Record Nominations for Canucks at 2010 Oscars
By Wyndham Wise, Contributing Editor
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(Macrh 3, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario) – This year a record number of Canadian filmmakers and films received Oscar® nominations – 14 nominations spread out over seven films, although only one of those films is officially Canadian, and even then it’s only a minority co-production. This beats the previous record set at the 2008 Oscars®, when 10 Canadian filmmakers and films were nominated, and none won. With any luck, our nominated-to-winner ratio will be better this year.
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For my money, the best bet to take home the coveted gold-plated statuette is one of the two expats competing for Best Director and Best Picture: Kapuskasing-born James Cameron for Avatar and Montreal-born Jason Reitman for Up in the Air. Cameron is also up for Best Editor and Reitman for Best Adapted Screenplay, while his father, Ivan Reitman, received his first-ever nomination as the co-producer of Up in the Air.
In the category of Art Direction there are three Canadians competing head-to-head, Anastasia Masaro for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a Canada/U.K./France co-production directed by Terry Gilliam, Patrice Vermette for The Young Victoria, a U.S./U.K. co-production and not a Canadian film, although because its director, Jean-Marc Vallée, is from Quebec, some critics have mistakenly claimed it as our own, and Gordon Sim, the set decorator on the musical Nine (U.S./Italy). Sim previously won for his work on Chicago. In the category of Best Costumes, Monique Prudhomme is nominated for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
District 9 (U.S./New Zealand), a dystopian view of the future set in the shantytowns of South Africa, surprisingly produced a number of nominations for Canadians. Its director, Neill Blomkamp, is a South African by birth, but he moved to Vancouver as a teenager and studied at the Vancouver Film School. He made one Canadian short and worked on the series  Stargate SG-1, which was shot in Vancouver. Blomkamp, who now is a Canadian citizen, and his personal and professional writing partner, Vancouver-born Terri Tatchell, are up for Best Adapted Screenplay, as is the film’s editor, Julian Clarke, who is nominated in the category, and members of the visual effects crew, Dan Kaufman and Robert Habros from Vancouver, for Best Visual Effects.
And last, but certainly not least, the Toronto-born actor Christopher Plummer finally got an Oscar nod for his portrayal of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, a U.K./Germany/Russia co-production. The 81-year-old veteran, who has been acting in films since 1958 – his first was Nicolas Ray’s Wind across the Everglades – has been in contention a number of times, but this is his first nomination. Unfortunately he’s up against Christoph Waltz from Inglourius Basterds, who, after wins at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, has a virtual lock on the Best Supporting Actor category.
Following is a Complete list of Canadian and Canadian-born Oscar Winners and Nominees:
Picture
Jack L. Warner (won: My Fair Lady; three nominations: Yankee Doodle Dandy and Auntie Mame and All This and Heaven Too)
James Cameron (won: Titanic; nomination: Avatar)
Don Carmody (won: Chicago)
Paul Haggis (won: Crash)
Norman Jewison (four nominations: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Fiddler on the Roof, A Soldier’s Story and Moonstruck)
Denis Héroux and John Kemeny (nomination: Atlantic City)
William Vince (nomination: Capote)
Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman (nomination: Up in the Air)
Animated Feature
Paul Cadieux (nomination: Les Triplettes de Belleville)
Chris Williams (nomination: Bolt)
Director
James Cameron (won: Titanic; nomination: Avatar)
Norman Jewison (three nominations: The Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck)
Jason Reitman (two nominations: Juno and Up in the Air)
Mark Robson (two nominations: Peyton Place and Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
Edward Dmytryk (nomination: Crossfire)
Arthur Hiller (nomination: Love Story)
Atom Egoyan (nomination: The Sweet Hereafter)
Paul Haggis (nomination: Crash)
Original Screenplay
Paul Haggis (won: Crash; nomination: Letters from Iwo Jima)
Roger Avary (won: Pulp Fiction)
Ted Allan (nomination: Lies My Father Told Me)
Nia Vardalos (nomination: My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Denys Arcand (nomination: Les Invasions barbares)
Adapted Screenplay
Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd (nomination: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
Atom Egoyan (nomination: The Sweet Hereafter)
Paul Haggis (nomination: Million Dollar Baby)
Sarah Polley (nomination: Away from Her)
Jason Reitman (nomination: Up in the Air)
Terri Tatchell and Neill Blomkamp (nomination: District 9)
Best Actor
Walter Huston (two nominations: Dodsworth and The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Walter Pidgeon (two nominations: Mrs Miniver and Madame Currie)
Raymond Massey (nomination: Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
Alexander Knox (nomination: Wilson)
Ryan Gosling (nomination: Half Nelson)
Best Actress
Norma Shearer (won: The Divorcée; five nominations: Romeo and Juliet, Their Own Desire, A Free Soul, The Barretts of Wimple Street and Marie Antoinette)
Marie Dressler (won: Min and Bill; nomination: Emma)
Mary Pickford (won: Coquette)
Geneviève Bujold (nomination: Anne of the Thousand Days)
Ellen Page (nomination: Juno)
