Each winner of the 1988 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Michel Marc Bouchard, is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of Lilies and The Orphan Muses.
Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 125 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking audiences.
The 6th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 1985, to honour to honour Canadian films released in 1984.
The Golden Screen Award, formerly known as the Golden Reel Award, is a Canadian film award, presented to the Canadian film with the biggest box office gross of the year. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association introduced this award in 1976 as part of the Canadian Film Awards until 1979. The Golden Reel became part of the Genie Awards ceremonies in 1980, and is currently part of the Canadian Screen Awards. It was renamed from Golden Reel to Golden Screen as of the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.
Rock Demers, was a Canadian film producer. He was the founder of the film company Les Productions la Fête and produced the Tales for All film series for children.
Mariloup Wolfe is a Canadian actress and film director. She went to F.A.C.E. School, an art school in Montreal. She holds a major in Film Production from Concordia University (2001) and a minor in Cultural Studies from McGill University (1999). Mariloup Wolfe became famous through her role as Marianne in the popular TV series Ramdam broadcast since 2001 on Télé-Québec.
Normand D'Amour is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his supporting role in the film Everything Is Fine , for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, and was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 29th Genie Awards.
Patricio Henriquez is a Quebec based filmmaker, who is a partner with Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher in the Macumba Films documentary studio.
Fabien Cloutier is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec. He is best known for his play Pour réussir un poulet, which won the Governor General's Award for French language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards. He was previously shortlisted for the same award at the 2012 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas in 2011, for Billy .
Série noire is a Quebec Comedy drama thriller series which was originally broadcast on Radio-Canada and TOU.TV in 2014–2015. The series centres on Denis and Patrick, the writers of a popular but critically reviled crime drama series, La loi de la justice, as they embark on a crime spree following the end of the show's first season in the hope of accumulating the personal experience necessary to make the writing more realistic in the show's second season.
Snowtime!, also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom, is a 2015 Canadian computer-animated comedy-drama film from Quebec. Directed by Jean-François Pouliot, it is an animated remake of the 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War.
The 18th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony were held on March 20, 2016 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2015.
Rita Lafontaine was a Canadian theatre, film, and television actor. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She has been described as the muse of playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard. Her career spanned over fifty years and left an "indelible mark on Québec theatre, film and television". She is a four-time recipient of the Gémeaux Award; three times for Best Lead Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2011.
Stéphane Jorisch is a Canadian artist and illustrator. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration, winning in 1993 for Le Monde selon Jean de ... and in 1999 for Charlotte et l'île du destin, and a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration, in 2004 for Jabberwocky and in 2008 for The Owl and the Pussycat.
Guardian Angel is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Sébastien Lord and released in 2014.
The Torrent is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, the film centres on the life of François, a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine. Left deaf when his refusal to obey her demand that he enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest led Claudine to hit him on the head, he has continued to live in rural isolation, and struggles to establish human connection when he purchases Amica, a woman being sold into slavery who is eerily similar to his mother in her youth.
The Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best animated short film made within the cinema of Quebec.
David Homel is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, his translation of Dany Laferrière's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Fairy Ring, their translation of Martine Desjardins' Le Cercle de Clara.
Hans Peter Strobl was an Austrian-Canadian sound engineer in film and television. He was most noted as a five-time Genie Award winner for Best Overall Sound, and a six-time Jutra Award winner for Best Sound.
