1st Genie Awards

1st Genie Awards

The 1st Genie Awards were the first ever Genie Awards. They were presented on March 20, 1980 and honoured films released in 1979. They were given out at a gala event at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto with Bruno Gerussi as host. A luncheon the day before the gala saw the non-feature film...

• Carl Zittrer, Paul Zaza
  Paul Zaza
  Paul Zaza is a Genie Award-winning film score and songwriter. In 1980 he won the Genie Award for Best Music Score alongside Carl Zittrer for their work on Murder by Decree. He was nominated for the same award in 1985 for Isaac Littlefeathers. In 1987 he received a Genie nomination for Best Original...
  
  ,Murder By Decree
  Murder by Decree
  Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper...
  
  
• Alain Leroux, It Rained All Night the Day I Left
• Hagood Hardy
  Hagood Hardy
  Hugh Hagood Hardy, CM was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming", originally created as music to a 1972 TV commercial for Salada tea, and for his soundtrack to the Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea films.Born in Angola,...
  
  , Jack London's Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...
  
  
• Howard Shore
  Howard Shore
  Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg,...
  
  , The Brood
  The Brood
  The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle.The film depicts a series of murders committed by what seems at first to be a group of children...
  
  
• Paul Hoffert
  Paul Hoffert
  Paul Matthew Hoffert, CM is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He later studied music composition with Samuel Dolin and music theory with Gordon Delamont...
  
  , Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank is a movie filmed in 1978 directed by Eric Till starring Linda Blair, Michael Wincott and Richard Crenna. The movie is based on the teen novel The Wild Horse Killers, written by Mel Ellis in 1978.- Plot :...
  
  

• Art Philips, The Lucky Star
  The Lucky Star
  The Lucky Star is an English comic opera, in three acts, composed by Ivan Caryll, with dialogue by Charles H. Brookfield and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Aubrey Hopwood...
  
  
• Matthew McCauley
  Matthew McCauley (producer)
  Matthew McCauley is an Emmy award winning composer and record producer, based in Los Angeles.Matthew McCauley is active in several sciences and is the cofounder of Ancient Egypt Research Associates which is based at the Harvard Semitic Museum.Established in 1985, AERA carries out excavations and...
  
  , Middle Age Crazy
• John Mills-Cockell
  John Mills-Cockell
  John Mills-Cockell is a Canadian composer in various media. He has created scores for Vancouver Playhouse, The National Arts Centre, Firehall Centre for the Arts, Citadel Theatre, Glasgow Museum of Art, and Phoenix Theatre. Past commissions include works for the National Ballet, Toronto Dance...
  
  , Terror Train
  Terror Train
  Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian horror film, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, and David Copperfield.- Plot :...
  
  
• Kenneth Wannberg, Tribute
  Tribute (film)
  Tribute is a play by Bernard Slade.The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility. When he discovers he is terminally ill with leukemia, he attempts to reconnect with his long-estranged son....
  
  

4th Genie Awards

4th Genie Awards

The 4th annual Genie Awards were held March 23, 1983 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. There ceremony was hosted by comedian Dave Thomas.-Award winners:Best PictureWinner: The Grey Fox, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• Michael Conway-Baker, The Grey Fox
• Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe, Threshold
• Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith is an American actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s...
  
  , Visiting Hours
  Visiting Hours
  Visiting Hours is a 1982 horror film starring Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner and Lenore Zann...
  
  

5th Genie Awards

5th Genie Awards

The 5th Genie Awards were presented on March 21, 1984, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The awards ceremony was hosted by Louis Del Grande.Best Motion PictureWinner: The Terry Fox Story, Robert M...

• Lewis Furey
  Lewis Furey
  Lewis Furey, born Lewis Greenblatt is a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director.-Career:Born in Montreal, Quebec to French and American parents, Furey trained as a classical violinist, and at age 11 performed as a soloist in the Matinées pour la jeunesse concert series...
  
  , Maria Chapdelaine
  Maria Chapdelaine
  Maria Chapdelaine is a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.-Adaptations:The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud , and Jean Gabin , partly filmed in Péribonka; in...
  
