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The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009.
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The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009.
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road and The Reader
Best Director: David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Film: Milk
Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq – The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Best Actress: Marianne Fortier – Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)
Best British Columbia Film: Fifty Dead Men Walking
Best Director: Philippe Falardeau – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)
Best Film: It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)
Best Supporting Actor: Randy Quaid – Real Time
Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clément – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)
Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 33rd annual festival was from September 4 to September 13, 2008. The opening night gala was the World War I romantic epic Passchendaele from Canadian director Paul Gross.
It's Not Me, I Swear! is a Canadian Quebec French-language comedy movie released in Quebec on September 26, 2008. It is directed by Philippe Falardeau and is adapted from Bruno Hébert's novels C'est pas moi, je le jure! and Alice court avec René. The film's soundtrack contains original songs composed by Montreal musician Patrick Watson. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival.
The Necessities of Life is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Benoît Pilon and starring Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas and Paul-André Brasseur. Told in both French and Inuktitut, the film is about an Inuit man who is sent to Quebec for tuberculosis treatment.
Benoît Pilon is a francophone Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative films and documentaries on the human condition. He is also the co-founder of "Les Films de l'autre" productions, which produces, promotes and helps the development of independent films throughout North America.
The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
Natar Ungalaaq is a Canadian Inuit actor, filmmaker and sculptor whose work is in many major collections of Inuit art. Before playing the lead roles in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) and The Necessities of Life (2008), Ungalaaq played major roles in other Canadian and American films, including Kabloonak (1995), Glory & Honor (1998) and Frostfire (1994). He is also a producer and director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation.
The 80th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on 12 January 2009.
The 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
Antoine L'Écuyer is a French Canadian actor known for his lead role of Léon Doré in It's Not Me, I Swear! for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Atlantic Film Festival. He is also known for his role as Daniel Delage, a sick Montreal Canadiens fan in the film Pour toujours, les Canadiens!.
Boîte à bonbons is a 16-CD box set compilation of the recorded songs of Jacques Brel. The limited edition box set was released to mark the 25th anniversary of Jacques Brel's death. The box set includes 15 albums remastered from the original records. CD digipacks are presented in their original sleeve with lyrics. The box set also includes an illustrated booklet with various pictures, a biography, and Brel's citations and testimonies. Also included are five never before released songs from the recording sessions of the album Les Marquises. Included with the booklet is a bonus CD containing 28 titles: 26 songs from Radio Hasselt recorded 14 and 21 August 1953, a recording from the Brel family's private collection, and a 1962 recording from the Dutch television show AVRO. The box set is also available in an alternate velvet box format with CDs in crystal cases.
Gabriel Maillé is a Canadian film and television actor who started as a child actor.
Hollywood Girls : Une nouvelle vie en Californie, or simply Hollywood Girls, is a French soap opera created by Alexandre dos Santos, Jérémy Michalak, and Thibaut Vales for NRJ12. The series features an ensemble cast and follows a groups of French peoples who decided to start a new life in California, but their life is quickly disrupted by the diabolical Geny G and her husband, the Dr. David Moretti.
Georges Poubennec, better known under the name Georges Aber, was a French singer-songwriter.
Micheline Bernard is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performances in the films Small Blind , for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, and Matthias & Maxime, for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
The Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year is an annual award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the best performances by emerging actors in their first major film roles who were not nominated in the main lead and supporting acting categories. The award is not separated by gender.
The 11th Jutra Awards were held on March 29, 2009 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2008. Nominations were announced on February 17.
Évelyne Rompré is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2010 film Twice a Woman , for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011.