15th Genie Awards

15th Genie Awards
DateDecember 7, 1994
SiteMetro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
Hosted byGraham Greene
Highlights
Best PictureExotica
Most awardsExotica
Most nominationsExotica
Television coverage
NetworkCBC Television

The 15th Genie Awards were held on December 7, 1994 to honour Canadian films released in 1993. Actor Graham Greene hosted the ceremony.

Building on the success of its Genie specials of the last two years, the academy and the CBC produced two shows for this year's event. Genies Countdown was a one-hour preview show which aired twice before the gala; for the Quebec market, Les Grands Moments du Genie aired immediately after the show.[1]

This year's awards were dominated by Atom Egoyan's Exotica,[2] and Whale Music, the debut film of director Richard J. Lewis. Another newcomer, Michel Poulette, won the Claude Jutra Award for outstanding achievement for first-time direction for his film Louis 19, le roi des ondes (Louis 19, King of the Airwaves), which also won the Golden Reel Award as the year's most commercially-successful film.[3]

  1. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 57-59.
  2. ^ Tschofen, Monique; Burwell, Jennifer, eds. (1 October 2006). Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 368. ISBN 0889205299.
  3. ^ Playback Staff (7 November 1994). "The 1994 Genie nominees". Playback. Retrieved 24 March 2017.