Tribute.ca sponsors two Genie Awards – Polytechnique wins nine!

By Alexandra Heilbron on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Tribute.ca sponsored two awards at last night Genies! Joshua Jackson presented the Tribute.ca sponsored award for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role to Karine Vanasse of Polytechnique, and five-time Genie award winner Martha Henry presented the Tribute.ca sponsored award for Achievement in Direction to Denis Villeneuve, also for Polytechnique. Polytechnique, about the December 6, 1989 shootings that killed 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, won nine awards in total, including Best Motion Picture. Other award winners include Joshua Jackson for his performance in One Week, and Kari Skogland for Adapted Screenplay (Fifty Dead Men Walking). Jackson is pictured at left with his girlfriend, Inglourious Basterds star Diane Kruger, on the red carpet prior to the ceremony. Click here to see our Genie Awards page!

FULL LIST OF 2010 GENIE AWARD WINNERS:

BEST MOTION PICTURE
POLYTECHNIQUE – Maxime Rémillard, Don Carmody

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
EVE STEWART – Fifty Dead Men Walking

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
ATUAT AKITTIRQ – Before Tomorrow

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
PIERRE GILL – Polytechnique

 

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION  **Sponsored by Tribute.ca
DENIS VILLENEUVE – Polytechnique

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
RICHARD COMEAU – Polytechnique

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP
DJINA CARON, ANDRÉ DUVAL – Grande ourse: La clé des possibles / The Master Key

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SCORE
NORMAND CORBEIL – Grande ourse: La clé des possibles / The Master Key

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SONG
JOHN WELSMAN, CHERIE CAMP – NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY – Oh Love

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
JOSHUA JACKSON – One Week

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MAXIM GAUDETTE – Polytechnique

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE **Sponsored by Tribute.ca
KARINE VANASSE – Polytechnique

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MARTHA BURNS – Love & Savagery

ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND
STÉPHANE BERGERON, PIERRE BLAIN, JO CARON, BENOIT LEDUC – Polytechnique

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
CLAUDE BEAUGRAND, GUY FRANCOEUR, CAROLE GAGNON, CHRISTIAN RIVEST – Polytechnique

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
JACQUES DAVIDTS – Polytechnique

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
KARI SKOGLAND – Fifty Dead Men Walking

BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
A HARD NAME – Alan Zweig, Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THE DELIAN MODE – Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA
DANSE MACABRE – Pedro Pires, Catherine Chagnon

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
RUNAWAY / TRAIN EN FOLIE – Cordell Barker, Derek Mazur, Michael Scott

SPECIAL AWARDS / PRIX SPÉCIAUX

ACADEMY SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Mel Hoppenheim

CLAUDE JUTRA AWARD
XAVIER DOLAN – J’ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother

GOLDEN REEL AWARD
De père en flic / Father and Guns – Denise Robert, Daniel Louis

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