 Girard is the most-nominated actor in the history of the Genie Awards.He has won the Leading Actor award twice, for "Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)" and "Les Invasions barbares", the Supporting Actor award twice, for "Jésus de Montréal" and "Les Portes tournantes", and has garnered three other nominations, for "Le Déclin de l'empire américain", "La Florida", "Les Boys" (all four movies and the TV series), "", and "Aurore".Girard also starred in "The Rocket", and appeared in the Will Ferrell comedy "Blades of Glory".