Greek character. Few Canadians were cast in major roles because the Canadian film industry was underdeveloped at that time. Release The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz premiered at the Place des Arts on 11 April 1974, and was theatrically released the next day. The film grossed $60,000 () at the Place Ville Marie and Towne Cinema one week after its release. The film was the most commercially successful English-language Canadian film ever made at the time of its release with a gross of $2.3 million in Canada. Including the U.S., the film earned theatrical rentals of $1.7 million. The CFDC made $334,888 from its investment in the film. Legacy Duddy Kravitz has an important place in Canadian film history due to its record gross, and has thus been described as a 'coming of age' for Canadian cinema. The film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada’s audio-visual heritage. The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time twice, in 1984 and 1993.<ref>"Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time", The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.</ref> In the period between shooting Duddy Kravitz and actually seeing the completed movie, Richard Dreyfuss was offered, and twice turned down, the role of Matt Hooper in Jaws; having read the script he decided that it was a film he would "rather watch than be in". After he had seen the final cut of Kravitz, however, Dreyfuss felt his performance was so bad that it could potentially end his movie career. Discovering that the role of Hooper had still not been cast, he jumped at it to ensure that he was safely under contract to make another movie before anybody at Universal Pictures heard any negative press about Kravitz''. It was shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Prizes Berlin International Film Festival – Golden Bear Award Canadian Film Awards – Film of the Year Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium – (Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd) Nominations Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – (Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd) Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film Stage adaptation In 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was adapted into a musical. A