As if all this Grammy and Oscar buzz wasn’t enough, nominees were announced today for the Genie Awards, which honor the best in Canadian film. The noms weren’t all that surprising.
After winning three awards last May at BC’s Leo Awards, auteur Carl Bessai's celluloid meditation Normal, is up for three Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Direction (Bessai), Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role (Callum Keith Rennie) and Best Original Screenplay (Travis McDonald).
Passchendaele’s showing is no surprise, considering its boffo box office. The First World War epic is up for Best Motion Picture and actor Paul Gross is nominated for Best Actor. No noms for direction, cinematography, screenplay. But it’s up for Best Motion Picture. You figure it out.
Meanwhile, the mind-and-life altering Amal, by Richie Mehta, is up for six awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Direction and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Rupinder Nagra).
Remember the little picture that could, and did start all that excitement (about Bill C-10)? One of its actors, Kristin Booth, is nominated in the category Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. One nom for Young People F*cking...Is it just me or is that anti-climactic, no actual pun intended?
Some highly recognizable names are also up for awards, including Christopher Plummer, nominated for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, for Emotional Arithmetic. Susan Sarandon (Emotional Arithmetic) and Ellen Burstyn (The Stone Angel) are both in the running for the Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role trophy.
1) Best Motion Picture
Amal
David Miller, Steven Bray
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier
Normal
Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai
Passchendaele
Niv Fichman, Francis Damberger, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Nicole Robert
Fugitive Pieces
Gregory Middleton csc
Le Banquet
Nicolas Bolduc
Le piège américain / The American Trap
Pierre Gill
The Stone Angel
Bobby Bukowski
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Sara Mishara
3) Achievement in Direction
Amal
Richie Mehta
Borderline
Lyne Charlebois
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Benoit Pilon
Normal
Carl Bessai
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Yves-Christian Fournier
Borderline
Isabelle Blais
Emotional Arithmetic
Susan Sarandon
Heaven on Earth
Preity Zinta
Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser's
Marianne Fortier
The Stone Angel
Ellen Burstyn
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Eveline Gélinas
Fugitive Pieces
Rosamund Pike
Maman est chez le coiffeur / Mommy is at the Hairdresser's
Céline Bonnier
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Anie Pascale
Young People Fucking
Kristin Booth
Amal
Rupinder Nagra
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life
Natar Ungalaaq
Emotional Arithmetic
Christopher Plummer
Passchendaele
Paul Gross
This Beautiful City
Aaron Poole
Fugitive Pieces
Rade Sherbedgia
Le Banquet
Benoit McGinnis
Normal
Callum Keith Rennie
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Normand D'Amour
8) Original Screenplay
Bernard Émond
Heaven on Earth
Deepa Mehta
Normal
Travis McDonald
Real Time
Randall Cole
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine
Guillaume Vigneault
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