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Test your knowledge of the Genie Awards

By Kevin J. Siu

The Genie Awards (handed out March 21) are much more than Canada’s Oscars: imagine the Academy handing out an annual statuette to the biggest box office hit (“And the Oscar goes to… Independence Day”). Or holding a separate competition for imported actors (since scrapped, possibly due to poor attendance at the ceremony). Or nominating Porky’s in a category other than Biggest Future Disappointment to Former 13-Year-Old Boys. Test your knowledge of Canada’s curious celebration of movie magic…

1. The Golden Reel Award is given to each year’s highest-grossing Canadian film at the domestic box office. (This year’s winner: Resident Evil: Apocalypse.) Which of the following movies did not receive the award?
	Air Bud
	Strange Brew
	Heavy Metal
	Prom Night
	The Care Bears Movie

2. Golden Reel winner Porky’s (1983) — currently being remade as Howard Stern Presents Porky’s — also scored a best supporting actor nomination for Doug McGrath as Coach Warren. This future Sex and the City star, who played expressive gym teacher Miss “Lassie ” Honeywell in the original movie, was not so lucky:
	Sarah Jessica Parker
	Kim Cattrall
	Kristin Davis
	Cynthia Nixon
	Chris Noth

3. Ivan Reitman’s seminal summer camp opus Meatballs was nominated for eight awards at the inaugural 1980 Genies — including Best Motion Picture, Best Original Screenplay and best actress — and eventually spawned three sequels. Who has not appeared in a Meatballs movie?
	Bill Murray
	Shannon Tweed
	Cynthia Dale
	Corey Feldman
	Paul Reubens

4. Ron Howard remade Louis 19, le roi des ondes, which won director Michel Poulette the Claude Jutra Award for best directorial debut in 1994, into what movie?
	EdTV
	Apollo 13
	A Beautiful Mind
	Cocoon
	How the Grinch Stole Christmas

5. Which director did not appear in Don McKellar’s Jutra-winning filmmaking debut, Last Night?
	David Cronenberg
	Atom Egoyan
	François Girard
	Bruce McDonald

6. David Cronenberg won his fourth Genie for Achievement in Direction — he’d previously been honoured for Videodrome, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch — for his 1996 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s accident-fetish novel Crash. What Steven Spielberg film is also based on a Ballard work?
	Jaws
	Jurassic Park
	Empire of the Sun
	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
	The Color Purple

7. Which of the following statements about Atom Egoyan’s Exotica — which ran amok with eight awards at the 1994 ceremony — is untrue?
	The film won both the International Critics Prize at Cannes and Best Alternative Adult Film at the Adult Video News Awards
	Actor Elias Koteas (club MC Eric) starred in two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies
	A 2004 prequel was scrapped when Egoyan couldn’t find an actor to play a young Don McKellar
	Egoyan’s wife Arsinée Khanjian (club co-owner Zoe) was actually pregnant during shooting
	Composer Mychael Danna also scored the soundtracks to The Ice Storm, Johnny Mnemonic and Monsoon Wedding

8. Six-category nominee and 1985 Golden Reel winner La Guerre des tuques is known outside of Quebec as what Canuck children’s classic?
	The Cat Came Back
	The Hockey Sweater
	The Dog That Stopped The War
	The Peanut Butter Solution
	Degrassi High: School’s Out

9. When Mark McKinney won the 1999 best supporting actor award for his role as canine psychologist Dr. Cavan in Dog Park (directed by McKinney’s fellow Kids in the Hall alum Bruce McCulloch), he had recently finished a two-and-a-half-year stint on what television show?
	NewsRadio
	The Larry Sanders Show
	Saturday Night Live
	That ’70s Show
	Road to Avonlea

10. Maury Chaykin won the best actor award for his performance as the Brian Wilson-esque recluse Desmond Howl in Richard J. Lewis’s 1994 adaptation of Paul Quarrington’s novel Whale Music. But, as Quarrington revealed to the Toronto Star in 1997, a bigger star had considered the role: “[He] read the book in galley form, we had all kinds of meetings, he even took us to ball games. In the end, I think he passed it over because Desmond, the character, was maybe just a little too close to home. And you can see why – they both had similar characteristics.” Who was Quarrington referring to?
	Jim Carrey
	Matthew Perry
	John Candy
	Al Waxman
	Marlon Brando