List of Canadian films of 2003
Table:
Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

8:17 p.m. Darling Street (20h17 rue Darling)
Bernard Émond
Luc Picard
Drama

À Hauteur d'homme
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Bernard Landry
Documentary
Jutra - Documentary; a film about Bernard Landry, the leader of the Parti Québécois.

The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard, Marie-Josée Croze, Dorothée Berryman, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Stéphane Rousseau, Dominique Michel, Yves Jacques
Comedy, Drama
A sequel of sorts to the 1986 film, The Decline of the American Empire; a Canada-France co-production.

Blizzard
LeVar Burton
Zoe Warner, Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak
Family, holiday film
Made with U.S. financing

The Corporation
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Jane Akre, Ray Anderson
Documentary
The top-grossing Canadian feature documentary.

Crime Spree
Brad Mirman
Gérard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Johnny Hallyday, Saïd Taghmaoui
Crime drama
Canada-U.K. co-production

The Delicate Art of Parking
Trent Carlson
Dov Tiefenbach, Fred Ewanuick, Nancy Robertson
Comedy, drama

Dying at Grace
Allan King

Documentary

Emile
Carl Bessai
Ian McKellen, Deborah Kara Unger
Drama
Canada-U.K. co-production

The Event
Thom Fitzgerald
Brent Carver, Olympia Dukakis, Jane Leeves, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Parker Posey
Drama
Made with U.S. financing

Falling Angels
Scott Smith
Callum Keith Rennie, Miranda Richardson, Katharine Isabelle, Kristin Adams
Drama
Genie Award – Art Direction, Song; Canada-France co-production

Falling in Love Again
Munro Ferguson

National Film Board animated short
Genie Award – Animated Short

Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune)
Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marco Poulin, Richard Frédette
Drama based on a play by Robert Lepage
Berlin Film Festival – International Critics Prize

Father and Sons
Michel Boujenah
Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé
Family drama
Canada-France co-production

Festival Express
Bob Smeaton
The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy and others
Concert film
Canada-U.K.-Netherlands co-production

FIX: The Story of an Addicted City
Nettie Wild

Documentary
Genie Award – Documentary

Foolproof
William Phillips
Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth
Crime drama

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Vikram Jayanti
Garry Kasparov, IBM’s Deep Blue
Documentary produced with the National Film Board

Gaz Bar Blues
Louis Bélanger
Serge Thériault, Danny Gilmore
Comedy, drama
Prix Jutra – Actor (Thériault), Musical Score

How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)
Sébastien Rose
Micheline Lanctôt, Paul Ahmarani
Comedy of manners
Claude Jutra Award

