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unusual facts about Genie Award



A Family Secret

A Family Secret earned two Genie Award nominations (Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Ginette Reno and Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay) and won a Stony Brook Film Festival award for Best Feature.

Barbara March

Other credits include Total Security, L.A. Law, The Portrait, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, Blood Ties, Kingsgate, Nightheat and Deserters for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress.

Bryan Webb

In 2009, Webb received a Genie Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Music – Original Song for "Big Smoke", a song he wrote for the soundtrack to This Beautiful City.

In 2009 Webb received a Genie Award nomination for "Big Smoke" (a song he wrote for the soundtrack to This Beautiful City).

James Allodi

As an actor, he starred in Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful, Paul Gross' Men With Brooms and Peter Lynch's Genie Award nominated feature length documentary The Herd.

John Paskievich

His other directorial credits include My Mother’s Village, in which Paskievich delves into the experience of other Ukrainian-Canadians, The Gypsies of Svinia, If Only I Were an Indian and the Genie Award-winning short film Ted Baryluk's Grocery.

Laura Doyle

Doyle was nominated for Genie Awards in 2003, for two of her songs that were used in the film Suddenly Naked, including her best known title; "Let You Go".

Maxime Rémillard

Initially focusing on film distribution, Remstar ensured the Canadian success of a number of productions, including Karakter (Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film); Monster (Academy Award for Best Actress/Charlize Theron); The Triplets of Belleville (Genie Award for Best Film); The Beat That My Heart Skipped (César for Best Film); Tanguy; and the mega-production Napoléon.

Milan Kymlicka

He received numerous awards for his work, including a Genie Award in 1996 for his work on Margaret's Museum.


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Joan Finnigan

She won the Canadian Genie Award for Best Screenplay in 1969 for the 1968 film The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, which starred Margot Kidder.

Molly Parker

She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as best female lead in 2001 for her role in The Center of the World and has twice been nominated for a Genie Award as best supporting actress, winning in 2002 for Bruce Sweeney's Last Wedding.

Monique Mercure

In 1999, she won another Genie award for her role as Grace Gallagher, an elderly resident in Conquest set in Conquest, Saskatchewan.