauline Martin, Jesus de Montreal

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...

• Danielle Proulx
  Danielle Proulx
  Danielle Proulx is a French Canadian actress. She is multi-award winning actress and she was married to Raymond Cloutier. Her son, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, is also an actor. She also has a niece, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, who is an actress...
  
  , Amoureux Fou
• Sandrine Holt
  Sandrine Holt
  Sandrine Holt is a British-born Eurasian Canadian model turned actress.-Early life:Holt was born Sandrine Ho in London, England to a Chinese father and a French mother. At age five, she and her family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which has remained her hometown. Holt attended St...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Ofelia Medina
  Ofelia Medina
  Ofelia Medina is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She was married to film director Alex Philips Jr. and actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr..-Biography:...
  
  , Diplomatic Immunity
• Catherine Roche, 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...
  
  
• Winifred Holden, The Company of Strangers

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:...

• 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...
  
  , Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959. The book is structured as a series of loosely-connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order...
  
  
• Tracey Moore, Defy Gravity
• Johanne Marie Tremblay, La Sarasine
• Judy Davis
  Judy Davis
  Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....
  
  , On My Own
• Krista Bridges, The Shower

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...

• Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish is an English-born Canadian theatre and film actress. She has won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1991 film The Grocer's Wife and a Gemini Award nomination for 1998 film The Sleep Room.Cavendish was born in Cirencester, United Kingdom,...
  
  , The Grocer
• Charlene Fernetz
  Charlene Fernetz
  Charlene Fernetz is a Canadian actress.Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Brigitte Bako
  Brigitte Bako
  Brigitte Bako is a Canadian actress known for her role on Red Shoe Diaries. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy G-Spot.-Life and career:...
  
  , I Love a Man in Uniform
  I Love a Man in Uniform (film)
  I Love a Man in Uniform is a Canadian film, directed by David Wellington and released in 1993.-Plot:The film, a dark psychological drama, stars Tom McCamus as Henry Adler, a bank employee and struggling actor who finally gets his big break, being cast as a police officer in a television series...
  
  
• Sylvie Drapeau, Le Sexe des Etoiles
• 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...
  
  , Tectonic Plates
• Kate Hennig, 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....
  
  

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...

• 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:...
  
  , Mustard Bath
  Mustard bath
  A Mustard bath is a traditional English therapeutic remedy for tired, stressed muscles, colds, fevers and seizures. The mustard was thought to draw out toxins and warm the muscles, blood and body...
  
  
• Wanda Cannon, For the Moment
  For the moment
  "For the Moment" is a song by Japanese j-pop group Every Little Thing, released as their fourth single on June 4, 1997, and their first single to top the Oricon chart.-Chart positions:-External links:* information at Avex Network....
  
  
• Mia Kirshner
  Mia Kirshner
  Mia Kirshner is a Canadian actress and social activist who works in movies and television series. She is best known for her portrayal of Jenny Schecter on The L Word and for her role in the 2006 crime film The Black Dahlia as Elizabeth Short.- Early life :Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario,...
  
  , Love and Human Remains
  Love and Human Remains
  Love and Human Remains is a 1993 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand and based on Brad Fraser's stage play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Fraser also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation...
  
  
• Joanne Vannicola
  Joanne Vannicola
  Joanne Vannicola is a Canadian actress, born in Montreal, Quebec. She is most notable for her role as Dr. Mia Stone in PSI Factor and as the voice of Willy Zilla in Gene Simmons' animated television show My Dad the Rock Star....
  
  , Love and Human Remains
• Johanne McKay, 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....
  
  

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....

• 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...
  
  , 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 Monpetit, Eclipse
• Anne Marie Cadieux, Le Confessionnal
• Marie Gignac
  Marie Gignac
  Marie Gignac is a two-time Genie Award–nominated actress. Gignac has been nominated twice in the category of Best Supporting Actress each for Le Confessional and La Vie secrète des gens heureux....
  
  , Le Confessionnal
• Rachael Crawford
  Rachael Crawford
  Rachael Crawford is an actress known primarily for her role in Show Me Yours as Dr. Kate Langford...
  
  , 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...
  
  

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...

