{{Short description|2010 Canadian film awards ceremony}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox film awards | number = 30 | award = Genie Awards | date = April 12, 2010 | site = Guvernment/[[Kool Haus]] Entertainment Complex, [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] | host = | best_picture = ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]'' | most_wins = ''Polytechnique'' (9) | most_nominations = ''Polytechnique'' (11) | network = [[Independent Film Channel (Canada)|Independent Film Channel]], [[CBC.ca]], [[The Movie Network]] (delayed broadcast) and [[Movie Central]] (delayed broadcast) | last = 29th | next = 31st }}
The '''30th [[Genie Awards]]''' were presented on April 12, 2010, to honour films released in 2009.<ref name=winners>[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/794276--polytechnique-sweeps-genie-awards?bn=1 "Polytechnique sweeps Genie Awards"]. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', April 12, 2010.</ref> Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/polytechnique-leads-genie-nominations/article1485485/ "Polytechnique leads Genie nominations"], ''The Globe and Mail'', March 1, 2010.</ref>
==Controversy== Despite having won three awards at the [[2009 Cannes Film Festival]] and having been selected as Canada's submission for [[List of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language film]] at the [[82nd Academy Awards]],<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/xavier-dolan-s-killer-debut-is-canada-s-oscar-pick-1.850368 "Xavier Dolan's killer debut is Canada's Oscar pick"]. [[cbc.ca]], September 22, 2009.</ref> [[Xavier Dolan]]'s film ''[[I Killed My Mother]] (J'ai tué ma mère)'' was virtually absent from the ceremony, winning the [[Claude Jutra Award]] for best film by a first-time director but garnering no other nominations in any category at all. Both [[Kevin Tierney]], vice-chairman of cinema for the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]], and [[Martha Burns]], the winner of the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress, openly criticized the shutout, with Tierney likening it to "being sent to the kiddie table".<ref name=winners />
==Awards== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture|Motion Picture]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Director|Direction]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]'' — [[Maxime Rémillard]], [[Don Carmody]]''' *''[[3 Seasons]] (3 saisons)'' — [[Maude Bouchard]], [[Jim Donovan (director)|Jim Donovan]], [[Sandy Martinez (producer)|Sandy Martinez]], [[Bruno Rosato]] *''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' — [[Stéphane Rituit]] *''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]'' — [[Shawn Williamson]], [[Stephen Hegyes]], [[Peter La Terriere]], [[Kari Skogland]] *''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' — [[Ingrid Veninger]] | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Denis Villeneuve]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[Marie-Hélène Cousineau]] and [[Madeline Ivalu]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *[[Bruce McDonald (director)|Bruce McDonald]], ''[[Pontypool (film)|Pontypool]]'' *[[Charles Officer]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Kari Skogland]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor|Actor in a leading role]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress|Actress in a leading role]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Joshua Jackson]], ''[[One Week (2008 film)|One Week]]''''' *[[Jean-Carl Boucher]], ''[[1981 (film)|1981]]'' *[[Paul-Dylan Ivalu]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *[[Clark Johnson]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Stephen McHattie]], ''[[Pontypool (film)|Pontypool]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Karine Vanasse]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[Madeline Ivalu]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *[[Karen LeBlanc]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Carinne Leduc]], ''[[3 Seasons]] (3 saisons)'' *[[Gabrielle Rose (actress)|Gabrielle Rose]], ''[[Mothers & Daughters (2008 film)|Mothers & Daughters]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor|Actor in a supporting role]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress|Actress in a supporting role]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Maxim