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Academy Of Canadian Cinema And Television Award For Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actress in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1968 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1969, when no eligible feature films were submitted for award consideration, and 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. From 1980 to 1983, only Canadian actresses were eligible for the award; non-Canadian actresses appearing in Canadian films were instead considered for the separate Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress. After 1983, the latter award was discontinued, and from 1986 both Canadian and foreign actresses were eligible for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian film industry and television industry professionals, most notably through the Canadian Screen Awards The mandate of the Academy is to honour outstanding achievements; to heighten public awareness of and increase audience attendance of and appreciationпа of Canadian film and television productions; and to provide critically needed, high-quality professional development programs, conferences and publications. Background Since 2012, the Academy's primary national awards program is the Canadian Screen Awards, which were announced that year as a replacement for the formerly distinct Genie Award (for film) and Gemini Award (for television) ceremonies. The Prix Gémeaux for French-language television remains a separate awards program. The organization also administers the Prism Prize for music videos. The current chief executive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Knox
Ann Knox is a Canadian former film actress, who won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in 1971 for her performance in ''The Only Thing You Know''. Despite her award win, the film had limited commercial release and Knox took no other known acting roles."More than awards, reviews needed to be box office hit". '' Lethbridge Herald'', June 5, 1972. Knox was originally from Guelph, Ontario. At the time of her award win, she worked primarily as an art teacher at Victoria Park Collegiate in Toronto, Ontario; by 1975, she was co-owner of a wool and fabric shop with branches in Toronto and Vancouver, British Columbia."Now who thought to call it Judy?" ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...'', September 9, 1975. References External links * 20th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
28th Canadian Film Awards
The 28th Canadian Film Awards were held on November 20, 1977 to honour achievements in Canadian film."Ceremony dominated by two feature films: NFB Triumphs at Film Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 21, 1977. The ceremony was hosted by Gordon Pinsent.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 117-199. Winners and nominees Feature Non-feature Special awards *John Grierson Award: Fernand Dansereau *Wendy Michener Award: Zale Dalen, '' Skip Tracer'' *Golden Reel Award: '' Lies My Father Told Me'' — Anthony Bedrich, Harry Gulkin *Special achievement: Ralph L. Thomas References {{Canadian Screen Awards Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... 1977 in Canadian ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lies My Father Told Me
''Lies My Father Told Me'' is a 1975 Canadian drama film made in Montreal, Quebec. It was directed by Ján Kadár and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film in 1975. The original story was written by Ted Allan in 1949. Allan was working at an advertising agency. David Rome, editor of the Canadian Jewish Congress ''Bulletin'', asked him to write a story. Allan's short story is as a dramatization of his own childhood memories. Allan comes from a Jewish family who lived in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood. ''Lies My Father Told Me'' has been through many reincarnations since its original publication, as a radio play and a Golden Globe-winning film. The original short story was picked up by producer Harry Gulkin. Gulkin candidly told the ''Montreal Gazette'', "I really didn't know what I was doing, but then nobody knew I didn't know what I was doing". The film has become celebra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Lightstone
Marilyn Lightstone (born 28 June 1940) is a Canadian stage, film and television actress and writer. Biography Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marilyn Lightstone graduated from Baron Byng High School in 1957. She went on to attend McGill University where she received a bachelor's degree. Lightstone then attended and graduated from the National Theatre School. Career She starred on Canadian television as Miss Stacey in ''Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Road to Avonlea''. She has won two Canadian Film Awards; a Genie for Best Actress in '' Lies My Father Told Me'' and a Genie for Best Supporting Actress for '' In Praise of Older Women''. She won an award for Best Actress at the Moscow International Film Festival for ''The Tin Flute''. Her stage roles include Goneril in ''King Lear'' at the Lincoln Centre in New York, Mash in Chekov's ''The Seagull at the Stratford Festival and Leah in '' The Dybbuk. In 1976, Lightstone starred in a play produced by Moses Zna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Canadian Film Awards
The 27th Canadian Film Awards were held on October 24, 1976 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony was hosted by Lorne Greene, and was held at the conclusion of the inaugural 1976 Festival of Festivals. Due to ongoing issues with Quebec filmmakers, the CFA's receipt of its annual government grant was contingent upon the reaching of a compromise by the two groups. It was eventually agreed that the two sides would take turns hosting the awards. To shore up public support, there was an increased PR campaign and CTV aired a one-hour broadcast of the awards ceremony. After pre-selection, total submissions to the jury were 171 films, including 17 features and 76 documentaries. After much discussion about whether or not to add a commercial-value award, the CFAs introduced the Golden Reel Award, presented to the year's top-grossing Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Quiet Day In Belfast
