TORONTO -- The Oscar-nominated animated feature The Triplets of Belleville grabbed the best picture trophy Monday night at the Genies as Canada's film awards were dominated by French-language pictures from Quebec. John Duigan's Head in the Clouds, a period romance that stars Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron, took home four craft awards during the pretelecast show, including best costume design, best editing, best original score and best cinematography. But the big winners of the night were French-language movies from Quebec or France. Sylvain Chomet's Triplets, a French-Canadian-Belgium co-production that bowed in 2003 at the Festival de Cannes and went on to earn two Oscar nominations, beat out Istvan Szabo's Being Julia and David Sutherland's Love, Sex and Eating the Bones and two Quebec films for the top prize. Being Julia, the Hungarian-Canadian-British co-production that earned Annette Bening a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination for best actress, came away from the Genies empty-handed.
- 3/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Robert Lepage's La Face Chachee de la Lune, Denys Arcand's Cannes hit The Barbarian Invasions and Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World are among the top 10 Canadian movies of the year as chosen by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The top-10 list for the festival group's Canadian Film Week, set to be unveiled Tuesday night in Toronto, also included Scott Smith's Falling Angels, the Sarah Polley starrer My Life Without Me from Isabel Coixet, David Sutherland's Love and Sex and Eating the Bones, Nathaniel Geary's On the Corner and another Quebec French-language film, Bernard Emond's 20h17, Rue Darling. Also named in the unranked top-10 list were two documentaries, Alan King's Dying at Grace and Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot's The Corporation.
- 12/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Thom Fitzgerald's The Event, which stars Parker Posey and Sarah Polley, has been set to open the 23rd Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 12, it was announced Wednesday. Fitzgerald's AIDS-themed drama, which also stars Olympia Dukakis and Jane Leeves, originally bowed at Sundance. Closing the festival Sept. 20 will be Denys Arcand's Cannes entry The Barbarian Invasions, which will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 4. The Atlantic festival lineup also includes Deepa Mehta's The Republic of Love, Sudz Sutherland's Love Sex and Eating the Bones and Alanis Obomsawin's Our Nationhood. The festival, which runs Sept. 12-20, will also screen 10 French films, among them Dominique Cabrera's A Wonderful Spell, Ben Levine's Reveil and Bernard Emond's 20h17 rue Darling, which bowed in Cannes.
- 8/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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