28th Genie Awards
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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
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Metro Toronto Convention Centre , located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario at 255 Front Street West, has of space. The convention centre was completed in October 1984 and is home to the 1330-seat John Bassett Theatre...

 in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The show was broadcast on E! and Independent Film Channel and hosted by Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the...

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Controversy

The nominations for 2008 faced some controversy when director Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman is a Canadian/American film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking , Juno , and Up in the Air . As of February 2, 2010, he has received three Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director...

 issued a statement expressing his disappointment that the hit film Juno
Juno (film)
Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....

, which had a Canadian director, Canadian stars (Ellen Page
Ellen Page
Ellen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...

 and Michael Cera
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Juno. Cera received the 2008 Canadian Comedy Award for best male performance for his work in Superbad.-Early...

) and a Canadian crew, and was filmed in Canada, did not qualify for a nomination. Sara Morton, the head of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, issued a statement indicating that the film — which was produced by an American film studio — had not been submitted for Genie Award consideration.

Top nominations

  • Eastern Promises and Shake Hands with the Devil - 12
  • Away from Her - 7
  • The Tracey Fragments - 6
  • Continental, A Film without Guns and Silk - 5
  • Days of Darkness - 4

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...

  • Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

    , Daniel Iron
    Daniel Iron
    - Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away From Her - Won * 2007 Genie Award for Best Documentary - Manufactured Landscapes - Won * 2007 Gemini Award for Best TV movie - Last Exit - Nominated * 2006 Gemini Award...

    , Simone Urdl
    Simone Urdl
    Simone Urdl is a film producer. She co-founded Film Farm Productions with Jennifer Weiss.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away from Her - Won...

    , Jennifer Weiss
    Jennifer Weiss (producer)
    Jennifer Weiss is a film producer. She co-founded Film Farm Productions with Simone Urdl.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Away from Her - Won...

  • L'Âge des Ténèbres (Days of Darkness); Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
  • Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...

    (Continental, a Film Without Guns); Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
  • Eastern Promises; Robert Lantos, Paul Webster
  • Shake Hands With the Devil; Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan

Actor in a leading role
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actor.-1st Genie Awards:* Christopher Plummer, Murder by Decree...

  • Gordon Pinsent
    Gordon Pinsent
    Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...

    , Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Viggo Mortensen
    Viggo Mortensen
    Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner , Carlito's Way , Crimson Tide , Daylight , The...

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    Eastern Promises
  • Marc Labrèche
    Marc Labrèche
    Marc Labrèche is a Quebec actor, comedian and host.-Background:The son of Quebec comedian Gaetan Labrèche, he expressed interest in scene acting in his early years...

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    L'Âge des Ténèbres (Days of Darkness)
  • Claude Legault
    Claude Legault
    -Biography:Legault was a star of the Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation and has since appeared regularly on television, stage and film. He is currently part of the cast of the T.V. series 450 chemin du Golf and Annie et ses Hommes and he was part of Le retour...

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    Les 3 P'tits Cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons is a 2007 Quebec French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec.-Plot summary:Two brothers ...

    (The 3 Little Pigs)
  • 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...

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    Shake Hands With the Devil

Actor in a supporting role
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best supporting Canadian actor.-1st Genie Awards:* Gordon Pinsent, Jack London's Klondike Fever...

  • Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...

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    Eastern Promises
  • 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...

    , Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...

    (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
  • Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
    Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
    Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge is a Quebec actor and film producer. He is more notable for recent major roles in Quebec films Nitro and Les 3 p'tit cochons in 2007...

    , Les 3 P'tits Cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons is a 2007 Quebec French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec.-Plot summary:Two brothers ...

    (The 3 Little Pigs)
  • Danny Glover
    Danny Glover
    Danny Lebern Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is perhaps best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise.-Early life:...

    , Poor Boy's Game
    Poor Boy's Game
    Poor Boy's Game is a Canadian feature film directed by Clement Virgo. Co-written with Nova Scotian writer/director Chaz Thorne , it is the story of class struggle, racial tensions and boxing, set in the Canadian east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film premiered on February 11, 2007,...

  • Michel Ange Nzojibwami, Shake Hands With the Devil

Actress in a leading role
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actress.-1st Genie Awards:* Kate Lynch, Meatballs* Louise Portal, Cordélia...

  • Julie Christie
    Julie Christie
    Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school....

    , Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Béatrice Picard
    Béatrice Picard
    Béatrice Picard is a Canadian actress. She is best known as the Quebec French voice of Marge Simpson in The Simpsons. She is a nominee in the 2008 Genie Awards for Best Lead Actress in Ma tante Aline in which she plays the titular character.- External links :...

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    Ma tante Aline
    Ma tante Aline
    Ma tante Aline is a 2007 Canadian comedy film.- Plot :* Geneviève Saint-Louis is a successful career woman who does nothing but work. One day, her aunt Aline shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep penniless and just one step away from a retirement home...

    (My Aunt Aline)
  • Ellen Page
    Ellen Page
    Ellen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...

    ,
    The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments (film)
    The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....

  • Anne-Marie Cadieux
    Anne-Marie Cadieux
    Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Le Coeur au Poing and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Toi .- External links :...

    ,
    Toi
    Toi
    Toi or TOI may refer to:* Toi , the Biblical king of Hamath* Toi , a masculine name in Māori and other Polynesian languages* Toi, Shizuoka, Japan* TOI , a group of electronic folk rock musicians in the Philippines...

    (You)
  • Molly Parker
    Molly Parker
    Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...

    ,
    Who Loves the Sun
    Who Loves the Sun
    Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian comedy/drama/romance film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette.- Plot :Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his...


Actress in a supporting role
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best supporting Canadian actress.-1st Genie Awards:* Geneviève Bujold, Murder by Decree...

  • Kristen Thomson
    Kristen Thomson
    Kristen Thomson is a Canadian actress and playwright.Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her one-woman play I, Claudia, which was adapted to film in 2004...

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    Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Fanny Mallette
    Fanny Mallette
    -Biography:She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Continental, un film sans fusil. She has twice been nominated for a Jutra Award for Best Actress in Les muses orphelines and Une jeune fille à la fenêtre...

    , Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...

    (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
  • Marie-Ginette Guay, Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...

    (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
  • Laurence Leboeuf
    Laurence Leboeuf
    Laurence Leboeuf is a French Canadian actress. She is the daughter of Diane Lavallée and Marcel Leboeuf...

    , Ma fille mon ange
    Ma fille mon ange
    My Daughter, My Angel is a 2007 Canadian French language thriller film starring Michel Côté and Karine Vanasse.- Plot :...

    (My Daughter, My Angel)
  • Véronique Le Flaguais
    Véronique Le Flaguais
    Véronique Le Flaguais is a French actress who has acted in many Canadian productions. Her work includes a recent Genie Award nomination for her supporting role in Surviving My Mother, Rumeurs, Jésus de Montréal, Cruising Bar and the upcoming sequel. She is married to actor Michel Côté.- External...

    , Surviving My Mother
    Surviving My Mother
    - Plot :Clara's mother is on her death bed as she tells her daughter that she regrets they are not closer. This revelation causes Clara to pursue a closer relationship with her own daughter, Bianca .- Recognition :...


Direction
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction
The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film director.-1st Genie Awards:*Bob Clark, Murder by Decree*Peter Carter, Klondike Fever...

  • Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...

    , Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

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    Eastern Promises
  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

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    L'Âge des Ténèbres (Days of Darkness)
  • Roger Spottiswoode
    Roger Spottiswoode
    Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring...

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    Shake Hands With the Devil
  • Bruce McDonald, The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments (film)
    The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....


Art Direction/Production Design
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design
The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design.-16th Genie Awards:* François Laplante, Le Confessionnal...

  • Rob Gray
    Rob Gray
    Rob Gray is an award-winning Canadian production designer and art director.- Recognition :...

    , James Willcock
    James Willcock
    James Willcock is a Canadian set decorator and production designer. He won the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design for Fido with Rob Gray.- Recognition :...

    ,
    Fido
    Fido (film)
    Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton...

  • André-Line Beauparlant
    André-Line Beauparlant
    André-Line Beauparlant is a Canadian art director, production designer, set decorator and film director. She is nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design for her work in Continental, un film sans fusil at the 28th Genie Awards and for Camping sauvage, Le...

    , Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil
    Continental, un film sans fusil is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane LaFleur.- Plot :...

    (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
  • Carol Spier
    Carol Spier
    Carol Spier is an award-winning production designer and art director. Much of her work has been on David Cronenberg films.- Recognition :* 1980 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - The Brood - Nominated...

    , Eastern Promises
  • Lindsey Hermer-Bell
    Lindsey Hermer-Bell
    - Career :Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Lindsey Hermer-Bell moved to Canada in 1977. She received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Toronto, and began her career as designer on the 1983 HBO drama Between Friends...

    , Justin Craig
    Justin Craig
    Justin Craig is a production designer, set decorator, art director and actor. Craig is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design for Shake Hands with the Devil .- Recognition :...

    , Shake Hands With the Devil
  • François Séguin
    François Séguin
    François Séguin is a Canadian production designer, art director and set decorator.- Recognition :* 1986 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction - Night Magic - Nominated...

    , Silk

Cinematography
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film cinematography.-16th Genie Awards:* Thomas Burstyn, Magic in the Water* Alain Dostie, Le Confessional...

  • 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...

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    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...

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    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....

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    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

Costume Design
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian costume designer.-16th Genie Awards:* Nicolette Massone, Margaret's Museum* Michele Hamel, Eldorado...

  • Carlo Poggioli
    Carlo Poggioli
    - Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - Silk - Won * 2005 Saturn Award for Best Costumes - Van Helsing - Nominated...

    , Kazuko Kurosawa
    Kazuko Kurosawa
    is a costume designer. She won the 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design. She is the daughter of famous filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - Silk - Won...

    ,
    Silk
  • Denise Cronenberg
    Denise Cronenberg
    Denise Cronenberg is a costume designer born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the sister of Canadian film director David Cronenberg and the mother of Aaron Woodley, also a filmmaker.-Works:* The Fly * Dead Ringers...

    , Eastern Promises
  • Mary E. McLeod
    Mary E. McLeod
    Mary E. McLeod is a costume designer. She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design at the 28th Genie Awards.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - Fido - Nominee...

    , Fido
    Fido (film)
    Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton...

  • Dolly Ahluwalia
    Dolly Ahluwalia
    Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian costume designer and film/television actress, who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001.She has also been nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design three times, and won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design in 1996,...

    , Partition
  • Joyce Schure
    Joyce Schure
    Joyce Schure is a costume designer. She is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design.- Recognition :* 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - Shake Hands with the Devil - Nominee...

    , Shake Hands With the Devil

Editing
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing
The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film editor.-1st Genie Awards:* Stan Cole, Murder By Decree* Jean Beaudin, Cordelia* Ron Wisman, Fish Hawk...

  • Ronald Sanders
    Ronald Sanders
    -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....

    , Eastern Promises
  • David Wharnsby
    David Wharnsby
    David Wharnsby is a Genie and Gemini award winning Canadian film editor who lives in Toronto.Some of Wharnsby's numerous credits include; the CBC's miniseries Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns; At The Hotel, directed by Ken Finkleman; TIFF top ten films, I, Claudia, by Chris Abraham; The...

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    Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Jean-François Bergeron
    Jean-François Bergeron (editor)
    Jean-François Bergeron is a Canadian film editor. He was nominated for a 2008, 28th Genie Awards Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing for Les 3 P'tits Cochons .- Recognition :...

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    Les 3 P'tits Cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons is a 2007 Quebec French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec.-Plot summary:Two brothers ...

    (The 3 Little Pigs)
  • Susan Maggi
    Susan Maggi
    Susan Maggi is a Canadian film editor. She is a four-time Genie Award nominee and has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for "Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series"...

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    Poor Boy's Game
    Poor Boy's Game
    Poor Boy's Game is a Canadian feature film directed by Clement Virgo. Co-written with Nova Scotian writer/director Chaz Thorne , it is the story of class struggle, racial tensions and boxing, set in the Canadian east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film premiered on February 11, 2007,...

  • Jeremiah Munce, Gareth C. Scales, The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments (film)
    The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....


Adapted Screenplay
Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Genie Award for Best Screenplay is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian screenplay.The award's presentation has not always been consistent — in some years, a single award for Best Screenplay has been presented, while in other years separate awards have...

  • Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...

    ,
    Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Michael Donovan, Shake Hands With the Devil
  • Maureen Medved
    Maureen Medved
    Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, Waterloo and Toronto...

    , The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments (film)
    The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....


Original Screenplay

  • Steve Knight
    Steven Knight
    Steven Knight is a British screenwriter. Knight has written scripts for numerous British television programmes such as the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives and others. However, he is best known for screenplays he wrote for films Dirty...

    , Eastern Promises
  • Marc-André Lavoie
    Marc-André Lavoie
    Marc-André Lavoie is a Canadian director and film producer. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Simon Olivier Fecteau and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...

    , Simon Olivier Fecteau
    Simon Olivier Fecteau
    Simon Olivier Fecteau is a Canadian director, actor, producer and screenwriter. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Marc-André Lavoie and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...

    , David Gauthier,
    Bluff
    Bluff (film)
    Bluff is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It was directed, written and produced by Simon Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie.- Plot :* A building inspector finds a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed...

  • Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...

    ,
    Everything's Gone Green
    Everything's Gone Green (film)
    Everything's Gone Green is a 2006 Canadian comedy film directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland. It was produced by Radke Films and True West Films...

  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    ,
    L'Âge des Ténèbres (Days of Darkness)
  • Pierre Lamothe, Claude Lalonde, Les 3 P'tits Cochons
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Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound
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