8th Genie Awards | |
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Date | March 18, 1987 |
Site | Metro Toronto Convention Centre Toronto, Ontario |
Hosted by | Helen Shaver Linda Sorensen Jean LeClerc |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) |
Most awards | The Decline of the American Empire |
Most nominations | The Decline of the American Empire |
Television coverage | |
Network | CBC Television |
The 8th Annual Genie Awards were held on March 18, 1987, to honour Canadian films made the previous year.[1] The show was again held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by actors Helen Shaver, Linda Sorensen and Jean LeClerc. It was broadcast live on CBC Television.[2]
The prestigious Air Canada Award was presented to Garth Drabinsky, film producer and head of North America's largest movie exhibition chain, Cineplex Odeon.
The Special Achievement award went to Taming of the Demons, a film commissioned by Teleglobe Canada for Expo 86 by experimental filmmaker Emil Radok which explores the development of civilization through communications technologies.[3]
The show itself received mixed reviews but the Canadian film industry had finally received the break it had long been waiting for in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain), an international hit which, a few months earlier, had won the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and become the first Canadian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. To no one's surprise, it dominated the awards.
Winners and nominees
References
- ↑ Greg Quill, "Decline rises to top Genie nominations". Toronto Star, February 5, 1987.
- ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 117-199.
- ↑ Voráč, Jiří. "Emil Radok and The Taming of Demons". openjournals.uwaterloo.ca. University of Waterloo. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ↑ "Le Déclin de l'empire américain". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Dancing in the Dark". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ Ramond, Charles-Henri. "Pouvoir intime". filmsquebec.com. Films du Quebec. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "John and the Missus". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Loyalties". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ Ramond, Charles-Henri. "Sitting in Limbo". filmsquebec.com. Films du Quebec. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ Ramond, Charles-Henri. "The Blue Man". filmsquebec.com. Films du Quebec. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Lost!". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Anne Trister". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ "Bach et Bottine". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ↑ Ramond, Charles-Henri. "Les Fous de bassan". filmsquebec.com. Films du Quebec. Retrieved 31 March 2023.