Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: April 20, 1989
• Invested on: April 18, 1990

Canada's premier documentary filmmaker and one of the world's finest, he has won countless prizes at key international film festivals for his masterful visual records of our social and cultural past. His remarkable ability to capture the drama of everyday life, peopled with characters great and small, to transform the mundane into the exceptional and to elicit and emotional response from the audience is both the envy and the inspiration of his colleagues.