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Anne Wheeler Biography

Birth Name:Dorothy Anne Wheeler

Birth Place:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Profession Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Camera department, Actress, Soundtrack, Cinematographer, Sound department

Fast Facts

  • Was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995 for her contributions to film
  • Won a CableACE Award for best international programming for "Mother Trucker" in 1997
  • Got her start as a filmmaker with the Filmwest collective and spent her early years focusing on documentaries; her first film, "Great Grand Mother," was about the music of Ann Morifee
  • Directed her first feature film, the psychological thriller "Loyalties," in 1985
  • Began her career as a high school music teacher before quitting her job to travel the world
  • Best known as the director of "Better Than Chocolate" and "Bye Bye Blues․"
  • Her feature documentary, "A War Story," was based on excerpts from the diary that her father kept during his three and a half years in a Japanese POW camp

Awards

  • 1974Rosie-Best Director: winner
  • 1977Rosie-Best of Festival: winner
  • 1977Rosie-Best Director: winner
  • 1979Cinéma du Réel Award-: nominated
  • 1980Rosie-Best Director: winner
  • 1980Rosie-Best of Festival: winner
  • 1987Rosie-Best Director: winner
  • 1987Grand Prix-: winner
  • 1987Genie-Best Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 1988Rosie-Best Director: winner
  • 1988Rosie-Best Screenwriter, Drama: winner
  • 1989Genie-Best Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 1989Genie-Best Original Song: winner
  • 1990Genie-Best Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 1990Genie-Best Screenplay, Original: nominated
  • 1990Genie-Best Motion Picture: nominated
  • 1991Genie-Best Original Song: winner
  • 1991Genie-Best Screenplay, Adapted: nominated
  • 1994Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special: nominated
  • 1994Gemini-Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series: nominated
  • 1995CableACE-Children's Programming Special - 7 and Older: nominated
  • 1997CableACE-International Dramatic Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries: winner
  • 1997Gemini-Best Direction in a Dramatic Program: nominated
  • 1997Gemini-Best TV Movie: nominated
  • 1997Gemini-Best Writing in a Dramatic Program: nominated
  • 1998Gemini-Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: winner
  • 1998Gemini-Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: nominated
  • 1999Audience Award-Best Feature: winner
  • 1999Leo-Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: nominated
  • 2000Leo-Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: winner
  • 2002Leo-Feature Length Drama: Best Director: winner
  • 2002Leo-Best Feature Length Drama: winner
  • 2003Genie-Best Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 2004Gemini-Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2005DGC Team Award-Outstanding Team Achievement in a Family Television Movie/Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2007Leo-Best Direction in a Feature Length Drama: nominated
  • 2009Leo-Best Direction in a Feature Length Drama: winner
  • 2013DGC Craft Award-Direction - Television Movie/Mini-Series: winner
  • 2013Best Mid-Length Documentary-: nominated
  • 2013Leo-Best Direction in a Television Movie: winner
  • 2014Canadian Screen Award-Best Short Documentary: winner
  • 2014Canadian Screen Award-Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2014Canadian Screen Award-Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2014DGC Team Award-Allan King Award For Excellence in Documentary: nominated
  • 2014Leo-Best Direction in a Television Movie: nominated
  • 2014WGC Award-Movies & Miniseries: nominated
  • 2016DGC Team Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2017Leo-Best Direction in a Television Movie: winner
  • 2019Leo-Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: winner
  • 2020Canadian Screen Award-Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: nominated
  • 2021Outstanding Directorial Achievement-Dramatic Series: nominated
  • 2024Outstanding Directorial Achievement-Movies for Television and Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2024Leo-Best Direction in a Television Movie: nominated