French animated feature TheTriplets Of Belleville won the BestMotion Picture Genie at the 25th annual Genie Awards in Toronto lastnight.

As anticipated Quebecoispictures dominated the evening, particularly Memoires Affectives (Looking For Alexander) which won prizes for Direction for Francis Leclerc,Best Actor for Roy Dupuis and Best Original Screenplay for Leclerc and MarcelBeaulieu. The film won four prizes at Quebec's Jutra Awards last month.

Pascale Bussieres won theBest Actress prize for Ma Vie En Cinemascope, repeating her achievement at the Jutras while BestAdapted Screenplay went to LucDionne and Sylvain Guy for Monica La Mitraille (Machine Gun Molly). Best Supporting Actor went to Jean Lapointe for LeDernier Tunnel (The Last Tunnel). Jean-Baptiste Tard won the Best Production DesignGenie for Nouvelle-France,

Of the English-languagefeatures, Jennifer Jason Leigh won Best Supporting Actress for Childstar while Head In The Clouds won four prizes, including Best Cinematography forPaul Sarossy and Best Editing for Dominique Fortin. Best Documentary honourswent to Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Bart Simpson for The Corporation. Chris Landreth's animated short Ryan, which won the Academy Award this year, also won the Genie in that category.

25th Annual GenieAward winners

BEST MOTION PICTURE

Les Triplettes deBelleville (The Triplets Of Belleville)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS INA LEADING ROLE

Pascale Bussieres - MaVie En Cinemascope

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN ALEADING ROLE

Roy Dupuis - MemoiresAffectives (Looking For Alexander)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS INA SUPPORTING ROLE

Jennifer Jason Leigh - Childstar

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN ASUPPORTING ROLE

Jean Lapointe - LeDernier Tunnel (The Last Tunnel)

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION

Francis Leclerc - MemoiresAffectives (Looking For Alexander)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Francis Leclerc, MarcelBeaulieu - Memoires Affectives (LookingFor Alexander)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Luc Dionne, Sylvain Guy - MonicaLa Mitraille (Machine Gun Molly)

ACHIEVEMENT INCINEMATOGRAPHY

Paul Sarossy - Head InThe Clouds

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING

Dominique Fortin - HeadIn The Clouds

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC -ORIGINAL SCORE

Terry Frewer - Head InThe Clouds

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC -ORIGINAL SONG

Ron Proulx, Jacob Tierney - Twist- "Pantaloon in Black"

ACHIEVEMENT IN ARTDIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

Jean-Baptiste Tard - Nouvelle-France

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUMEDESIGN

Mario Davignon - Head InThe Clouds

ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND

Dominique Chartrand, GavinFernandes, Pierre Paquet - Le Dernier Tunnel (TheLast Tunnel)

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

Craig Henighan, Steve Baine,Stephen Barden, Tony Lewis, Jill Purdy,

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BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Corporation - Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Bart Simpson

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA

Capacite 11 Personnes - Gael d'Ynglemare, Yves Fortin

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Ryan - Chris Landreth, Steven Hoban, Marcy Page, MarkSmith

CLAUDE JUTRA AWARD

Daniel Roby - La PeauBlanche

GOLDENREEL AWARD

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