Luc Picard Articles

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]