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8th Genie Awards

1987 Canadian film awards

Summary

1987 Canadian film awards

FieldValue
number8
awardGenie Awards
dateMarch 18, 1987
siteMetro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, Ontario
hostHelen Shaver
Linda Sorensen
Jean LeClerc
best_pictureThe Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
most_winsThe Decline of the American Empire
most_nominationsThe Decline of the American Empire
networkCBC Television
last7th
next9th

Toronto, Ontario Linda Sorensen Jean LeClerc The 8th Annual Genie Awards were held on March 18, 1987, to honour Canadian films made the previous year. The show was again held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by actors Helen Shaver, Linda Sorensen and Jean LeClerc. It was broadcast live on CBC Television.

The prestigious Air Canada Award was presented to Garth Drabinsky, film producer and head of North America's largest movie exhibition chain, Cineplex Odeon.

The Special Achievement award went to Taming of the Demons, a film commissioned by Teleglobe Canada for Expo 86 by experimental filmmaker Emil Radok which explores the development of civilization through communications technologies.

The show itself received mixed reviews but the Canadian film industry had finally received the break it had long been waiting for in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain), an international hit which, a few months earlier, had won the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and become the first Canadian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. To no one's surprise, it dominated the awards.

Controversy

Danielle Messia's song "De la main gauche", from the film Anne Trister, was named winner of the award for Best Original Song at the ceremony, but later had its award rescinded when it was discovered that the song was not original to the film, but in fact had previously appeared on one of Messia's own albums five years earlier. Gilles Vigneault's "Les iles de l'enfance", from the film Equinox (Équinoxe), was later named the new winner of the award.

Winners and nominees

Motion PictureDirectionActor in a leading roleActress in a leading roleActor in a supporting roleActress in a supporting roleOriginal ScreenplayAdapted ScreenplayBest Live Action Short DramaBest Animated ShortArt Direction/Production DesignCinematographyCostume DesignEditingOverall SoundSound EditingAchievement in Music: Original ScoreAchievement in Music: Original SongDocumentarySpecial Awards

References

References

  1. Greg Quill, "Decline rises to top Genie nominations". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', February 5, 1987.
  2. 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.
  3. "Emil Radok and The Taming of Demons". University of Waterloo.
  4. "Academy rescinds Genie award". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 12, 1987.
  5. "Genie voters change their tune". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', June 18, 1987.
  6. "Le Déclin de l'empire américain". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  7. "Dancing in the Dark". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  8. "Pouvoir intime". Films du Quebec.
  9. "John and the Missus". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  10. "Loyalties". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  11. "Sitting in Limbo". Films du Quebec.
  12. "The Blue Man". Films du Quebec.
  13. "Lost!". British Film Institute.
  14. "Anne Trister". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  15. "Bach et Bottine". British Film Institute.
  16. "Les Fous de bassan". Films du Quebec.
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