Film and television veterans were well represented in the annual Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for 2003, announced Sept. 30. Director Norman Jewison, television comedian Dave Broadfoot and writer/actor Micheline Lanctot were among the six award recipients this year.

Jewison was lauded for his body of work, including In the Heat of the Night, Jesus Christ Superstar, Moonstruck and The Hurricane, and his founding of the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Lanctot is known as a screenwriter, producer, designer, actor and musician whose stamp on Quebec production covers Jamais deux sans toi, Bunker, Les Heritiers Duval, Scoop, Omerta and Le Pollock.

For 50 years, Broadfoot has been a writer, performer, producer and director, debuting on CBC in The Big Revue and then Spring Thaw, before appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and the cofounding of Royal Canadian Air Farce.

Other winners are opera singer Pierrette Alarie, theater actor Douglas Campbell and country singer Ian Tyson. The six award recipients are selected from the fields of theater, dance, classical music and opera, popular music, film, and broadcasting.

Past recipients include filmmakers Denys Arcand, Frederic Back and David Cronenberg.

Also in 2003, the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, which Jewison won in 1992 when the Performing Arts Awards were launched, went to arts philanthropists Sandra and Jim Pitblado. The National Arts Centre Award went to choreographer Marie Chouinard.

-www.gg.ca/governor_general/th-honouring_e.asp