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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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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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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Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners: Vancity Theatre on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clive Owen in Children of Men
 

Best Film:
* Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Best Canadian Film:
Away from Her
Manufactured Landscapes
* Maurice Richard / The Rocket
Monkey Warfare
Best Foreign-Language Film:
L’Enfant / The Child
Letters from Iwo Jima
* Volver
Best British Columbian Film:
Everything’s Gone Green
* Fido
Mount Pleasant
Unnatural & Accidental
Best Director:
* Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Andrew Currie, Fido
* Reg Harkema, Monkey Warfare
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best [...]

by Andre Soares | January 9, 2007   
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