18th Genie Awards
| 18th Genie Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | December 14, 1997 |
| Site | Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto |
| Hosted by | Geoff Pevere Cameron Bailey |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | The Sweet Hereafter |
| Most nominations | The Sweet Hereafter |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | Bravo! |
| |
The 18th Genie Awards were held on 14 December 1997 to honour Canadian films released that year.[1] to honour the best Canadian films of 1997.[1] [2] The ceremony's hosts were film critics Geoff Pevere and Cameron Bailey.
For this year, CBC Television declined to broadcast the ceremony; in recent years, the academy's experimentation with formats had not been successful. The CBC did, however, commit to the popular one-hour Preview show. Bravo! immediately agreed to air the entire ceremony, but not live--the show was aired the following day. In support, CTV, Global, The Movie Network and Super Écran also provided awards-related programming.[3]
This year's awards were dominated by Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter , Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden , Gabriel Pelletier's Karmina , André Forcier's The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge) and, from Lynne Stopkewich, Kissed . Two Special Awards were given: one for Outstanding Achivement in Make-up, to Pierre Saindon for his work on Karmina ; the other to Telefilm Canada for its development and support of the Canadian film industry.[3]
Award winners and nominees
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References
[edit ]- ^ a b Playback Staff (17 November 1997). "The 1997 Genie Awards". Playback . Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ "The Sweet Hereafter". The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ a b 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.
External links
[edit ]- Genie Awards 1997 on imdb Archived 2010年02月11日 at the Wayback Machine