The Seasons (film)

The Seasons
The Seasons
Directed by	Christopher Chapman
Produced by	Christopher Chapman
Cinematography	Christopher Chapman
Music by	Antonio Vivaldi
Production; company	Imperial Oil
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	August 2, 1954;
Running time	18 minutes
Country	Canada

The Seasons is a 1954 Canadian short documentary film directed by Christopher Chapman.^[1] Set to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, the film depicts the cycle of the seasons throughout a year on the grounds of his parents' farm on the shore of Lake Simcoe.^[2]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.^[3]

Following Chapman's death in 2015, a public sculpture inspired by and named in honour of The Seasons was installed on the grounds of the ReachView Village seniors home in Uxbridge, Ontario, where Chapman had lived in his final years.^[4]

References

^ "Remembering Christopher Chapman, filmmaker who put Ontario on the map at Expo 67". As It Happens, October 28, 2015.
^ "Christopher Chapman". Surrey Leader. May 13, 1954. p. 11. Retrieved January 7, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Christopher Chapman, Toronto Wins Award for The Seasons". Montreal Gazette. April 22, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved January 7, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Christopher Chapman sculpture installed". The Standard, August 18, 2016.

External links

The Seasons at IMDb

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[1] "Remembering Christopher Chapman, filmmaker who put Ontario on the map at Expo 67". As It Happens, October 28, 2015.

[2] "Christopher Chapman". Surrey Leader. May 13, 1954. p. 11. Retrieved January 7, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

[3] "Christopher Chapman, Toronto Wins Award for The Seasons". Montreal Gazette. April 22, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved January 7, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] "Christopher Chapman sculpture installed". The Standard, August 18, 2016.

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v t e Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture
Canadian Film Awards 1949–1975: Film of the Year	The Loon's Necklace (1949) Newfoundland Scene (1952) Tit-Coq (1953) The Seasons (1954) The Stratford Adventure (1955) City of Gold (1958) Universe (1961) Lonely Boy (1963) Pour la suite du monde (1964) The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam (1966) Warrendale (1967) A Place to Stand (1968) The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969) To See or Not to See (1970) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Les Ordres (1975)
Canadian Film Awards 1964–1978: Feature Film	À tout prendre (1964) The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965) Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts (1966) Warrendale (1967) The Ernie Game (1968) No Award (1969) Goin' Down the Road (1970) Mon oncle Antoine (1971) Wedding in White (1972) Slipstream (1973) No Award (1974) Les Ordres (1975) Lies My Father Told Me (1976) J.A. Martin photographe (1977) The Silent Partner (1978)
Genie Awards 1980–2011	The Changeling (1980) Les Bons débarras (1981) Ticket to Heaven (1982) The Grey Fox (1983) The Terry Fox Story (1984) The Bay Boy (1985) My American Cousin (1986) Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987) Un Zoo la nuit (1988) Dead Ringers (1989) Jésus de Montréal (1990) Black Robe (1991) Naked Lunch (1992) Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) Exotica (1994) Le Confessionnal (1995) Lilies (1996) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) The Red Violin (1998) Sunshine (1999) Maelström (2000) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) Ararat (2002) Les Invasions barbares (2003) Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004) C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) Away from Her (2007) Passchendaele (2008) Polytechnique (2009) Incendies (2010) Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present	Rebelle (2012) Gabrielle (2013) Mommy (2014) Room (2015) Juste la fin du monde (2016) Maudie (2017) Une colonie (2018) Antigone (2019) Beans (2020) Scarborough (2021) Brother (2022) BlackBerry (2023)