Pierre Saindon is a Canadian make-up artist and educator. He is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Makeup, at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990 for Cruising Bar [1] and at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997 for Karmina . [2]
He later retired from the film industry to teach makeup art at the secondary school level. [3]
Richard A. Baker is a retired American special make-up effects creator and actor, mostly known for his creature effects and designs. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning when he won the inaugural award for the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London.
Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.
David Adkins, better known by his stage name Sinbad, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became known in the 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several television series such as Coach Walter Oakes in A Different World (1987–1991) and as David Bryan on The Sinbad Show (1993–1994), and starring in the films Necessary Roughness, Houseguest, First Kid, Jingle All the Way, Good Burger, and Planes (2013).
Night Zoo 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.
Pierre Gill, C.S.C. is a Canadian cinematographer and film and television director. A Montreal native, he is closely associated with Quebecois cinema, and has collaborated with directors like Jean-Marc Vallée, Charles Binamé, Christian Duguay, Allan Moyle, and Denis Villeneuve, working on such films as Black List, The Art of War, Lost and Delirious,The Rocket, Polytechnique, and Upside Down. He served as the second unit director of photography on Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, which won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Greg Cannom is an American special make-up effects artist. He is the recipient of several accolades, including five Academy Awards and two Saturn Awards, and has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and four BAFTA Awards.
Jo Caron is a production sound mixer. He was nominated in the 28th Genie Awards for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound for Shake Hands with the Devil.
Gavin Fernandes, CAS, is a re-recording mixer based in Montreal, Quebec. He is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, the American Academy of Television and the Cinema Audio Society (CAS).
David La Haye is a Canadian actor.
Richard Sadler is a producer, scenarist and film director.
Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter.
Nick Dudman is a British make-up effects and creature designer for motion pictures.
Karmina is a Canadian comedy horror film from Quebec, released in 1996.
Not Me! is a Canadian drama film, released in 1996. The full-length directorial debut of Pierre Gang, the screenplay had been written by Gang a full 10 years before he was able to make the film.
Pierre Mignot is a Canadian cinematographer. He is a four-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award winner for Best Cinematography, winning at the 28th Canadian Film Awards in 1977 for J.A. Martin Photographer , at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984 for Maria Chapdelaine, at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for Mario and at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Anne Trister.
François Protat was a Canadian cinematographer, who won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for Joshua Then and Now. Born in France, he emigrated to Canada in 1969 after studying at the École de photographie de la rue de Vaugirard.
Adrien Francis Morot is a Canadian makeup artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Barney's Version, and has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on Barney's Version and Cruising Bar 2.
Cruising Bar is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Robert Ménard and released in 1989. The film stars Michel Côté as four separate characters – Serge, a shy nerd; Patrice, a drug-addicted film and television stuntman; Jean-Jacques, a pompous yuppie; and Gérard, an unhappily married man – who are each out on Saturday night hoping to hook up with a woman.
Robin Aubert is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director. He is most noted for his performance in the film The Countess of Baton Rouge , for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997, and his 2017 film Ravenous , which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Makeup is an annual Canadian film award category, presented as part of the Genie Awards prior to 2012 and Canadian Screen Awards since 2012, to honour achievements by make-up artists in the Canadian film industry.