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8:17 p.m . Darling Street ( French : 20h17 rue Darling ) is both a novel by the anthropologist Bernard Émond and also his second feature-length fiction film . It was released in 2003 and made three years after his debut feature , The Woman Who Drinks . It was screened at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival .
Bernard Émond ( born 1951 , in Montreal ) is a Québecois and Canadian director , screenwriter , novelist and essayist working in the French-language . He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation . He began his film career making documentaries , later moving to feature-length films , all of which have been shot in Quebec . He is noted for the humanistic , sometimes spiritual depth of his films , in particular his trilogy of feature films ( 2007 , 2009 , 2012 ) based on the three Christian virtues , faith , hope , and charity . Other themes in his work include human dignity and frailty , and cultural loss . He describes himself as an agnostic and a conservative socialist . Bernard Émond is married to Catherine Martin , also a Quebec film director . They live in Montreal .
Luc Picard ( born 24 September 1961 ) is a French Canadian actor , director and comedian . He was born on September 24 , 1961 in Lachine , Quebec , Canada . He has played numerous characters in diverse roles . An intense actor with piercing eyes and a nervous smile , Picard trained at the Conservatoire dArt Dramatique in Montreal and quickly became a favourite with Quebec audiences with his frequent appearances on television . During the 1990s , following his debut performance in Letters of Transit ( Les Sauf-conduits ) he slowly developed as a film star with character roles in a variety of films , especially those by Pierre Falardeau . In 2002 , Picard scored a double triumph with a Genie Award for his performance as the psychotic cult leader in Savage Messiah and a Prix Jutra for The Collector , directed by Jean Beaudin . In 2005 he directed his first feature , Audition , which was followed by Babine in 2008 , Ésimésac in 2012 , 9 in 2016 and Cross My Heart ( Les Rois mongols ) in 2017 . He is most commonly known for his portrayal of the infamous Michel Chartrand in the biographical TV series Simmone et Chartrand , where he was nominated for Gemini Awards . His acting film credits also include A Sunday in Kigali ( Un dimanche a Kigali ) , Cap Tourmente , The Woman Who Drinks ( La Femme qui boit ) , The Last Breath ( Le Dernier souffle ) , Night Song , Isla Blanca and Bad Seeds ( Les Mauvaises herbes ) . He was formerly married to actress Isabel Richer , until they announced their split in 2013 .
À Hauteur d'homme is a 2003 Canadian political documentary directed in 2003 by Jean-Claude Labrecque about Bernard Landry and the 2003 general election in Quebec , Canada . It won a Jutra Award for Best Documentary ( tie ) in 2004 . Its style belongs to the Quebec cinéma direct school of filmmaking .
Jean-Claude Labrecque , CM CQ ( June 19 , 1938 - May 31 , 2019 ) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada .
Bernard Landry GOQ ( French : [ bɛʁnaʁ lɑ̃dʁi ] ; March 9 , 1937 - November 6 , 2018 ) was a Quebec lawyer , economist , teacher , politician , who as the leader of the Parti Québécois ( 2001-2005 ) served as the 28th Premier of Quebec ( 2001-2003 ) , and leader of the Opposition ( 2003-2005 ) .
A documentary film is a non-fictional , motion picture intended to document reality , primarily for the purposes of instruction , education , or maintaining a historical record . Documentary has been described as a filmmaking practice , a cinematic tradition , and mode of audience reception that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries . Documentary films were originally called actuality films , and were one minute , or less , in length . Over time , documentaries have evolved to be longer in length , and to include more categories ; some examples being : educational , observational , and docufiction . Documentaries are meant to be informative works , and are often used within schools , as a resource to teach various principles . Social media platforms , such as YouTube , have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary film genre ; These platforms have increased the distribution area and ease-of-accessibility ; thereby , enhancing the ability to educate a larger volume of viewers , and broadening the reach of persons who receive that information .
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award , presented annually by Québec Cinéma , which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec . Until 2016 , it was known as the Jutra Award ( Prix Jutra , with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra ) in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra , but Jutra 's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of allegations that Jutra had sexually abused children . Introduced in 1999 , the awards are presented for Best Film and performance , writing and technical categories such as best actor , actress , director , screenplay , et cetera . It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award , a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program which was also renamed in 2016 following the allegations against Jutra . Following the withdrawal of Jutra 's name from the award , the 2016 awards were presented solely under the name Québec Cinéma pending an announcement of the award 's new permanent name . The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016 . The trophy was designed by sculptor Charles Daudelin . The awards replaced the prix Guy-L'Écuyer , created in 1987 by Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer .
The Parti Québécois ( pronounced [ paʁti kebekwa ] ; French for Quebec Party ; PQ ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec , Canada . The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state . The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada . The party traditionally has support from the labour movement , but unlike most other social democratic parties , its ties with organized labour are informal . Members and supporters of the PQ are called péquistes ( Quebec French pronunciation : [ pekɪst ] ( listen ) ; ) , a French word derived from the pronunciation of the party 's initials . The party is an associate member of COPPPAL . The party has strong informal ties to the Bloc Québécois ( BQ , whose members are known as Bloquistes ) , the federal party that has also advocated for the secession of Quebec from Canada , but the two are not linked organizationally . As with its federal counterpart , the Parti Québécois has been supported by a wide range of voters in Quebec , from large sections of organized labour to more conservative rural voters .
The Barbarian Invasions ( French : Les Invasions barbares ) is a 2003 Canadian-French sex comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard , Stéphane Rousseau and Marie-Josée Croze . The film is a sequel to Arcand 's 1986 film The Decline of the American Empire , continuing the story of the character Rémy , a womanizing history professor now terminally ill with cancer . The sequel was a result of Arcand 's longtime desire to make a film about a character close to death , also incorporating a response to the September 11 attacks of 2001 . It was produced by companies from both Canada and France , and shot mainly in Montreal , also employing a former hospital and property near Lake Memphremagog . The film received a positive response from critics and became one of Arcand 's biggest financial successes . It was the first Canadian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004 . It won awards at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival , six Genie Awards , including Best Motion Picture , and three César Awards , including Best Film . The Barbarian Invasions was followed by the thematically related Days of Darkness in 2007 and The Fall of the American Empire in 2018 .
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand CC GOQ ( French : [ dəni aʁkɑ̃ ] ; born June 25 , 1941 ) is a French Canadian film director , screenwriter and producer . His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 . His films have also been nominated three further times , including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989 , becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and , subsequently , to have a film win the award . Also for The Barbarian Invasions , he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay , losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation . During his four decades career , he became the most globally recognized director from Quebec , winning many awards from the Cannes Film Festival , including the Best Screenplay Award , the Jury Prize , and many other prestigious awards worldwide . He won three César Awards in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions : Best Director , Best Original Screenplay and Best Film , being the only Canadian director to have accomplished this . Arcand has directed three Canadian films that have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film and three films in the Toronto International Film Festival 's 2004 list of the top 10 Canadian films of all time .
Rémy Girard OC ( born August 10 , 1950 ) is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec .
Marie-Josée Croze ( French pronunciation : ​ [ maʁi ʒoze kʁoz ] ; born February 23 , 1970 ) is a French Canadian actress . She also holds French citizenship , which she obtained in December 2012 .
Dorothée Berryman ( born April 28 , 1948 ) is a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec .
Johanne-Marie Tremblay ( born 1950 ) is a Canadian actress . She had her first film role in the 1988 Straight for the Heart , after which she was discovered by director Denys Arcand and cast as the character Constance in Jesus of Montreal ( 1989 ) . Tremblay was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role . Afterwards , Tremblay became a star in Quebec television , with roles in Les Filles de Caleb and La Sorcière in the 1990s . She reprised her role as Constance in Arcand 's later films The Barbarian Invasions ( 2003 ) and Days of Darkness ( 2007 ) . In 2009 , she appeared in Denis Villeneuve 's film Polytechnique , and in 2013 acted in Sébastien Pilote 's The Dismantling . In 2018 , she had a voice role in the animated film Ville Neuve .
