32nd Genie Awards

32nd Genie Awards
DateMarch 8, 2012
SiteWestin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto, Ontario[1]
Hosted byGeorge Stroumboulopoulos
Highlights
Best PictureMonsieur Lazhar
Most awardsMonsieur Lazhar (6)
Most nominationsCafé de Flore (13)
Television coverage
NetworkCBC Television

The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011.[2] Nominations were announced on January 17, 2012.[2]

The ceremony was originally scheduled to be hosted by Andrea Martin and George Stroumboulopoulos, but Martin was forced to cancel at the last minute due to a rescheduled acting commitment.[3] Stroumboulopoulos consequently hosted the ceremony alone, although he and Martin pretaped an introductory comedy segment in which they scrambled to find a replacement for Martin, including cameos by Martin Short, Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados.[3]

This was the last Genie Awards ceremony to be held before the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced the merger of the Genies with the Gemini Awards into the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards.

  1. ^ "Café de Flore leads Genie32 race with A Dangerous Method in hot pursuit" (PDF). genieawards.ca. 2012-01-17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  2. ^ a b "‘Café de Flore’, ‘A Dangerous Method’ lead Genie Awards race" Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, January 17, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Andrea Martin backs out of Genie Awards". CBC News, March 7, 2012.