Shatner treks onto GG's performing arts awards
Actor William Shatner (BCom'52), director Denis Villeneuve, composer and musician Howard Shore and Montreal choreographer and dancer Margie Gillis are among the winners of the 2011 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.
Villeneuve's latest film Incendies was nominated for a best foreign film Oscar, while Shore won an Oscar for Lord of the Rings. Shatner, who will host the Genie Awards in Ottawa next week, is being honoured for his work as an actor, director, producer, writer, spokesman and philanthropist.
The other winners, who will be honoured at a gala at the NAC on May 14, are: Quebec monologist Yvon Deschamps; Leslee Silverman, artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre for Young People; and Toronto playwright and director Paul Thompson. The Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts goes to Montreal businessman Jean-Andr茅 Elie.
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