Stéphane Rousseau ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ste'fan ʁu'so ] ; born September 17 , 1966 ) is a Canadian actor and comedian . He starred in the Academy Award-winning film The Barbarian Invasions . He has also been in Asterix at the Olympic Games ( 2008 ) . His latest movies is the French comedy Fatal , a Zoolander-type spoof of the music industry focusing on the character Fatal Bazooka created by Michaël Youn .
Dominique Michel , OC , CQ ( born September 24 , 1932 in Sorel-Tracy , Quebec as Aimée Sylvestre ) is a Quebec comedian , actress , singer and artist .
Yves Jacques OC ( born 10 May 1956 ) is a Canadian film , television and stage actor .
A comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect . Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception ) . One of the oldest genres in film - and derived from the classical comedy in theatre - , some of the very first silent movies were comedies , as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions , without requiring sound . When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s , comedy films took another swing , as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue . Comedy , compared with other film genres , puts much more focus on individual stars , with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity . While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse , others contain political or social commentary ( such as The King of Comedy and Wag the Dog ) .
In film and television , drama is a genre of narrative fiction ( or semi-fiction ) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone . Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular subgenre , such as police crime drama , political drama , legal drama , historical period drama , domestic drama , teen drama or comedy-drama . These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter , or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods . All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis ) characters . In this broader sense , drama is a mode distinct from novels , short stories , and narrative poetry or songs . In the modern era before the birth of cinema or television , drama within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy . It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries , along with film studies , adopted . Radio drama has been used in both senses - originally transmitted in a live performance , it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio .
The Decline of the American Empire ( French : Le Déclin de l'empire américain ) is a 1986 Canadian sex comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard , Pierre Curzi and Dorothée Berryman . The film follows a group of intellectual friends from the Université de Montréal history department as they engage in a long dialogue about their sexual affairs , touching on issues of adultery , homosexuality , group sex , BDSM and prostitution . A number of characters associate self-indulgence with societal decline . The film was a box office success in Quebec , English-speaking Canada and internationally and received good reviews . It won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival , nine Genie Awards , including Best Motion Picture , and was the first Canadian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . It was followed by two sequels , The Barbarian Invasions in 2003 and Days of Darkness in 2007 .
Blizzard is a 2003 American/Canadian Christmas-themed family film directed by LeVar Burton , and stars Brenda Blethyn , Christopher Plummer , Kevin Pollak , and Whoopi Goldberg .
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. ( born February 16 , 1957 ) is an American actor , presenter , director , and author . His first major part was the role of a young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 ABC television miniseries Roots , a role he reprised in the 1988 television film Roots : The Gift . In 1983 he became the host of the long-running PBS children 's series Reading Rainbow , and again performed a lead role as Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek : The Next Generation . He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek , among other programs .
Brenda Blethyn OBE ( née Bottle ; 20 February 1946 ) is an English actress . She is known for her portrayals of working-class women with eccentric qualities . She is the recipient of several accolades , including one Golden Globe , one BAFTA , one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and two Academy Award nominations . Blethyn pursued an administrative career before enrolling in the Guildford School of Acting in her late 20s . She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre and gained attention for her performances in Troilus and Cressida ( 1976 ) , Mysteries ( 1979 ) , Steaming ( 1981 ) , and Benefactors ( 1984 ) , receiving an Olivier nomination for the latter . In 1980 , Blethyn made her television debut in Mike Leigh 's Grown-Ups . She later won leading roles on the short-run sitcoms Chance in a Million ( 1984-86 ) and The Labours of Erica ( 1989-90 ) . She made her big-screen debut with a small role in Nicolas Roeg 's 1990 film adaptation of Roald Dahl 's The Witches . She experienced a major career breakthrough with her leading role in Mike Leigh 's 1996 drama Secrets & Lies , for which she received multiple awards , including Best Actress at Cannes , a BAFTA , a Golden Globe , and an Academy Award nomination . She earned her second Academy Award nomination two years later , for her performance in Little Voice ( 1998 ) . Blethyn has since appeared in a range of big-budget and independent features , including Girls ' Night , Music from Another Room , Night Train ( all 1998 ) , Saving Grace ( 2000 ) , Lovely and Amazing ( 2001 ) , Pumpkin , Sonny , Plots with a View ( all 2002 ) , Beyond the Sea , A Way of Life ( both 2004 ) , Pride & Prejudice ( 2005 ) , Clubland , and Atonement ( both 2007 ) . In addition , she has continued to appear frequently on television , in productions such as Anne Frank : The Whole Story ( 2001 ) and War and Peace ( 2007 ) .
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC ( born December 13 , 1929 ) is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned six decades , beginning with his film debut in Stage Struck ( 1958 ) . He is known for portraying Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) , and has portrayed numerous major historical figures , including the Emperor Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ) , Arthur Wellesley , 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo ( 1970 ) , Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ) , Mike Wallace in The Insider ( 1999 ) , Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ) , Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception ( 2016 ) , and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World ( 2017 ) . Plummer has received various accolades for his work , including an Academy Award , a Genie Award , two Emmy Awards , two Tony Awards , a Golden Globe Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award , and a British Academy Film Award ; he is one of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting , and the only Canadian . He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners ( 2010 ) , becoming the oldest actor to win an acting award , and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World , making him the oldest person to be nominated in an acting category .
Kevin Elliot Pollak ( born October 30 , 1957 ) is an American actor , impressionist , and comedian . He has appeared in over 80 films ; his roles include Sam Weinberg in the legal film A Few Good Men , Jacob Goldman in Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men ; Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects , Phillip Green in Casino , and Bobby Chicago in End of Days . Pollak is an avid poker player . He finished 134th out of 6,598 entrants in the 2012 World Series of Poker and won $ 52,718 . [ citation needed ] He also hosts weekly home games with Hollywood celebrities .
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan , and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott . The documentary examines the modern-day corporation . Bakan wrote the book , The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power , during the filming of the documentary .
Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director and editor , who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries . She is best known as the co-director and editor of the documentary , The Corporation ( 2003 ) , which examines large corporations in the 21st century . The documentary received 26 awards , including a Sundance Film Festival award , a Genie for best documentary and a top ten film of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival - though disqualified from the Oscars as an Ontario broadcast preceded the LA theatrical release . Most recently , Abbott co-wrote and edited Sea Blind , about the sea route opening along the melting Arctic Ocean and the price of shipping our stuff . It screened at the 2015 Paris climate talks and is making the rounds to the ports of Europe projected onto walls of shipping containers . Abbott is the co-writer , co-director and editor of Us and Them about four homeless and addicted street people shot over the course of 10 years and the Executive Producer and Editor of I Am . She was commissioned to create the short film Brave New Minds for the interactive website Unspeak by Amsterdam 's Submarine Channel . Abbott 's first feature documentary , A Cow at My Table ( 1998 ) , explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production . Her early work includes the experimental short Skinned screened at NY 's Museum of Modern Art . She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver and lives on a permaculture farm on a small island on Canada 's West Coast .
Mark Achbar ( born in Ottawa in 1955 ) is a Canadian filmmaker , best known for directing The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media .
Jane Akre is an American journalist best known for the whistleblower lawsuit by herself and her former husband , Steve Wilson , against Fox station WTVT in Tampa , Florida . Akre and Wilson are featured in the 2003 documentary film The Corporation which includes a section about the same lawsuit .
Ray C. Anderson ( July 28 , 1934 - August 8 , 2011 ) was founder and chairman of Interface Inc. , one of the world 's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics . He was known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability . Anderson died on August 8 , 2011 , twenty months after being diagnosed with cancer . On July 28 , 2012 , Andersons family re-launched the Ray C. Anderson Foundation . with a new purpose . Originally created to fund Ray Andersons personal philanthropic giving , family members announced the rebirth and refocus of the Foundation on Andersons birthday , nearly one year after his 2011 death . The purpose of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation is to perpetuate shared values and continue the legacy that Anderson left behind . The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 ( c ) 3 organization whose mission is to promote and advance the concepts of sustainable production and consumption .
Crime Spree is a 2003 Canadian-British comedy-heist thriller film , written and directed by Brad Mirman , starring Gérard Depardieu , Harvey Keitel and French singers Johnny Hallyday and Renaud . The fish out of water film concerns a band of French thieves who get more than they bargain for after burglarizing the home of a Chicago mafia boss .
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu ( UK : /ˈdɛpɑːrdjɜː , ˌdɛpɑːrˈdjɜː/ , US : /-ˈdjʌ , ˌdeɪpɑːrˈdjuː/ , French : [ ʒeʁaʁ ɡzavje maʁsɛl dəpaʁdjø ] ( listen ) ; born 27 December 1948 ) is a French actor . He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history , having completed more than 170 films since 1967 . [ citation needed ] He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , for which he won the César Award for Best Actor , in Police ( 1985 ) , for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor , Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) , and Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1990 ) , winning the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor , his second César Award for Best Actor , and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor . He co-starred in Peter Weir 's comedy Green Card ( 1990 ) , winning a Golden Globe Award and later acted in many big budget Hollywood movies including Ridley Scott 's 1492 : Conquest of Paradise ( 1992 ) , Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet ( 1996 ) , Randall Wallace 's The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 ) , and Ang Lee 's Life of Pi ( 2012 ) . He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite . He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 ( officially adopted name in Russian : Жерар Депардьё , romanized : Zherar Depardyo ) , and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month .
Harvey Keitel ( /kaɪˈtɛl/ ky-TEL ; born May 13 , 1939 ) is an American actor and producer . He has starred in films such as Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , The Duellists ( 1977 ) , The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) , Bugsy ( 1991 ) , Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ) , Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 ) , Bad Lieutenant ( 1992 ) , The Piano ( 1993 ) , Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ) , From Dusk till Dawn ( 1996 ) , Cop Land ( 1997 ) , The Grand Budapest Hotel ( 2014 ) , Youth ( 2015 ) and The Irishman ( 2019 ) . Keitel has been nominated for a number of accolades in his career , including Academy and Golden Globe awards , and has won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Piano . From 1995 to 2017 , he was a co-president of the Actors Studio , along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn .
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ʒɑ̃ filip leo smɛt ] ; 15 June 1943 - 6 December 2017 ) , better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday ( [ ʒɔni alidɛ ] ) , was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor , credited for having brought rock and roll to France . During a career spanning 57 years , he released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide , mainly in the French-speaking world , making him one of the best-selling artists in the world . He won 5 diamond albums , 40 golden albums , 22 platinum albums and 10 Music Victories . He sang an estimated 1,154 songs and performed 540 duets with 187 artists . Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows , he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France , where he performed 9 times . Among his 3,257 shows completed in 187 tours , the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in 1993 , at the Stade de France in 1998 , just after France 's win in the 1998 FIFA World Cup , as well as at the Eiffel Tower in 2000 , which had record-breaking ticket sales for a French artist . [ citation needed ] A million spectators gathered to see his performance at the Eiffel Tower , with some 10 million watching on television . Usually working with the best French artists and musicians of his time , he collaborated with Charles Aznavour , Michel Berger and Jean-Jacques Goldman , while his shows were produced by Jean-Claude Camus , considered to be one of the greatest producers in France . Hugely popular in France , he was referred to as simply Johnny and seen as a national monument ( the only singer since Edith Piaf ) and a part of the French cultural legacy . He was a symbol of the Trente Glorieuses when he emerged in 1960 and a familiar figure to four generations . More than 2,500 magazine covers and 190 books were dedicated to him during his lifetime , making him one of the persons most widely covered by the media in France . His death from cancer in 2017 was followed by a popular tribute during which a million people attended the procession and 15 million others watched the ceremony on TV .
Saïd Taghmaoui ( born July 19 , 1973 ) is a French-American actor and screenwriter of Moroccan descent . One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film La Haine , directed by Mathieu Kassovitz . Taghmaoui has also appeared in a number of English-language films , with roles such as Captain Said in Three Kings ( 1999 ) and Sameer in Wonder Woman ( 2017 ) .
The Delicate Art of Parking is an eighty seven minute Canadian comedy/mockumentary film released on May 14 , 2003 , directed by Trent Carlson , and produced by Blake Corbet , Andrew Currie and Kevin Eastwood . It has received numerous awards , including the Golden Zenith Award for Best Feature at the Montreal World Film Festival and Most Popular Canadian Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival . Fred Ewanuick and Nancy Robertson both star in this film . The next year , they would work together on Corner Gas , a sitcom that ran for six seasons , was acclaimed by critics and for which both actors won numerous accolades and awards .
Dov Yosef Tiefenbach ( born December 8 , 1981 ) is a Canadian actor and musician .
Fred Ewanuick ( /əˈwαnɪk/ ) ( born June 23 , 1971 ) is a Canadian actor of Ukrainian and Italian heritage , known for his role in the television series Corner Gas as Hank Yarbo and as the title character in the CTV sitcom Dan for Mayor . He was also a regular in a CTV anthology series , Robson Arms . Recently , he starred in Nickelodeon 's summer 2013 TV movie , Swindle . He is also well known for his several award wins for the 2003 lead role in the comedy , The Delicate Art of Parking , and reprised his role as Richard Henry Hank Yarbo in Corner Gas : The Movie , winning him a Gemini Award , and much praise . He also had roles in popular films including The Santa Clause 2 , Just Friends , Young Triffie , and a romantic comedy with several other Corner Gas stars in Love and Other Dilemmas , and the disaster film Absolute Zero .
Nancy Robertson ( born 1971 ) is a Canadian actress , best known for her roles as Wanda Dollard in the Canadian television series Corner Gas and Millie Upton in the series Hiccups .
Dying at Grace is a Canadian documentary film , directed by Allan King and released in 2003 . The film profiles a group of patients in palliative care at Toronto Grace Health Centre in Toronto , Ontario , exploring their thoughts and feelings on their imminent deaths . The film premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival , and was broadcast on television by TVOntario in February 2004 . The film was named to TIFF 's annual year-end Canada 's Top Ten list for 2003 , and won the Donald Brittain Award for best television documentary on a social or political topic at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004 .
Allan Winton King , OC ( February 6 , 1930 - June 15 , 2009 ) , was a Canadian film director .
Emile is a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai and released widely in 2004 . The cast includes Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger . The film received 2 Genie Award nominations in 2005 for Best Achievement in Overall Sound and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Ian McKellen .
Carl Bessai ( born 1966 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter . Bessai studied at OCAD University and at York University in Toronto graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree . He got his start directing documentary films before moving to Vancouver and directing his debut feature film Johnny in 1999 . Bessai has made a career working on low-budget independent features but has worked with A-List actors Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger on his film Emile and Carrie-Anne Moss on his film Normal . He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for the latter film . Bessai is a member of the Director 's Guild of Canada , the Writer 's Guild of Canada , and the Canadian Film and Television Producer 's Association .
Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE ( born 25 May 1939 ) is an English actor . His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction . He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards , a Tony Award , a Golden Globe Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award , a BIF Award , two Saturn Awards , four Drama Desk Awards , and two Critics ' Choice Awards . He has also received nominations for two Academy Awards , five Primetime Emmy Awards , and four BAFTAs . He achieved worldwide fame for his film roles , including the titular King in Richard III ( 1995 ) , James Whale in Gods and Monsters ( 1998 ) , Magneto in the X-Men films , and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies . The BBC states that his performances have guaranteed him a place in the canon of English stage and film actors . A recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK , McKellen is regarded as a British cultural icon . He started his professional career in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of their highly regarded repertory company . In 1965 , McKellen made his first West End appearance . In 1969 , he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare 's Richard II and Marlowe 's Edward II , and he firmly established himself as one of the country 's foremost classical actors . In the 1970s , McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain . McKellen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1979 Birthday Honours , was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts , and made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality in the 2008 New Year Honours .
Deborah Kara Unger ( born May 12 , 1966 ) is a Canadian actress . She is known for her roles in the films Highlander III : The Sorcerer ( 1994 ) , Crash ( 1996 ) , The Game ( 1997 ) , Payback ( 1999 ) , The Hurricane ( 1999 ) , White Noise ( 2005 ) , Silent Hill ( 2006 ) , 88 Minutes ( 2008 ) and The Way ( 2010 ) .
The Event is a 2003 drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald . It tells the story of Matt Shapiro ( Don McKellar ) who has died in Manhattan , resulting in an aborted 9-1-1 call . Attorney Nick DeVivo ( Parker Posey ) interviews Matt 's friends and family to piece together a portrait of Matt 's life and finally his death . The ultra-low-budget film stars an ensemble of respected actors including Olympia Dukakis , Brent Carver , Sarah Polley , Dick Latessa , Joanna P. Adler , Jane Leeves , Rejean Cournoyer , Joan Orenstein , McKellar and Posey . It was written by Steven Hillyer , Tim Marback with director Fitzgerald , and produced by Bryan Hofbauer , Vicki McCarty ( exec ) , Robert Flutie ( exec ) . The Event premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it received three standing ovations . It was distributed by ThinkFilm in the U.S .
Thomas Thom Fitzgerald ( born July 8 , 1968 ) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director , screenwriter , playwright and producer .
Brent Carver ( born November 17 , 1951 ) is Canadian actor best known for his performances on Broadway in Parade as Leo Frank and Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina , for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993 .
Olympia Mary Dukakis ( born June 20 , 1931 ) is a Greek American actress . She started her career in theater , and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht 's Man Equals Man . She later moved on to film acting , and in 1987 , she won an Academy Award , a Golden Globe , and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Moonstruck . She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra , and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day , More Tales of the City , and Joan of Arc .
Jane Elizabeth Leeves ( born 18 April 1961 ) is an English actress , model , producer , comedian , singer , and dancer . She played Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier from 1993 until 2004 , for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award . She is also known for her role as Joy Scroggs on TV Land 's sitcom Hot in Cleveland . Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in 1983 on the British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show , and appeared as a dancer in Monty Python 's The Meaning of Life . She moved to the United States , where she performed in small roles . From 1986 to 1988 , she had her first leading role in the short-lived sitcom Throb , and then secured a recurring part in the television sitcom Murphy Brown . She received further recognition for roles in films such as Miracle on 34th Street ( 1994 ) , James and the Giant Peach ( 1996 ) , Music of the Heart ( 1999 ) , and The Event ( 2003 ) . In 2018 , she began starring in the Fox medical drama , The Resident .
Don McKellar CM ( born August 17 , 1963 ) is a Canadian actor , writer , and filmmaker . He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave .
Sarah Ellen Polley OC ( born January 8 , 1979 ) is a Canadian actress , writer , director , producer and political activist . Polley first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona , based on Beverly Cleary 's books . Subsequently this led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea ( 1990-1996 ) . She has starred in many feature films , including Exotica ( 1994 ) , The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 ) , Guinevere ( 1999 ) , Go ( 1999 ) , The Weight of Water ( 2000 ) , My Life Without Me ( 2003 ) , Dawn of the Dead ( 2004 ) , Splice ( 2009 ) , and Mr. Nobody ( 2009 ) . Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her ( 2006 ) , for which she won a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay . Polley 's second film , Take This Waltz ( 2011 ) , premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival . Her first documentary film , Stories We Tell ( 2012 ) , was awarded the $ 100,000 prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association . In 2017 , Polley executive produced the film A Better Man ( 2017 ) , and wrote the miniseries Alias Grace , based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood , which Polley began adapting in 2012 .
Parker Christian Posey ( born November 8 , 1968 ) is an American actress and musician . She frequently works with Christopher Guest and has appeared in several of his mockumentaries , such as Waiting for Guffman ( 1996 ) , Best in Show ( 2000 ) , A Mighty Wind ( 2003 ) , For Your Consideration ( 2006 ) , and Mascots ( 2016 ) . Posey is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award nomination , a Satellite Award nomination and two Independent Spirit Award nominations . Posey made her film debut in Joey Breaker ( 1993 ) . Following small roles in Coneheads and the cult classic Dazed and Confused ( also 1993 ) , she was labeled Queen of the Indies for starring in a succession of independent films throughout the 1990s , such as Sleep with Me ( 1994 ) , Party Girl , The Doom Generation , Kicking and Screaming ( all 1995 ) , The Daytrippers ( 1996 ) , The House of Yes and Clockwatchers ( both 1997 ) . Her other notable film appearances include You 've Got Mail ( 1998 ) , Scream 3 ( 2000 ) , Josie and the Pussycats ( 2001 ) , Personal Velocity , The Sweetest Thing ( both 2002 ) , Blade : Trinity ( 2004 ) , Superman Returns , Fay Grim ( both 2006 ) , Broken English ( 2007 ) , The Eye ( 2008 ) , Spring Breakdown ( 2009 ) , Irrational Man ( 2015 ) , and Café Society ( 2016 ) . Outside of film , Posey starred in the television movie Hell on Heels : The Battle of Mary Kay ( 2002 ) and has guest-starred on numerous series , such as Futurama ( 2000 ) , The Simpsons ( 2000 ) , Will & Grace ( 2001 ) , Boston Legal ( 2006 ) , Parks and Recreation ( 2011 ) , The Good Wife ( 2011-12 ) , Louie ( 2012 ) , Inside Amy Schumer ( 2014 ) , and Search Party ( 2016 ) . Since 2018 she has starred as Dr Smith on the Netflix series Lost in Space .
Falling Angels is a 2003 independent film by Scott Smith , based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding . It is the second feature film by Scott Smith , writer , producer and director of Rollercoaster ( 1999 ) . Set in the late 1960s , the film is a dark comedy focusing on the coming of age of three sisters and their struggle for independence in a dysfunctional family . It is also a story about the destructive effects of secrecy between parents and children .
Scott Smith is a Canadian television and film director . He has won multiple film festival awards for his 1999 film Rollercoaster . He also directed the 2003 film Falling Angels , based on the Barbara Gowdy novel , which achieved a nomination from the Directors Guild of Canada for Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Feature Film . In 2008 , he directed and photographed the feature documentary , As Slow as Possible , which follows blind author Ryan Knighton on a pilgrimage to Germany to hear a single note change in the notorious 639 year-long performance of the John Cage composition Organ²/ASLSP ( As Slow As Possible ) . Since then , he has directed the pilots for Carter , Call Me Fitz , the MTV remake of UK smash Skins and was the producing director in Season One of the Syfy hit The Magicians . Other credits include the This is Wonderland and The Chris Isaak Show . He continues to split his time between Vancouver and Hornby Island , B.C . where he is the artistic director of the Hornby Island Film Festival .
Callum Keith Rennie ( born 14 September 1960 ) is a British-born Canadian television and film actor . He started his career in Canadian film and television projects , where his portrayal of Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the television series Due South was his first international success . After years acting in over 125 Canadian and international projects , he became widely known for his portrayal of the Cylon model number two Leoben Conoy on Battlestar Galactica , and following that , his role as record producer Lew Ashby on the Showtime series Californication . Regularly cast as a bad guy in movies ( and even more often in his numerous guest appearances on American television series ) , Rennie 's regular participation in Canadian productions gives him an opportunity to show a broader range of his acting abilities , which have been recognized by several awards .
