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Paul Cowan

Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent the bulk of his career with the National Film Board of Canada. Cowan was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for Going the Distance, a documentary about the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He was the director of the controversial docudrama The Kid Who Couldn't Miss and cinematographer on the Oscar-winning Flamenco at 5:15. He is the winner of a Genie Award for his documentary Westray, on the Westray Mine disaster. He wrote and directed the 2005 documentary The Peacekeepers. He retired from the NFB in 2009, after directing a film adaptation of Margaret MacMillan's Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War. He directed the 2012 documentary The Crash of Flight 810, part of TSN's Engraved on a Nation series of eight documentaries celebrating the 100th Grey Cup. It concerns the 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 plane crash into Slesse Mountain in B.C. that killed all 62 people on board, including five football players returning from the annual East-West All-Star Game, and its impact on the players' families and Canadian football. A resident of Westmount, Quebec, Cowan is married to CBC radio personality Katie Malloch.

Awards by Paul Cowan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Paul Cowan.

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series The Peacekeepers

2002


Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
Honored for : Westray

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary Westray

1999


Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
Honored for : The Cola Conquest

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series The Cola Conquest

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Double or Nothing: The Rise and Fall of Robert Campeau

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Justice Denied

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Program See No Evil
Gemini Award for Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series See No Evil
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series See No Evil

1988


National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice
Honored for : Mixed blessings

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Going the Distance


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