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File No. 130346 · Adjudicated
Xavier Dolan
Director — I Killed My Mother, Mommy, It's Only the End of the World
Born
1989
Birthplace
MONTREAL, 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
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
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
He wrote, directed, and starred in his debut feature, I Killed My Mother, at nineteen, and it played in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes the same year.
The verdict
Born and raised in Montreal, directing his own screenplays before he was legally allowed to rent a car — I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes when he was twenty. Quebec's most internationally decorated young auteur, full stop. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org