  
• Andre Vincelli, A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
• Joel Bienvenue, Au clair de la lune
• Karl Kobylansky, Dead Wrong
• Michael Conway Baker, Deserters

• François Dompierre, Mario
  Mario (film)
  - Plot :Mario is a 10 year old autistic boy who is mute and hard of hearing. He has an 18 year old brother whom he admires greatly. One day, Simon becomes involved with a woman and, as a result, their relationship becomes strained...
  
  
• Paul Zaza
  Paul Zaza
  Paul Zaza is a Genie Award-winning film score and songwriter. In 1980 he won the Genie Award for Best Music Score alongside Carl Zittrer for their work on Murder by Decree. He was nominated for the same award in 1985 for Isaac Littlefeathers. In 1987 he received a Genie nomination for Best Original...
  
  , Isaac Littlefeathers
• Germain Gauthier, La Guerre des tuques
• Betty Lazebnik, Reno and the Doc
• François Lanctôt, Sonatine
• J. Douglas Dodd, Michael Oczko, Walls

7th Genie Awards

7th Genie Awards

The 7th Genie Awards were held March 20, 1986 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It was co-hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Catherine Mary Stewart.-Award winners:Best Motion PictureWinner: My American Cousin, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• François Dompierre, The Alley Cat
• Philippe Sarde
  Philippe Sarde
  -Biography:Philippe Sarde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.He is the brother of Alain Sarde. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.-Selected filmography:...
  
  , Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler, first published in 1980 by McClelland and Stewart. Richler adapted it into the feature film Joshua Then and Now, starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously...
  
  
• Lewis Furey, Night Magic
• Lewis Furey, The Peanut Butter Solution
  The Peanut Butter Solution
  The Peanut Butter Solution is a 1985 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 2nd in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.-Plot:Michael Baskin is an average 11-year old boy...
  
  

• Michael Conway-Baker, John and the Missus
  John and the Missus
  John and the Missus is a 1986 Canadian drama film. The film was directed by and starred Gordon Pinsent who wrote the screenplay from his 1974 novel of the same name.- Plot :...
  
  
• Marie Bernard, Richard Gregoire, Exit
• Marvin Dolgay, The Blue Man
  The Blue Man (film)
  The Blue Man is a 1985 Canadian film directed by George Mihalka.The film is also known as Eternal Evil .-Cast:*Winston Rekert as Paul Sharpe*Karen Black as Janus*John Novak as Kauffman*Patty Talbot as Jennifer Sharpe...
  
  

9th Genie Awards

9th Genie Awards

The 9th annual Genie Awards were held March 22, 1988 and honoured Canadian films released in 1987. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by Megan Follows and Gordon Pinsent...

• Jean Corriveau, Un Zoo La Nuit
  Night Zoo
  Night Zoo is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The drama made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Tim McCauley, Blue City Slammers
• Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
  , Family Viewing
  Family Viewing
  - Plot :Van's father, Stan , is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen . Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline , whose...
  
  

• Howard Shore
  Howard Shore
  Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg,...
  
  , Dead Ringers
  Dead Ringers (film)
  Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Director David Cronenberg co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider; their script was based on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland...
  
  
• Osvaldo Montes, A Corps Perdu
  À corps perdu
  À corps perdu is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film.- Plot :Pierre is a photojournalist from Montreal who's working on a reportage in Nicaragua. There he sees many people being executed and he takes photographs of them...
  
  
• Richard Gregoire, La Ligne de Chaleur
• François Dompierre, Les Portes Tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes is a Canadian-French French-language drama film.-Cast:* Monique Spaziani - Céleste* Gabriel Arcand - Madrigal Blaudelle* Miou-Miou - Lauda* François Méthé - Antoine...
  
  
• Maribeth Solomon, Mickey Erbe, Milk and Honey
• Aaron Davis, Billy Bryans
  Billy Bryans
  Billy Bryans is a Canadian percussionist, songwriter, music producer and DJ, known as one of the founders of The Parachute Club, among other accomplishments in music. He has produced such artists as Dutch Mason and The Downchild Blues Band...
  