Miranda Jane Richardson ( born 3 March 1958 ) is an English actress and comedian . She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger ( 1985 ) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage ( 1992 ) and Tom & Viv ( 1994 ) . A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee , she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage . She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards , winning twice for Enchanted April ( 1992 ) and the TV film Fatherland ( 1994 ) . Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving , before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind . Her television credits include Blackadder ( 1986-89 ) , A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ) , Merlin ( 1998 ) , The Lost Prince ( 2003 ) , Gideon 's Daughter ( 2006 ) , the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle ( 2007 ) , and Rubicon ( 2010 ) . She was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for Operation Orangutan . Her other films include Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) , The Crying Game ( 1992 ) , The Apostle ( 1997 ) , Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ) , Chicken Run ( 2000 ) , The Hours ( 2002 ) , Spider ( 2002 ) , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( 2005 ) , The Young Victoria ( 2009 ) , Made in Dagenham ( 2010 ) , Belle ( 2013 ) , and Stronger ( 2017 ) .
Katharine Isabelle ( born November 2 , 1981 ) is a Canadian actress . She has been described as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror films . She started her acting career in 1989 , playing a cameo role in the television series MacGyver . She gained fame for the role of Ginger Fitzgerald in the films Ginger Snaps , Ginger Snaps 2 : Unleashed , and Ginger Snaps Back : The Beginning . In 2007 , in the United States , an article was published in which all the current scream queens were listed ; Katharine Isabelle was one of the people on the list .
Kristin Nicole Adams , née Holt , is a television personality , entertainment news correspondent and viral video creator . Adams first rose to public awareness on American Idol . Between 2005 and 2008 , Kristin served as the second host of G4 's Cheat ! , a television show dedicated to video game cheats and strategies . In 2008 , Cheat ! segments were incorporated into G4 's X-Play , where she was a correspondent and occasional host throughout the remainder of the series . She also substituted hosting roles for the network 's other shows and specials , as needed . She hosted Poker Night on GSN and Nissan GT Academy on Speed . On January 1 , 2010 , Adams became the new co-host of the Character Fantasy film showcase on the USA Network . In 2012 Adams was a co-host/correspondent on Real Music Live on NBC .
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980-2012 . They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards ( 1949-1978 ; also known as the Etrog Awards , for sculptor Sorel Etrog , who designed the statuette ) . Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives , based on the criteria laid out in the Genie Rules and Regulations booklet which is distributed to Academy members and industry members . Peer-group juries , assembled from volunteer members of the Academy , meet to screen the submissions and select a group of nominees . Academy members then vote on these nominations . In 2012 , the Academy announced that the Genies would merge with its sister presentation for English-language television , the Gemini Awards , to form a new award presentation known as the Canadian Screen Awards .
Falling in Love Again is a 2003 animated stereoscopic 3D film directed by Munro Ferguson , about a man and woman tossed aloft during a car accident , who fall in love while plummeting to the ground . Set to the song Falling in Love Again ( Ca n't Help It ) as sung by Marlene Dietrich , it was created by Ferguson at the National Film Board of Canada , using IMAX 's SANDDE stereoscopic drawing system . It won a Canadian Genie Award for Best Animated Short in 2003 . It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows .
The National Film Board of Canada ( or simply National Film Board or NFB ) ( French : Office national du film du Canada , or ONF ) is Canada 's public film and digital media producer and distributor . An agency of the Government of Canada , the NFB produces and distributes documentary films , animation , web documentaries , and alternative dramas . In total , the NFB has produced over 3,000 productions since its inception , which have won over 5,000 awards . The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage . It has English-language and French-language production branches .
Far Side of the Moon ( French : La Face cachée de la lune ) is a Canadian drama film , directed by Robert Lepage and released in 2003 . The film is based on Lepage 's eponymous play , which premiered in 2000 . Set in the context of the USSR-United States Space Race of the 1960s , the film centres on two brothers , both played by Lepage , who are struggling to cope with the recent death by suicide of their mother ( Anne-Marie Cadieux ) . Philippe , the older brother , is a doctoral student in astronomy who buries his feelings in his academic pursuits , while André , the younger brother , is a gay television weatherman who has always had a happier and easier path through life but finds himself struggling . The film received four Genie Award nominations at the 24th Genie Awards in 2004 : Best Picture ( Bob Krupinski and Mario St-Laurent ) , Best Director ( Lepage ) , Best Actor ( Lepage ) and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Lepage ) . Lepage won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay . The film was Canada 's official nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the 77th Academy Awards .
Robert Lepage , CC OQ ( born December 12 , 1957 ) is a Canadian playwright , actor , film director , and stage director .
Anne-Marie Cadieux ( born September 23 , 1963 ) is a Canadian actress , film director and screenwriter . She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Streetheart ( Le Cœur au poing ) and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in You ( Toi ) .
The Berlin International Film Festival ( German : Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin ) , usually called the Berlinale , is a film festival held annually in Berlin , Germany . Founded in West Berlin in 1951 , the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the Big Three alongside the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival . Since 2019 , Mariette Rissenbeek serves as the executive director of the festival , while Carlo Chatrian is the artistic director . With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions each year , it has the largest public attendance of any annual film festival . Up to 400 films are shown in several sections across cinematic genres . Around twenty films compete for the festival 's top awards , called the Golden Bear and several Silver Bears . The European Film Market ( EFM ) , a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale , is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit . The trade fair serves distributors , film buyers , producers , financiers and co-production agents . The Berlinale Talents , a week-long series of lectures and workshops , is a gathering of young filmmakers held in partnership with the festival . The film festival , EFM , and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries . More than 4200 journalists produce media coverage in over 110 countries . At some high-profile feature film premieres held during the festival , movie stars and celebrities are present on the red carpet .
Father and Sons ( French : Père et Fils ) is a 2003 French-Canadian comedy film directed by Michel Boujenah .
Michel Boujenah ( born 3 November 1952 ) is a French-Tunisian Jewish actor , comedian , [ clarification needed ] film director and screenwriter .
Philippe Noiret ( French pronunciation : ​ [ filip nwaʁɛ ] ; 1 October 1930 - 23 November 2006 ) was a French film actor .
Charles Berling ( born 30 April 1958 ) is a French actor , director and screenwriter .
Bruno Putzulu ( born 24 May 1967 ) is a French actor , born in Toutainville .
Pascal Elbé ( born 13 March 1967 ) is a French actor , director and screenwriter .
Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America 's most popular rock bands , including Grateful Dead , Janis Joplin , The Band , Buddy Guy , Flying Burrito Bros , Ian & Sylvia 's Great Speckled Bird , and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends . The film combines live footage shot during the 1970 concerts , as well as footage aboard the train itself , interspersed with present-day interviews with tour participants sharing their often humorous recollections of the events . The film , released by THINKFilm , was produced by Gavin Poolman ( son of the original 1970 film shoot 's producer , Willem Poolman ) together with John Trapman , and directed by double Grammy Award-winner Bob Smeaton ( The Beatles Anthology ) , with music produced by Eddie Kramer ( Jimi Hendrix , Led Zeppelin ) , and features original footage shot in 1970 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Biziou ( Mississippi Burning , Pink Floyd - The Wall , The Truman Show ) . The original 1970 footage was filmed by director Frank Cvitanovich . A DVD release followed the film 's 2003 theatrical run .
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto , California . The band is known for its eclectic style , which fused elements of rock , folk , country , jazz , bluegrass , blues , gospel , and psychedelic rock ; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams ; and for its devoted fan base , known as Deadheads . Their music , writes Lenny Kaye , touches on ground that most other groups do n't even know exists . These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world . The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue . The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8 , 1977 performance at Cornell University 's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012 . The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide . The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s . The founding members were Jerry Garcia ( lead guitar , vocals ) , Bob Weir ( rhythm guitar , vocals ) , Ron Pigpen McKernan ( keyboards , harmonica , vocals ) , Phil Lesh ( bass , vocals ) , and Bill Kreutzmann ( drums ) . Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands , including Mother McCree 's Uptown Jug Champions and the Warlocks . Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead ; he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. , who had played bass for a few gigs . Drummer Mickey Hart and non-performing lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967 .
Janis Lyn Joplin ( January 19 , 1943 - October 4 , 1970 ) was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock , soul and blues music . One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era , she was known for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and electric stage presence . In 1967 , Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival , where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company . After releasing two albums with the band , she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups , first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band . She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour . Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100 , including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song Me and Bobby McGee , which reached number 1 in March 1971 . Her most popular songs include her cover versions of Piece of My Heart , Cry Baby , Down on Me , Ball and Chain , and Summertime ; and her original song Mercedes Benz , her final recording . Joplin died of an accidental heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27 , after releasing three albums . A fourth album , Pearl , was released in January 1971 , just over three months after her death . It reached number one on the Billboard charts . She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 . Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time .
The Band was a Canadian-American roots rock group including Rick Danko ( bass guitar , vocals , fiddle ) , Garth Hudson ( keyboards , accordion , saxophone ) , Richard Manuel ( keyboards , drums , vocals ) , Robbie Robertson ( guitar , vocals ) , and Levon Helm ( drums , vocals , mandolin , guitar ) . Their time backing Bob Dylan was when they first reached prominence ( as well as providing The Band their name ) , but they were originally formed as The Hawks , a backing band for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins . They joined Hawkins one by one between 1958 and 1963 . In 1964 , they separated from Hawkins ( and subsequently The Hawks ) , after which they toured and released a few singles as Levon and the Hawks and the Canadian Squires . The next year , Bob Dylan hired them for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966 . Following the 1966 tour , the group moved with help from Dylan and his manager , Albert Grossman , to Saugerties , New York , where they made the informal 1967 recordings that became The Basement Tapes , the basis for their 1968 debut album , Music from Big Pink . Because they were always the band to various frontmen and the locals in Woodstock , Helm said the name the Band worked well when the group came into its own . [ a ] The group began performing as the Band in 1968 and went on to release ten studio albums . Dylan continued to collaborate with the Band over the course of their career , including a joint 1974 tour . The original configuration of The Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate performance at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco , California , that featured numerous musical celebrities of the era . This performance was filmed for Martin Scorsese 's 1978 documentary The Last Waltz . Although the members of the group intended to continue working on studio projects , they drifted apart after the release of Islands in March 1977 .
The Flying Burrito Brothers are an American country rock band , best known for their influential 1969 debut album , The Gilded Palace of Sin . Although the group is perhaps best known for its connection to band founders Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman ( formerly of the Byrds ) , the group underwent many personnel changes and has existed in various incarnations . A lineup with no original members ( and derived from the 2000s-era Burrito Deluxe ) currently performs as The Burrito Brothers .
George Buddy Guy ( born July 30 , 1936 ) is an American blues guitarist and singer . He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced guitarists including Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix , Jimmy Page , Keith Richards , Stevie Ray Vaughan , Jeff Beck , Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer . In the 1960s , Guy played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with the harmonica player Junior Wells . Guy was ranked 23rd in Rolling Stone magazine 's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time . His song Stone Crazy was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time . Clapton once described him as the best guitar player alive . In 1999 , Guy wrote the book Damn Right I 've Got the Blues , with Donald Wilcock . His autobiography , When I Left Home : My Story , was published in 2012 .
Fix : The Story of an Addicted City is a Canadian documentary film , directed by Nettie Wild and released in 2003 . The film centres on Vancouver 's campaign to launch Insite , North America 's first legal supervised injection site for injection drug users . Figures interviewed in the film include drug user Dean Wilson , activist and organizer Ann Livingston , and Vancouver mayor Philip Owen . The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 24th Genie Awards .
Nettie Wild ( Nettie Barry Canada Wild ) is a Canadian filmmaker with a focus on documentaries that highlight marginalized groups and discrimination that these groups face , including people in Canada and around the world . She has worked throughout her professional career as an actor , director , producer , and cameraperson .
Foolproof is a 2003 Canadian heist film directed by William Phillips and starring Ryan Reynolds , David Suchet , Kristin Booth , Joris Jarsky , and James Allodi .
William Phillips is a Canadian film director and screenwriter . After graduating from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science , Phillips studied film at Ryerson University . Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the second-unit of the film Cube . After directing two short films , Milkman and Deep Cut , Phillips wrote and directed his first feature film in 2001 , Treed Murray . The film earned five Genie Awards nominations including Best Motion Picture . Williams has since directed two more major Canadian films , Foolproof and Gunless .
Ryan Rodney Reynolds ( born October 23 , 1976 ) is a Canadian-American actor , comedian , film producer and screenwriter . He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside ( 1991-1993 ) and had minor roles before landing the lead role on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001 . Reynolds then starred in a range of films , including comedies such as National Lampoon 's Van Wilder ( 2002 ) , Waiting . ( 2005 ) , and The Proposal ( 2009 ) . He also performed in dramatic roles in Buried ( 2010 ) , Woman in Gold ( 2015 ) , and Life ( 2017 ) , and starred in action films such as Blade : Trinity ( 2004 ) , Green Lantern ( 2011 ) , and Safe House ( 2012 ) . Reynolds ' biggest commercial success came with the superhero films Deadpool ( 2016 ) and Deadpool 2 ( 2018 ) , in which he played the title character . The former set numerous records at the time of its release for an R-rated comedy and his performance earned him nominations at the Critics ' Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards . Reynolds was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 . He was married to actress Scarlett Johansson from 2008 to 2011 and since 2012 , has been married to actress Blake Lively , with whom he has three children .
David Suchet , CBE ( /ˈsuːʃeɪ/ SOO-shay ; born 2 May 1946 ) is an English actor , known for his work on British stage and television . He played Edward Teller in the TV serial Oppenheimer ( 1980 ) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now ( 2001 ) . International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie 's detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie 's Poirot ( 1989-2013 ) , for which he received a 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) nomination .
Kristin Booth ( born August 28 , 1974 ) is a Canadian actress , born in Kitchener , Ontario . She graduated with Honours BFA from Ryerson Theatre School at Ryerson University in 1997 .
Game Over : Kasparov and the Machine is a 2003 documentary film by Vikram Jayanti about the match between Garry Kasparov , the highest rated chess player in history ( at the time ) , the World Champion for 15 years ( 1985-2000 ) and an anti-communist politician , and Deep Blue , a chess-playing computer created by IBM . It was coproduced by Alliance Atlantis and the National Film Board of Canada .
Vikram Teja Jayanti is an Indian-American documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full-feature documentary films . Two of his films , for which he has production credits , have received Academy Awards for Best Full-Feature Documentary ; the 1997 blockbuster When We Were Kings and 2005 's Born Into Brothels . A sampling of his other work includes Innocents Abroad , The Man Who Bought Mustique , James Ellroy 's Feast of Death , Game Over : Kasparov and the Machine , Lincoln and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector . He and his films have also won a number of other awards , including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival , and have been nominated for others . Jayanti is currently a Film Studies tutor at University College London . He is a frequent collaborator with the award-winning film-maker Anthony Wall , Editor of BBC Arena .
