Filmmaker and Prix Jutra contender Robert Morin is among nine artists set to receive this year’s Governor General’s arts awards.

The Montreal filmmaker, who is up for best director at the Jutras this Sunday, for his Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes, will on Wednesday be presented with the $25,000 and a GG award in visual and media arts by Michaëlle Jean.

Sculpture artist John Greer, performer Nobuo Kubota, interdisciplinary artist Rita McKeough, architect Raymond Moriyama and painter Gordon Smith will also receive awards for artistic achievement. Glass sculptor Kevin Lockau will take the Saidye Bronfman Award for fine crafts, while Tony Urquhart and Kim Ondaatje will share the outstanding contribution award for establishing Canadian Artists’ Representation, a national organization of visual artists.

‘The works of our artists do more than just bring a little colour and beauty into our lives. They cast a new light onto our world so that we can observe it and contemplate it in ways we might never have imagined. Let us pay tribute to these pathfinders who guide us to look beyond the horizon,’ said Jean in a release.

Morin’s 30-year career has included co-founding the Coop Vidéo de Montréal and some 30 short, medium and feature-length films.