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:...

• Paul Caulfield, The Edit
• Louis-Georges Tétreault, Pluie d'été
• Fred Jones, Ken Scott, Working Title
  Working title
  A working title, sometimes called a production title, is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development, usually used in filmmaking, television production, novel, video game, or music album.-Purpose:...
  
  

8th Genie Awards

8th Genie Awards

The 8th annual Genie Awards were held in 1987 to honour Canadian films made the previous year. The awards were dominated by Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain...

• Daria Stermac, Kalli Paakspuu, I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True
• Peg Campbell, It's a Party
  It's a Party
  "It's a Party" is a song by Busta Rhymes, released as the second single from his debut album The Coming. The song featured Zhané and was produced by Easy Mo Bee. This song charted at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100. "It's a Party" also has a music video directed by Marcus Raboy. The b-side for this...
  
  
• Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...
  
  , Nion In The Kaberet De LaVita
• Jean-Roch Marcotte, Transit
• Michael Scott, Where's Pete

10th Genie Awards

10th Genie Awards

The 10th annual Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC that caused the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards in sympathy. The awards were dominated by David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers which won ten awards...

• Bruce McDonald, Colin Brunton
  Colin Brunton
  Colin Brunton is a Canadian producer and director. After creating the short films The Last Pogo , A Trip Around Lake Ontario and The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada , Genie Award winner for Best Live Action Short), Brunton produced the feature films Roadkill and Highway 61 with director Bruce...
  
  , The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada
• Lori Spring, Inside/Out
• Viateur Castonguay, Roger Boire, Le Pied Tendre
• Donald Scott, The Job
• Lorne Bailey, The Milkman Cometh

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...

• Peggy Thompson, Peg Campbell, In Search of the Last Good Man
• Ellen Rutter, Tracy Traeger, Allen Schinkel, Monster in the Coal Bin
• Debbie McGee, Multiple Choice
• Leonard Farlinger, Stephen Roscoe, Odyssey in August
• Mary Armstrong, The Journey Home

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:...

• Arlene Hazzan Green, Battle of the Bulge
  Battle of the Bulge
  The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
  
  
• Paul Brown, Leonard Farlinger, Kumar and Mr. Jones
• Greg Middleton, Mark Sawers, Stroke

14th Genie Awards

14th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Niv Fichman, producer*La Florida, Pierre Sarrazin and Claude Bonin, producers*Harmony Cats, Richard Davis and Alan Morinis, producers*The Lotus Eaters, Sharon McGowan, producer...

• Laurie Lynd
  Laurie Lynd
  Laurie Lynd is a Canadian film and television director, best known as the director of the feature film Breakfast with Scot.He also directed the feature film House, the short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore, and the television films Sibs, Open Heart and Virtual Mom, as well as...
  
  , The Fairy Who Didn't Want to be a Fairy Anymore
• Marquise Lepage, Dans Ton Pays
• Chris Kelly, Mark Sawers, Hate Mail
  Hate mail
  Hate mail is a form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient...
  
  
• Marcel Giroux, Stereotypes
• Lind Theodosakis, Nikos Theodosakis, The Date

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...

• Naomi McCormack, The Hangman's Bride
• Steve Hoban, Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Nothing and Splice.-Early life:...
  
  , Vanessa Laufer, Elevated
  Elevated (film)
  Elevated is a 1997 short film directed by Vincenzo Natali and co-written by him and Karen Walton, who also participated in the writing of Ginger Snaps.-Plot:...
  
  
• Sarah James Overton, Scott Smith
  Scott Smith (director)
  Scott Smith is a Canadian television and film director, born in Alberta and raised in British Columbia. He has directed episodes of the television series Cold Squad and This Is Wonderland. He has won multiple film festival awards for his 1999 film Rollercoaster...
  
  , Helen du Toit, SSHHH
• Marcel Giroux, Sylvain Guy, Zie 37 Stagen

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...

• Mary Lewis, When Ponds Freeze Over
• Julie Trimingham, Ric Kokotovich, Claire
  Claire (film)
  Claire is a 2001 film by Milford Thomas.Claire’s story is loosely based on Kaguyahime, on an old Japanese fairy tale about an elderly childless couple that finds a child from the moon in a stalk of bamboo and raises her as their own. Thomas’ version tells the story of an elderly male couple on a...
  
  
• Michael Ondaatje
  Michael Ondaatje
  Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...
  
  , Sandy Kaplansky, Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar
  Don McKellar
  -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
  
  , Elimination Dance
• Sylvie Rosenthal, La Bombe au Chocolat
• Mark Sawers, Leah Mallen, Shoes Off!

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...

• Tina Goldlist, Chris Deacon, Moving Day
  Moving Day (film)
  Moving Day is a 1936 American animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon, set during the contemporary Great Depression, follows the antics of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as they franticly pack their belongings after...
  
  
• Raymond Gravelle, Michel Juliani, Chronique d'un Chevel Fou
• Marie-Josée Larocque, Jean-François Rivard, Kuproquo
• Robert Lacerte, Ghyslaine Côté, Pendant ce Temps...
• Scott Weber, Revisited

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...

• Alain Jacques, André Théberge, Le P'tit Varius
• Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert, Kate Gillen, Below the Belt
• Michael Downing
  Michael Downing
  Michael "Mike" Downing is the Sheriff of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, having been elected in 2010.Previously, Downing was a Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 22nd District from 2006 to 2010...
  
  , Joel Awerbuck, Clean Rite Cowboy
• Marlene Rodgers, Ines Buchli, Foxy Lady, Wild Cherry
• Phillip Barker
  Phillip Barker
  Phillip Barker is a Canadian film director, production designer, installation artist and screenwriter. He received an award for the production design of Where the Truth Lies and for the short experimental film A Temporary Arrangement.- External links :*...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Soul Cages

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...

• Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  , Jody Shapiro, The Heart of the World
  The Heart of the World
  The Heart of the World is a short film written and directed by Guy Maddin, produced for the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. It is a homage to silent films, and as such, it is black and white, grainy, and without dialogue, and contains many references to styles and movies of the silent era...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Jody Shapiro, Camera
• Marie-Josée Larocque, Stéphane Lapointe, Christiane Ciupka, Side Orders
• John Buchan, Semi Chellas
  Semi Chellas
  Semi Chellas is a writer and screenwriter who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California in 1969 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta....
  
  , Three Stories from the End of Everything

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...

• Meredith Caplan, 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...
  
  , Jennifer Weiss, I Shout Love
• Dawn Rubin, Ann Marie Fleming
  Ann Marie Fleming
  Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist who was born in Okinawa, in 1962, of Chinese and Australian parentage. She has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open...
  
  , Blue Skies
• Raymond Gravelle, Mario Bonenfant, Raymond Gravelle, Mario Bonenfant, In Store
• Éric Couture, Éric Beauséjour, Richard Jutras, Ginette Petit, Christian Larouche, Hit and Run
• Stephanie Morgenstern
  Stephanie Morgenstern
  Stephanie Grace Morgenstern is a Swiss-Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. Born in Geneva, Switzerland and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Morgenstern began her acting career when she was 15. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English...
  
  , Paula Fleck, Remembrance
• Barbara Shrier, Rosa Zacharie, Une éclaircie sur le fleuve

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...

• Jean-François Rivard, Christiane Ciupka, Noël Blank
• Brad Peyton
  Brad Peyton
  Brad Peyton is a Canadian-born film director, writer and television producer, born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. His latest film is Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.-Career:...
  
  , Jim Mauro, Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl
  Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl
  Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl is a 2002 award-winning short film and black comedy directed by Newfoundlander Brad Peyton. It stars Nadia Litz in the title role, and Joshua Close, and is narrated by Maurice Dean Wint...
  
  
• Leah Mallen, Mark Sawers, Lonesome Joe
• Kate Kung, Sandy Reimer, Charles Officer
  Charles Officer
  Charles Officer is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, actor, director and former professional hockey player in the United States.-Director:Officer’s directorial debut, When Morning Comes, premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival...
  
  , Short Hymn Silent War 03
• Meredith Caplan, Michael Downing
  Michael Downing
  Michael "Mike" Downing is the Sheriff of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, having been elected in 2010.Previously, Downing was a Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 22nd District from 2006 to 2010...
  
  , Joel Awerbuck, Why Don't You Dance?

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:...

• Gaël d'Ynglemare, Yves Fortin, Capacité 11 Personnes
• David Hyde, Tyler Levine, Carolyn Newman, Choke
• Jay Field, Jane Michener, Ryan O'Donnell, Desastre
• Andrew Rosen
  Andrew Rosen
  Andrew S. Rosen is current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan, Inc., a global education company that began as a test prep provider in 1938 and was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1984...
  