Garry Kimovich Kasparov ( Russian : Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров , Russian pronunciation : [ ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf ] ; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein , 13 April 1963 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster of Armenian-Jewish origin , former world chess champion , writer , and political activist , whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time . From 1986 until his retirement in 2005 , Kasparov was ranked world No . 1 for 225 out of 228 months . His peak rating of 2851 , achieved in 1999 , was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013 . Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories ( 15 ) and Chess Oscars ( 11 ) . Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov . He held the official FIDE world title until 1993 , when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization , the Professional Chess Association . In 1996 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls , when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match . He continued to hold the Classical World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000 . In spite of losing the title , he continued winning tournaments and was the world 's highest-rated player when he retired from professional chess in 2005 . After Kasparov retired , he devoted his time to politics and writing . He formed the United Civil Front movement , and joined as a member of The Other Russia , a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin .
The International Business Machines Corporation ( IBM ) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk , New York , with operations in over 170 countries . The company began in 1911 , founded in Endicott , New York , as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company ( CTR ) and was renamed International Business Machines in 1924 . IBM is incorporated in New York . IBM produces and sells computer hardware , middleware and software , and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology . IBM is also a major research organization , holding the record for most U.S. patents generated by a business ( as of 2020 [ update ] ) for 27 consecutive years . Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine ( ATM ) , the floppy disk , the hard disk drive , the magnetic stripe card , the relational database , the SQL programming language , the UPC barcode , and dynamic random-access memory ( DRAM ) . The IBM mainframe , exemplified by the System/360 , was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s . IBM has continually shifted business operations by focusing on higher-value , more profitable markets . This includes spinning off printer manufacturer Lexmark in 1991 and the sale of personal computer ( ThinkPad/ThinkCentre ) and x86-based server businesses to Lenovo ( in 2005 and 2014 , respectively ) , and acquiring companies such as PwC Consulting ( 2002 ) , SPSS ( 2009 ) , The Weather Company ( 2016 ) , and Red Hat ( 2019 ) . Also in 2015 , IBM announced that it would go fabless , continuing to design semiconductors , but offloading manufacturing to GlobalFoundries . Nicknamed Big Blue , IBM is one of 30 companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and one of the world 's largest employers , with ( as of 2018 [ update ] ) over 350,000 employees , known as IBMers . At least 70% of IBMers are based outside the United States , and the country with the largest number of IBMers is India .
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM . It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls . Deep Blue won its first game against a world champion on 10 February 1996 , when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match . However , Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games , defeating Deep Blue by a score of 4-2 . Deep Blue was then heavily upgraded , and played Kasparov again in May 1997 . Deep Blue won game six , thereby winning the six-game rematch 3½-2½ and becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls . Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch . IBM refused and dismantled Deep Blue . Development for Deep Blue began in 1985 with the ChipTest project at Carnegie Mellon University . This project eventually evolved into Deep Thought , at which point the development team was hired by IBM . The project evolved once more with the new name Deep Blue in 1989 . Grandmaster Joel Benjamin was also part of the development team .
Gaz Bar Blues is a 2003 Québécois drama and comedy film directed by Louis Bélanger . The film is set in 1989 in the outskirts of an unspecified Québécois city .
Louis Bélanger ( born 1964 in Beauport , Quebec ) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter . He has a degree in communications from UQAM . He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard ; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films . His film Post Mortem won him Best Director at the Montreal World Film Festival and earned him two Genie Awards , for best new director and best screenplay . He began making films and long-form videos while still a student . He shot videos for Télévision Suisse Romande in the late 1990s before turning to directing his first feature , the multi-award winning Post Mortem in 1999 . His follow-up was Lauzon-Lauzone , a documentary about the late bad-boy director Jean-Claude Lauzon , and a second feature in 2003 , the very assured and mature Gaz Bar Blues . Influenced by the man-of-the-people-docudrama style of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach , he has said that there arent any new stories to tell ; all that matters is the telling .
Serge Thériault ( born April 23 , 1948 in Quebec City ) is a Canadian comedian and actor from Quebec . He is best known for his collaborations with Claude Meunier , including the Ding et Dong comedy duo and the spinoff television series La Petite Vie , in which he played the role of Môman . One of his first noted roles was in the television series Jamais deux sans toi as Bernie Lacasse , one of the first gay characters ever depicted in a Quebec television series . He also appeared in the films Le Sphinx , Gaz Bar Blues , Les Boys and August 32nd on Earth ( Un 32 août sur terre ) , and TV series such as Les Voisins , Le Négociateur and Omertà : La loi du silence .
Danny Gilmore ( born December 23 , 1973 ) is a Canadian actor . He has appeared in a number of films and television shows , starting with his role as Vallier in John Greyson 's Lilies ( 1996 ) . In 2007 he appeared in Denys Arcand 's Days of Darkness . He also starred in Gaz Bar Blues , Les Fils de Marie and the French-Canadian TV movie Marie-Antoinette . Gilmore wrote , produced and directed the independent film Bonzaïon in 2004 . He was named one of ten directors to watch by the Canadian media journal Playback in 2005 .
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award , presented annually by Québec Cinéma , which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec . Until 2016 , it was known as the Jutra Award ( Prix Jutra , with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra ) in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra , but Jutra 's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of allegations that Jutra had sexually abused children . Introduced in 1999 , the awards are presented for Best Film and performance , writing and technical categories such as best actor , actress , director , screenplay , et cetera . It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award , a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program which was also renamed in 2016 following the allegations against Jutra . Following the withdrawal of Jutra 's name from the award , the 2016 awards were presented solely under the name Québec Cinéma pending an announcement of the award 's new permanent name . The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016 . The trophy was designed by sculptor Charles Daudelin . The awards replaced the prix Guy-L'Écuyer , created in 1987 by Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer .
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause ( French : Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause ) is a film by Canadian director Sébastien Rose , released in 2003 . The film won that year 's Claude Jutra Award for the best Canadian feature film by a first-time director . The film 's cast includes Micheline Lanctôt , Paul Ahmarani , Lucie Laurier , Sylvie Moreau , Patrick Huard and Anne-Marie Cadieux .
Sébastien Rose ( born June 30 , 1969 in Montreal , Quebec ) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter . His debut film , How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause ( Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause ) , won the Claude Jutra Award for the best Canadian film by a first-time director in 2003 .
Micheline Lanctôt ( born May 12 , 1947 ) is a Canadian actress , film director , screenwriter , and musician .
Paul Ahmarani ( born 1972 ) is a Canadian actor . Both his parents have a teaching background ; one is from Cacouna , Bas-Saint-Laurent , Quebec and the other from the Mediterranean coast . Ahmarani is known for his roles in the movies The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge ( La Moitié gauche du frigo ) and How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause ( Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause ) . He has also appeared in the first season of the television Star Trek parody Dans une galaxie près de chez vous . In 2005 he released a musical album called Portrait vivant under the name Paul Ahmarani et les nouveaux mariés ( Paul Ahmarani and the Newlyweds , see the External links section to listen ) . Outside his acting and singing career , Paul Ahmarani has also been an open supporter of Quebec 's left-wing party , Québec solidaire . On 25 February 2010 , Paul Ahmarani , together with 500 artists , joined the call to support the international campaign for Boycott , Divestment , and Sanctions against the Israeli Apartheid . In 2012 , audiences saw him in Martin Villeneuve 's Mars et Avril , a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name .
The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award , presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year 's best feature film by a first-time film director . Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature , the award has been presented since the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 . Formerly a juried prize whose winner was announced in advance of the ceremony , the award is now presented as a conventional category with a full shortlist of nominees . To date three films , The Confessional ( Le Confessionnal ) , Atanarjuat : The Fast Runner and Away from Her , have won both the Best First Feature and Best Picture awards in the same year ; all three films ' directors also won the award for Best Director for the same films .