Monique Fortier
Monique Fortier was a Canadian film editor. She was most noted for her work on the film The Decline of the American Empire , for which she won the Genie Award for Best Editing at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987.
Life and career
Fortier was born in Montreal on July 6, 1928. She began her career with the National Film Board of Canada in the 1950s, becoming one of the first women to work for the organization. Although she worked principally as an editor, she was also director of the short documentary film The Hour of Independence in 1963, making her the first French Canadian woman to direct an NFB film. She also subsequently directed La beauté mème in 1964, but devoted her career primarily to editing thereafter.Her other credits include the films September Five at Saint-Henri , The River Schooners , Acadia, Acadia , The Crime of Ovide Plouffe , Au chic resto pop and The Big Snake of the World . She received a Genie Award nomination for Best Editing at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985, for her work on The Crime of Ovide Plouffe. She received a second Genie Award nomination for Best Editing at the 8th Genie Awards two years later in 1987, for her work on The Decline of the American Empire, which she won this time.
In 2014, she was the subject of Making Movie History: Monique Fortier, a short documentary film by Denys Desjardins.
Fortier died in Saint-Donat, Lanaudière on August 18, 2025, at the age of 97.