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File No. 135456 · Adjudicated
Pierre Cossette
Director — Canadian television executive producer and Broadway producer
Born
1923
Birthplace
VALLEYFIELD, QUEBEC
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
VALLEYFIELD, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Quebec
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Ran the Grammy telecast from 1971 to 2005 — 34 years of turning a radio-era afterthought into appointment television.
The verdict
Left Quebec for California as a young child and built his entire career in Hollywood, producing the Grammy Awards telecast for over three decades and making music's biggest night a television institution. A cultural bridge-builder who never forgot his Québécois roots, even from the other side of the continent.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Quebec · Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁
References — en.wikipedia.org