30th Genie Awards

30th Genie Awards
Date April 12, 2010
Site Guvernment/Kool Haus Entertainment Complex, Toronto, Ontario
Highlights
Best Picture Polytechnique
Most awards Polytechnique (9)
Most nominations Polytechnique (11)
Television coverage
Network Independent Film Channel, CBC.ca, The Movie Network (delayed broadcast) and Movie Central (delayed broadcast)

The 30th Genie Awards were on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009.[1] Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.[2]

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 Awards,[3] Xavier Dolan's film J'ai tué ma mère was virtually absent from the ceremony, winning the Claude Jutra Award for best film by a first-time director but garnering no other nominations in any category at all. Both Kevin Tierney, vice-chairman of cinema for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and Martha Burns, the winner of the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress, openly criticized the shutout, with Tierney likening it to "being sent to the kiddie table".[1]

Awards

Motion Picture Direction
Actor in a leading role Actress in a leading role
Actor in a supporting role Actress in a supporting role
Original Screenplay Adapted Screenplay
Best Feature Length Documentary Best Short Documentary
Best Live Action Short Drama Best Animated Short
  • Blue ribbon 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
Art Direction/Production Design Cinematography
Costume Design Editing
Overall Sound Sound Editing
  • Blue ribbon Stéphane Bergeron, Pierre Blain, Jo Caron and Benoît Leduc, Polytechnique
  • Simon Goulet and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, 5150 Elm's Way
  • Richard Lavoie, Arnaud Derimay, Jean-Charles Desjardins and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Before Tomorrow
  • Mario Auclair, Daniel Bisson, Luc Boudrias and Jean-Charles Desjardins, Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles
  • Claude Hazanavicius, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Love and Savagery
  • Blue ribbon Claude Beaugrand, Guy Francoeur, Carole Gagnon and Christian Rivest, Polytechnique
  • Pierre-Jules Audet, Michelle Cloutier, Jacques Plante, Jean-François Sauvé, Nicolas Gagnon, Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles
  • Mathieu Beaudin, Jérôme Décarie and Jacques Plante, 5150 Elm's Way
  • Garrett Kerr, Fred Brennan, Paul Germann, Steve Hammond and Mishann Lau, Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  • Olivier Calvert, Natalie Fleurant, Francine Poirier and Lise Wedlock, Babine
Achievement in Music: Original Score Achievement in Music: Original Song
Achievement in Make-Up Special awards
  • Blue ribbon Djina Caron and André Duval, Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles
  • Robbi O'Quinn and Leanne Morrison, You Might As Well Live
  • Djina Caron and Martin Rivest, Polytechnique
  • Diane Simard and Réjean Goderre, Love and Savagery
  • Micheline Trépanier and Linda Gordon, 1981

References

  1. 1 2 "Polytechnique sweeps Genie Awards". Toronto Star, April 12, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Polytechnique leads Genie nominations", The Globe and Mail, March 1, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Xavier Dolan's killer debut is Canada's Oscar pick". cbc.ca, September 22, 2009.

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