27th Genie Awards

The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto.

"Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket") was the most successful film at these awards, winning 9 of its 13 nominated categories. "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" won just 2 of its 10 nominations, although it received the highest 2006 box office revenues in Canada to earn the Golden Reel Award.

Nominees

Nominees were announced 9 January 2007. [http://www.genieawards.ca/genie27/allnoms.cfm]

Films with the most nominations:
*13: "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")
*10: "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
*7: "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")
*6: "Tideland"
*5: "Eve and the Fire Horse"
*5: "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")
*4: "Cheech"
*4: "Guide de la Petite Vengeance" ("The Little Book of Revenge")
*4: "Snow Cake"

Winners

=Motion Picture=

Winner: "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"; Kevin Tierney

Other nominees:
* "Guide de la Petite Vengeance" ("The Little Book of Revenge"); Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
* "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket"); Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
* ""; Barrie Dunn, Mike Clattenburg, Michael Volpe
* "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali"); Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca

=Actor in a leading role=

Winner: Roy Dupuis, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Colm Feore, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Olivier Gourmet, "Congorama"
* Patrick Huard, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Luc Picard, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")

=Actress in a leading role=

Winner: Julie LeBreton, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Jodelle Ferland, "Tideland"
* Fatou N'Diaye, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")
* Ginette Reno, "Le secret de ma mère"
* Sigourney Weaver, "Snow Cake"

Actor in a supporting role

Winner: Stephen McHattie, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
*Hugh Dillon, ""
*Robert Joy, "Whole New Thing"
*Chan Chit Man Lester, "Eve and the Fire Horse"
*Michel Muller, "Guide de la Petite Vengeance" ("The Little Book of Revenge")

Actress in a supporting role

Winner: Carrie-Anne Moss, "Snow Cake"

Other nominees:
*Caroline Dhavernas, "Niagara Motel"
*Marie Gignac, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")
*Emily Hampshire, "Snow Cake"
*Vivian Wu, "Eve and the Fire Horse"

Direction

Winner: Charles Binamé. "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Érik Canuel, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Robert Favreau, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")
* Stéphane Lapointe, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")
* Jean-François Pouliot, "Guide de la Petite Vengeance" ("The Little Book of Revenge")

Art direction/production design

Winner: Michel Proulx, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Jean Bécotte, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Mary-Ann Liu, Athena Wong, "Eve and the Fire Horse"
* François Séguin, "La Rage de l'ange" ("Angel's Rage")
* Jasna Stefanovic, "Tideland"

Cinematography

Winner: Pierre Gill, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Bruce Chun, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Steve Cosens, "Snow Cake"
* Jan Kiesser, "Beowulf & Grendel"
* Nicola Pecorini, "Tideland"

Costume design

Winner: Francesca Chamberland, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Michelline Amaaq, "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"
* Sandy Buck, "Eve and the Fire Horse"
* Mario Davignon, "Tideland"
* Annie Dufort, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")

Editing

Winner: Michel Arcand, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
* Jean-François Bergeron, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Frédérique Broos, "Congorama"
* Michel Grou, "Cheech"
* Lesley Walker, "Tideland"

Adapted screenplay

Winner: Robert Favreau, Gil Courtemanche, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")

Other nominees:
*Mike Clattenburg, Robb Wells, ""
*François Létourneau, "Cheech"

Original screenplay

Winner: Philippe Falardeau, "Congorama"

Other nominees:
*Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté, "Le secret de ma mère"
*Stéphane Lapointe, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")
*Ken Scott, "Guide de la Petite Vengeance" ("The Little Book of Revenge")
*Ken Scott, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Overall sound

Winner: Dominique Chartrand, Gavin Fernandes, Nathalie Morin, Pierre Paquet, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"

Other nominees:
*Marie-Claude Gagné, Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Hans Peter Strobl, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")
*Claude Hazanavicius, Claude Beaugrand, Luc Boudrias, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")
*David Lee, Douglas Cooper, Robert Farr, "Tideland"
*Daniel Pellerin, Gashtaseb Ariana, Jeff Carter, "Eve and the Fire Horse"

ound Editing

Winner: Claude Beaugrand, Olivier Calvert, Jérôme Décarie, Natalie Fleurant, Francine Poirier, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")

Other nominees:
*Pierre-Jules Audet, Guy Francoeur, Guy Pelletier, "Cheech"
*Marie-Claude Gagné, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")
*Christian Rivest, Valéry Dufort-Boucher, Tchae Measroch, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
*Jane Tattersall, Barry Gilmore, David McCallum, Donna Powell, Dave Rose, "Beowulf & Grendel"

Documentary

Winner: "Manufactured Landscapes", Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier, Gerry Flahive, Daniel Iron, Peter Starr

Other nominee:
* "La Planète Blanche", ("The White Planet"), Jean Lemire, Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert

Live action short drama

Winner: "Le rouge au sol" ("Red"), Maxime Giroux, Paul Barbeau

Other nominees:
* "Big Girl", Renuka Jeyapalan, Anneli Ekborn, Michael Gelfand
* "Hiro", Matthew Swanson, Oliver-Barnet Lindsay
* "Jack et Jacques", Marie-Hélène Copti
* "Snapshots for Henry", Teresa Hannigan, Charlotte Disher

Animated short

Winner: "The Danish Poet", Torill Kove, Lise Fearnley, Marcy Page

Other nominee:
* "Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse" ("Tragic Story with Happy Ending"), Regina Pessoa, Patrick Eveno, Abi Feijò, Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Marcel Jean

Music - original score

Winner: Jean Robitaille, "Sans elle" ("Without Her")

Other nominees:
* Normand Corbeil, "Cheech"
* Michel Cusson, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")
* Pierre Desrochers, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")
* Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, "Beowulf & Grendel"

Music - original song

Winner: "Have Hope", Jennifer Kreisberg, "Unnatural & Accidental"

Other nominees:
* "L'Astronaute", Dan Bigras, "La Rage de l'ange" ("Angel's Rage")
* "In a Heartbeat", Bramwell Tovey, Richard Bell, "Eighteen"
* "Tattoo", Éric Lapointe, Stéphane Dufour, Jamil, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* "Trace-Moi", Patrick Watson, Caroline Dhavernas, "La belle bête" ("The Beautiful Beast")

pecial Awards

The following special awards do not involve prior nominations:

Make-up design

This is an occasional honour which was last presented in 1997.

Winner: Nick Dudman, "Beowulf & Grendel"

Golden Reel Award

This award is presented to the film which attained the highest box office receipts in 2006.

Winner: "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"

Claude Jutra Award

This prize is a special director-based presentation. Until this year, there was no more than one recipient of the Claude Jutra Award.

Winners:
* Julia Kwan, "Eve and the Fire Horse"
* Stéphane Lapointe, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux" ("The Secret Life of Happy People")

External links

* [http://www.genieawards.ca Genie Awards official site]