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18th Genie Awards

1997 Canadian film awards ceremony

Field	Value
number	18
award	Genie Awards
date	December 14, 1997
site	Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
host	Geoff Pevere
Cameron Bailey
best_picture	The Sweet Hereafter
most_nominations	The Sweet Hereafter
network	Bravo!
last	17th
next	19th

Cameron Bailey The 18th Genie Awards were held on 14 December 1997 to honour Canadian films released that year. to honour the best Canadian films of 1997. The ceremony's hosts were film critics Geoff Pevere and Cameron Bailey.

For this year, CBC Television declined to broadcast the ceremony; in recent years, the academy's experimentation with formats had not been successful. The CBC did, however, commit to the popular one-hour Preview show. Bravo! immediately agreed to air the entire ceremony, but not live--the show was aired the following day. In support, CTV, Global, The Movie Network and Super Écran also provided awards-related programming.

This year's awards were dominated by Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden, Gabriel Pelletier's Karmina, André Forcier's The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge) and, from Lynne Stopkewich, Kissed. Two Special Awards were given: one for Outstanding Achievement in Make-up, to Pierre Saindon for his work on Karmina; the other to Telefilm Canada for its development and support of the Canadian film industry.

Award winners and nominees

Motion Picture	Direction	Actor in a leading role	Actress in a leading role	Actor in a supporting role	Actress in a supporting role	Best Feature Length Documentary	Best Short Documentary	Best Live Action Short Drama	Best Animated Short	Art Direction/Production Design	Cinematography	Costume Design	Editing	Overall Sound	Sound Editing	Achievement in Music: Original Score	Achievement in Music: Original Song	Screenplay	Special awards

References

Playback Staff. (17 November 1997). "The 1997 Genie Awards". [[Playback (magazine).
"The Sweet Hereafter".
Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. [[Stoddart Publishing]], 2000. {{ISBN. 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 117-199.

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