'Louis Cyr', 'Gabrielle' Lead Quebec Jutra Nominations

Gabrielle

The nominations were announced today for Quebec’s Jutra Awards (Les prix Jutras), which honour the best in Québécois cinema. Louis Cyr dominated the competition with ten nominations and a prize for top box office, while Gabrielle, Canada’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, received an impressive nine nominations. Particularly notable is the Jutra committee’s acknowledgement of Archambault in the categories for Best Director and Best Screenplay, as the Gabrielle director was egregiously snubbed in both categories in the Canadian Screen Awards nominations released earlier this month. Also scoring considerably better here than at the Canadian Screen Awards is Denis Côté’s acclaimed art house hit Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, which earned five Jutra nominations after being shut out altogether by the CSAs. (I’m especially thrilled by that Best Supporting Actress nomination for Marie Brassard, who made my list of the Top Ten Performances of 2013.) Also sitting strong are CSA nominated short films The End of Pinky and Gloria Victoria, which are competiting in a sturdy selection of animated films. Notably absent from the list, however, is festival favourite Sarah Prefers to Run, which now has a pair of goose eggs after being equally passed over by the Screenies. Sarah star Sophie Desmarais, however, was nominated for her performance in Le démantèlement, which is a top competitor at both award shows.

Tom at the Farm

Also absent is a film that came second for the most nominations overall at the Canadian Screen Awards: Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm. Tom is listed solely in competition for a prize honouring the film most celebrated outside Quebec. Dolan fans needn’t worry that the Quebec Wunderkind was slighted, though, for Tom at the Farm won’t be eligible until next year, as it hits theatres in March and the Jutras require feature films to screen for at least one week in the calendar year in order to qualify for awards. (However, Dolan fans should note that frequent Dolan collaborator Monia Chokri earned a nomination for her short film An Extraordinary Person.) Tom at the Farm’s eight-nomination disparity between the Canadian Screen Awards and the Jutras demonstrates how Quebec is going about honouring their films in the correct way. While there is no doubting the merit of Tom at the Farm’s award potential, it simply hasn’t played yet; however, the Canadian Screen Awards allow films to strategize by choosing to submit for competition either in their year of festival release or in their year of theatrical release. This rule allowed Tom at the Farm and fellow March release Enemy to dominate the Canadian Screen Awards, along with other films such as The F Word, The Grand Seduction, and Maïna, which are slated for release later this year and have yet to be seen by audiences outside the festival circuit

The Jutra nominees are:

Meilleur film (Best Film)

Catimini

Le démantèlement

Diego Star

Gabrielle

Louis Cyr

Meilleure réalisation (Best Director)

Louise Archambault, Gabrielle

Denis Côté, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires, Triptyque

Sébastien Pilote, Le démantèlement

Daniel Roby, Louis Cyr

Meilleure actrice (Best Actress)

Chloé Bourgeois, Diego Star

Lise Castonguay, Triptyque

Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, Louis Cyr

Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Les manèges humains

Pierrette Robitaille, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Meilleur acteur (Best Actor)

Gabriel Arcand, Le démantèlement

Antoine Bertrand, Louis Cyr

Alexandre Landry, Gabrielle

Marcel Sabourin, L’autre maison

Issaka Sawadogo, Diego Star

Meilleure actrice de soutien (Best Supporting Actress)

Marie Brassard, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Sophie Demarais, Le démantèlement

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Gabrielle

Muriel Dutil, Ressac

Frédérique Paré, Catimini

Meilleur acteur de soutien (Best Supporting Actor)

Guillaume Cyr, Louis Cyr

Normand Daoust, Les manèges humains

Benoit Gouin, Gabrielle

Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Gabrielle

Gilles Renaud, Le démantèlement

Meilleur scénario (Best Screenplay)

Louise Archambault, Gabrielle

Denis Côté, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Martin Laroche, Les manèges humains

Frédérick Pelletier, Diego Star

Nathalie Saint-Pierre, Catimini

Meilleure direction de le photographie (Best Cinematography)

L’autre maison

Louis Cyr

Le démantèlement

Catimini

Whitewash

Meilleure direction artistique (Best Art Direction)

Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi

Diego Star

Louis Cyr

Triptyque

Upside Down

Meilleur Son (Best Sound)

Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi

Gabrielle

Jappeloup l’étoffe d/un champion

The Legend of Sarila

Louis Cyr

Meilleur Montage (Best Film Editing)

L’autre maison

Catimini

Erased

Gabrielle

Whitewash

Meilleur musique originale

The Legend of Sarila

Les manages humains

Roche papier ciseaux

Rouge Sang

Upside Down

Meilleurs costumes (Best Costumes)

Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi

Louis Cyr

Rouge Sang

Triptyque

Upside Down

Meilleur maquillage (Best Make-up)

Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi

Erased

Les 4 soldats

Louis Cyr

Whitewash

Meilleure coiffure (Best Hairstyling)

Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi

Les 4 soldats

Il était une fois les Boys

Lac Mystère

Louis Cyre

Meilleur court ou moyen métrage de fiction (Best Short or Mid-Length Film)

Gaspé Cooper

Mémorable moi

Nous avions

L’ouragan fuck you tabarnak !

Quelqu’un d’extraordinaire

Meilleur court ou moyen métrage d’animation (Best Short or Mid-Length Animation)

Le courant faible de la rivière

The End of Pinky

Errance

Gloria Victoria

Le jour nous écoute

Film s’étant le plus illustré hors Québec (Film Most Honoured Outside Quebec)

Le dématèlement

Gabrielle

Inch’Àllah

Tom at the Farm

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Jutra Biller d’or Cineplex (Cineplex Golden Ticket)

Louis Cyr

The winners will be announced March 23rd. Please visit http://www.lesjutra.ca for more info.