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30th Genie Awards

2010 Canadian film awards ceremony


2010 Canadian film awards ceremony

FieldValue
number30
awardGenie Awards
dateApril 12, 2010
siteGuvernment/Kool Haus Entertainment Complex, Toronto, Ontario
best_picturePolytechnique
most_winsPolytechnique (9)
most_nominationsPolytechnique (11)
networkIndependent Film Channel, CBC.ca, The Movie Network (delayed broadcast) and Movie Central (delayed broadcast)
last29th
next31st

The 30th Genie Awards were presented 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 Awards, Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (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".

Awards

Motion PictureDirectionActor in a leading roleActress in a leading roleActor in a supporting roleActress in a supporting roleOriginal ScreenplayAdapted ScreenplayBest Feature Length DocumentaryShort DocumentaryBest Live Action Short DramaBest Animated ShortArt Direction/Production DesignCinematographyCostume DesignEditingOverall SoundSound EditingAchievement in Music: Original ScoreAchievement in Music: Original SongAchievement in MakeupSpecial awards

References

References

  1. [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/794276--polytechnique-sweeps-genie-awards?bn=1 "Polytechnique sweeps Genie Awards"]. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', April 12, 2010.
  2. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/polytechnique-leads-genie-nominations/article1485485/ "Polytechnique leads Genie nominations"], ''The Globe and Mail'', March 1, 2010.
  3. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/xavier-dolan-s-killer-debut-is-canada-s-oscar-pick-1.850368 "Xavier Dolan's killer debut is Canada's Oscar pick"]. [[cbc.ca]], September 22, 2009.
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