''A Quiet Day in Belfast'' is a 1974 Canadian drama film set in Northern Ireland and starring Barry Foster, Margot Kidder and Sean McCann. British soldiers battle the Provisional Irish Republican Army in early 1970s Belfast. The film was based on a play by Andrew Dalrymple and was filmed in Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland. Plot Summary Charlie McLarnon, a Protestant Northern Irish dog breeder, has been training and fasting his greyhound "Duke of Donegal" in preparation for a race. On the day of the race he is spied upon, and rumor of the dog's speed quickly spreads. John Slattery is a middle-aged, single Catholic Northern Irishman who manages a betting shop in Belfast. The shop is owned by Mr. Collins (''née'' Spiegel), an Austrian-Jewish immigrant. John's only employee is Tim Horgan, a naive young man with a speech defect. The shop has a small group of regulars, notably Mrs. McDuatt, a cantankerous widow pensioner. Mr. Collins phones John to tell him he is preparing to sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Kidder
Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018), known professionally as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress whose career spanned five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. Though she appeared in an array of film and television roles, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the ''Superman'' film series, appearing in the first four films. Born in Yellowknife to a Canadian mother and an American father, Kidder was raised in the Northwest Territories as well as several Canadian provinces. She began her acting career in the 1960s, appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in '' Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx'' (1970). She then played twins in Brian De Palma's cult thriller '' Sisters'' (1973), a sorority student in the slasher film '' Black Christmas'' (1974) and the titular character's girlfriend in the drama '' The Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Canadian Film Awards
The 27th Canadian Film Awards were held on October 12, 1975 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 111-114. The ceremony was hosted by Peter Gzowski. Due to the Quebec boycott crisis which protested the treatment of films from Quebec at the 25th Canadian Film Awards in 1973, and the resulting cancellation of the awards in 1974, the 1975 awards covered films released in both 1974 and 1975. Accordingly, the Canadian Film Awards committee revived the Film of the Year category, which had not been used since 1970, so that it could name separate Best Picture winners for both 1974 and 1975. In all other categories, however, separate winners were not named for the two years. Winners Films *Film of the Year (1974): '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' — John Kemeny *Film of the Year (1975): ''Orders (Les Ordres)'' — Gui Caron, Bernard Lalonde *Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamouraska (film)
''Kamouraska'' is a 1973 French-Canadian film directed and written by Claude Jutra, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Anne Hébert. At the time of its release it was the most expensive film ever made in Canadian history. It won four Canadian Film Awards, but was unsuccessful at the box office. Plot The film is set in rural Québec in the 1830s. Élisabeth at the deathbed of her second husband, Jérôme Rolland, is recounting her past, which is conveyed through a series of flashbacks. She was first married to Antoine, the brutish ''seigneur'' of Kamouraska, and fell in love with a Loyalist American doctor, Georges Nelson. He murdered Antoine. At her trial for complicity in the killing, Élisabeth is acquitted. She marries Jérôme to save her honour. Cast *Geneviève Bujold as Élisabeth d'Aulnières *Richard Jordan as Georges Nelson *Philippe Léotard as Antoine Tassy *Marcel Cuvelier as Jérôme Rolland *Huguette Oligny as the mother of Élisabeth * Camille Bernard as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Canadian Film Awards
The 25th Canadian Film Awards were announced on October 12, 1973, to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 111-114. Quebec boycott The awards were marred by controversy, when 14 Quebec film directors signed an open letter announcing a boycott of the awards over their handling of Quebec films."Group fights to save Film Awards after Quebec directors bow out". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 10, 1973. The signatories were Gilles Carle, Denis Héroux, Claude Jutra, Marcel Carrière, Denys Arcand, Clément Perron, André Melançon, Jacques Gagné, Gilles Therien, René Avon, André Bélanger, Jean Saulnier, Roger Frappier and Aimée Danis. They expressed the view that English Canadian and French Canadian film were two different domains which could not be directly compared against each other in the same categories but instead needed to each have thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The True Nature Of Bernadette
''The True Nature of Bernadette'' (french: La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) is a 1972 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In 1984 the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film tenth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time. ," '', 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013. The film won |
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