  , Office Party

11th Genie Awards

11th Genie Awards

The 11th annual Genie Awards were presented March 20, 1990 and honoured Canadian films released the previous year. For the first time ever the awards were broadcast by CTV, rather than CBC. Despite an extensive advertising campaign the ratings plummeted with only half as many people watching...

• Yves Laferrière, Jesus de Montreal
• Milan Kymlicka
  Milan Kymlicka
  Milan Kymlicka was a Canadian arranger, composer and conductor of Czechoslovakian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974. He was best known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television series Rupert and Babar...
  
  , Babar: The Movie
  Babar: The Movie
  Babar: The Movie is a 1989 drawn-animated film made by Canada's Nelvana Limited and France's Ellipse Programme, and distributed by New Line Cinema. It is based on the characters of Jean de Brunhoff's eponymous children's books, and was a follow-up to the first season of the HBO TV series...
  
  
• Jeff Danna
  Jeff Danna
  Jeffrey W. “Jeff” Danna is a composer and musician noted for his work in film scores.A reluctant piano student at age eight, he found solace in the guitar at age eleven. Danna began playing professionally at fifteen until a hand injury in 1987 curtailed his performance career...
  
  , Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
  , Cold Comfort
• Lawrence Schragge, Palais Royale
  Palais Royale
  Palais Royale is a dance hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on Lake Shore Boulevard at the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue on Lake Ontario. Originally built as a boat works, it became notable as a night club in the now-defunct Sunnyside Amusement Park, hosting many prominent 'big band' jazz bands...
  
  
• Mychael Danna, Speaking Parts
  Speaking Parts
  Speaking Parts is a 1989 Canadian drama film from Atom Egoyan. It earned a Best Motion Picture nomination, including five others, at the 1989 Genie Awards.- Plot :...
  
  

• Jean Corriveau, La Demoiselle Sauvage

• Marie Bernard, Amoureux Fou
• Georges Delerue
  Georges Delerue
  Georges Delerue , was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A...
  
  , Black Robe
  Black Robe
  Black Robe is a historical novel by Brian Moore based on the Jesuit missionaries in New France. It was published in 1985.The novel takes place in the 17th century in New France. It follows Father Laforgue, a French Jesuit priest traveling up river to repopulate the mission to the Huron Indians...
  
  
• Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith is an American actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s...
  
  , Diplomatic Immunity
• Mark Korven
  Mark Korven
  -External links:*...
  
  , White Room
  White Room (film)
  White Room is a Canadian drama film, released in 1990.The film, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, stars Maurice Godin, Kate Nelligan and Sheila McCarthy. Godin plays Norm, a confused young man who is drawn into events after witnessing the murder of rock star Madeleine X...
  
  

13th Genie Awards

13th Genie Awards

The 13th annual Genie Awards were held 1992 and honoured Canadian films released in 1991. They were dominated by the Canadian/British/Japanese co-production Naked Lunch.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Richard Grégoire, Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...
  
  
• Pierre Desrochers, La Sarrasine
• Howard Shore
  Howard Shore
  Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg,...
  
  , Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959. The book is structured as a series of loosely-connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order...
  
  
• Graeme Coleman, North of Pittsburgh
• Michael Becker, Solitaire
  Solitaire (film)
  Solitaire is an independent coming of age drama film in pre-production from director Victor Franko and Rand Alan Sabatini of Rand Alan Studios with a planned cast of 10. This was late pornstar/actress Marilyn Chambers' final film.-Featured cast :-External links:**...
  
  

• Simon Kendall, Cadillac Girls
• Todd Boekelheide
  Todd Boekelheide
  Todd Boekelheide is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category.-Selected filmography:Boekelheide won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another:Won...
  
  , Digger
• Yves Laferrière, La Sexe des Etoiles
• Pierre Desrochers, Les Amoureuses
• Mark Korven
  Mark Korven
  -External links:*...
  
  , The Grocer's Wife

15th Genie Awards

15th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Exotica, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Double Happiness, Rose Lam Waddell and Stephen Hegyes, producers*Louis 19, le roi des ondes, Jacques Dorfmann and Richard Sadler, producers...

• Mychael Danna, Exotica
  Exotica
  Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania...
  
  
• Mark Korven
  Mark Korven
  -External links:*...
  
