'The Grand Seduction' and 'Enemy' Lead Directors Guild of Canada Awards Nominations

Brendan Gleeson and Gordon Pinsent in The Grand Seduction, an eOne Films release

The nominees for the Directors Guild of Canada were announced today with Enemy and The Grand Seduction leading the pack with three nominations apiece including Best Feature Film. The Grand Seduction’s Don McKellar gets a nomination for Best Direction to go along with the Best Film citation, yet Enemy’s Denis Villeneuve doesn’t, which is both curious and unsurprising given the film’s love-it-or-hate-it artiness. Also earning three nominations in the technical categories are The Art of the Steal and, sigh, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, which continues to demolish Canuck kudos despite being the fattest turkey this nation has produced in some time. Disappointingly absent are Louise Archambault and Jeff Barnaby from the Best Direction category for Gabrielle and Rhymes for Young Ghouls, respectively, although Gabrielle has one lone nomination for Best Feature Film. The awards will be handed out later in October, which gives folks time to catch The F-Word when it opens in August.

The nominations for the feature film categories are:

BEST FEATURE FILM

Presented by Platinum Sponsor, Technicolor

Cas & Dylan

Enemy

The F Word

Gabrielle

The Grand Seduction

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE FILM
Presented by Gold Sponsor, Deluxe

Michael Dowse – The F Word

Don McKellar – The Grand Seduction

Jason Priestley – Cas & Dylan

Peter Stebbings – Empire of Dirt

  

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY
Presented by Silver Sponsor Rogers Group of Funds

Arctic Defenders – John Walker

Chi – Anne Wheeler

Secretariat’s Jockey, Ron Turcotte – Phil Comeau

Watermark – Jennifer Baichwal

BEST SHORT FILM 

The Golden Ticket – Patrick Hagarty

Out –Jeremy Lalonde

The Portal – Jonathan Williams

Whispers of Life – Florian Halbedl

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
Presented by Silver Sponsor Pinewood Studios Group

Matthew Davies – The Art of the Steal

Guy Lalande – The Grand Seduction

François Séguin– The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Patrice Vermette - Enemy         

                                                                  

BEST PICTURE EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Geoff Ashenhurst – The Art of the Steal

Jacqueline Carmody – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Matthew Hannam – Enemy

Aaron Marshall – The Colony

  

BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM

A Fighting Man - Paul Germann, Barry Gilmore, Krystin Hunter, Dave Rose and Jane Tattersall

The Art of the Steal– Tom Bjelic, Mark Gingras, Katie Halliday, Dale Lennon, John Liang, Jimmy Robb and Adam Stein

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones - Kevin Banks, Stephen Barden, Alex Bullick, Nelson Ferreira, J. R. Fountain, Rose Gregoris, Jill Purdy, Nathan Robitaille and Tyler Whitham

The Nut Job – Claire Dobson, David Evans, Paul Germann, David McCallum and Mark Shnuriwsky

Please visit the Directors Guild of Canada website for the full list of nominees.