Sandra Oh at the 28th Genie Awards
The 28th Genie Awards were held on March 3, 2008 to honour films released in 2007. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The show was broadcast on E! and Independent Film Channel and hosted by Sandra Oh.
The 29th Genie Awards are scheduled for February 2009.
Controversy
The nominations for 2008 faced some controversy when director Jason Reitman issued a statement expressing his disappointment that the hit film Juno, which had a Canadian director, Canadian stars (Ellen Page and Michael Cera) and a Canadian crew, and was filmed in Canada, did not qualify for a nomination. Sara Morton, the head of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, issued a statement indicating that the film — which was produced by an American film studio — had not been submitted for Genie Award consideration.[1]
Top nominations
- Eastern Promises and Shake Hands with the Devil - 12
- Away from Her - 7
- The Tracey Fragments - 6
- Continental, A Film without Guns and Silk - 5
- Days of Darkness - 4
Nominees
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- Kristen Thomson, Away From Her
- Fanny Mallette, Continental, un film sans fusil (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
- Marie-Ginette Guay, Continental, un film sans fusil (Continental, a Film Without Guns)
- Laurence Leboeuf, Ma fille mon ange (My Daughter, My Angel)
- Véronique Le Flaguais, Surviving My Mother
- Stuart Wilson, Christian Cooke, Orest Sushko, Mark Zsifkovits, Eastern Promises
- John J. Thomson, Stephan Carrier, Martin Lee, Citizen Duane
- Eric Fitz, Jo Caron, Gavin Fernandes, Benoît Leduc, Shake Hands With the Devil
- Claude La Haye, Olivier Calvert, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Hans Peter Strobl, Silk
- John Hazen, Matt Chan, Brad Dawe, The Tracey Fragments
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