Genie Awards 2009: PASSCHENDAELE Wins Best Picture
In a bizarre twist, the Canadian Academy of Film & Television chose Passchendaele, Paul Gross‘ flag-waving World War I melodrama about Canadian valor, as the best Canadian film of 2008. I say bizarre because even though Passchendaele was in the running for a best film Genie Award, neither its screenplay nor (writer-)director Gross had even been nominated (though Gross, who didn’t attend the ceremony as he was filming in Los Angeles, managed to get a best actor nod).
Passchendaele won five other awards: best art direction, costume design, sound, sound editing, and a special prize for the most (financially) successful Canadian film of the year.
Passchendaele has been hailed by some as a Canadian blockbuster to rival Hollywood productions, but [...]
by Andre Soares | April 5, 2009
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Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2005
2005 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners: January 20, 2005
Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen in Sideways
Best Film: Sideways directed by Alexander Payne
Runners-up: (tie) Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood, and The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, Before Sunset
Best Canadian Film: Childstar directed by Don McKellar
Runners-up: ScaredSacred directed by Velcrow Ripper; (tie) Festival Express directed by Bob Smeaton and A Silent Love directed by Federico Hidalgo
Best Foreign-Language Film: A Very Long Engagement (France) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Runners-up: The Motorcycle Diaries (Germany / UK / Argentina / Peru / France / U.S.) directed by Walter Salles, Maria Full of Grace (Colombia / U.S.) directed by Joshua Marston
Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by [...]
by Andre Soares | January 20, 2005
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Tags: A Very Long Engagement, Dave Foley, Don McKellar, Fahrenheit 9/11, Film Awards, Imelda Staunton, Joely Collins, Million Dollar Baby, Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen
