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Ted Kotcheff and Colm Feore honoured at Canadian Screen Awards
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Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz director Kotcheff gets Board of Directors Tribute. Feore, star of The Borgias, 24 and much more, gets Earle Grey Award - By: Martin Knelman
Toronto-born director Ted Kotcheff and Ottawa-raised actor Colm Feore will receive special awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television at the Canadian Screen Awards in March.
Kotcheff, 82, will receive the Board of Directors Tribute “for outstanding and enduring contributions to Canadian film and television.”
His movies include Wake in Fright, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood, North Dallas Forty and Weekend at Bernie’s.
Toronto-born director Ted Kotcheff at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
This past spring, the Cannes Film Festival named Duddy Kravitz a “classic” and invited Kotcheff to a screening of it. The designation is an honour best measured by the quality of the other films included among this year’s classics: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. In 2009, another film Kotcheff directed in the 1970s – the harrowing Wake in Fright, set in the Australian outback – was also screened at Cannes. Although directed by a Canadian, it’s considered one of the best Australian films of all time.
A clip from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, part of the REEL CANADA catalogue of Canadian films.
Wake in Fright | 40th Anniversary trailer (2012)
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