Awards & Winners

Eric Canuel

Date of Birth 1964
Place of Birth Montreal
(Canada, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Québec)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Erik Canuel, Érik Canuel
Profession Film Director, Television Director
Eric Canuel is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Eric Canuel began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vilain Pingouin and Sylvain Cossette. After shooting a number of TV commercials, several of them award-winners, he worked as a director on the television series Big Wolf on Campus, for the Fox network, and The Hunger, broadcast on Showtime and The Movie Network. In 2000, his Imax film Hemingway: A Portrait won a Genie Award for best short documentary, as well as the Maximum Image Award for best 2D film at the Miami Aventura Imax Days. Canuel also directed Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher in 2000, Pigs Law in 2001, Nez Rouge in 2003, Last Tunnel - starring Michel Côté and Jean Lapointe - in 2004, The Outlander in 2005, and Bon Cop, Bad Cop in 2006; receiving numerous nominations and awards. In 2010, Eric Canuel directed the episode 3x11 "Fa la Erica" of the TV series Being Erica. Many of director Eric Canuel's productions contain a cameo appearance by Canuel.

Awards by Eric Canuel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eric Canuel.

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Direction Bon Cop, Bad Cop

2000


Genie Award for Best Short Documentary
Honored for : Portrait of Hemingway

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Short Documentary Portrait of Hemingway