16th Genie Awards

16th Genie Awards

The 16th Genie Awards were held on January 14, 1996, to honour films released in 1995. The ceremony took place in Montreal, at Société Radio-Canada's Studio 42....

• Thomas Burstyn, Magic in the Water
  Magic in the Water
  Magic in the Water is a 1995 family film directed by Rick Stevenson and starring Mark Harmon, Sarah Wayne and Joshua Jackson. It is about a fictional lake monster in British Columbia...
  
  
• Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His work includes Silk, The Red Violin and The Confessional...
  
  , Le Confessional
  Le Confessional
  The Confessional is a 1994 mystery / drama film directed by Robert Lepage.The film is set in Quebec City, in two distinct time periods. In the present day, Pierre Lamontagne searches for his brother Marc to help unravel a family mystery...
  
  
• Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill is a Canadian cinematographer. He has won multiple awards for his work, including 2 Genie Awards, 1 Gémeaux Award and 1 Jutra Award. He has worked on such films as The Covenant, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, XChange and Eldorado.He has also directed the...
  
  , List Noire
• Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin is an Indian-born Canadian/American film director, producer and screenwriter. His work as a cinematographer includes Partition, Margaret's Museum, Whale Music, Nowhere to Hide, Norman's Awesome Experience, and Riel. He also directed such projects as Partition, Left Behind, and Wind at My...
  
  , Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum....
  
  
• Barry Stone, Rude
  Rude (film)
  Rude is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maurice Dean Wint - General* Rachael Crawford - Maxine* Clark Johnson - Reece...
  
  

• Peter Suschitzky
  Peter Suschitzky
  Peter Suschitzky BSC, A.S.C. cinematographer born in Warsaw and raised in London, the son of the cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky BSC. Among his most known work as director of photography are Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the later films of David Cronenberg...
  
  , Crash
  Crash (1996 film)
  Crash is a 1996 Canadian/British drama thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film generated considerable...
  
  
• Éric Cayla, Le Cri de la Nuit
• Guy Dufaux
  Guy Dufaux
  Guy Dufaux is a French-born Canadian cinematographer. The majority of his works has been in Canadian cinema to where he immigrated in 1965 and became a Canadian citizen in 1971...
  
  , Le Polygraphe
• Daniel Jobin, Lilies
  Lilies (film)
  Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...
  
  
• Sylvain Brault, Rowing Through

18th Genie Awards

18th Genie Awards

-Best Picture:*The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Cosmos, Roger Frappier, producer*The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald and Louise Garfield, producers*Karmina, Nicole Robert, producer...

• Paul Sarossy
  Paul Sarossy
  Paul Sarossy is a Canadian Cinematographer and director who has won 15 awards & who has been nominated 5 times for various awards.He has worked for Atom Egoyan on numerous films such as Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, The Line, Felicia's Journey, Krapp's Last Tape,...
  
  , The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children...
  
  
• André Turpin, Cosmos
  Cosmos (film)
  Cosmos is a 2010 Turkish-Bulgarian drama film, written and directed by Reha Erdem, starring Sermet Yeşil as a thief and a miracle-worker who is welcomed into a tiny, snowbound border village after resuscitating a half-drowned boy who...
  
  
• Gregory Middleton, Kissed
  Kissed
  Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look On Love"...
  
  
• Serge Ladouceur, Night of the Flood
• Éric Cayla, The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....
  
  

19th Genie Awards

19th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*The Red Violin, Niv Fichman, producer*Last Night, Daniel Iron and Niv Fichman, producers*Regeneration, Allan Scott and Peter Simpson, producers*Rupert's Land, Bill Thumm and Scott Kennedy, producers...

• Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His work includes Silk, The Red Violin and The Confessional...
  
  , The Red Violin
  The Red Violin
  The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...
  
  
• Douglas Koch, Last Night
• Glen MacPherson
  Glen MacPherson
  Glen MacPherson, CSC/ASC is a Canadian cinematographer based in Montreal, Quebec, where he was born. MacPherson's cinematography career dates to the mid-1980s. MacPherson is fluent in English and French....
  
  , Regeneration
  Regeneration (1997 film)
  Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...
  
  
• Jan Kiesser
  Jan Kiesser
  Jan Kiesser won a Leo Award for the 2006 film Fido and many other nominations including Primetime Emmy Award.-References:...
  
  , Such a Long Journey
• Gregory Middleton, The Falling
  The Falling
  The Falling is a 1987 movie starring Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt, and Lynn-Holly Johnson. It is currently available for instant streaming on Netflix...
  
  

• Paul Sarossy, Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...
  
  
• Pierre Mignot, Alegria
• Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill is a Canadian cinematographer. He has won multiple awards for his work, including 2 Genie Awards, 1 Gémeaux Award and 1 Jutra Award. He has worked on such films as The Covenant, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, XChange and Eldorado.He has also directed the...
  
  , Souvenirs intimes
• Alwyn Kumst, The Divine Ryans
  The Divine Ryans
  The Divine Ryans is a 1999 film directed by Stephen Reynolds, written by Wayne Johnston, starring Robert Joy and Pete Postlethwaite. The film is based around the Ryan family who run a funeral parlour in St John's, Newfoundland. The movie was filmed in St...
  
