Montreal: Some of the year’s top-grossing films, including Camping sauvage, Le Papillon bleu and Elvis Gratton XXX, have been largely overlooked by jury members for this year’s Prix Jutra nominations.

Instead, the short list for the best Quebec film of 2004 includes frontrunner Denise Filiatrault’s biopic of Alys Robi Ma vie en cinémascope with nine nominations, including best direction for Filiatrault and best art direction (Normand Sarrazin); Yves Pelletier’s Les Aimants with seven; Ghyslaine Côté’s psychological drama Elles étaient cinq, also with seven; and Francis Leclerc’s second feature Mémoires affectives with five.

Erik Canuel’s dramatic heist movie Le Dernier tunnel took eight nominations, including best music (Michel Corriveau), but did not get the nod for best film.

The nominees for best actress are Isabelle Blais for the romantic comedy Les Aimants, Céline Bonnier for Monica la mitraille, Pascale Bussières for Ma vie en cinémascope and Jacinthe Lague for Elles étaient cinq.

In the best actor category, Michel Côté is nom’ed for Le Dernier tunnel along with Roy Dupuis for playing an amnesiac in Mémoires affectives, Guy Jodoin for Dans une galaxie près de chez-vous and David LaHaye for Nouvelle France.

Dans une galaxie scored six Jutra noms in all, including best screenplay (Pierre-Yves Bernard, Claude Legault) and best music (Michel Cusson).

The province’s top-grossing film, Camping sauvage, with receipts in the $4.3-million range, received only one nomination, in the new category of best hairstyling.

Monica la mitraille took five noms, while Jean Beaudin’s historical saga Nouvelle France scored six. Daniel Roby’s critically acclaimed thriller La Peau blanche (Zone Films/Films Seville) received one nomination, while Pierre Falardeau’s over-the-top comedy Elvis Gratton XXX was shut out completely.

Lea Pool’s family adventure Le Papillon bleu was limited to one nomination, while John Duigan’s big-budget historical coproduction, Head in the Clouds, received two noms.

The four nominees for best Quebec documentary are: François Prévost and Hugo Latulippe’s Ce qu’il reste de nous, André-Line Beauparlant’s Le Petit Jesus, Tahani Rached’s Soraida: Une femme de Palestine and Carole Laganiere’s Vues de l’est.

The Jutras are organized by some 7,600 members of the Quebec film and TV industry. Requirements for the prizes include various degrees of Quebec content in producing, creative and craft categories and having played for at least one week in theaters in 2004.

The seventh Soiree des Jutra will be broadcast live from Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts Sunday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. on Radio-Canada. Actor Patrick Huard is the emcee.