• Martha Burns
  Martha Burns
  Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role as Ellen Fanshaw in the TV dramedy series Slings and Arrows.Burns was born 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  , Long Days Journey into Night
• Marie-Andrée Corneille, Mistaken Person
• Manon Miclette, J'aime, J'aime pas
• Maria de Medeiros
  Maria de Medeiros
  Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida, DamSE , better known as Maria de Medeiros , is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.-Personal life:...
  
  , Le Polygraphe
• Josee Deschenes, Le Polygraphe

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...

• Seana McKenna
  Seana McKenna
  Seana McKenna is a Canadian actress primarily associated with stage roles at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.-Background:Seana Mckenna was raised in Etobicoke, west of Toronto, Ontario...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• France Castel, Karmina
  Karmina
  Karmina is an American pop/rock music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Rudisill and Kamille Rudisill . Karmina means “song” in Latin...
  
  
• France Castel, La Comtesse de Baton Rouge
• Kerry Fox
  Kerry Fox
  Kerry Fox is a New Zealand actress. She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards....
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Joan Orenstein
  Joan Orenstein
  Joan Orenstein was a British-born Canadian actress, primarily on stage, although she performed in other media...
  
  , The Hanging Garden

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...

• 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...
  
  , Conquest
  Conquest (1998 film)
  Conquest is a 1998 British-Canadian romantic comedy film set in the dying prairie town of Conquest, Saskatchewan, most of whose remaining residents are in their 70s and depressed...
  
  
• 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....
  
  , Last Night
• Roberta Maxwell
  Roberta Maxwell
  -Background:Roberta Maxwell began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario,to pursue...
  
  , Last Night
• Rachael Crawford, Pale Saints
  Pale Saints
  Pale Saints was formed in 1987 by Ian Masters , Graeme Naysmith , and Chris Cooper in Leeds, England. The group began as a jangly indie pop band, influenced by Primal Scream's early sound.-History:...
  
  
• Anna Henry, The Fishing Trip

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...

• Catherine O'Hara
  Catherine O'Hara
  Catherine Anne O'Hara is a Canadian-American actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, and also in the mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest...
  
  , The Life Before This
  The Life Before This
  The Life Before This is a 1999 Canadian film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti. It begins with a massacre perpetrated in a coffee shop by two gunmen, and then uses flashbacks to show how each of the people present found themselves in the shop on that day. It shows how small choices can result in...
  
  
• Suzanne Champagne, Histoires d'hiver
• Kathryn Zenna, Jack & Jill
• Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970)is an English-American film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Sunshine

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...

• 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...
  
  , We All Fall Down
• Annick Bergeron, La Beauté de Pandore
• 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...
  
  , Les Muses Orphelines
• Barbara Williams, Love Come Down
• Mary Walsh, 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...
  
  
• Stacy Smith
  Stacy Smith
  Stacy Smith is a news anchor at CBS owned and operated KDKA-TV, the market leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a contributor to , the Emmy-winning television news magazine program that airs on WQED-TV.-Education and career:...
  
  , New Waterford Girl

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...

• 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...
  
  , Last Wedding
  Last Wedding
  Last Wedding is a 2001 Canadian comedy drama film written and directed by Bruce Sweeney. It opened the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival in 2001...
  
  
• Marya Delver, Last Wedding
• Mimi Kuzyk, Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , The War Bride
• Molly Parker, The War Bride

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...

• 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...
  
  , Savage Messiah
• Dina Pathak
  Dina Pathak
  Dina Pathak or Deena Pathak was a veteran actor and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was also a woman activist and remained the President of the 'National Federation of Indian Women'...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Moushmi Chatterji
  Moushmi Chatterji
  Moushumi Chatterjee is a Bollywood actress, who has also acted in Bengali cinema. She worked with actors like Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra and Vinod Mehra.-Personal life and education:...
  
  , Bollywood/Hollywood
• Rachel McAdams
  Rachel McAdams
  Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre program at York University, Toronto in 2001, she worked steadily as an actress until finding fame in 2004 with starring roles in teen comedy Mean Girls and romantic drama The Notebook...
  
  , Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing....
  
  
• Brigitte Bako
  Brigitte Bako
  Brigitte Bako is a Canadian actress known for her role on Red Shoe Diaries. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy G-Spot.-Life and career:...
  
