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Years active
  
1974 - present

Education
  
Spouse
  
Name
  
John Smith


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Born
  
July 31, 1943 (age 81) (
1943-07-31
)
Montreal, Canada

Occupation
  
Film directorScreenwriter

Awards
  
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action)

Movies
  
Dangerous Minds, The Boys of St Vincent, Love & Savagery, A Cool - Dry Place, Dieppe

Similar People
  
LouAnne Johnson, George Dzundza, Wade Dominguez, Renoly Santiago, Robin Bartlett

Love and Savagery Official HD Trailer (Director John N. Smith) Allan Hawco, Sarah Greene


John N. Smith O.C. (born July 31, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

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Sugartime Trailer 1995


Career

John N. Smith graduated with a B.A. in political science from McGill University in 1964. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1968 as producer of The Way It Is, and the National Film Board of Canada in 1972 as a producer and director. In 1981 he directed First Winter, a short period drama that went on to be nominated for an Academy Award. He then made a string of feature-length docudramas that earnestly probed issues such as male sexuality (The Masculine Mystique), teen pregnancy (Sitting in Limbo) and immigration (Welcome to Canada). With collaborators such as Giles Walker, Smith made economic use of non-professional actors and documentary techniques. In 1993, he filmed The Boys of St. Vincent, a powerful and controversial television two-part drama depicting the sexual violation of children in a Catholic orphanage. Excellent reviews and ratings in the United States led to Hollywood assignments.

His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only won the latter. He is best known for the 1995 drama Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, the TV movie The Boys of St. Vincent, and his work on the TV miniseries The Englishman's Boy. Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008. He is married to filmmaker Cynthia Scott.

Selected filmography

  • Revolution's Orphans (short film, 1979)
  • The Masculine Mystique (1984)
  • Sitting in Limbo (1986)
  • Train of Dreams (1987)
  • The Boys of St. Vincent (TV movie, 1992)
  • Dieppe (TV miniseries, 1993)
  • Dangerous Minds (1995)
  • A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
  • Random Passage (TV miniseries, 2002)
  • Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
  • Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (TV miniseries, 2006)
  • The Englishman's Boy (TV miniseries, 2008)
  • Love and Savagery (2009)
  • References

    John N. Smith Wikipedia


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