Supporting Actor
Walter Huston (won: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; nomination: Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Harold Russell (won: The Best Years of Our Lives)
Gene Lockhart (nomination: Algiers)
Hume Cronyn (nomination: The Seventh Cross)
John Ireland (nomination: All the King’s Men)
Chief Dan George (nomination: Little Big Man)
Dan Aykroyd (nomination: Driving Miss Daisy)
Graham Greene (nomination: Dances with Wolves)
Christopher Plummer (nomination: The Last Station)
Supporting Actress
Anna Paquin (won: The Piano)
Lucile Watson (nomination: Watch on the Rhine)
Meg Tilly (nomination: Anges of God)
Kate Nelligan (nomination: Prince of Tides)
Jennifer Tilly (nomination: Bullets over Broadway)
Cinematography
Osmond Borradaile (nomination: The Four Feathers)
Editing
James Cameron (won: Titanic; nomination: Avatar)
Julian Clarke (nomination: District 9)
Art Direction
Richard Day (two wins: A Street Car Named Desire and On the Waterfront; four nominations Joan of Arc, Hans Christian Anderson, The Greatest Story Ever Told and Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Gordon Sim (won: Chicago; nomination: Nine)
Jim Erickson (nomination: There Will Be Blood)
Peter Lando (nomination: The Dark Knight)
Anastasia Masaro (nomination: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Patrice Vermette (nomination: The Young Victoria)
Interior Decoration
Richard Day (five wins: Dark Angel, Dodsworth, How Green Was My Valley, My Gal Sal and This above All; nine nominations: Whoope!, Arrowsmith, The Affairs of Cellini, Dead End, The Goldwyn Follies, Down Argentina Way, Lillian Russell, Blood and Sand and The Razor’s Edge)
Costumes
Monique Prudhomme (nomination: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Makeup
Michèle Burke (won: Quest for Fire)
Stephan Dupuis (won: The Fly)
Valli O’Reilly (won: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Documentary
Stuart Legg (won: Churchill’s Island; two nominations: Warclouds in the Pacific and Inside Fighting China)
Budge Crawley (won: The Man Who Skied down Everest)
John Zarisky (won: Just another Missing Kid)
Brigitte Berman (won: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got)
Michael Donovan and Charles Bishop (won: Bowling for Columbine)
Raymond Spottiswoode (nomination: High over the Borders)
Donald Brittain (nomination: Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and
Death of Malcolm Lowry)
Harry Rasky (nomination: Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love)
Paul Cowan (nomination: Going the Distance)
Malcolm Clarke (nomination: Prisoner of Paradise)
Short Documentary
Norman McLaren (won: Neighbours)
Terre Nash (won: If You Love This Planet)
Cynthia Scott (won: Flamenco at 5:15)
Morten Parker (two nominations: The Fight: Science against Cancer and The Stratford Adventure)
John Feeney (two nominations: The Living Stone and Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak)
Jean Palardy (nomination: The Rising Tide)
Stephen Bosustow (nomination: Man Alive!)
Julian Briggs (nomination: The Herring Hunt)
Colin Low and Wolf Koenig (nomination: City of Gold)
Eugene Boyko (nomination: Helicopter Canada)
Christopher Chapman (nomination: A Place to Stand)
Michael Scott and Marrin Canell (nomination: Whistling Smith)
Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson (nomination: Blackwood)
Tony Ianzelo and Torben Schioler (nomination: High Grass Circus)
Phillip Borsos (nomination: Nails)
Pen Densham and John Watson (nomination: Don’t Mess with Bill)
Sturla Gunnarsson (nomination: After the Axe)
Michael Bryans and Tina Vijoen (nomination: The Profession of Arms)
Larry Weinstein (nomination: Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra)
Joyce Borenstein (nomination: The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein)
Shui-Bo Wang (nomination: Sunrise over Tianamen Square)
Hubert Davis (nomination: Hardwood)
Animated Short
Frédéric Back (two wins: Crac! and The Man Who Planted Trees; two nominations: Tout rien and Le Fleuve aux grandes eaux)
Alison Snowdon and David Fine (won: Bob’s Birthday; nomination: George and Rosemary)
Chris Landreth (won: Ryan; nomination: the end)
Marcy Page (won: The Danish Poet; nomination: My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shorts)
Richard Williams (won: A Christmas Carol)
Co Hoedeman (won: The Sand Castle)
John Weldon and Eunice Macauley (won: Special Delivery)
Eugen Fedorenko (won: Every Child)
John Minnis (won: Charade)
Bernard Lajoie (won: The Old Man and the Sea; nomination: The Old Lady and the Pigeons)
Eric Armstrong (won: The ChubChubs)
Caroline Leaf (two nominations: The Owl Who Married the Goose: An Eskimo Legend and The Street)
Michael Mills (two nominations: Evolution and The History of the World in Three Minutes Flat)
Richard Condie (two nominations: The Big Snit and La Salla)
Cordell Baker (two nominations: The Cat Came Back and Strange Invaders)
Christopher Hinton (two nominations: Blackfly and Nibbles)
Colin Low, Wolf Koenig and Robert Verrall (nomination: The Romance of Transportation in Canada)
Norman McLaren (nomination: Pas de deux)
Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra and Evelyn Lambert (nomination: A Chairy Tale)
Norman McLaren, Jeff Hale, Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro (nomination: Christmas Cracker)
Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro (nomination: My Financial Career)
Roman Kroitor and Colin Low (nomination: Universe)
Arthur Lipsett (nomination: Very Nice, Very Nice)
Carlos Marchiroi (nomination: The Drag)
Les Drew and Kaj Pindal (nomination: What on Earth!)
