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....

• Nicolette Massone, 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....
  
  
• Michele Hamel, Eldorado
• Barbara Kidd, Le Confessionnal
• Crystine Booth, Once in a Blue Moon
• Linda Muir, When Night is Falling
  When Night is Falling
  When Night is Falling is a 1995 Canadian drama film directed by Patricia Rozema.-Plot:The film stars Pascale Bussières as Camille Baker, a university literature professor at a religious college struggling with both her tenure-track career and her troubled relationship with fellow professor Martin...
  
  

• Linda Muir, 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:...
  
  
• Emma England, Blood and Donuts
  Blood and Donuts
  Blood and Donuts is a Canadian comedy/horror motion picture directed by Holly Dale, and starring Gordon Currie and Helene Clarkson, with David Cronenberg playing a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep, and starts to...
  
  
• Delphine White, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
• Denis Sperdouklis, Pudding Chomeur
• Elisabetta Beraldo, Swann

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...

• Denis Sperdouklis, Karmina
  Karmina
  Karmina is an American pop/rock music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Rudisill and Kamille Rudisill . Karmina means “song” in Latin...
  
  
• Suzanne Harel, La Comtesse de Baton Rouge
• Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland is an award-winning physicist. She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. She previously was nominated four times in the same category . She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations.-...
  
  , La Vengeance de la femme en noir
• Yveline Bonjean, Liz Vandal
  Liz Vandal
  Liz Vandal is a French Canadian fashion/costume designer best known for designing the costumes for the Cirque du Soleil show, OVO. Her style, which is inspired by futuristic super heroes, insects, and medieval armor, was found helpful in creating the OVO costumes, a show that brings different...
  
  , Night of the Flood
• James A. Worthen, 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....
  
  
• Beth Pasternak, 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...
  
  

• Renée April, 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...
  
  
• Daniel Lalande, Le coeur au poing
• Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt, Nô
  Nô (film)
  Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...
  
  
• Kate Carin, 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:...
  
  
• Lovleen Bains, Such a Long Journey

20th Genie Awards

20th Genie Awards

The 20th Genie Awards were held in 2000 to honour films released in 1999. The ceremony was hosted by Patrick McKenna.-Best Motion Picture:*Sunshine, Andras Hamori and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Renée April, Grey Owl
  Grey Owl (film)
  Grey Owl is a 1998 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real life British schoolboy turned Indian trapper "Grey Owl," Archibald Belaney , and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo. With brief appearances by Graham Greene and others. The screenplay was...
  
  
• Dominique Lemieux, Alegria
  Alegria
  Alegria or Alegría or Allegria may refer to:-Places:*Alegria, Cebu, a municipality in the Philippines*Alegría, Madeira, a parish in Portugal*Alegria, Rio Grande do Sul, a city in Brazil...
  
  
• Sandy Powell
  Sandy Powell (costume designer)
  Sandy Powell OBE is a British costume designer who has been nominated nine times for the Academy Award . She won the Oscar in 1999 for the film Shakespeare in Love, in 2005 for The Aviator, and in 2010 for The Young Victoria. She has received nine BAFTA nominations, winning in 1999 for Velvet...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Linda Muir, 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...
  
  
• Györgyi Szakacs, 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...
  
  

• Michel Robidas, Stardom
  Stardom
  Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency...
  
  
• Patricia Hargreaves, Here's to Life!
• Denis Sperdouklis, La vie après l'amour
• Suzanne Harel, Laura Cadieux...La Suite
• Debra Hanson, New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl is a Canadian drama-comedy film, released in 1999. The film was directed by Allan Moyle, and written by Tricia Fish.New Waterford Girl stars Liane Balaban as Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, a teenager in New Waterford, Nova Scotia who dreams of life beyond her small-town home...
  
  

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...

• Howard Burden, The War Bride
• Atuat Akkitirq, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
• Sophie Lefebvre, The Woman Who Drinks
• Joanne Hansen, The Claim
  The Claim
  The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
  
  
• Nicoletta Massone, Varian's War

• Beth Pasternak, 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...
  
  
• Wendy Partridge, Almost America
• Sophie Lefebvre, Le nèg'
• Mario D'Avignon, Savage Messiah
• 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...
  
  , Spider
  Spider (film)
  Spider is a 2002 Canadian/British drama film produced and directed by David Cronenberg and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the screenplay....
  
  

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...

• Meg McMillan, 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....
  