Gaudette]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[Patrick Drolet]], ''[[Father and Guns]] (De père en flic)'' *[[John Dunsworth]], ''[[Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day]]'' *[[Rémy Girard]], ''[[Father and Guns]] (De père en flic)'' *[[Scott Speedman]], ''[[Adoration (2008 film)|Adoration]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Martha Burns]], ''[[Love and Savagery]]''''' *[[Liane Balaban]], ''[[One Week (2008 film)|One Week]]'' *[[Marie Brassard]], ''[[Heat Wave (2009 Canadian film)|Heat Wave]] (Les grandes chaleurs)'' *[[Isabel Richer]], ''[[Babine (film)|Babine]]'' *[[Sonia Vachon]], ''[[5150 Elm's Way]] (5150, rue des ormes)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Original Screenplay]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Adapted Screenplay]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Jacques Davidts]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[David Bezmozgis]], ''[[Victoria Day (film)|Victoria Day]]'' *[[Atom Egoyan]], ''[[Adoration (2008 film)|Adoration]]'' *[[Émile Gaudreault]] and [[Ian Lauzon]], ''[[Father and Guns]] (De père en flic)'' *[[Charles Officer]] and [[Ingrid Veninger]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Kari Skogland]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]''''' *[[Tony Burgess (author)|Tony Burgess]], ''[[Pontypool (film)|Pontypool]]'' *[[Marie-Hélène Cousineau]], [[Susan Avingaq]] and [[Madeline Ivalu]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary|Best Feature Length Documentary]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Documentary Short Film|Short Documentary]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Kristina McLaughlin]], Michael McMahon and [[Alan Zweig]], ''[[A Hard Name]]''''' *[[Larry Weinstein]], [[Rudolf Biermann]] and [[Jessica Daniel]], ''[[Inside Hana's Suitcase]]'' *[[Claude Demers]], ''[[Ladies in Blue]] (Les dames en bleu)'' *[[Patricia Aquino]] and [[Paul Saltzman]], ''[[Prom Night in Mississippi]]'' *[[Mila Aung-Thwin]], [[Kat Baulu]], [[Brett Gaylor]] and [[Germaine Ying-Gee Wong]], ''[[RiP: A Remix Manifesto]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Kara Blake]] and [[Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre]], ''[[The Delian Mode]]''''' *[[Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre]], ''[[Passages (2008 film)|Passages]]'' *[[Peter Mettler]], [[Sandy Hunter (film director)|Sandy Hunter]] and [[Laura Severinac]], ''[[Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama|Best Live Action Short Drama]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short|Best Animated Short]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Pedro Pires (director)|Pedro Pires]] and [[Catherine Chagnon]], ''[[Danse Macabre (2009 film)|Danse Macabre]]''''' *[[Constant Mentzas]], ''[[Gilles (2008 film)|Gilles]]'' *[[Élaine Hébert]] and [[Émile Proulx-Cloutier]], ''[[Life Begins (2009 film)|Life Begins]] (La Vie commence)'' *[[Dan Montgomery]] and [[Kazik Radwanski]], ''[[Princess Margaret Blvd.]]'' *[[Ky Nam Le Duc]], ''[[Land of Men]] (Terre des hommes)'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Derek Mazur]], [[Cordell Barker]] and [[Michael J. F. Scott|Michael Scott]], ''[[Runaway (animated short)|Runaway]]''''' *[[Steven Hoban]], [[Chris Landreth]] and [[Marcy Page]], ''[[The Spine (film)|The Spine]]'' *[[Michael Fukushima]], [[Bruce Alcock]], [[Annette Clarke (producer)|Annette Clarke]] and [[Tina Ouellette]], ''[[Vive la rose]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design|Art Direction/Production Design]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography|Cinematography]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Eve Stewart]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]''''' *[[Diana Abbatangelo]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Susan Avingaq]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *[[Jean Babin]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *[[Patrice Vermette]], ''[[1981 (film)|1981]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Pierre Gill]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[Steve Cosens]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Jonathan Freeman (cinematographer)|Jonathan Freeman]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]'' *[[Ronald Plante]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *[[Allen Smith (cinematographer)|Allen Smith]], ''[[Sticky Fingers (2009 film)|Sticky Fingers]] (Les doigts croches)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design|Costume Design]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing|Editing]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Atuat Akkitirq]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)''''' *[[Carmen Alie]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *[[Sarah Armstrong (designer)|Sarah Armstrong]], ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *[[Brenda Broer]], ''[[Cairo Time]]'' *[[Anne-Karine Gauthier]], ''[[1981 (film)|1981]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Richard Comeau]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *[[Alain Baril]], ''[[5150 Elm's Way]] (5150, rue des ormes)'' *[[Michel Grou]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *[[Jim Munro (film editor)|Jim Munro]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]'' *[[François Normandin]] and [[Jim Donovan (director)|Jim Donovan]], ''[[3 Seasons]] (3 saisons)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Overall Sound|Overall Sound]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing|Sound Editing]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Stéphane Bergeron, Pierre Blain, [[Jo Caron]] and Benoît Leduc, ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *Simon Goulet and [[Bernard Gariépy Strobl]], ''[[5150 Elm's Way]] (5150, rue des ormes)'' *Richard Lavoie, Arnaud Derimay, Jean-Charles Desjardins and [[Bernard Gariépy Strobl]], ''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *Mario Auclair, Daniel Bisson, [[Luc Boudrias]] and Jean-Charles Desjardins, ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *Claude Hazanavicius, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins and [[Bernard Gariépy Strobl]], ''[[Love and Savagery]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Claude Beaugrand, Guy Francoeur, Carole Gagnon and Christian Rivest, ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]''''' *Pierre-Jules Audet, Michelle Cloutier, Jacques Plante, Jean-François Sauvé, Nicolas Gagnon, ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'' *Mathieu Beaudin, Jérôme Décarie and Jacques Plante, ''[[5150 Elm's Way]] (5150, rue des ormes)'' *Garrett Kerr, Fred Brennan, Paul Germann, Steve Hammond and Mishann Lau, ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]'' *Olivier Calvert, Natalie Fleurant, Francine Poirier and Lise Wedlock, ''[[Babine (film)|Babine]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Score|Achievement in Music: Original Score]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song|Achievement in Music: Original Song]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Normand Corbeil]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)''''' *[[Benoît Charest]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]'' *[[Bertrand Chénier]], ''[[Love and Savagery]]'' *[[Christian Clermont]], ''[[5150 Elm's Way]] (5150, rue des ormes)'' *[[Ben Mink]], ''[[Fifty Dead Men Walking]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[John Welsman]] and [[Cherie Camp]], "Oh Love" — ''[[Nurse.Fighter.Boy]]''''' *[[Susan Avingaq]], "Pamani" —''[[Before Tomorrow]] (Le Jour avant le lendemain)'' *[[Sari Dajani]], [[Iohann Martin]], [[Rudy Toussaint]] and [[John Von Aichlinger]], "Bon Swa" — ''[[Heat Wave (2009 Canadian film)|Heat Wave]] (Les grandes chaleurs)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Makeup|Achievement in Makeup]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Special awards |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Djina Caron]] and [[André Duval (hairstylist)|André Duval]], ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)''''' *[[Robbi O'Quinn]] and [[Leanne Morrison]], ''[[You Might As Well Live]]'' *[[Djina Caron]] and [[Martin Rivest]], ''[[Polytechnique (film)|Polytechnique]]'' *[[Diane Simard]] and [[Réjean Goderre]], ''[[Love and Savagery]]'' *[[Micheline Trépanier]] and [[Linda Gordon (hairstylist)|Linda Gordon]], ''[[1981 (film)|1981]]'' | valign="top" | *[[Claude Jutra Award]]: [[Xavier Dolan]], ''[[I Killed My Mother]] (J'ai tué ma mère)'' *[[Golden Reel Award (Canada)|Golden Reel Award]]: ''[[Father and Guns]] (De père en flic)'' |}
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100304114331/http://www.genieawards.ca/Genie30/main.cfm 30th Genie Awards]
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