Jutra Awards 2009
2009 Prix Jutra
2009 Jutra Award nominations: Feb. 17, 2009
2009 Jutra Award winners: March 29, 2009
(“*” denotes the winner in each category)
Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life, the 2009 winner of the Prix Jutra for best film, tells the story of an Inuit hunter (best actor winner Natar Ungalaaq) suffering from tuberculosis who is sent to a sanatorium in the Quebec City of the early 1950s. The hunter’s condition is worsened by the clash of cultures, but a bicultural boy helps him to bridge the gap between the two different worldviews. Directed by Benoît Pilon from a screenplay by Bernard Émond (with Pilon’s assistance), The Necessities of Life was Canada’s submission for [...]
by Deborah Arthur | March 29, 2009
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Tags: Babine, Benoit Pilon, Bernard Emond, Cruising Bar 2, Emotional Arithmetic, Film Awards, Isabelle Blais, Jutra 2008, Jutra Awards, Luc Picard, Michel Cote, Natar Ungalaaq, Prix Jutra, Susan Sarandon, Suzanne Clement, The Necessities of Life, Vincent-Guillaume Otis
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
Jutra Awards 2007
2007 Jutra Awards
2007 Jutra Award Winners: Théâtre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts in Montreal on February 18, 2007
2007 Prix Jutra Nominations
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Olivier Gourmet, Jean-Pierre Cassel in Congorama
BEST FILM / MEILLEUR FILM
Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Kevin Tierney (Park Ex Pictures)
* Congorama, Luc Déry — Kim McCraw (micro_scope, Tarantula)
Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali, Lyse Lafontaine — Michael Mosca (Productions Equinoxe)
La Vie secrète des gens heureux / The Secret Life of Happy People, Roger Frappier — Luc Vandal (MaxFilms)
BEST DIRECTION /MEILLEURE RÉALISATION
Érik Canuel, Bon Cop, Bad Cop
* Philippe Falardeau, Congorama
Robert Favreau, Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali
Claude Gagnon, Kamataki
BEST ACTOR / MEILLEUR ACTEUR
* Paul Ahmarani and Olivier Gourmet, Congorama
Marc [...]
by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007
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Tags: A Sunday in Kigali, Céline Bonnier, Congorama, Fanny Mallette, Film Awards, Gabriel Arcand, Jutra Awards, Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Philippe Falardeau
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