  , Henry and Verlin
• Milan Kymlicka, La Vie d'Un Heroes
• Milan Kymlicka, Matusalem
• George Blondheim, Whale Music
  Whale Music
  Whale Music is a novel by Canadian writer Paul Quarrington. It was first published by Doubleday Canada in 1989.The novel's central character is Desmond Howl, a reclusive former rock star who has lived in virtual seclusion from the world since the death of his brother Danny in a car accident...
  
  

• Milan Kymlicka
  Milan Kymlicka
  Milan Kymlicka was a Canadian arranger, composer and conductor of Czechoslovakian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974. He was best known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television series Rupert and Babar...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Richard Gregoire, L'Enfant D'Eau
• Serge Arcuri, Luc Aubry, Liste Noire
• Aaron Davis, John Lang, 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...
  
  
• Mark Korven
  Mark Korven
  -External links:*...
  
  , The Michelle Apartments
  The Michelle Apartments
  The Michelle Apartments is a Canadian black comedy film, released in 1995, by John Pozer.The film stars Henry Czerny as Alex Hartwell, a government auditor sent to the small town of Walton to review the books of a chemical company...
  
  

17th Genie Awards

17th Genie Awards

The 17th Genie Awards were held on November 27, 1996, to honour films released in late 1995 and 1996. They were the second Genie Award ceremony held in that year; the 16th Genie Awards were delayed from the fall of 1995 and took place in January 1996 instead.-Best Motion Picture:*Lilies, Robin...

• Mark Korven
  Mark Korven
  -External links:*...
  
  , Curtis's Charm
• Ron Sures, Joe's So Mean to Josephine
• Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Normand Corbeil, Screamers
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  Richard Rodney Bennett
  Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...
  
  , Swann

• Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Don MacDonald, 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"...
  
  
• Robert Marcel Lepage, La Plante Humaine
• François Dompierre, L'Homme Idéal
  L'Homme idéal
  L’Homme idéal is a French film directed by Xavier Gélin and released in 1997.- Synopsis :Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet...
  
  
• Serge Laforest, Gaëtan Gravel, Night of the Flood

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...

• John Corigliano
  John Corigliano
  John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Mark Korven, Cube
  Cube (film)
  Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction psychological thriller/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a successful product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project....
  
  
• Alexina Louie
  Alexina Louie
  Alexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...
  
  , Alex Pauk, Last Night
• Mychael Danna, 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:...
  
  
• Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith is an American actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s...
  
  , Such a Long Journey

• Mychael Danna, 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...
  
  
• John Wesley Chisholm, Mike Diabo, John Roby
  John Roby
  John Roby was an English banker, poet, and writer. Roby was born in Wigan, England in 1793, the son of Mary Aspull and a schoolmaster named Nehemiah Roby. He began his career as a banker in Rochdale, Lancashire...
  
  , Beefcake
  Beefcake (film)
  Beefcake is a docu-drama homage to the muscle magazines of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s—in particular, Physique Pictorial magazine, published by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild. It was inspired by a picture book by F...
  
  
• Nick Dyer, Eric Cadesky, Extraordinary Visitor
• Jono Grant
  Jono Grant
  -Biography:Jono Grant is part of the electronic dance group Above & Beyond.From a very early age Jono learned to play the piano and guitar, and moved on to synthesisers as soon as he could afford to buy them after being inspired as a child by the music of Jean-Michel Jarre, the Pet Shop Boys, New...
  
  , Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
  Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
  Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is the title of two films based on a novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler.-Synopsis:Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard. One day, he decided...
  
  
• Maurice Jarre
  Maurice Jarre
  Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...
  
  , Sunshine
  Sunshine (1999 film)
  Sunshine is a 1999 historical film written by Israel Horovitz and István Szabó, directed and produced by István Szabó. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the...
  
  

21st Genie Awards

21st Genie Awards

The 21st Genie Awards were held in 2001 to honour films released in 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Maelström, Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal, producers...

