Jutra Awards 2007 Winners
Olivier Gourmet in Congorama
Quebec’s 2007 Jutra Awards, presented on Sunday, Feb. 18, offered a whole array of surprises.
Even though the bilingual box-office smash Bon Cop, Bad Cop and the drama Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali received the most nominations — 12 apiece — both were completely shut out of the film, acting, directing, and writing categories.
Instead, the comedy-drama Congorama came out on top as best film of 2006, in addition to wins for best director (Philippe Falardeau, right), best screenplay (also Falardeau), best actor (double winners Paul Ahmarani and Olivier Gourmet), and best supporting actor (Gabriel Arcand). Overall, Congorama won five of its six nominations. (André Turpin lost in the best cinematography category [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2007
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Tags: A Sunday in Kigali, Bon Cop Bad Cop, C.R.A.Z.Y., Céline Bonnier, Congorama, Film Awards, Jutra Awards, Olivier Gourmet, Philippe Falardeau
Genie Awards 2007 Winners
Roy Dupuis in Maurice Richard
Last night, the Canadian Academy’s Genie Awards ceremony proved itself no more and no less prone to inane outcomes than those of other film academies the world over. Nine Genies went to the Québécois hockey biopic Maurice Richard / The Rocket, including awards for best director (Charles Binamé), best actor (Roy Dupuis), best actress (Julie Le Breton), and best editing (Michel Arcand). Canadian Academy-ites, however, opted for the bilingual comedy-thriller Bon Cop, Bad Cop as best Canadian film of 2006.
Whether Bon Cop, Bad Cop is bon or bad, I don’t know as I haven’t seen the film. But one would expect that the "best Canadian film of 2006" would have received top honors in another [...]
by Andre Soares | February 14, 2007
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Tags: Aurélien Wiik, Bérénice Bejo, Bon Cop Bad Cop, Charles Binamé, Congorama, Film Awards, Genie Awards, Maurice Richard, Roy Dupuis, The Rocket, Without Her
Genie Awards 2007
2007 Genie Awards
2007 Genie Award nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Genie Award winners: The Carlu atop Toronto’s College Park on February 13, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Patrick Huard, Colm Feore in Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Best Film
* Bon Cop, Bad Cop – Kevin Tierney
Guide de la Petite Vengeance / The Little Book of Revenge – Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Maurice Richard / The Rocket – Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie – Barrie Dunn, Mike Clattenburg, Michael Volpe
Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali – Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca
Best Documentary
La planète blanche / The White Planet – Jean Lemire, Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert
* Manufactured Landscapes – Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier, Gerry Flahive, Daniel Iron, Peter [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Bon Cop Bad Cop, Carrie-Anne Moss, Charles Binamé, Film Awards, Genie Awards, Genie Awards 2007, Hugh Dilon, Manufactured Landscapes, Maurice Richard, Philippe Falardeau, Roy Dupuis, The Rocket
2007 Jutra Awards Nominations
With 12 nods each, the top nominees for Quebec’s Oscars, the Prix Jutra, are Érik Canuel’s Bon Cop, Bad Cop (right), an odd couple comedy that became the top-grossing homegrown film ever in Canada (with about Can$13 million, most of it generated in Quebec itself), and Robert Favreau’s Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali (above), the story of a man (Luc Picard) in search of his lover (Fatou N’Diaye) in post-genocide Rwanda. Both films are also well represented at this year’s Genie Awards, the equivalent to the Oscars for all of Canada.
Bon Cop, Bad Cop and A Sunday in Kigali were nominated for the Prix Jutra in the best film category, along with Philippe Falardeau’s Congorama, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 26, 2007
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Tags: A Sunday in Kigali, Bon Cop Bad Cop, Colm Feore, Congorama, Danielle Proulx, Érik Canuel, Fatou N'Diaye, Film Awards, Jutra 2007, Jutra Awards, Luc Picard, Patrick Huard
Genie Awards 2007 Nominations
The nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s 2007 Genie Awards — the Canadian Oscars — were announced on Jan. 9.
Four of the five best film nominees are Quebec productions. (English-language Canadian films tend to get crushed by the weight of big-budget productions from south of the border.) Of these, Maurice Richard / The Rocket (above), a biopic of the popular Quebecois hockey player, garnered the most nods — thirteen in all.
In addition to its inclusion in the best film shortlist, The Rocket is also in the running in several top categories, including best direction (Charles Binamé), best actor (Roy Dupuis), best actress (Julie Le Breton), and best original screenplay (Ken Scott).
All those nominations, however, feel [...]
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007
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Tags: A Sunday in Kigali, Bon Cop Bad Cop, Charles Binamé, Colm Feore, Film Awards, Genie Awards, Luc Picard, Maurice Richard, Patrick Huard, Roy Dupuis, The Rocket
