Denis Villeneuve's Incendies sweeps at Jutra Awards

Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies may not have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film this year, but it won virtually every award it was nominated for at last night’s Jutra awards, Quebec’s equivalent of the Oscars. 

Incendies took home nine of the 10 awards it was up for, including Best Film and Best Director. Incendies’ Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin lost the Best Actress award to her co-star, Lubna Azabal, who also won the award at last week’s Genie awards.

Incendies won for Best Film, beating out Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours Imaginaires. Dolan was a big winner at last year’s awards when his film J’ai Tué Ma Mère took top honours. 

Incendies also won for best screenplay, best sound, best costumes and best editing.