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Norman Jewison to Receive Lions Gate Award of Excellence from
Banff Television Festival
(Banff, Alberta, June 4, 2001) The multi-award winning Canadian
producer and director, Norman Jewison, has been selected by the
Board of Directors of the Banff Television Festival as the 2001
recipient of the Lions Gate Award of Excellence. Announcing the
award today, Festival president and CEO, Pat Ferns said, "At
the Banff Rockie Awards on June 11th we will celebrate Norman Jewison's
extraordinary creative achievements in a career that started in
Canadian television. The award not only recognizes his very successful
life in film, but also his superb contribution as an ambassador
for Canada and to the Canadian production community through the
creation of the Canadian Film Centre, which now includes television
and new media."
The Lions Gate Award of Excellence acknowledges the body of work
and exceptional achievements of its recipients. In the case of Norman
Jewison, the body of work represents a prolific and diverse number
of films and television productions, which have earned great critical
acclaim. Over three decades as a film director he has garnered 45
Academy Award nominations and has received 12 Academy Awards, as
well as three nominations for Best Director Award by the Directors
Guild of America.
After graduating from the University of Toronto and doing a work/study
program at the BBC, Mr. Jewison returned to Canada where he wrote,
directed, and produced some of the CBC's most popular musicals,
dramas, comedy-variety shows, and specials for a period of seven
years. In '58 he directed Your Hit Parade in the U.S. and
then numerous top television specials including Tonight with
Harry Belafonte, which won him an Emmy Award.
He made his film-directing debut in '62 with 40 Pounds of Trouble.
His filmography also includes In The Heat of The Night, winner
of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture; A Soldier's Story;
Agnes of God; Moonstruck, another multiple Academy
Award winner and most recently, The Hurricane.
Mr. Jewison served as executive producer on the Canadian feature
film, Dance Me Outside and as executive producer of the dramatic
television series, Picture Windows. He is an officer of the
Order of Canada and a Companion of the Order of Canada as well as
the recipient in 1999 of the Irving Thalberg Award.
In 1988 Mr. Jewison founded the Canadian Film Centre, providing
advanced, hands-on training to young Canadian filmmakers. It is
now Canada's pre-eminent film training institution serving the needs
of Canada's film, television, and new media industries. The Banff
Television Festival partners with the Canadian Film Centre's Television
Residence Program through the CTV Fellowship Program.
BANFF 2001 kicks off on Sunday June 10. Independent producers,
writers, directors, and other industry professionals from around
the world will attend the week-long Festival of seminars, plenary
sessions, master classes, and social events. Other BANFF 2001 award-winners
are Frasier's Kelsey Grammer (the Sir Peter Ustinov / Comedy Network
Award), and Rock Demers and Bernard Pivot, recipients of special
Lifetime Achievement Awards.
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