Michel Cote 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 [...]

"I'm touched. This has been something — a crazy experience," remarked director Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the best director Genie Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Vallée's film, C.R.A.Z.Y., the story of a gay youth coming of age in the Quebec of the 1960s and 1970s, swept the Genies with a total of ten wins out of 12 nominations. In addition to [...]

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, [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain Best Film: * Brokeback Mountain Capote Good Night and Good Luck. Best Canadian Film: * C.R.A.Z.Y. It's All Gone Pete Tong Water Best Foreign Language Film: Kung Fu Hustle * Paradise Now Downfall Best British Columbian Film: Eve and the Fire Horse * It's All Gone Pete Tong A Simple Curve Best Director: George Clooney, Good Night and [...]