Awards & Winners

Francine Pelletier

Francine Pelletier is a journalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the founder of a feminist newspaper, La Vie en Rose, and has written for La Presse, Le Devoir, and the Montreal Gazette. After the École Polytechnique massacre on December 6, 1989, in which 14 women where murdered by Marc Lepine, she lobbied for the public release of the gunman's suicide letter. It was leaked to her on November 22, 2000 and was subsequently published in La Presse. The letter included a list of 19 prominent Quebec feminists whom Marc Lepine had apparently wished to target, and her name was one of those listed. She has been a commentator on the PBS program, The Editors, and has worked as a correspondent for CBC Television on The National Magazine and as a co-host of the fifth estate. Since leaving the CBC, Pelletier has become a documentary filmmaker, having produced Monsieur, a film about former Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau.

Awards by Francine Pelletier

Check all the awards nominated and won by Francine Pelletier.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews

2000


Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series
Honored for : The Fifth Estate

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series The Fifth Estate

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series The Fifth Estate

1998


Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series
Honored for : The Fifth Estate

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series The Fifth Estate
Moral Authority
Gordon Sinclair Award For Broadcast Journalism The Fifth Estate
Last of their Breed?/Whale of a Business/The Philanthropist
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series The Fifth Estate

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gordon Sinclair Award For Broadcast Journalism The Fifth Estate