It’s been so very busy the last few days that I almost missed some of the big news in Canadian film: the announcement of the Genies but thanks to Movie Moxie, it didn’t slip through the cracks.
I’m particularly happy to see all the love for Richie Mehta’s Amal and Carl Bessai’s Normal. If that’s not enough, there’s also the wiked documentary category which features Maddin’s My Winnipeg and Yung Chang’s excellent Up the Yangtze. Checking down the list of the nominees, it’s been another banner year for Canadian film! The awards will be handed out on April 4th in Ottawa.
List of Nominees:
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
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION / MEILLEURE RÉALISATION
Richie Mehta – Amal
Lyne Charlebois – Borderline
Benoit Pilon – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Carl Bessai – Normal
Yves-Christian Fournier – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
Paul Gross – Passchendaele
Rupinder Nagra – Amal
Christopher Plummer – Emotional Arithmetic
Aaron Poole – This Beautiful City
Natar Ungalaaq – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
Normand d’Amour – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Benoit mcGinnis – Le Banquet
Callum Keith Rennie – Normal
Rade Sherbedgia – Fugitive Pieces
Max Von Sydow – Emotional Arithmetic
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
Isabelle Blais – Borderline
Ellen Burnstyn – The Stone Angel
Marianne Fortier – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Susan Sarandon – Emotional Arithmetic
Preity Zinta – Heaven on Earth
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
Céline Bonnier – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Kristin Booth – Young People Fucking
Eveline Gélinas – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Anie Pascale – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Rosamund Pike – Fugitive Pieces
The rest of the nominees are tucked under the seat!
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN / MEILLEURE DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
Patrice Bengle – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Carol Spier, Janice Blackie-Goldine – Passchendaele
Matthew Davies, Erica Milo – Fugitive Pieces
Rob Gray – The Stone Angel
Danielle Labrie – Le piège américain / The American Trap
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY / MEILLEURES IMAGES
Nicolas Bolduc – Le Banquet
Bobby Bukowski – The Stone Angel
Pierre Gill – Le piège américain / The American Trap
Gregory Middleton Csc – Fugitive Pieces
Sara Mishara – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN / MEILLEURS COSTUMES
Francesca Chamberland – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Marie-Genevieve Cyr – Who is KK Downey?
Michèle Hamel – Le piège américain / The American Trap
Michèle Hamel – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Wendy Partridge – Passchendaele
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE
Dominique Fortin, Carina Baccanale – Le Banquet
Frédérique Broos – C’est pas moi, je le jure! / It’s Not Me, I Swear!
Richard Comeau – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Dominique Fortin – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Yvann Thibaudeau – Borderline
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SCORE / MEILLEURE MUSIQUE ORIGINALE
Normand Corbeil – Emotional Arithmetic
Laurent Eyquem – Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s
Nikos Kypourgos – Fugitive Pieces
Robert M. Lepage – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
John McCarthy – The Stone Angel
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SONG / MEILLEURE CHANSON ORIGINALE
Batlam, Biz, Chaffik – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine – M’Accrocher?
Dr. Shiva – Amal – Rahi Nagufta
Bry Webb – This Beautiful City – Big Smoke
ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND / MEILLEUR SON D’ENSEMBLE
Mario Auclair, Luc Boudrias, François Senneville – Le Banquet
Claude La Haye, Daniel Bisson, Luch Boudrias, Patrick Lalonde – Le piège américain / The American Trap
Sanjay Mehta, Stephan Carrier, Kirk Lynds – Amal
Lou Solakofski, Garrell Clark, Steve Foster – Passchendaele
David Ottier, Daniel Prado Villar – This Beautiful City
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING MEILLEUR MONTAGE SONORE
Jane Tattersall, Kevin Banks, Barry Gilmore, Andy Malcolm, Dave Rose – Passchendaele
Claude Beaugrand, Jèrome Dècaire, Natalie Fleurant, Jean-François Sauvé – Le piège américain / The American Trap
Nelson Ferreira – This Beautiful City
Robert Labrosse, Lucie Fortier, Guy Francoeur, France Lévesque, Lori Paquet- La Ligne brisée / The Broken Line
François Senneville, Antoine Morin – Le Banquet
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY / MEILLEURE ADAPTATION
Richie Mehta, Shaun Mehta – Amal
Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Lyne Charlebois – Borderline
Jeremy Podeswa – Fugitive Pieces
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DRAMATIQUE
The Answer Key – Samir Rehem, Robin Crumley
La Battue – Guy Édoin, Pascal Bascaron, Sylvain Corbeil
Can You Wave Bye-Bye? – Sarah Galea-Davis, Paul Barbeau
Mon Nom est Victor Gazon – Patrick Gazé, Antonello Cozzolino, Marie-Josée Laroque, Annie Normandin
Next Floor – Denis Villeneuve, Phoebe Greenberg
BEST ANIMATED SHORT / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE D’ANIMATION
Drux Flux – Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow – Rodrigo Gudiño, Vincent Marcone, Marco Pecota
Sleeping Betty – Claude Cloutier, Marcel Jean
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
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY / MEILLEUR SCÉNARIO
Bernard Émond – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Deepa Mehta – Heaven on Earth
Travis McDonald – Normal
Randall Cole – Real Time
Guillmaume Vigneault – Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
TBA:
Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Make-up
Golden Reel Award
Claude Jutra Award
Yay for the Genies! It is a very different line up from last year, many more I’ve not even heard of.
When I saw all the nominations for Normal I totally thought of you Marina. I’m with ya on the Amal love, it is a fantastic film and it’s great to see it get so many nominations!
I’m kicking myself for missing some Canada’s Top Ten screenings last week for films like Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life.
Not too exciting when I’ve only heard of two of these nominations.
Up the Yangtze was on a lot of critics lists and could easily upset Guy Maddin’s pic.
I’m actually surprized that both Up The Yangtze and My Winnipeg are only nominated in the doc cat, both are phenomenal films in many respects.
Last year we have quite the abundance of English Language films but this one is more French dominate. Just more films to add to the too see list!
@Andrew – “Not too exciting when I’ve only heard of two of these nominations”
Now you know why AMPAS is scared shitless about this years Oscar TV ratings. Other than Slumdog & Button there is no public aware film to get average movie goers to turn up. Note that the broacast got its highest numbers during years when Lord of the Rings Part 3 and Titanic were in the running for best picture.
I’m aware of all of these films, but I haven’t seen a lot of them, many of them embody the worst ‘problems’ with Canadian cinema, but that is a subject I’m not going to delve into here.
I’m actually surprised that Normal got so much love – I was under the impression that it was an 07 release. Ah well, it (hopefully) means more love for Bessai next year with “Mothers&Daughters”.
Canada’s Top 10 kicks off here on Feb. 27th with Pontypool (OMG. OMG. OMG. Colleen and I are beside ourselves) – the rest of the week is crammed full of Canadian films. Looking forward to it!
We just had our Canadas Top 10 Screening of Pontypool. Even on the third time, that movie is smashing! Here is hoping the multiplex gives it some love.
Heard your gleeful love gush on the podcast. Really looking forward to it. The movie not the love gush.
Nice to see the Rue Morgue guys got a nod for BEST ANIMATED SHORT (The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow – Rodrigo Gudiño, Vincent Marcone, Marco Pecota), it’s a slick and interesting little short even if the ending is a bit too ‘boo!’