Playback's Top Ten Canadian Films of the Decade

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Your picks for the top ten Canadian films of the Decade
We asked you to name your picks for top Canadian films of the last decade and you did. And what a list...

By Brendan Christie December 10, 2010

The top ten films of the new millennium

In 2002, Playback polled the industry in order to find out what you thought were the greatest Canadian films of all time. With the first decade of the new millennium done and dusted, we thought it was time to check in for an update of sorts, and name the top films of the last 10 years.

We opened the Playback site for suggestions and received hundreds of film submissions – truly a testament to the strength and variety of Canadian film in the past decade.

In the end, two films tied for top spot – Jean-Marc Vallée’s quirky C.R.A.Z.Y. and Sarah Polley’s heart-wrenching Away From Her. Interestingly, Polley, who wrote and directed Away From Her, also starred in our previous top film, Atom Egoyan’s classic The Sweet Hereafter (1997).

Also, as your top 10 selection included two feature documentaries, we included an extra two films in the list so that the fiction folk would have a complete top-10 list as well.