# 30th Genie Awards

The 30th Genie Awards were presented on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009. Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.

## Controversy

Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards, 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".

## Awards

| Motion Picture | Direction |
| Polytechnique — Maxime Rémillard, Don Carmody 3 Seasons (3 saisons) — Maude Bouchard, Jim Donovan, 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 | Denis Villeneuve, Polytechnique Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) Bruce McDonald, Pontypool Charles Officer, Nurse.Fighter.Boy Kari Skogland, Fifty Dead Men Walking |
| Actor in a leading role | Actress in a leading role |
| Joshua Jackson, One Week Jean-Carl Boucher, 1981 Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) Clark Johnson, Nurse.Fighter.Boy Stephen McHattie, Pontypool | Karine Vanasse, Polytechnique Madeline Ivalu, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) Karen LeBlanc, Nurse.Fighter.Boy Carinne Leduc, 3 Seasons (3 saisons) Gabrielle Rose, Mothers & Daughters |
| Actor in a supporting role | Actress in a supporting role |
| Maxim Gaudette, 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 | Martha Burns, Love and Savagery Liane Balaban, One Week Marie Brassard, Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) Isabel Richer, Babine Sonia Vachon, 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des ormes) |
| Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay |
| Jacques Davidts, Polytechnique David Bezmozgis, Victoria Day Atom Egoyan, Adoration Émile Gaudreault and Ian Lauzon, Father and Guns (De père en flic) Charles Officer and Ingrid Veninger, Nurse.Fighter.Boy | Kari Skogland, Fifty Dead Men Walking Tony Burgess, Pontypool Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq and Madeline Ivalu, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) |
| Best Feature Length Documentary | Short Documentary |
| 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 | Kara Blake and Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, The Delian Mode Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Passages Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter and Laura Severinac, Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands |
| Best Live Action Short Drama | Best Animated Short |
| Pedro Pires and Catherine Chagnon, Danse Macabre Constant Mentzas, Gilles Élaine Hébert and Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Life Begins (La Vie commence) Dan Montgomery and Kazik Radwanski, Princess Margaret Blvd. Ky Nam Le Duc, Land of Men (Terre des hommes) | Derek Mazur, Cordell Barker and Michael Scott, Runaway Steven Hoban, Chris Landreth and Marcy Page, The Spine Michael Fukushima, Bruce Alcock, Annette Clarke and Tina Ouellette, Vive la rose |
| Art Direction/Production Design | Cinematography |
| 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 (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Patrice Vermette, 1981 | Pierre Gill, Polytechnique Steve Cosens, Nurse.Fighter.Boy Jonathan Freeman, Fifty Dead Men Walking Ronald Plante, The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Allen Smith, Sticky Fingers (Les doigts croches) |
| Costume Design | Editing |
| Atuat Akkitirq, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) Carmen Alie, The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Sarah Armstrong, Nurse.Fighter.Boy Brenda Broer, Cairo Time Anne-Karine Gauthier, 1981 | Richard Comeau, Polytechnique Alain Baril, 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des ormes) Michel Grou, The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Jim Munro, Fifty Dead Men Walking François Normandin and Jim Donovan, 3 Seasons (3 saisons) |
| Overall Sound | Sound Editing |
| Stéphane Bergeron, Pierre Blain, Jo Caron and Benoît Leduc, 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 (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Claude Hazanavicius, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Love and Savagery | Claude Beaugrand, Guy Francoeur, Carole Gagnon and Christian Rivest, Polytechnique Pierre-Jules Audet, Michelle Cloutier, Jacques Plante, Jean-François Sauvé, Nicolas Gagnon, 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 |
| Achievement in Music: Original Score | Achievement in Music: Original Song |
| Normand Corbeil, The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) Benoît Charest, Polytechnique Bertrand Chénier, Love and Savagery Christian Clermont, 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des ormes) Ben Mink, Fifty Dead Men Walking | 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 (Les grandes chaleurs) |
| Achievement in Makeup | Special awards |
| Djina Caron and André Duval, 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 Diane Simard and Réjean Goderre, Love and Savagery Micheline Trépanier and Linda Gordon, 1981 | Claude Jutra Award: Xavier Dolan, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) Golden Reel Award: Father and Guns (De père en flic) |