Night Zoo | |
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French | Un Zoo la nuit |
Directed by | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
Written by | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
Produced by | Roger Frappier Pierre Gendron |
Starring | Gilles Maheu Lynne Adams Roger Lebel |
Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
Edited by | Michel Arcand |
Music by | Jean Corriveau |
Distributed by | FilmDallas (US theatrical) |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Box office | 1.3 million CAD |
Night Zoo (French : Un Zoo la nuit) is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. It made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. [1]
It was also the most successful film in the history of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's film awards program, winning a record 13 Genie Awards in every single category where it was nominated. [2] The film garnered 14 nominations overall; [3] the film's only nomination that failed to translate into a win was Gilles Maheu's nod for Best Actor, as he lost to the film's other Best Actor nominee, Roger Lebel.
Marcel (Gilles Maheu) is released from prison, hoping to reconcile with his dying father, Albert (Lebel). Marcel is also harassed by a corrupt gay cop. Marcel returns to his father who reveals that he has money and drugs stashed away for him. Marcel and his gay former cellmate both corner the corrupt cop and get their revenge on him. Julie (Adams) is Marcel's former girlfriend who works in a sex club peep show.
The film grossed $1 million in Quebec within three months of its release. [4]
The film won the most Genie Awards in history, with thirteen awards. [4] Gilles Maheu and Roger Lebel were both nominated for best actor. [5] [6]
In 1987, the film won the Grand Prix for Best Film at Film Fest Gent.
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Genie Awards | 22 March 1988 | Best Picture | Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron | Won | [5] |
Best Director | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Won | |||
Best Screenplay | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Won | |||
Best Actor | Roger Lebel | Won | |||
Gilles Maheu | Nominated | [6] | |||
Best Supporting Actor | Germain Houde | Won | [5] | ||
Best Art Direction or Production Design | Jean-Baptiste Tard | Won | |||
Best Cinematography | Guy Dufaux | Won | |||
Best Costume Design | Andrée Morin | Won | |||
Best Editing | Michel Arcand | Won | |||
Best Overall Sound | Adrian Croll Hans Peter Strobl Yvon Benoît | Won | |||
Best Sound Editing | Viateur Paiement Marcel Pothier Diane Boucher | Won | |||
Best Music Score | Jean Corriveau | Won | |||
Best Original Song | Jean-Pierre Bonin Daniel De Shaimes Jean Corriveau Robert Stanley | Won |
The film was released on videocassette in the United States in 1988 by New World and in Canada that same year by Cinema Plus Video. In 1991, an EP-Mode tape of the film was released by Starmaker Video. After Lauzon was killed in the northern Quebec plane crash in 1997, CBC Television, Télé-Québec and Showcase aired Night Zoo and Léolo in August. [7] To this day, Night Zoo has never been released on DVD and as of June 28, 2011, no plans have been made to release the film onto DVD. It was digitized and restored in May 2013 by Éléphant and is available for online rental on the iTunes Store.
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand 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. For The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.
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The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actress in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Direction to the best work by a director of a Canadian film.
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The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, to honour the best Canadian film cinematography.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian costume designer. It was formerly called the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design before the Genies were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Editing is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film editor in a feature film. The award was presented for the first time in 1966 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, and was transitioned to the new Genie Awards in 1980. Since 2012 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
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Roger Lebel was a Canadian actor.
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