  
• Gregory Middleton, The Five Senses

22nd Genie Awards

22nd Genie Awards

The 22nd Genie Awards were held in 2002 to honour films released in 2001. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Atanarjuat, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong and Paul Apak Angilirq, producers...

• Pierre Gill, Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...
  
  
• David Greene, Century Hotel
  Century Hotel
  Century Hotel is a 2001 Canadian drama/mystery/romance film. It is directed and co-written by David Weaver and Bridget Newson.The film explains seven different stories, that happen in the same hotel room in different eras, from the 1920s to the 1990s...
  
  
• Sebastian Edschmid, Deeply
  Deeply
  Deeply is a 2000 movie directed by Sheri Elwood, starring Julia Brendler, Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst.-Synopsis:Claire McKay —having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally...
  
  
• Thom Best, Ginger Snaps
  Ginger Snaps
  Ginger Snaps is a 2000 Canadian werewolf film directed by John Fawcett. The film focuses on two teenage sisters, Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald , who have a fascination with death. The title is a pun on the cookie Gingersnap. "Snap" also relates to losing one's self-control, or a quick, aggressive...
  
  
• André Turpin, Un crabe dans la tête

• Paul Sarossy, Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing....
  
  
• Gregory Middleton, Between Strangers
  Between Strangers
  -Cast:*Sophia Loren as Olivia*Mira Sorvino as Natalia Bauer*Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine*Pete Postlethwaite as John*Julian Richings as Nigel*Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alexander Bauer*Malcolm McDowell as Alan Baxter*Len Doncheff as Grocery Store Owner...
  
  
• Larry Lynn, Histoire de pen
  Histoire de Pen
  Histoire de Pen is a Québécois film directed by Michel Jetté and released in 2002, about a young man's time in a penitentiary. It is based on Léo Lévesque's collection of prison stories Contes en coup de poing...
  
  
• Jan Kiesser, Rare Birds
  Rare Birds
  Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy/drama film. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel. This movie features spectacular scenery from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada. It also features music by the The Pogues and characteristic Canadian Maritime...
  
  
• Serge Ladouceur, Savage Messiah

24th Genie Awards

24th Genie Awards

The 24th Genie Awards were held in 2004, to honour films released in 2003. The ceremony was hosted by Scott Thompson.-Best Motion Picture:*Les invasions barbares, Denise Robert, Daniel Louis and Fabienne Vonier, producers...

• Allen Smith, Seducing Doctor Lewis
  Seducing Doctor Lewis
  La grande séduction is a 2003 Québécois comedy film and the first film directed by Jean-François Pouliot. The script was written by Ken Scott. It won the "Audience Award" at 2004 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Stefan Ivanov, A Problem with Fear
  A Problem with Fear
  A Problem with Fear, or Laurie's Anxiety Confronting the Escalator is a 2003 absurdist comedy film by Canadian film-maker Gary Burns.-Plot:Laurie Harding is a small shop clerk in the local Calgary mall...
  
  
• Gregory Middleton, Falling Angels
• Jean-Pierre St. Louis, Gaz Bar Blues
• François Dutil, Saved by the Belles
  Saved by the Belles
  Saved by the Belles also known by its French title Échappée belles is a 2003 feature film by Ziad Touma, his first long feature movie. Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director and producer residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
  
  

• Paul Sarossy, Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds is a 2004 drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• André Turpin, Childstar
  Childstar
  Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.-Plot:...
  
  
• Bernard Couture, The Last Tunnel
• Pierre Mignot, Ma vie en cinémascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope is a Quebec, Canada movie released in 2004. This biographical drama depicted the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi, as portrayed by Pascale Bussières...
  
  
• Louis de Ernsted, Nouvelle-France
  Nouvelle-France (film)
  Nouvelle-France is a 2004 historical romance directed by Jean Beaudin, written by Pierre Billon and starring Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Juliette Gosselin, Sébastien Huberdeau, Gérard Depardieu, Bianca Gervais, Irène Jacob, Pierre Lebeau, Vincent Perez, Isabel Richer, Tim Roth, Jason...
  
  

26th Genie Awards

26th Genie Awards

The 26th Genie Awards were held on March 13, 2006 to honour films released in 2005. The ceremony was held at the Carlu theatre in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Lisa Ray and Terry David Mulligan.-Best Picture:...

• Giles Nuttgens
  Giles Nuttgens
  Giles Nuttgens BSC, is a British cinematographer. He is best known to fans of independent art house fare for his work on Deepa Mehta's "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire , Earth and Water , and to general audiences for his work as cinematographer on the big-budget science fiction...
  
  , Water
• Pierre Mignot, C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• André Turpin, Familia
  Familia (film)
  Familia is a 2005 multi-award–winning French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Louise Archambault.- Plot :The story revolves around two main characters: Michèle , a free-spirited aerobics instructor with a penchant for gambling, and Janine , a suburban housewife and home...
  
  
• Balazs Bolygo, It's All Gone Pete Tong
  It's All Gone Pete Tong
  -CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...
  
  
• Bernard Couture, Le Survenant

• Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill is a Canadian cinematographer. He has won multiple awards for his work, including 2 Genie Awards, 1 Gémeaux Award and 1 Jutra Award. He has worked on such films as The Covenant, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, XChange and Eldorado.He has also directed the...
  
  , The Rocket
• Jan Kiesser, Beowulf and Grendel
• Bruce Chun
  Bruce Chun
  Bruce Chun is a Canadian cinematographer.Chun is born to a Chinese-Mexican family. He won Bruce Chun (born February 6, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Canadian cinematographer.Chun is born to a Chinese-Mexican family. He won Bruce Chun (born February 6, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Canadian...
  
  , Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about an Ontarian and a Québécois police officer who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...
  
  
• Steve Cosens, Snow Cake
  Snow Cake
  Snow Cake is a 2006 independent drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, and Callum Keith Rennie...
  
  
• Nicola Pecorini
  Nicola Pecorini
  Nicola Pecorini is an Italian-born cinematographer.Pecorini was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He founded, with Garrett Brown, inventor of the steadicam, the Steadicam Operators Association, Inc. , in 1988. Pecorini moved to the States in 1993...
  
  , Tideland
  Tideland (film)
  Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004...
  
  

28th Genie Awards

28th Genie Awards

The 28th Genie Awards were held on March 3, 2008 to honour films released in 2007. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

• Peter Suschitzky
  Peter Suschitzky
  Peter Suschitzky BSC, A.S.C. cinematographer born in Warsaw and raised in London, the son of the cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky BSC. Among his most known work as director of photography are Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the later films of David Cronenberg...
  
  , Eastern Promises
• Bruce Chun
  Bruce Chun
  Bruce Chun is a Canadian cinematographer.Chun is born to a Chinese-Mexican family. He won Bruce Chun (born February 6, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Canadian cinematographer.Chun is born to a Chinese-Mexican family. He won Bruce Chun (born February 6, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Canadian...
  
  , Nitro
  Nitro (film)
  Nitro is a Canadian action film, released in 2007. Directed by Alain Desrochers, the film stars Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge as Max, a former drag racer who is forced to return to his criminal past when his girlfriend requires a heart transplant...
  
  
• Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin is an Indian-born Canadian/American film director, producer and screenwriter. His work as a cinematographer includes Partition, Margaret's Museum, Whale Music, Nowhere to Hide, Norman's Awesome Experience, and Riel. He also directed such projects as Partition, Left Behind, and Wind at My...
  
  , Partition
• Miroslaw Baszak
  Miroslaw Baszak
  Mirosław Baszak is a Polish-born Canadian cinematographer. His work includes Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Land of the Dead and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day....
  
  , Shake Hands With the Devil
• Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie
  Alain Dostie is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His work includes Silk, The Red Violin and The Confessional...
  
  , Silk

• Gregory Middleton, Fugitive Pieces
  Fugitive Pieces (film)
  Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist...
  
  
• Nicolas Bolduc, Le Banquet
• Bobby Bukowski, The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel (film)
  The Stone Angel is a 2007 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kari Skogland. The screenplay is based on the 1964 novel of the same title by Margaret Laurence.-Plot:...
  
  
• Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill is a Canadian cinematographer. He has won multiple awards for his work, including 2 Genie Awards, 1 Gémeaux Award and 1 Jutra Award. He has worked on such films as The Covenant, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, XChange and Eldorado.He has also directed the...
  
  , Le Piège américain
• Sara Mishara, Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait is a French Canadian film directed by Yves-Christian Fournier. It tells the story of a young man trying to cope with the simultaneous suicide of his four friends....
  
  

30th Genie Awards

30th Genie Awards

The 30th Genie Awards were on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009. Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.-Controversy:Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy...

• Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill
  Pierre Gill is a Canadian cinematographer. He has won multiple awards for his work, including 2 Genie Awards, 1 Gémeaux Award and 1 Jutra Award. He has worked on such films as The Covenant, The Rocket, Polytechnique, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, XChange and Eldorado.He has also directed the...
  
  , Polytechnique
  Polytechnique (film)
  Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film from Quebec written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre , the film documents the events of December 6, 1989 through the eyes of two students who witness...
  
  
• Steve Cosens, Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 2008.The film stars Karen LeBlanc as Jude, a widowed single mother undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. While working as a night-shift nurse to support her son Ciel Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally...
  
  
• Jonathan Freeman, Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name...
  
  
• Ronald Plante, Grande ourse: La clé des possibles
• Allen Smith, Les doigts croches

• André Turpin, Incendies
  Incendies
  Incendies is a 2010 Quebec film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, Scorched, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...
  
  
• Bernard Couture, 10½
• Ronald Plante, Piché: entre ciel et terre
• Claudine Sauvé, The Wild Hunt
• Stéphanie Weber-Biron, Les Amours imaginaires
  Heartbeats (film)
  Heartbeats is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It follows the story of two friends who both fall in love with the same man. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...