Editing The Hanging Garden (film) (section)

==Awards==
The film premiered at the [[1997 Toronto International Film Festival]],<ref>"Festival gets Maritimes perspective Nova Scotia director Thom Fitzgerald's first feature kicks off Toronto film event's special series". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', July 30, 1997.</ref> where it won the [[Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award|People's Choice Award]] and was cowinner with [[Atom Egoyan]]'s ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]'' of the juried award for [[Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film|Best Canadian Film]].<ref name=tiff>"Hanging Garden wins two awards". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', September 15, 1997.</ref> It was only the second film in the history of the festival, following [[Denys Arcand]]'s ''[[The Decline of the American Empire]]'' in 1986, to win both awards.<ref name=canenc/>

It subsequently screened at the [[Atlantic Film Festival]],<ref>"Garden lives up to the buzz: Fitzgerald's film brave story of love, redemption, rescue". ''[[Halifax Daily News]]'', September 19, 1997.</ref> where it won the Audience Award, the Best Canadian Film Award, the Best Atlantic Film Award, Best Writing and Best Direction nods for Fitzgerald, Best Actor for Veinotte and Best Actress for Orenstein.<ref>"Hanging Garden tops at awards". ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', September 30, 1997.</ref> It also won the awards for Best Canadian Film at the [[Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival]],<ref>[https://playbackonline.ca/1997/11/03/19895-19971103/ "Journal"]. ''[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]'', November 3, 1997.</ref> and at the [[Vancouver International Film Festival]].<ref>"The Hanging Garden provocative, realistic and darkly comic". ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', November 13, 1997.</ref>

The film received 11 [[Genie Award]] nominations at the [[18th Genie Awards]], for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture|Best Picture]], [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Fitzgerald), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] (MacNeill), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] (3: McKenna, Fox, Orenstein), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] (Fitzgerald), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design|Best Art Direction/Production Design]] (Taavo Soodor and Darlene Shiels), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]] (James A. Worthen), [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Overall Sound|Best Overall Sound]] (Peter Harper, Phillipe Espantoso, George Hannan) and [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]] ([[Susan Shanks]]).<ref>"Egoyan film leads nominations". ''[[Victoria Times-Colonist]]'', November 5, 2017.</ref> MacNeill and McKenna won the awards for Supporting Actor and Actress; Fitzgerald won for Best Screenplay, as well as winning the juried [[Claude Jutra Award]] for best first feature film.<ref>"Sweet Hereafter wins 8 Genies". ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', December 15, 1997.</ref>

The film was runner-up for the [[Rogers Best Canadian Film Award]] at the [[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 1997|1997 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards]].<ref>Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', January 15, 1998.</ref>

It premiered in the United States at the 1998 [[Sundance Film Festival]],<ref>"Hanging Gardens director off to Sundance: Four years ago, Thom Fitzgerald quit his day job and began to write a screenplay. Next week, his acclaimed feature film opens at North America's premiere indie film festival". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', January 17, 1998.</ref> before going into wider theatrical release. It received a [[GLAAD Media Award]] nomination for [[GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Limited Release|Outstanding Film - Limited Release]] in 1999.<ref>[https://variety.com/1999/film/news/glaad-bows-media-noms-1117490393/ "GLAAD bows media noms"]. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', January 19, 1999.</ref>