  , Geoffrey Turnbull, James Genn
  James Genn
  James Douglas Genn is a filmmaker, writer and director, born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1972.He is the son of Canadian artist Robert Genn, the brother of musician Dave Genn, and is the twin brother to artist and musician Sara Genn...
  
  , The Dog Walker
• Antonello Cozzolino, Annie Normandin, Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli, TV Dinner...(Burp!)

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:...

• Matthew Cervi, David Ostry, Milo 55160
• 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 :...
  
  , Jean-François Lord, Guillaume Lespérance, Les Derniers Jours
• Hélène Bélanger Martin, Antonello Cozzolino, Tuesday Morning...Somewhere
• Greg Spottiswood, Jason Charters, Liam Romalis, Noise
• Carl Laudan, The Big Thing

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....

• Maxime Giroux
  Maxime Giroux
  Maxime Giroux is a film director from Quebec, Canada. He has directed several short films, videoclips and commercial videos...
  
  , Paul Barbeau
  Paul Barbeau
  - Biographie :Paul Barbeau has produced approximately 700 music videos for various international artists with his production company Nùfilms which was founded in 2000...
  
  , Red
• Renuka Jeyapalan, Anneli Ekborn, Michael Gelfand
  Michael Gelfand
  Professor Michael Gelfand OBE, CBE, Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester, MD , FRCP, DPH , DMR, Hon. LLD , Hon. DLitt , was one of Rhodesia's/Zimbabwe's most distinguished medical practitioners, who received a Papal Order of the Knighthood of St...
  
  , Big Girl
  Big Girl (film)
  Big Girl is a short film about a girl and her mom's new boyfriend. It was nominated for a Genie Award for best live action short drama....
  
  
• Matthew Swanson, Oliver-Barret Lindsay, Hiro
  Hiro (film)
  Hiro is a short film about a Japanese insect collector who is forced outof his shell by a series of strange events. As funny as it is touching, Hiro drawsinspiration from disparate sources to weave a unified tale of obsession, love, loss, and...
  
  
• Marie-Hélène Copti, Jack et Jacques
• Teresa Hannigan
  Teresa Hannigan
  Teresa Hannigan is a Canadian film editor.Hannigan recently edited the Toronto International Film Festival’s “Best Canadian Feature Film” Cairo Time , directed by Ruba Nadda. In 2008, Hannigan won the Directors Guild of Canada “Best Picture Editing” Award for Television Movie/Mini-Series for her...
  
  , Charlotte Disher, Snapshots for Henry

29th Genie Awards

29th Genie Awards

The 29th Genie Awards were held on April 4, 2009 to honour films released in 2008. The ceremony was held at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, and was broadcast on Global...

• Next Floor, Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
  
   and Phoebe Greenberg
• The Answer Key, Samir Rehem and Robin Crumley
• La Battue, Guy Édoin, Pascal Bascaron and Sylvain Corbeil
• Can You Wave Bye-Bye?, Sarah Galea-Davis and Paul Barbeau
  Paul Barbeau
  - Biographie :Paul Barbeau has produced approximately 700 music videos for various international artists with his production company Nùfilms which was founded in 2000...
  
  
• Mon nom est Victor Gazon, Patrick Gazé, Antonello Cozzolino, Marie-Josée Laroque and Annie Normandin

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...

• Pedro Pires and Catherine Chagnon, Danse Macabre
• Constant Mentzas, Gilles
• Élaine Hébert and Émile Proulx-Cloutier, La vie commence
• Dan Montgomery and Kazik Radwanski, Princess Margaret Blvd.
• Ky Nam Le Duc, Terre des hommes

31st Genie Awards

31st Genie Awards

The 31st Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 10, 2011 to honour films released in 2010. Nominations were announced on February 2, 2011.William Shatner was announced as the ceremony's host on February 16.-Motion Picture:*Incendies*10½...

• Savage, Lisa Jackson, Lauren Grant and Lori Lozinski
• File Under Miscellaneous, Jeff Barnaby, John Christou
• Marius Borodine, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais
• Out in That Deep Blue Sea, Kazik Radwanski and Dan Montgomery
• Vapor, Kaveh Nabatian, Cédric Bourdeau and Stéphane Tanguay