  
• Abram Waterhouse, Blizzard
  Blizzard (film)
  Blizzard is a 2003 Christmas family film directed by LeVar Burton, and stars Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollack, and Whoopi Goldberg.-Plot:When ten-year-old Jess's very best friend Bobby moves away, she is inconsolable in her grief...
  
  
• Louise Gagné, 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...
  
  
• Michèle Hamel, Seraphin: Heart of Stone
• Debra Hanson, The Gospel of John
  The Gospel of John (film)
  The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Bible Society's Good News Bible...
  
  

• Mario Davignon, 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:...
  
  
• Sophia Lefebvre, Camping Sauvage
• Denis Sperdouklis, 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...
  
  
• Michèle Hamel, Monica la mitraille
• François Barbeau, 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:...

• Ginette Magny, 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...
  
  
• Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland is an award-winning physicist. She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. She previously was nominated four times in the same category . She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations.-...
  
  , Aurore
  Aurore (film)
  Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. The movie is a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre. Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc...
  
  
• Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland is an award-winning physicist. She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. She previously was nominated four times in the same category . She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations.-...
  
  , Le Survenant
• Anne Dixon, Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph is a 2004 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenaged boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from a coma....
  
  
• 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,...
  
  , Water

• Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland is an award-winning physicist. She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. She previously was nominated four times in the same category . She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations.-...
  
  , The Rocket
• Sandy Buck, Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Julia Kwan. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award for the best feature film by a first-time film director in Canada.-Plot:...
  
  
• Michelline Amaaq, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
  The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
  The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is a 2006 Canadian-Danish film about the pressures on the traditional Inuit culture when explorer Knud Rasmussen introduces European cultural influences. Produced by Isuma, the film was directed by Zacharias Kunuk, who also directed the award-winning Inuit film...
  
  
• Mario Davignon, Delphine White, 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...
  
  
• Michèle Hamel, A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide.Directed by Robert Favreau, it relates the story of Bernard Valcourt, a documentary film maker and journalist who falls in love with a young Rwandan woman, Gentille, who works at the Hôtel Des Mille Collines...
  
  

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...

• 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

• Wendy Partridge, Passchendaele
  Passchendaele (film)
  Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film from Alliance Films, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. The film, which was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Fort Macleod, Alberta, and in Belgium, focuses on the experiences of a Canadian soldier, Michael Dunne, at the Battle of...
  
  
• Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland
  Francesca Chamberland is an award-winning physicist. She won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for her work in the film The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. She previously was nominated four times in the same category . She has also earned two Jutra Award nominations.-...
  
  , Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
• Marie-Geneviève Cyr, Who Is KK Downey?
  Who is KK Downey?
  Who is KK Downey? is a 2008 comedy film produced in Montreal, Canada.The plot revolves around two hipster friends who pretend to be a writer with a troubled past in their quest for fame....
  
  
• Michèle Hamel, 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...
  
  
• Michèle Hamel, Le Piège américain

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...

• Atuat Akittirq, Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow is a Canadian drama film, released in 2008. Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, the film is an adaptation of the novel For Morgendaggen by Danish writer Jørn Riel...
  
  
• Carmen Alie, Grande ourse: La clé des possibles
• Sarah Armstrong, 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...
  
  
• Brenda Broer, Cairo Time
  Cairo Time
  Cairo Time is a 2009 film by Canadian director Ruba Nadda. It is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard....
  
  
• Anne-Karine Gauthier, 1981
  1981 (film)
  1981, longer title 1981: Lannée ou je suis devenue un menteur is a 2009 Canadian French language film from Quebec, a drama comedy written and directed by Ricardo Trogi. It was released on 4 September 2009...
  
  

• Nicoletta Massone, 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Resident Evil: Afterlife
  Resident Evil: Afterlife
  Resident Evil: Afterlife is a 2010 Canadian-German 3D science-fiction horror action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, and Wentworth Miller. The film marks Anderson's second time to direct in...
  
  
• Mario Davignon, The Trotsky
  The Trotsky
  The Trotsky is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney.-Plot:Montreal West high school student Leon Bronstein believes that he is the reborn incarnation of Marxist/Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Shortly after he starts to work in his family's clothing factory, he attempts to unionize...
  
  
• Patricia McNeil, The Wild Hunt
• Beverly Wowchuk, Gunless
  Gunless
  Gunless is a 2010 Canadian western comedy film directed by William Phillips and released by Alliance Films.- Plot :A hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild...