Beautiful Scars takes the lead in the Hot Docs Audience Award race. The film directed by Shane Belcourt is a raucous yet moving portrait of rocker Tom Wilson. Beautiful Scars adapts Wilson’s memoir of the same name and looks back at his career in music, playing with bands like Junkhouse and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, his discovery of his Mohawk identity, and his journey reconnecting with his mother and his roots. (Read more about the film in our current issue.)
The film’s debut in the top spot marked the fourth consecutive day in which a Canadian film sat in the lead. Previous leader Batata fell to ninth place after holding the #1 slot for two days, while early leader Okay! (The ASD Band) moved up to eighth. Debuting in second place for the Rogers Audience Award for Canadian film, meanwhile, is Sean Stiller’s Returning Home, which entered the chart in seventh overall.
The top 20 for the Hot Docs Audience Award on May 3 is as follows:
- Beautiful Scars
- Tolyatti Adrift
- The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas
- American Scar
- Relative
- Quiet Epidemic
- Returning Home
- Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
- Batata
- How Saba Kept Singing
- Navalny
- Sam Now
- Category: Woman
- The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith
- Smell of Money
- Midwives
- Framing Agnes
- Sexual Healing
- Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille
- In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
