Anne Wheeler
Birth Name:
Dorothy Anne Wheeler
Birth Place:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Profession
Director, Producer, Writer, Soundtrack, Editor, Camera department, Actress, 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
- Began her career as a high school music teacher before quitting her job to travel the world
- Directed her first feature film, the psychological thriller "Loyalties," in 1985
- 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
- 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 AwardNominated
- 1980Rosie - Best Director:Winner
- 1980Rosie - Best of Festival:Winner
- 1987Rosie - Best Director:Winner
- 1987Grand PrixWinner
- 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 DocumentaryNominated
- 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