---
name: "Monique Fortier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/monique-fortier"
fi1m_id: "monique-fortier"
tmdb_id: 2073804
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "6 July 1928"
died: "18 August 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:25:37.308773+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Monique Fortier

## Identity

Monique Fortier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/monique-fortier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** monique-fortier
- **TMDB ID:** 2073804
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2073804

Editor. Born 6 July 1928 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Died 18 August 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 6 July 1928, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Died:** 18 August 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2073804

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Decline of the American Empire*](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md) (72)

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## Biography

Monique Fortier (1928–2025) was a Canadian film editor and director. She began her career at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1950s, becoming one of the first women to work there. In 1963 she directed the short documentary *The Hour of Independence (À l’heure de la décolonisation)*, the first film directed by a French Canadian woman at the NFB; she followed this with *La beauté même* in 1964.

Fortier worked principally as an editor on films including *September Five at Saint-Henri (À St-Henri le cinq septembre)* (1962), *The River Schooners (Les Voitures d'eau)* (1968), *Acadia, Acadia?!? (L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?)* (1971) and *The Crime of Ovide Plouffe* (1984). She won the Genie Award for Best Editing for *The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)* (1986) and received a nomination for the earlier film. Her final editing credit was *The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde)* (1999).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, canada.ca, playbackonline.ca.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Decline of the American Empire* (1986), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *You Cried: Let Me Go* (1997), Editor
- *The Fate of America* (1997), Editor
- *L'affaire Norman William* (1994), Editor
- *Expectations* (1993), Editor
- *Au chic Resto Pop* (1990), Editor
- *Pour l'amour du stress* (1990), Editor
- *Liberty Street Blues* (1988), Editor
- *Bam Pay A! – Rends-moi mon pays!* (1986), Editor
- *The Decline of the American Empire* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-decline-of-the-american-empire.md)
- *The Great Obsession* (1985), Editor
- *The Crime of Ovide Plouffe* (1984), Editor
- *Plenty of Nothing* (1982), Editor
- *The Land without Trees or The Mouchouânipi* (1980), Editor
- *The Taste for Flour* (1977), Editor
- *Damase Breton, cordonnier* (1977), Editor
- *Jean Carignan, Fiddler* (1975), Editor
- *They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"* (1974), Actor
- *Acadia Acadia?!?* (1971), Editor
- *Cesar's Bark Canoe* (1971), Editor
- *The River Schooners* (1968), Editor
- *Ville-Marie* (1965), Editor
- *La beauté même* (1964), Writer, Director
- *September Five at Saint-Henri* (1962), Editor
- *Strangers for the Day* (1962), Editor
- *Le Temps des amours* (1961), Editor

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