Genie Nominations

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced their nominees this afternoon. David Cronenberg's Russian mob thriller Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil, based on Roméo Dallaire's account of the genocide in Rwanda, lead the nominations with 12 apiece, including Best Picture nominations for both.

The other Best Picture contenders are Sarah Polley's Alzheimers drama/love story Away From Her, Denys Arcand's Days of Darkness which explores the magical inner life of an ordinary civil servant, and Stéphane LeFleur's Continental, a Film Without Guns about a man who disappears into the forest and the impact this event has on the lives of four other people. Full nominations under the cut.

Picture
Away From Her
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Days of Darkness
Eastern Promises
Shake Hands With The Devil

Director
Denys Arcand (Days of Darkness)
David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)
Bruce McDonald (The Tracey Fragments)
Sarah Polley (Away From Her)
Roger Spottiswoode (Shake Hands With The Devil)

Actor
Roy Dupuis (Shake Hands With The Devil)
Marc Labreche (Days of Darkness)
Claude Legault (The 3 Little Pigs)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
Gordon Pinsent (Away From Her)

Actress
Anne-Marie Cadieux (You)
Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Ellen Page (The Tracey Fragments)
Molly Parker (Who Loves The Sun)
Beatrice Picard (My Aunt Aline)

Supporting Actress
Marie-Ginette Guay (Continental, A Film Without Guns)
Laurence Leboeuf (Ma Fille Mon Ange)
Veronique Le Flaguais (Surviving My Mother)
Fanny Mallette (Continental, A Film Without Guns)
Kristen Thompson (Away From Her)

Supporting Actor
Danny Glover (Poor Boy's Game)
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge (The 3 Little Pigs)
Armin Mueller-Stahl (Eastern Promises)
Michel Ange Nzojibwami (Shake Hands With The Devil)
Gilbert Sicotte (Continental, A Film Without Guns)

Original Screenplay
Marc-Andre Lavoie, Simon Olivier Fecteau, David Gauthier (Bluff)
Steve Knight (Eastern Promises)
Douglas Coupland (Everything's Gone Green)
Denys Arcand (Days of Darkness)
Pierre Lamonthe, Claude Lalonde (The 3 Little Pigs)

Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley (Away From Her)
Michael Donovan (Shake Hands With The Devil)
Maureen Medved (The Tracey Fragments)

Editing
The 3 Little Pigs
Away From Her
Eastern Promises
Poor Boy's Game
The Tracey Fragments

Art Direction
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Eastern Promises
FIDO
Shake Hands With The Devil
Silk

Costume Design
Eastern Promises
FIDO
Partition
Shake Hands With The Devil
Silk

Cinematography
Eastern Promises
Nitro
Partition
Shake Hands With The Devil
Silk

Original Score
The Beautiful Somewhere
Eastern Promises
FIDO
Shake Hands With The Devil
Silk

Original Song
"Breathe" (Poor Boy's Game)
"Kaya" (Shake Hands With The Devil)
"Young Triffie's Been Made Away With" (Young Triffie's Been Made Away With)

Sound
Citizen Duane
Eastern Promises
Shake Hands With The Devil
Silk
The Tracey Fragments

Sound Editing
Eastern Promises
Nitro
Romeo et Juliette
Shake Hands With The Devil
The Tracey Fragments

Documentary Feature
Panache
Radiant City
Sharkwater

Live Action Short Drama
Apres Tout
Regarding Sarah
Screening
The Tragic Story of Nling
The Wake of Calum MacLeod

Animated Short
Here and There
Jeu
Madame Tutli-Putli

Winners will be announced on March 3rd.