15th Genie Awards

The 15th Genie Awards were held on December 7, 1994 to honour Canadian films released in 1993.

Actor Graham Greene hosted the ceremony.

Genies Countdown was a one-hour preview show which aired twice before the gala; for the Quebec market, Les Grands Moments du Genie aired immediately after the show.

[1] This year's awards were dominated by Atom Egoyan's Exotica,[2] and Whale Music, the debut film of director Richard J. Lewis.

Another newcomer, Michel Poulette, won the Claude Jutra Award for outstanding achievement for first-time direction for his film Louis 19, le roi des ondes (Louis 19, King of the Airwaves), which also won the Golden Reel Award as the year's most commercially-successful film.