Genie Awards 2009
2009 Genie Awards
2009 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s Genie Award nominations: Feb. 10, 2009
2009 Genie Award winners: Ottawa, April 4, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
BEST MOTION PICTURE / MEILLEUR FILM
Amal – David Miller, Steven Bray
Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life – Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier
Normal – Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai
* Passchendaele – Niv Fichman, Francis Damberger, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine – Nicole Robert
BEST DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE
INFINIMENT QUÉBEC – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Yves Fortin, Christian Medawar
MY WINNIPEG – Guy Maddin, Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro
* UP THE YANGTZE – Yung Chang, Mila Aung-Thwin, John Christou, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong
BEST DIRECTION [...]
by Deborah Arthur | April 4, 2009
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Tags: Amal, Benoit Pilon, Bernard Emond, Carl Bessai, Christopher Plummer, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Is Fine, Film Awards, Genie 2009, Genie Awards, Isabelle Blais, Lyne Charlebois, Marianne Fortier, Max von Sydow, My Winnipeg, Natar Ungalaaq, Normal, Passchendaele, Paul Gross, Preity Zinta, Susan Sarandon, The Necessities of Life, Up the Yangtze
Ann Savage
Ann Savage, the actress who played an evil, unredeemable femme fatale who makes life hell for Tom Neal in the 1945 B-noir Detour (see clip), died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes. She was 87.
Savage had a minor career in films of the 1940s, with Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour as her sole claim to fame — unless one also counts her latter-day comeback in Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, playing the director’s mother, which was released last year.
Among Savage’s other features are the B musical Ever Since Venus (1944); Sam Newfield’s film noir Apology for Murder (1945), in which she plays another schemer; the crime thriller The [...]
by Andre Soares | December 29, 2008
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Tags: Ann Savage, Classic Movies, Corinne Griffith, Detour, Don 'Red' Barry, Edgar G. Ulmer, My Winnipeg, The Last Crooked Mile, Tom Neal, Trailers, Vera Reynolds
Toronto Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 16, 2008
2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Award best Canadian film winner: January 6, 2009
Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy
BEST PICTURE: Wendy and Lucy
Runners-up: Rachel Getting Married; WALL-E
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD: My Winnipeg, directed by Guy Maddin
Runners-up: Continental: A Film Without Guns, directed by Stéphane Lafleur and Up the Yangtze, directed by Yung Chang
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In
Runners-up: A Christmas Tale; The Class; I’ve Loved You So Long
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Man on Wire
Runners-up: Standard Operating Procedure; Up the Yangtze
BEST FIRST FEATURE: Ballast, directed by Lance Hammer
Runners-up: The Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin; Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL-E (Disney/Pixar)
Runners-up: Kung-Fu [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 16, 2008
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Tags: Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Demme, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Mickey Rourke, My Winnipeg, Rosemarie DeWitt, Toronto Film Critics Awards, WALL-E, Wendy and Lucy
San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 15, 2008
Best Picture: Milk
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: My Winnipeg
Best Director: Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn, Milk, and Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Marlon Riggs Award "for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community": Rob Nilsson, filmmaker, in recognition of his 9@NIGHT series of films
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Site
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2008
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Tags: Film Awards, Gus Van Sant, Heath Ledger, Let the Right One In, Marisa Tomei, Mickey Rourke, Milk, My Winnipeg, Sally Hawkins, San Francisco Film Critics Awards, Sean Penn
