Awards for 1994

Genie

Best Motion Picture

WINNER

Exotica: Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
NOMINEES

Double Happiness: Rose Lam, Stephen Hegyes

King of the Airways: Jacques Dorfmann, Richard Sadler

Mon amie Max: Aimée Danis, Danièle Bussy

Whale Music: Raymond Massey, Steven DeNure

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Whale Music: Maury Chaykin
NOMINEES

Exotica: Elias Koteas

Henry & Verlin

Les pots cassés: Gilbert Sicotte

King of the Airways: Martin Drainville

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Double Happiness: Sandra Oh
NOMINEES

Henry & Verlin: Nancy Beatty

Les pots cassés: Marie Tifo

Mon amie Max: Geneviève Bujold

Mouvements du désir: Valérie Kaprisky

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Exotica: Don McKellar
NOMINEES

Double Happiness: Callum Keith Rennie

For the Moment: Scott Kraft

Love & Human Remains: Matthew Ferguson

Mon amie Max: Michel Rivard

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Mustard Bath: Martha Henry
NOMINEES

For the Moment: Wanda Cannon

Love & Human Remains: Mia Kirshner

Love & Human Remains: Joanne Vannicola

Mon amie Max: Johanne McKay

Best Achievement in Direction

WINNER

Exotica: Atom Egoyan
NOMINEES

Deux actrices: Micheline Lanctôt

Double Happiness: Mina Shum

A Wind from Wyoming: André Forcier

Mouvements du désir: Léa Pool

Whale Music: Richard J. Lewis

Best Screenplay, Original

WINNER

Exotica: Atom Egoyan
NOMINEES

Double Happiness: Mina Shum

Les pots cassés: Gilles Desjardins

Matusalem: Roger Cantin

Mouvements du désir: Léa Pool

Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium

WINNER

Love & Human Remains: Brad Fraser
NOMINEES

Ordinary Magic: Jefferson Lewis

Whale Music: Paul Quarrington, Richard J. Lewis

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER

Exotica: Paul Sarossy
NOMINEES

Double Happiness: Peter Wunstorf

Henry & Verlin: Paul Van der Linden

Kabloonak: François Protat

Mon amie Max: Sylvain Brault

Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design

WINNER

Exotica: Richard Paris, Linda Del Rosario
NOMINEES

Le secret de Jérôme: Luc J. Béland

Les pots cassés: Marie-Carole de Beaumont

Matusalem: Vianney Gauthier

Mouvements du désir: Serge Bureau

Best Achievement in Costume Design

WINNER

Exotica: Linda Muir
NOMINEES

Le secret de Jérôme: Jacinthe Demers

Les pots cassés: Gaétanne Lévesque

Matusalem: Francesca Chamberland

Mouvements du désir: Sabina Haag

Best Achievement in Overall Sound

NOMINEES

Exotica: Keith Elliott, Ross Redfern, Peter Kelly, Daniel Pellerin

La vie d'un héros: Michel Descombes, Richard Besse, Luc Boudrias, Réjean Juteau

Matusalem: Louis Hone, Dominique Chartrand, Jacques Drouin, Hans Peter Strobl

Mouvements du désir: Hans Künzi, François Musy, Florian Eidenbenz, Jocelyn Caron

Road to Saddle River: Dean Giammarco, Bill Sheppard, Garrell Clark, Paul A. Sharpe

Best Overall Sound

WINNER

Whale Music: Daryl Powell, Dean Giammarco, Bill Sheppard, Paul A. Sharpe

Best Achievement in Film Editing

WINNER

Double Happiness: Alison Grace
NOMINEES

Exotica: Susan Shipton

King of the Airways: Denis Papillon

Mon amie Max: Jacques Gagné

Mouvements du désir: Michel Arcand

Best Sound Editing

WINNER

Whale Music: Cal Shumiatcher, Eric Hill, Marti Richa, Issac Strozberg, Shane Shemko

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

NOMINEES

Exotica: Sue Conley, Andy Malcolm, Paul Shikata, Peter Winninger, Steve Munro

Matusalem: Michel B. Bordeleau, Diane Boucher, Natalie Fleurant, Jérôme Décarie

Mouvements du désir: Jacques Plante, Antoine Morin, Jérôme Décarie, Michel Arcand

Road to Saddle River: Marti Richa, Eric Hill, Shane Shemko, Cal Shumiatcher, Jacqueline Cristianini

Best Original Song

WINNER

Whale Music: Rheostatics
For the song ???
NOMINEES

Max: Shari Ulrich, Graeme Coleman, David Graff
For the song ???

Savage Land: Penny Anne Baker, Michael Conway Baker
For the song ???

The Myth of the Male Orgasm: Brad Hayes, Ray Bonneville
For the song ???

Zero Patience: Glenn Schellenberg, John Greyson
For the song ???

Best Music Score

WINNER

Exotica: Mychael Danna
NOMINEES

Henry & Verlin: Mark Korven

La vie d'un héros: Milan Kymlicka

Matusalem: Milan Kymlicka

Whale Music: George Blondheim

Best Short Film

WINNER

Arrowhead: Emmet Sheil, Peter Lynch
NOMINEES

Bob's Birthday: David Fine, Alison Snowden

Collateral Damage: Leonard Farlinger, Pamela Davenport

Save My Lost Nigga Soul: Damon D'Oliveira, Clement Virgo

Without Rockets: Keith Tomasek, Gary Yates

Best Documentary

WINNER

In the Gutter and Other Good Places: Cristine Richey
NOMINEES

André Mathieu, musicien: Jean-Claude Labrecque, Micheline Blais

Fat Chance: Joseph MacDonald, Charles Konowal

Folk Art Found Me: Alex Busby, Mike Mahoney

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: Alanis Obomsawin, Wolf Koenig