Genie Awards
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards. In 2013, the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its sister presentation for television, the Gemini Awards, to form the Canadian Screen Awards.
Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the Genie Rules and Regulations booklet which were distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, met to watch the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then voted on these nominations.
Broadcasting
The Genie Awards were aired by CBC from 1980 to 2003, before moving to CHUM Limited's networks. After CTVglobemedia purchased CHUM Limited, the Genie Awards moved to Canwest Global's E and IFC for 2008. The last two Genie Awards were broadcast by the CBC.Awards ceremonies
Listing of all Genie Awards ceremonies:Awards presented until 2012
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Director
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Art Direction/Production Design
- Best Costume Design
- Best Editing
- Best Overall Sound
- Best Sound Editing
- Best Visual Effects
- Best Make-Up
- Best Original Song
- Best Original Score
- Best Feature Length Documentary
- Best Short Documentary
- Best Live Action Short Drama
- Best Animated Short
- Golden Reel
Awards retired before 2012
- Best Performance by a Foreign Actor: 1980 to 1983
- Best Performance by a Foreign Actress: 1980 to 1983
- Outstanding TV Drama Under 30 Minutes: 1980 only
- Outstanding Independent Film: 1980 only
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor : 1980 to 1981
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress : 1980 to 1981
- Outstanding Art Direction : 1980 only
- Outstanding Cinematography in a Dramatic Film : 1980 only
- Outstanding Cinematography in a Documentary : 1980 only
- Outstanding Editing in a Dramatic Film : 1980 only
- Outstanding Original Music Score : 1980 only
- Outstanding Non-Dramatic Script: 1980 only
- Outstanding Sound in a Non-Feature Film: 1980 only
Special Achievement Genie
List of past recipients
- Micheline Lanctôt For displaying her award-winning talents in both the French and English languages, as an actress, a writer, an animator and as a director.
- Norman McLaren - Academy Award and BAFTA winning short film maker. Winner of 10 Canadian Film Awards In recognition of his long, successful and internationally acclaimed career in the world of animation filmmaking.
- Paul LeBlanc For his impressive body of work in film and television hairstyling
- Ivan Reitman For his outstanding success with some of the biggest comedy hits of our generation. The Academy singled out the films Animal House, Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters.
- Graeme Ferguson For his work with IMAX
- Emil Radok, Paul Kravicky For the film Taming of the Demons which played primarily at Vancouver's Expo '86
- Norman Jewison - 7 time Academy Award nominated filmmaker. This award is given to Norman Jewison for founding and establishing the new Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies.
- Presented to The National Film Board of Canada
- John Kemeny