• Patric Caird, Here's to Life!
• François Dompierre, Laura Cadieux...La Suite
• Aaron Davis, John Lang, Love Come Down
  Love Come Down
  "Love Come Down" is a hit single by Evelyn "Champagne" King. It was produced by Morrie Brown and written by Kashif. "Love Come Down" was the first single culled from her multi-platinum, number-one R&B album, Get Loose . In the U.S., it reached number one on the R&B and dance charts and number...
  
  
• Normand Corbeil, The Art of War
  The Art of War (film)
  The Art of War is a 2000 Canadian-American action film directed by Christian Duguay, and starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Biehn, Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland...
  
  
• Alan Reeves, To Walk with Lions
  To Walk With Lions
  To Walk with Lions is a 1999 film starring Richard Harris as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn.Adamson spends the latter part of his life protecting the lions and other wildlife in the Kora National Reserve, Kenya...
  
  

• Chris Crilly, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
• Alexander Balanescu
  Alexander Balanescu
  Alexander Bălănescu is a violinist and founder of the Balanescu Quartet.He emigrated with his family to Israel in 1969....
  
  , Eisenstein
  Eisenstein (film)
  Eisenstein is a 2000 film about Sergei Eisenstein, starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie....
  
  
• Bertrand Chénier, L'Ange de Goudron
• Andrew Zealley, Don Pyle, The Law of Enclosures
  The Law of Enclosures (film)
  The Law of Enclosures is a Canadian drama film, released in 1999. The film was written and directed by John Greyson, and based on the novel The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck....
  
  
• Pierre Duchesne
  Pierre Duchesne
  Pierre Duchesne is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and former secretary general of the National Assembly of Quebec.-Biography:A licentiate in Law from Université Laval, Pierre Duchesne had been a notary in Sept-Îles in 1966....
  
  , Une jeune fille à la fenêtre

23rd Genie Awards

23rd Genie Awards

The 23rd Genie Awards were held in 2003 to honour films released in 2002. The ceremony was hosted by Arsinée Khanjian and Peter Keleghan.-Best Motion Picture:*Ararat, Atom Egoyan and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Mychael Danna, Ararat
  Ararat (film)
  Ararat is a 2002 film directed, written, and co-produced by Atom Egoyan based loosely on the Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is disputed by the government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the...
  
  
• Zbigniew Preisner
  Zbigniew Preisner
  Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.-Life:Zbigniew Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself music by listening and transcribing parts from records....
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Michael Cusson, Le Collectionneur
• Glenn Morley, Red Green's Duct Tape Forever
• Chris Ainscough, Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked is a 2001 drama film directed by Anne Wheeler and written by Elyse Friedman.-Plot:Jackie York is a famous novelist with a secret: she is suffering from writer's block and is unable to write her much-anticipated novel. After being used and then dumped by a wannabe movie director,...
  
  

• Christopher Dedrick, The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. It stars Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox and Ross McMillan....
  
  
• Richard Grassby-Lewis, Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.-Life and career:...
  
  , Bob Locke, Tim Norfolk, Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt.-Plot:...
  
  
• Michael Cusson, Seraphin: Heart of Stone
• Mychael Danna, The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker is a 2003 Canadian film based on the short story "Walk Well, My Brother" by Farley Mowat. It was written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starred Barry Pepper, James Cromwell, and Annabella Piugattuk....
  
  
• Sandy Moore, The Wild Dogs
  The Wild Dogs
  - Plot :Set in the city of Bucharest, Romania, the action is confined to a week in the life of the various characters. Alberta Watson plays the bored wife of a diplomat. Director and screenwriter Thom Fitzgerald plays a Canadian pornographer...
  
  

25th Genie Awards

25th Genie Awards

The 25th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 2005 to honour the best Canadian films released in 2004. The awards took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.Andrea Martin was the host.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Terry Frewer, 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:...
  
  
• Charles Papasoff, So the Moon Rises
• Michel Corriveau, The Last Tunnel
• Benoit Charest
  Benoît Charest
  Benoît Charest is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville , for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music...
  
  , The Triplets of Belleville
• Pierre Duchesne, Looking for Alexander

• Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
  , Water
• Byron Wong
  Byron Wong
  Byron Kent Wong is a Toronto and Los Angeles-based producer, musician, director and entrepreneur.He founded Random Media Core Inc, in 1993, a Canadian company dedicated to music, design, marketing, and new media....
  
