Gordon Pinsent Articles

The two top nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's 2008 Genie Awards are heavy dramas: David Cronenberg's Russian mafia thriller Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode's Rwanda genocide tale Shake Hands With the Devil, each with 12 nominations. They were followed by Away from Her with seven nods; The Tracey Fragments with six; Continental, a Film Without Guns and Silk, both with five; [...]

Omar Sharif as Dr. Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (top); Julie Christie as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's and Gordon Pinsent as her husband in Sarah Polley's Away from Her (bottom).   Ella Taylor on Julie Christie in the LA Weekly: "Spend half an hour with Christie, and you'll experience her ambivalence about Hollywood and almost everything else. Plainly shy [...]

Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari in American Beauty Critics and Awards Season: Part I It's too bad that U.S. film critics have such short memories — see Jack Mathews' top comment in the previous page — as Once is the type of small, foreign film that needs year-end critics' awards so Academy members can a) become aware of its existence b) check it out. Here's wondering [...]

2006 Genie Awards 2006 Genie Award winners: March 13, 2006 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Marc-André Grondin (second from right) in Jean-Marc Vallée's C.R.A.Z.Y.   BEST MOTION PICTURE MEILLEUR FILM * C.R.A.Z.Y. – Pierre Even, Jean-Marc Vallée Familia – Luc Déry It's All Gone Pete Tong – Elizabeth Yake, Allan Niblo, James Richardson Saint Ralph – Michael Souther, Teza Lawrence, Andrea Mann, [...]