Genie Awards 2005 Winners
March 14th, 2006 by Andre Soares
"I’m touched. This has been something — a crazy experience," remarked director Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Best Director Genie Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Vallée’s film, C.R.A.Z.Y., the story of a gay youth coming of age in the Quebec of the 1960s and 1970s, swept the Genie awards with a total of ten wins - including Best Film, Best Actor (Michel Côté, who beat his young co-star Marc-André Grondin), and Best Original Screenplay (Vallée and François Boulay) - out of 12 nominations.
C.R.A.Z.Y. has also become one of the most commercially successful Canadian films ever.
Deepa Mehta’s controversial Water - which caused a major political stir while it was being filmed in India - was a distant runner-up, with three awards, including a Best Actress trophy for Seema Biswas.
Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies, which caused a stir of a different kind - its sexual content was deemed too explicit for the faint of heart - won the best adapted screenplay award.
Vallée’s quote from the CBC.
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