Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering, with his work regularly moving back and forth between relatively conventional dramas with multi-actor casts, and experimental personal essay films in which Morin, or a single actor cast as a stand-in, stars in essentially a film-length philosophical monologue from the perspective of a character who, whether by choice or circumstance, has become an outsider to mainstream society.
After studying literature and communications, in 1971 he began to work as a cameraman, joining ORTQ in Rimouski, where he directed films and videos. In 1977, with a group of friends and colleagues, Morin founded La Coopérative de Production Vidéo de Montréal, where he continues to produce his own work. After creating close to 30 short films with his colleagues over 10 years, he directed his first feature-length film Scale-Model Sadness (Tristesse modèle réduit) in 1987.
His film Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur) won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival, and received four Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In 2026 his wife, André-Line Beauparlant, released This Love, These Days (Mon amour, c’est pour le restant de mes jours), a documentary film about their relationship.
Scale-Model Sadness (Tristesse modèle réduit) - 1987
The Reception (La réception) - 1989
Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur) - 1992
Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain (Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur) - 1998
Yule Croak (Petit Pow! Pow! Noël) - 2005
May God Bless America (Que Dieu bénisse l'Amérique) - 2006
Daddy Goes Ptarmigan Hunting (Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes) - 2008
Diary of an Aid Worker (Journal d'un coopérant) - 2010
The Four Soldiers (Les Quatre Soldats) - 2013
3 Indian Tales (3 histoires d'Indiens) - 2014
Heaven Sent (Un Paradis pour tous) - 2016
Infiltration (Le problème d’infiltration) - 2017
Wild Feast (Festin boréal) - 2023