Robert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series CSI: NY, and his appearances in the films Atlantic City (1980), Ragtime (1981), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor; for Atlantic City and Whole New Thing.
Genie Francis is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Laura Spencer on the television soap opera General Hospital from 1977 to present, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2007.
The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. Fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music". Their live performances have been elaborate, high-energy shows, featuring go-go dancers in balaclavas, a choir, and a string section.
Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director, and film director. He is probably best known for his acting roles in independent films and the sitcom Twitch City.
The 5th Genie Awards were presented on March 21, 1984, to honour films released in 1983.
Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis is a British actress. She first came to prominence co-starring on E4's Skins, receiving two Golden Nymph nominations for her portrayal of Effy Stonem. She then took on leading roles in a variety of films, such as Wuthering Heights (2011), the Maze Runner series (2014–2018), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Crawl (2019), and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). In 2024, she starred in the action comedy series The Gentlemen.
The Five Senses is a 1999 Canadian drama film directed, written and produced by Jeremy Podeswa.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian animated short film. Formerly part of the Genie Awards, since 2012 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Aaron James Teahan Webber is a Canadian actor best known for his roles as Emerson Thorsen in the drama film Whole New Thing (2005) and Thomas in the drama film A Stone's Throw (2006).
Tracy Wright was a Canadian actress who was known for her stage and film performances, as well as her presence in Canada's avant-garde for over 20 years.
Trigger is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement.
The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore is a Canadian musical comedy-drama short film directed by Laurie Lynd, which premiered at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival before going into wider release in 1993. Made as an academic project while Lynd was studying at the Canadian Film Centre, it won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards.
House is a Canadian drama film, released in 1995. Written and directed by Laurie Lynd as an adaptation of Daniel MacIvor's one-man play House, the film stars MacIvor as Victor, an antisocial drifter with some hints of paranoid schizophrenia, who arrives in the town of Hope Springs and invites ten strangers into the local church to watch him perform a monologue about his struggles and disappointments in life.
Audition is a 2005 Canadian comedy-drama film.
Camelia Frieberg is a Canadian film producer and director. She is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Picture, as producer of Atom Egoyan's films Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter.
The Fishing Trip is a Canadian drama film, directed by Amnon Buchbinder and released in 1998. The film stars Jhene Erwin as Kirsti, a young woman who is travelling with her sister Jessie and their friend Murdoch to Kirsti and Jessie's father's fishing cabin, to confront their father about his history of committing sexual abuse against them in childhood.
Night Friend is a Canadian drama film, directed by Peter Gerretsen and released in 1987. The film stars Chuck Shamata as Fr. Jack Donnell, a Roman Catholic priest who encounters a teen prostitute named Lindsay, and tries to save her from life on the streets.
Amnon Buchbinder was an American-born Canadian screenwriter and film director, most noted for his feature films The Fishing Trip and Whole New Thing.
Mr. Mergler's Gift is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Beverly Shaffer and released in 2004. The film is a portrait of Daniel Mergler, a 77-year-old music teacher in Montreal, Quebec, who has recently been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, and Xin Ben Yu, a young piano prodigy who has just immigrated to Canada with her family, whom Mergler has decided to take on as his final student before his death.
