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Patricia Rozema Biography

Birth Name:Patricia Rozema

Birth Place:Ontario, Canada

Profession Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Actress, Assistant director

Fast Facts

  • Had her film "When Night is Falling" regarded in one of the "Top 200 of 2000" by the Chlotrudus Society of Independent Film
  • Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988 for "I've Heard the Mermaids Sing․"
  • Won a Golden Rose, the top TV award in Europe, in 1998 for "Six Gestures․"
  • Graduated from Calvin College in Michigan with a Bachelor's in philosophy and English literature
  • Directed her first feature film "I've Heard the Mermaids Sing," which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987
  • Quote: "(On movies) "The most cinematic thing in the world is the human face․""
  • Her film "Mansfield Park" opened the 1999 World Film Festival in Montreal and the Chicago Film Festival

Awards

  • 1985Gold Hugo-Best Short Film: nominated
  • 1987Award of the Youth-Foreign Film: winner
  • 1988Genie-Best Motion Picture: nominated
  • 1988Genie-Best Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 1988Genie-Best Screenplay: nominated
  • 1991Grand Prize-: nominated
  • 1991Antennae II Award-: winner
  • 1991C.S.T. Award-: winner
  • 1991Genie-Best Original Song: nominated
  • 1995Golden Berlin Bear-: nominated
  • 1997Special Jury Award-: winner
  • 1998Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program: winner
  • 1999Gold Hugo-Best Feature: nominated
  • 1999Grand Prix des Amériques-: nominated
  • 2000Chlotrudis Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
  • 2009DGC Craft Award-Direction - Feature Film: nominated
  • 2009OFTA Television Award-Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries: winner
  • 2009Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: nominated
  • 2010Literary Award-Screenplay: nominated
  • 2010WGA Award (TV)-Long Form - Original: nominated
  • 2013Canadian Screen Award-Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series: nominated
  • 2016Film and Literature Award-: nominated
  • 2016Black Tulip-Best Feature Film: winner
  • 2019Outstanding Directorial Achievement-Feature Film: winner
  • 2019Lost Weekend Award-Best Story: winner
  • 2019Lost Weekend Award-Avant Robot Award: winner
  • 2019Lost Weekend Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2019Lost Weekend Award-Best Film: winner
  • 2019Film and Literature Award-Best Film Adaptation: nominated
  • 2021Chlotrudis Award-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated