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The Lucky Star (1980 Film)
''The Lucky Star'' is a 1980 Canadian drama film. Plot A young Jewish boy who escapes from the traumas of the war-torn Netherlands by living in a fantasy world of American westerns. Cast *Brett Marx as David Goldberg *Rod Steiger as Colonel Gluck *Louise Fletcher as Loes Bakker *Lou Jacobi as Elia Goldberg * Yvon Dufour as Burgomeister * Helen Hughes as Rose Goldberg *Isabelle Mejias as Marijke *Jean Gascon as The Priest * Kalman Steinberg as Salomon * Pierre Gobeil as Peter Recognition * Genie Award for Best Achievement in Sound Editing - Jean-Guy Montpetit - Won * Genie Award for Best Music Score - Art Phillips - Won * Genie Award for Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium - Max Fischer - Won * Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - Michel Descombes, Patrick Rousseau - Nominated * Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - André Fleury, Claude Léger - Nominated * Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor - Brett Marx - Nominated * Genie Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Fischer (screenwriter)
Max Fischer is a Canadian screenwriter and film director known for such films as ''The Lucky Star'', ''Killing 'em Softly'', ''Wet Dreams'' and ''Deception Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight o ...''. References External links * Living people Canadian male screenwriters English-language film directors Canadian film directors 20th-century Canadian screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-screenwriter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Of America
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1980 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Worldwide gross revenue The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1980. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1980. Events * April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "the Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80. * May 21 – ''The Empire Strikes Back'' is released and is the highest-grossing film of the year (just as its predecessor, ''Star Wars'', was three years prior). * June 9 – Richard Pryor sets himself on fire while free-basing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. Pryor ran down his stree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Performance By A Foreign Actress
The Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress was awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television from 1980 to 1983, for the best performance by non-Canadians, Canadian actress in a Canadian film. The award and its Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor, Foreign Actor companion were frequently criticized both by actors and film critics — Canadian actor Christopher Plummer criticized the distinction in his Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor, Best Actor acceptance speech at the first Genies ceremony, and Jay Scott called them "loathsome", dubbing them "the Colonial Category", in a 1982 article in ''The Globe and Mail''.Jay Scott, "Canadian films do Jekyll and Hyde act". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 27, 1982. The awards were discontinued after the end of the 4th Genie Awards."Genie rules changed to include Americans". ''Toronto Star'', October 9, 1985. Initially, non-Canadian actresses were simply barred from being nominated in acting categorie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Performance By A Foreign Actor
The Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor was awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television from 1980 to 1983, for the best performance by non-Canadian actor in a Canadian film. The award and its Foreign Actress companion were frequently criticized both by actors and film critics — Canadian actor Christopher Plummer criticized the distinction in his Best Actor acceptance speech at the first Genies ceremony, and Jay Scott called them "loathsome", dubbing them "the Colonial Category", in a 1982 article in ''The Globe and Mail''.Jay Scott, "Canadian films do Jekyll and Hyde act". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 27, 1982. The awards were discontinued after the 4th Genie Awards."Genie rules changed to include Americans". ''Toronto Star'', October 9, 1985. Initially, non-Canadian actors were simply barred from being nominated in acting categories at all, but beginning with the 7th Genie Awards non-Canadian actors instead became eligible for the Genie Award f ... [...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] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Overall Sound
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best work by a sound designer in a Canadian film. Formerly known as Best Overall Sound, it was renamed to Best Sound Mixing at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Sound References {{Canadian Screen Awards Sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ... Film sound awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Screenplay Adapted From Another Medium
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony. As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Music Score ...
An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score for the previous year. Prior to 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Prix Iris for Best Original Music * References {{Canadian Screen Awards Film awards for best score Original Score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Sound Editing
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Sound Editing is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best sound editor on a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1970 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, before being transitioned to the new Genie Awards in 1980;Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 93-95. since 2013 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Sound The Prix Iris for Best Sound (french: Prix Iris du meilleur son) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best sound in feature films made within the Cinema of Quebec. Unlike ... References {{Canadian Screen Awards Sound editing Film sound awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gascon
Jean Gascon (December 21, 1920 – April 13, 1988) was a Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator. Career Originally bent on a career in medicine, Gascon abandoned it for the stage after considerable work with amateur groups in Montreal. A scholarship in 1946 from the Government of France enabled him to study dramatic art in Paris. He studied with Ludmilla Pitoëff. After returning to Canada in 1951, he co-founded Montreal's Theatre du Nouveau Monde and became its first Artistic Director. During this time, he also started a long association with the newly established Stratford Festival in 1956, playing the Constable of France in Henry V and directing three farces by Moliere. He returned to Stratford to direct Le malade imaginaire in 1958 and Othello in 1959. Between 1960 and 1963, he was founding Administrative Director of the National Theatre School of Canada and was awarded the Canadian Drama Award, the Prix Victor Dore. In 1963 he returned to Stratford to direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Mejias
Isabelle Mejias (born November 4, 1961) is a Canadian actress."Young Montreal actress gives school priority". ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', October 7, 1981. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' Unfinished Business'', for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985. Career Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Mejias had her first film role in the 1980 film ''Girls''. She then appeared in ''The Lucky Star'', ''Le Roi des cons'' and ''Julie Darling'' prior to 1984, when she appeared in both ''Unfinished Business'' and ''The Bay Boy''. For ''Cinema Canada'' magazine, critic John Harkness wrote of her performance in ''Unfinished Business'' that "If this were a country with any sort of rational production/distribution/publicity system, a performance like this would mean that she would immediately be talked about in Hollywood - Mejias has star quality like you wouldn't believe." She subsequently starred in the films ''Blue Line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
