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Michael Kennedy (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer raised in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Michael Kennedy
Born (1954-08-16) August 16, 1954 (age 68)
OccupationDirector, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer,
Spouse
Carrie Gleason
(m. 1982)

Career


Michael Kennedy is an award-winning, versatile filmmaker with a reputation for creating stylish work that addresses social issues while achieving critical and commercial success. He has directed 20 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the ground-breaking sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie that used humour to attack racism against Muslims in the post-911 world.

Besides the pilot of Little Mosque, he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of Delmer and Marta, My Life and a Movie, North/South, The Good Germany, Mental Block, Listen Missy, Screech Owls, P.R., Taking the Falls, and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada.

Kennedy has directed feature films in many countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and many others in Canada. He also wrote the screenplays for three of the feature films he directed.

Kennedy lives with his wife, Carrie, and their three children in a suburb of Toronto, Canada, but they try to spend their summers at their cottage on Prince Edward Island, his home province.


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Awards/Nominations


Year Award Category Production Result
1996 Directors Guild of America Award Best Director, Youth Programs Robin of Locksley Nominated
2002 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Director, TV, Drama Emily of New Moon Nominated
2002 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Director, TV, Comedy Made In Canada Winner
2003 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Director, TV, Comedy Made In Canada Winner
2007 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Achievement, TV, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2007 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Achievement, TV, Drama North/South Nominated
2008 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Achievement, TV, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2009 Directors Guild of Canada Award Best Achievement, TV, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2010 Directors Guild of Canada Award Team Award, TV, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2000 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Series Made In Canada Winner
2001 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Series Made In Canada Nominated
2002 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Series Blackfly Nominated
2002 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Series Made In Canada Winner
2003 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Series Made In Canada Winner
2004 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Comedy Mental Block Nominated
2005 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Comedy Listen Missie Nominated
2007 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Show or Special This Space For Rent Nominated
2007 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2008 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, TV Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2019 Canadian Comedy Award Best Director, Feature Film #Roxy Nominated
2003 Gemini Award Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy Made In Canada Nominated
2007 Gemini Award Canada Award Little Mosque on the Prairie Winner (Team)
2007 Gemini Award Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2010 Gemini Award Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie Nominated
2020 Canadian Screen Award Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy #Roxy Nominated
1992 Canadian Music Video Award Best Comedy Video Terriers Winner

Kennedy has received many awards including: two Directors Guild of Canada Awards (from eight nominations), a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, three wins from eleven nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, three Best Director Gemini nominations, and Best Director at the Canadian Music Video Awards.






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