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32nd Genie Awards
The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011."‘Café de Flore’, ‘A Dangerous Method’ lead Genie Awards race" . '''', January 17, 2012. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2012. The ceremony was originally scheduled to be hosted by and George Stroumboulopoulos, but Martin was forced to cancel at the last minute due to a rescheduled acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel
The Westin Harbour Castle Toronto is a large hotel opened in 1975 on the waterfront of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Westin Hotels chain within Marriott International. History The hotel was built by the Campeau Corporation, after Canadian real estate tycoon Robert Campeau was given permission by the city of Toronto in 1972 to turn industrial land on the city's waterfront into a 30-acre residential and commercial development. The 38-story twin-towered 963-room hotel opened in April 1975 as the Harbour Castle Hotel. Cut off from the city by the Gardiner Expressway, the hotel was at first unsuccessful, with an occupancy rate of only 46.2% in its first year and an even lower rate in its second. Hilton Worldwide, Hilton International assumed management in 1977, and the hotel was renamed the Toronto Hilton Harbour Castle. Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-Shing purchased the hotel from Campeau in 1981. In a complicated management swap in 1987, Hilton Hotels traded operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pelletier
David Jacques Pelletier (born November 22, 1974) is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his former wife Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. They shared the gold medal with the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal. Early life and career Pelletier was born in Sayabec, Quebec, and grew up near the hockey rink. His mother said if he wanted to play hockey, he also had to take figure-skating lessons. He achieved early success as a pair skater with Julie Laporte. They won both the novice and junior titles at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships and placed 7th at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1992. Despite these accomplishments, Pelletier felt his career needed a "shake up" and paired up with Allison Gaylor. They trained in part with Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, and had their biggest success in 1995 when they captured the 1995 Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE (born 26 July 1949) is a British film producer, founder and chairman of Recorded Picture Company. He produced Bernardo Bertolucci's ''The Last Emperor'', which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema. His father was director Ralph Thomas (director of many of the ''Doctor'' films), while his uncle Gerald Thomas directed all of the films in the ''Carry On'' franchise. Life and career Thomas was born in London, England into a filmmaking family with his father, Ralph Philip Thomas, and uncle, Gerald, both directors. His childhood ambition was to work in cinema. As soon as he left school he went to work in various positions, ending up in the cutting rooms working on films such as ''The Harder They Come'', '' Family Life (film)'' and ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', and worked through the ranks to become a film editor for Ken Loach on ''A Misfortune''. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dangerous Method
''A Dangerous Method'' is a 2011 historical drama film directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon, and Vincent Cassel. Its screenplay was adapted by writer Christopher Hampton from his 2002 stage play ''The Talking Cure'', which was based on the 1993 non-fiction book by John Kerr, ''A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein''. Set on the eve of World War I, ''A Dangerous Method'' describes the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology; Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis; and Sabina Spielrein, initially a patient of Jung and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts. A co-production between British, Canadian and German production companies, the film marks the third consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen (after ''A History of Violence'' and ''Eastern Promises''). This is also the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Even (producer)
Pierre Even is a Canadian film producer from Quebec.Pierre Even at . He is a two-time winner of the award for Best Motion Picture from the , as producer of the films '''' and '' |
Marie-Claude Poulin