Ron Tunis (nomination: This Is the House that Jack Built)
Ryan Larkin (nomination: Walking)
Yvon Mallette (nomination: The Family that Dwelt Apart)
Peter Foldès (nomination: Hunger)
Bernard Longré and André Leduc (nomination: Monsieur Pointu)
Ishu Patel (nomination: Bead Game)
Ishu Patel and George Ungar (nomination: Paradise)
Janet Perlman (nomination: The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin)
Wendy Tilby (nomination: Strings)
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (nomination: When the Day Breaks)
Michael Thurmeier (nomination: No Time for Nuts)
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (nomination: Madame Tutli-Putli)
Josh Raskin (nomination: I Met the Walrus)
Short/Cartoon
Stephen Bosustow (three wins: Gerald McBoing McBoing, When Magoo Flew and Mister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper; 10 nominations: Magic Fluke, Trouble Indemnity, Rooty Toot Toot, Madeline, Pink and Blue Blues, Christopher Crumpet, The Tell-Tale Heart, Gerald McBoing! McBoing! On Planet Moo, The Jaywalker and Tress and Jamaica Daddy)
Live-Action Short
Christopher Chapman (won: A Place to Stand)
Beverly Shaffer (won: I’ll Find a Way)
Don McBrearty (won: Boys and Girls)
Bill Mason (nomination: Blake)
Pen Densham and John Watson (nomination: Life Times Nine)
Giles Walker (nomination: Bravery in the Field)
John N. Smith (nomination: First Winter)
Bruce Pitman (nomination: The Painted Door)
Short Subject
Mack Sennett (one win: Wrestling Swordfish; one nomination: The Loud Mouth)
Norman McLaren (nomination: Neighbours)
Bill Mason (nomination: Paddle to the Sea)
Sound Recording
Douglas Shearer (five wins: The Big House, Naughty Marietta, San Francisco, Strike Up the Band and The Great Caruso; 10 nominations: Viva Villa!, Maytime, Sweethearts, Balalaika, The Chocolate Soldier, Mrs. Miniver, Madame Currie, Kismet, They Were Expendable and Green Dolphin Street)
David Lee (won: Chicago)
Paul Massey (two nominations: Legends of the Fall and Air Force One)
Paul Massey and David Giammarco (nomination: 3:10 to Yuma)
Craig Berkey (nomination: No Country for Old Men)
Sound Mixing
Paul Massey (three nominations: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Walk the Line and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)
Special Effects
Douglas Shearer (two wins: Thirty Seconds over Toyko and Green Dophin Street; four nominations: The Wizard of Oz, Boom Town, Flight Command and Mrs. Miniver)
Richard Williams (won: Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Steve Williams (nomination: The Mask)
James Straus (nomination: Dragonheart)
Visual Effects
Dan Kaufman and Robert Habros (nomination: District 9)
Musical Score
Howard Shore (two wins: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Louis Applebaum (nomination: The Story of G.I. Joe)
Song
Buffy Saint-Maire (won: An Officer and a Genetleman)
Howard Shore (won: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
David Foster (three nominations: Karate Kid II, The Bodyguard and Quest for Camelot)
Bryan Adams (nomination: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
Neil Young (nomination: Philadelphia)
Benoît Charest (nomination: Les Triplettes de Belleville)
Foreign-Language Film
Denys Arcand (won: Les Invasions barbares; two nominations: Le Déclin de l’empire Américan and Jésus de Montréal)
Richard Hellman (nomination: A Special Day)
Deepa Metha (nomination: Water)
Honorary Oscars
Mack Sennett
Deanna Durbin
Harold Russell
Mary Pickford
National Film Board of Canada
Irving G. Thalberg Award for Lifetime Achievement
Jack L. Warner
Norman Jewison
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Arthur Hiller
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