  , Saint Monica
  Saint Monica (film)
  Saint Monica is a 2002 Canadian film written and directed by Terrance Odette. It was nominated for Best Lead Performance by a Female actress in a Feature Length Drama at the 2002 Leo Awards and won Best Achievement in Music for an Original Song at the 2003 Genie Awards.-Plot:Saint Monica is the...
  
  

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...

• 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...
  
  , The Barbarian Invasions
• 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...
  
  , A Problem with Fear
  A Problem with Fear
  A Problem with Fear, or Laurie's Anxiety Confronting the Escalator is a 2003 absurdist comedy film by Canadian film-maker Gary Burns.-Plot:Laurie Harding is a small shop clerk in the local Calgary mall...
  
  
• Meredith McGeachie, Punch
• Olympia Dukakis
  Olympia Dukakis
  Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck...
  
  , The Event
  The Event (film)
  The Event is a 2003 drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald. It tells the story of Matt Shapiro who has died in Manhattan, resulting in an aborted 9-1-1 call...
  
  
• Annabella Piugattuk
  Annabella Piugattuk
  Annabella Piugattuk is a Canadian Inuit actress, notable for her role in The Snow Walker. Piugattuk was raised in Igloolik, a village with a population of 1,286 in the Nunavut territory of Canada...
  
  , 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....
  
  

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:...

• Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...
  
  , Childstar
  Childstar
  Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.-Plot:...
  
  
• Susanna Salazar, A Silent Love
  A Silent Love
  A Silent Love is a 2004 film written and directed by Federico Hidalgo and produced by Atopia.Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Love and Magnets
• Juliette Gosselin, Nouvelle-France
• 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...
  
  , Wilby Wonderful
  Wilby Wonderful
  Wilby Wonderful is a 2004 film by Daniel MacIvor. The film is a comedic drama about 24 hours in the life of the small town of Wilby, where the municipal festival is in preparation. It focuses on the changes occurring in the lives of several different inhabitants as development comes to the island...
  
  

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:...

• Danielle Proulx
  Danielle Proulx
  Danielle Proulx is a French Canadian actress. She is multi-award winning actress and she was married to Raymond Cloutier. Her son, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, is also an actor. She also has a niece, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, who is an actress...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Babz Chula
  Babz Chula
  Babz Chula was an American-born actress, permanent resident in Canada.-Life and career:Chula was born as Barbara Ellen Zuckerman in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was raised in Jamaica, New York...
  
  , Seven Times Lucky
• Suzanne Clément, L'Audition
• 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...
  
  , Aurore
  Aurore (film)
  Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. The movie is a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre. Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  

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....

• Carrie-Anne Moss
  Carrie-Anne Moss
  -External links:...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Caroline Dhavernas
  Caroline Dhavernas
  Caroline Dhavernas is a Canadian actress. Dhavernas is best known in the United States as "Jaye" from the short-lived television series Wonderfalls on Fox. She starred as Dr. Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama Off the Map.-Life and career:...
  
  , Niagara Motel
  Niagara Motel
  Niagara Motel is a 2006 Canadian drama film directed by Gary Yates. The film earned numerous nominations, including a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for Caroline Dhavernas.- Plot :...
  
  
• Marie Gignac
  Marie Gignac
  Marie Gignac is a two-time Genie Award–nominated actress. Gignac has been nominated twice in the category of Best Supporting Actress each for Le Confessional and La Vie secrète des gens heureux....
  
  , La Vie secrète des gens heureux
  La Vie secrète des gens heureux
  -Plot:Thomas Dufresne is the black sheep of his bourgeois family. One day, he meets a free-spirited waitress named Audrey who changes his life...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Snow Cake
• Vivian Wu
  Vivian Wu
  Vivian Wu , is a Chinese actress, known for her roles in The Last Emperor , Heaven & Earth , The Joy Luck Club , and The Pillow Book and as the historical figure of Soong May-ling, commonly referred to as Madam Chiang Kai-shek, in two major Chinese motion pictures The Soong Sisters and The...
  
  , Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Julia Kwan. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award for the best feature film by a first-time film director in Canada.-Plot:...
  
  

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...

