14th Genie Awards
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Best Motion Picture
Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
The Genie Award for Best Motion Picture is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian motion picture.-1st Genie Awards:*The Changeling *Cordélia...

  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is an award-winning 1993 film about the piano prodigy Glenn Gould played by Colm Feore. The film's screenplay was written by François Girard and Don McKellar....

    , Niv Fichman
    Niv Fichman
    -Biography:Some of the films he has produced include Passchendaele , Blindness , Silk and Hobo With a Shotgun.-External links:...

    , producer
  • La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

    , Pierre Sarrazin and Claude Bonin, producers
  • Harmony Cats
    Harmony Cats
    - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...

    , Richard Davis
    Richard Davis
    Richard Davis is an American jazz bassist who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1977. Originally from Chicago, he first became known in that city before establishing himself in New York City for twenty-three years. He teaches bass, jazz history, and...

     and Alan Morinis
    Alan Morinis
    Alan Morinis is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer who has been a leading figure in the contemporary revival of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement....

    , producers
  • The Lotus Eaters, Sharon McGowan, producer
  • Le Sèxe des étoiles, Pierre Gendron
    Pierre Gendron
    Pierre Raoul Gendron, was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962....

     and Jean-Roch Marcotte, producers

Best Actor

  • Tom McCamus
    Tom McCamus
    Tom McCamus is an award-winning Canadian film and theatre actor who is most widely known for his work on the science-fiction television show Mutant X....

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    I Love a Man in Uniform
    I Love a Man in Uniform (film)
    I Love a Man in Uniform is a Canadian film, directed by David Wellington and released in 1993.-Plot:The film, a dark psychological drama, stars Tom McCamus as Henry Adler, a bank employee and struggling actor who finally gets his big break, being cast as a police officer in a television series...

  • Roy Dupuis
    Roy Dupuis
    Roy Dupuis is a Canadian actor best known for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita...

    , Cap Tourmente
  • Gilbert Sicotte
    Gilbert Sicotte
    Gilbert Sicotte is a Canadian actor. He has been nominated three times for a Genie Award. His first two nominations were in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in Cap Tourmente and Les Pots Cassés. He is currently nominated for Best Actor in a...

    , Cap Tourmente
  • Rémy Girard
    Rémy Girard
    Rémy Girard is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec.-Acting career:He played the role of Rémy, the main character, who is dying of terminal cancer, in the Canadian film Les Invasions barbares by director Denys Arcand. This film was awarded the 2003 Academy Award for best...

    , La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

  • R. H. Thomson
    R. H. Thomson
    Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, is a Canadian television, film and stage actor.Thomson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, and the National Theatre School. His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at...

    , The Lotus Eaters

Best Actress

  • Sheila McCarthy
    Sheila McCarthy
    Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer. She is one of the most honoured actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards , two Gemini Awards , and two Dora Awards among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series Little...

    , The Lotus Eaters
  • Élise Guilbault
    Élise Guilbault
    Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film La Femme qui boit, and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente...

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    Cap Tourmente
  • Andrée Lachapelle
    Andrée Lachapelle
    Andrée Lachapelle, OC, CQ is a French Canadian actress.She had roles in the films Léolo and Don't Let the Angels Fall....

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    Cap Tourmente
  • Pauline Lapointe, La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

  • Aloka McLean, The Lotus Eaters

Best Supporting Actor

  • Kevin Tighe
    Kevin Tighe
    Kevin Tighe is an American character actor primarily known for his roles on television. Tighe is best known for his role as Roy DeSoto, a senior paramedic, on the NBC series Emergency! . He and Randolph Mantooth, his partner in the series, have remained close friends...

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    I Love a Man in Uniform
    I Love a Man in Uniform (film)
    I Love a Man in Uniform is a Canadian film, directed by David Wellington and released in 1993.-Plot:The film, a dark psychological drama, stars Tom McCamus as Henry Adler, a bank employee and struggling actor who finally gets his big break, being cast as a police officer in a television series...

  • Yvan Canuel, La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

  • Jim Byrnes
    Jim Byrnes (actor)
    James Thomas Kevin "Jim" Byrnes is a blues musician, guitarist, and actor.-Life and career:Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a homemaker mother and a municipal accountant father. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s...

    , Harmony Cats
    Harmony Cats
    - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...

  • Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer
    Arthur Christopher Orne Plummer, CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1957's Stage Struck, and notable early film performances include Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther and The Man Who Would Be King.In a career that spans over five...

    , Impolite
  • Tobie Pelletier, Le Sèxe des étoiles

Best Supporting Actress

  • Nicola Cavendish
    Nicola Cavendish
    Nicola Cavendish is an English-born Canadian theatre and film actress. She has won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1991 film The Grocer's Wife and a Gemini Award nomination for 1998 film The Sleep Room.Cavendish was born in Cirencester, United Kingdom,...

    , The Grocer's Wife
  • Charlene Fernetz
    Charlene Fernetz
    Charlene Fernetz is a Canadian actress.Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los...

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    Harmony Cats
    Harmony Cats
    - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...

  • Brigitte Bako
    Brigitte Bako
    Brigitte Bako is a Canadian actress known for her role on Red Shoe Diaries. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy G-Spot.-Life and career:...

    ,
    I Love a Man in Uniform
    I Love a Man in Uniform (film)
    I Love a Man in Uniform is a Canadian film, directed by David Wellington and released in 1993.-Plot:The film, a dark psychological drama, stars Tom McCamus as Henry Adler, a bank employee and struggling actor who finally gets his big break, being cast as a police officer in a television series...

  • Sylvie Drapeau, Le Sèxe des étoiles
  • Kate Hennig, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is an award-winning 1993 film about the piano prodigy Glenn Gould played by Colm Feore. The film's screenplay was written by François Girard and Don McKellar....


Best Director

  • François Girard
    François Girard
    François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

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    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is an award-winning 1993 film about the piano prodigy Glenn Gould played by Colm Feore. The film's screenplay was written by François Girard and Don McKellar....

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , Calendar
  • George Mihalka
    George Mihalka
    George Mihalka is a Hungarian-born Canadian filmmaker. He is known for his slasher film My Bloody Valentine, which has gained a large cult following since its release in 1981.-Selected films:Feature films...

    , La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

  • Sandy Wilson
    Sandy Wilson
    Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...

    , Harmony Cats
    Harmony Cats
    - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...

  • Paule Baillargeon
    Paule Baillargeon
    Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for Le Sèxe des étoiles.Her other film roles have included Un 32 août sur terre, Jésus de...

    , Le Sèxe des étoiles

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