Marie-Claude is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include: *Marie-Claude Beaud (born 1946), French museumist *Marie-Claude Bourbonnais, Canadian model *Marie-Claude Bakkal-Lagarde, French archaeologist *Marie-Claude Beaud, French exhibition curator and director of cultural institutions *Marie-Claude Bompart, French politician with MPF *Marie-Claude Jarrot, French politician with Union for a Popular Movement *Marie-Claude Gaudel, French mathematician and computer scientist *Marie-Claude Guigue, French historian *Marie-Claude Monchaux, French children's book writer and illustrator *Marie-Claude Pietragalla, French dancer and choreographer *Marie-Claude Treilhou, French film director *Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (born Vogel; 3 November 1912 – 11 December 1996) was a member of the French Resistance as well as a photojournalist, Communist and later, French politician. Biography Photojournalist Vaillant-Couturier's fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée (March 9, 1963December 25, 2021) was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including ''Stéréotypes'' (1991), ''Les Fleurs magiques'' (1995), and ''Les Mots magiques'' (1998). His debut feature, ''Black List'' (1995), was nominated for nine Genie Awards, including nods for Vallée's direction and editing. His fourth feature film, '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), received further critical acclaim and was a financial success. He was such a perfectionist, and budgets were so tight, the film took almost ten years to make. Vallée's follow-up, ''The Young Victoria'' (2009), garnered strong reviews and received three Academy Award nominations. He was offered this film by producer Graham King, who was impressed by ''C.R.A.Z.Y.'' and wanted Vallée to make something similar. Vallée was initially unsure about accepting this offer, as he did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim McCraw
Kim McCraw (born ) is a Canadian film producer and co-founder of the Montreal-based production company micro_scope, with Luc Déry. She was born in Granby, Quebec, and after graduating from Cégep de Granby became a director's assistant. McCraw met Dery while working on a short film in Granby. It was in 2004 that she joined the micro_scope team as a producer, and subsequently became a co-shareholder. With Dery, McCraw specialized in "smart, high-end pics designed to attract interest outside Canada". Their films ''Incendies'' (2010) and ''Monsieur Lazhar'' (2011) both won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture, and both were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. McCraw co-produced ''Inch'Allah'' and personally went to Jordan to work on the film. She later produced '' Gabrielle'' (2013), which competed at the Locarno Film Festival. Filmography Her films include: * '' Familia'' - 2005 * ''Congorama'' - 2006 * ''Continental, a Film Without Guns (Conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Déry
Luc Déry is a French Canadian film producer. He was co-founder of the Montreal-based production company micro_scope, with Kim McCraw. He is from Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, and studied film at the University of Montreal and arts management at York University. With McCraw, Déry specialized in "smart, high-end pics designed to attract interest outside Canada". Their films ''Incendies'' (2010) and ''Monsieur Lazhar'' (2011) both won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture, and both were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Filmography * ''The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La Moitié gauche du frigo)'' - 2000 * ''Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)'' - 2001 * ''A Problem with Fear'' - 2003 * ''Tiresia'' - 2003 * '' Saved by the Belles'' - 2003 * ''Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'' - 2005 * '' Familia'' - 2005 * ''Congorama'' - 2006 * ''Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)'' - 2007 * ''It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Direction
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Direction to the best work by a director of a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . History The award was first presented in 1966 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Directors with multiple wins (3 or more) *David Cronenberg-5 *Denis Villeneuve-4 *Denys Arcand-3 Directors with multiple nominations (3 or more) *David Cronenberg-9 times (5 wins) *Atom Egoyan-9 times (2 wins) *Xavier Dolan-5 times (2 wins) *Denis Villeneuve-4 times (4 wins) *Denys Arcand-4 times (3 wins) *Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Motion Picture
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short or Amateur Film categories. In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K'naan
Keinan Abdi Warsame (born 1 February 1978) ( so, Keynaan Cabdi Warsame, ar, كَينَان عَبدِ وَرسَمَ ''Kaynān ʿAbdi Warsama''), better known by his stage name K'naan (), is a Somali-Canadian musician. He rose to prominence with the success of his single "Wavin' Flag", which was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Besides hip hop, K'naan's sound is influenced by elements of Somali music and world music. He is also involved in various philanthropic initiatives. Personal life K'naan was born 1 February 1978 in Mogadishu, situated in the southeastern Banaadir province of Somalia. K'naan's family was from an artistic background. His grandfather was a famous poet, and his aunt Magool was a renowned singer. His name, ''Keynaan'' (), means "traveller" in the Somali language. K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu. His father, Abdi, left earlier when he was still a boy to work as a taxi driver in New York City. K'naan's early yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
