Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada 's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards , Xavier Dolan 's film '' I Killed My Mother ( J'ai tué ma mère ) '' was virtually absent from the ceremony , winning the Claude Jutra Award for best film by a first-time director but garnering no other nominations in any category at all . Both Kevin Tierney , vice-chairman of cinema for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television , and Martha Burns , the winner of the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress , openly criticized the shutout , with Tierney likening it to " being sent to the kiddie table "
2009 Cannes Film Festival
2009 Cannes Film Festival
30th Genie Awards