The Rocket Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has picked its 2006 winners, which were announced yesterday. Among them are Children of Men (above, with Clive Owen) as best film — the second time a North American critics' group has chosen Alfonso Cuarón's dystopic drama as the top picture of 2006 (the Central Ohio film critics also went for it) — Cuarón as best director, and veteran Alan [...]

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 [...]