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Donald Brittain, O.C. (June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was an acclaimed filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...
June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ...
Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...
July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 163 days remaining. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is a Canadian public filmmaking organization established to produce and distribute films that inform Canadians and promote Canada around the world. ...
Brittain's most notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen and Memorandum. He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, Tiger Child, for Expo '70. IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia BFI London IMAX by night IMAX dome in Guayaquil, Ecuador IMAX (short for Image Maximum) is a film format created by Canadas IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film display...
Tiger Child was the first IMAX movie ever made. ...
Tower of the Sun Expo 70 (ja. ...
He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination. Malcolm Lowry (July 28, 1909 – June 26, 1957) was an English poet and novelist. ...
The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1979. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Brittain also directed the three-part CBC-coproduced series The Champions (1978), chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian political titans René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...
René Lévesque (pronounced ) (August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, Canada, (1960 – 1966), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party, and 23rd Premier of Quebec (November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985). ...
Name Pierre Elliott Trudeau Number Fifteenth First term April 20, 1968–June 4,1979 Second term March 3, 1980–June 30, 1984 Predecessor Lester Bowles Pearson Successors Joe Clark John Napier Turner Date of birth October 18, 1919 Place of birth Montreal, Quebec Date of death September 28...
He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks. The Gemini Awards are an annual awards ceremony in Canada. ...
Harold Chamberlain Hal Banks (February 28, 1909 - September 24, 1985) was a controversial labour union leader in Canada. ...
In 1989, Brittain was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and received the Margaret Collier Award. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...
The Margaret Collier Award is the lifetime achievement honor presented the Gemini Awards to a writer for their outstanding body of work in Canadian television. ...
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