  , Lie With Me
  Lie with Me
  Lie with Me is a Canadian drama film with graphic sexual content that played at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tamara Berger...
  
  
• Éric Pfalzgraf, Manners of Dying
  Manners of Dying
  Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.- Plot :...
  
  
• Longo Hai, Geoff Bennett and Ben Johannesen, Sabah: A Love Story
• Mychael Danna, Where the Truth Lies
  Where the Truth Lies
  Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film, written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.-Plot:...
  
  

27th Genie Awards

27th Genie Awards

The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto....

• Jean Robitaille, Without Her
• Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson
  Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
  Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , also known as HÖH , is a musician, an art director, and allsherjargoði of Ásatrúarfélagið ....
  
  , Beowulf & Grendel
  Beowulf & Grendel
  Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 film loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. Filmed in Iceland and directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, it stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma...
  
  
• Normand Corbeil, Cheech
  Cheech (film)
  Cheech is a 2006 Canadian comedy-drama film based on a stage play. It is directed by Patrice Sauvé and written by François Létourneau with assistance from Linus Scheithauer- Plot :...
  
  
• Pierre Desrochers, The Secret Life of Happy People
• Michel Cusson, The Rocket

• John McCarthy, 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:...
  
  
• Normand Corbeil, Emotional Arithmetic
• Laurent Eyquem, Maman est chez le coiffeur
  Maman est chez le coiffeur
  -Synopsis:It's summer 1966. Time to enjoy summer vacation, total freedom, running wild in the fields, and crazy giggles with friends. But as she becomes more aware of the dreams, sorrows and lies of the people closest to her, Élise sees her mother's sudden abandonment thoroughly disrupt her family...
  
  
• Nikos Kypourgos, 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...
  
  
• Robert M. Lepage, Ce qu'il faut pour vivre

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...

• Normand Corbeil, Grande ourse: La clé des possibles
• Benoît Charest
  Benoît Charest
  Benoît Charest is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville , for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Bertrand Chénier, Love & Savagery
• Christian Clermont, 5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way is a Canadian psychological-drama thriller film directed byÉric Tessier and starring René-Daniel Dubois and Marc-André Grondin. It based on a novel with the same name, written by author Patrick Senécal.-Plot:...
  
  
• Ben Mink
  Ben Mink
  Ben Mink is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Born of Polish parents, Mink was raised in Toronto Ontario. He got his start performing with the rock/country group Mary-Lou Horner, which became the house band at bar and nightclub....
  
  , 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...
  
  

• Pasquale Catalano, Barney's Version
  Barney's Version (film)
  Barney's Version is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler...
  
  
• Brendan Canning
  Brendan Canning
  Brendan Canning is a founding member of Broken Social Scene and a veteran indie rock performer who has been a member of various notable bands including By Divine Right, Blurtonia, Valley of the Giants, Len, and hHead....
  
  , Trigger
  Trigger (film)
  Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement....
  
  
• Jon Goldsmith, High Life
  High Life (film)
  High Life is a 2009 Canadian film based on the stage play by Lee MacDougall, written by Lee MacDougall and directed by Gary Yates. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Joe Anderson and Rossif Sutherland, High Life is a comedic heist movie from the flip-side of the 80’s consumer dream.-...
  
  
• Keegan Jessamy and Bryce Mitchell, At Home by Myself...With You
  At Home by Myself...With You
  At Home by Myself...With You is a 2009 Canadian film directed by Kris Booth and co-written with Ramona Barckert. It premiered at the 2009 Vancouver Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• Sook-Yin Lee
  Sook-Yin Lee
  Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, actress and media personality.-Background:Lee grew up in a Vancouver suburb, the second-oldest daughter of immigrants. She was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. Her father was a post-World War II orphan from Hong Kong, her mother an escapee from...
  
  , Buck 65
  Buck 65
  Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...
  
   and Adam Litovitz, Year of the Carnivore
  Year of the Carnivore
  Year of the Carnivore is a 2009 Canadian romantic comedy about a grocery store detective with a crush on a boy who rejects her because she has too little sexual experience....