• Kristen Thomson
  Kristen Thomson
  Kristen Thomson is a Canadian actress and playwright.Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her one-woman play I, Claudia, which was adapted to film in 2004...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Fanny Mallette
  Fanny Mallette
  -Biography:She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Continental, un film sans fusil. She has twice been nominated for a Jutra Award for Best Actress in Les muses orphelines and Une jeune fille à la fenêtre...
  
  , 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)
• Marie-Ginette Guay, 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)
• Laurence Leboeuf
  Laurence Leboeuf
  Laurence Leboeuf is a French Canadian actress. She is the daughter of Diane Lavallée and Marcel Leboeuf...
  
  , Ma fille mon ange
  Ma fille mon ange
  My Daughter, My Angel is a 2007 Canadian French language thriller film starring Michel Côté and Karine Vanasse.- Plot :...
  
   (My Daughter, My Angel)
• Véronique Le Flaguais
  Véronique Le Flaguais
  Véronique Le Flaguais is a French actress who has acted in many Canadian productions. Her work includes a recent Genie Award nomination for her supporting role in Surviving My Mother, Rumeurs, Jésus de Montréal, Cruising Bar and the upcoming sequel. She is married to actor Michel Côté.- External...
  
  , Surviving My Mother
  Surviving My Mother
  - Plot :Clara's mother is on her death bed as she tells her daughter that she regrets they are not closer. This revelation causes Clara to pursue a closer relationship with her own daughter, Bianca .- Recognition :...
  
  

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...

• Kristin Booth, Young People Fucking
  Young People Fucking
  Young People Fucking, also called Y.P.F., is a 2007 romantic comedy directed, written and produced by Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. It debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Éveline Gélinas
  Éveline Gélinas
  Éveline Gélinas is a French-speaking Canadian actress who grew up in Saint-Boniface, Quebec, near Shawinigan.She was born in 1974 and graduated from Séminaire Sainte-Marie in 1991...
  
  , Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
• Anie Pascale
  Anie Pascale
  Anie Pascale is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for a 2009 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Tout est Parfait. She has appeared in a few other television and film roles.- Reference :...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Fugitive Pieces
  Fugitive Pieces (film)
  Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist...
  
  

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...

• Martha Burns
  Martha Burns
  Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role as Ellen Fanshaw in the TV dramedy series Slings and Arrows.Burns was born 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  , Love & Savagery
• Liane Balaban
  Liane Balaban
  Liane Balaban is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in New Waterford Girl , playing Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, and has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe , Last Chance Harvey , and the independent drama One Week .-Early life:Balaban was born in North York, Ontario, the daughter of...
  
  , One Week
  One Week (2008 film)
  One Week is a 2008 Canadian film directed by Michael McGowan and starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, and Campbell Scott. The film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2008 and was released theatrically on March 6, 2009....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Les grandes chaleurs
• Isabel Richer, Babine
• Sonia Vachon, 5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way is a Canadian psychological-drama thriller film directed byÉric Tessier and starring René-Daniel Dubois and Marc-André Grondin. It based on a novel with the same name, written by author Patrick Senécal.-Plot:...
  
  

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...

• Minnie Driver
  Minnie Driver
  Minnie Driver is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, as well as for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her work in the television series The Riches.- Early life...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Sonja Bennett
  Sonja Bennett
  Sonja Bennett is a Canadian actress who portrayed Marcie Brasko in Battlestar Galactica.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bennett has acted in various genre series including Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Painkiller Jane, The Dead Zone, Cold Squad, as well as other Vancouver filmed television...
  
  , Cole
• Anne-Elizabeth Bossé, 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:...
  
  
• Terra Hazelton
  Terra Hazelton
  Terra Hazelton is a Canadian jazz musician, broadcaster and actress.Raised in Calgary, Hazelton began studying theatre with the Loose Moose Theatre Company as a teenager. She later moved to Toronto to pursue opportunities in theatre, discovering her skills as a musician when she was asked to write...
  
  , FUBAR 2
  FUBAR 2
  FUBAR 2 is a 2010 comedy film and the sequel to the 2002 cult film FUBAR. It was released on October 1, 2010 in Canada...
  
  
• Mary Walsh, Crackie