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{{Short description|Former Canadian film awards}}
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The '''Canadian Film Awards''' were the leading [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian cinema]] awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of [[Quebec]] directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation.<ref name=canenc /> In the 1970s they were also sometimes known as the '''Etrog Awards''' for sculptor [[Sorel Etrog]], who designed the [[statuette]].<ref>[http://www.academy.ca/awards/genie.cfm Genie Awards profile and history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103183226/http://www.academy.ca/awards/genie.cfm |date=2009-01-03 }} at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's website</ref>
The awards were succeeded by the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television|Academy of Canadian Cinema]]'s [[Genie Awards]] in 1980
==History==
The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education,<ref name=canenc>{{cite
The first presentation was held on April 27, 1949 at the Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa.<ref name=canenc />
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In 1957, ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' columnist Ronald Johnson criticized the awards' publicity efforts, noting that even Bossin was not actually receiving the press releases and that many of the releases which were going out were being sent to journalists not involved in covering or reporting on film.<ref>"Moving with the movies". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', June 17, 1957.</ref> The paper's film critic [[Jay Scott]] later described them as "honours given by presenters no one knew, to recipients no one recognized, to films no one had seen."<ref name=geniealogy>"Coffee-table Genie-alogy took some reel sleuthing". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 21, 1985.</ref>
With very few feature films made in Canada at all prior to the 1960s, in some years no Film of the Year winner was named at all, with the awards for Best Short Film or Best Amateur Film instead constituting the highest honour given to a film that year.<ref name=canenc /> Even the award for Film of the Year, when presented at all,
A separate award for Best Feature Film was instituted in 1964.<ref name=topalovich/> Acting awards were introduced in 1968, and then expanded into separate categories for lead and supporting performers
In 1968,
===Quebec crisis of the 1970s===
In the 1970s, the organization frequently faced crises related to the [[Cinema of Quebec|francophone film industry]] in [[Quebec]]. This began in 1970, when filmmaker [[Jean Pierre Lefebvre]] threatened to withdraw his film ''[[Q-Bec My Love]]'' from the competition if the [[Ontario Film Review Board|Ontario Censor Board]] did not withdraw its demand for the film to be edited.<ref name=crises>"Canadian Film Awards copes with string of crises". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', September 28, 1970.</ref> Several other filmmakers were also prepared to withdraw in solidarity, although provincial cabinet minister [[James Auld (politician)|James Auld]] intervened to dissuade the board from insisting on the cuts.<ref name=crises/>
In 1973, a number of Quebec filmmakers boycotted the
===Evolution into the Genie Awards===
In the final years of the Canadian Film Awards, the dedicated festival was discontinued, and instead the eligible films were screened as part of the [[Toronto International Film Festival|Festival of Festivals]] lineup after that event was launched in 1976, with the ceremony taking place at the end of the festival.<ref>[[Lawrence O'Toole (journalist)|Lawrence O'Toole]], "The days of whine and roses". ''[[Maclean's]]'', October 2, 1978.</ref>
After 1978, the awards were taken over by the new [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]], and reorganized into the new [[Genie Awards]].<ref>"Canadian 'Oscar' show new group's first aim". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', April 12, 1979.</ref> Despite the renaming, Etrog's statuette was retained as the design of the Genie statuettes.<ref>"Sorel Etrog's link to his past". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', December 7, 1996.</ref> The Genie Awards continued to be presented until 2012, when the Academy merged them with its [[Gemini Awards]] program for television to create the contemporary [[Canadian Screen Awards]].▼
▲After 1978, the awards were taken over by the new [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]], and reorganized into the new [[Genie Awards]].<ref>"Canadian 'Oscar' show new group's first aim". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', April 12, 1979.</ref> Despite the renaming, Etrog's statuette was initially retained as the design of the Genie statuettes
After launching the Genies, the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]] created the [[Bijou Awards]], which were presented in 1981 as a new home for several award categories that were being dropped from the Genies, although the Bijous were never presented again after 1981, and instead the [[Gemini Awards]] were launched in 1986 to replace the ACTRAs as Canada's primary television awards.
When Academy publicist Maria Topalovich was preparing a history of the awards for publication in the early 1980s, she found that even the Academy itself had not received complete documentation of the awards' past winners and nominees in the takeover,<ref name=geniealogy/> and instead she had to undertake extensive archival research.<ref name=geniealogy/>
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|[[17th Canadian Film Awards]] || May 15, 1965 || [[Max Ferguson]] || [[Westbury Hotel]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] || None awarded || ''[[The Luck of Ginger Coffey (film)|The Luck of Ginger Coffey]]''
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|[[18th Canadian Film Awards]] || May 6, 1966 || [[Rich Little]] || [[Queen Elizabeth Hotel]], [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]] || ''[[The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam]]'' || ''[[Mission of Fear]] (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des Morts)''
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|[[19th Canadian Film Awards]] || September 23, 1967 || [[Fred Davis (broadcaster)|Fred Davis]] || [[Inn on the Park]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] || ''[[Warrendale (film)|Warrendale]]'' || ''[[Warrendale (film)|Warrendale]]''
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|[[20th Canadian Film Awards]] || October 4, 1968 || [[Bill Walker (broadcaster)|Bill Walker]], [[Louise Marleau]] || [[Seaway Towers Hotel]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] || ''[[A Place to Stand (film)|A Place to Stand]]'' || ''[[The Ernie Game]]''
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|rowspan=2| [[26th Canadian Film Awards]] || rowspan=2| October 12, 1975 || colspan="2" align=center|'''''No Ceremony in 1974''''' || ''[[The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)|The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz]]'' || None awarded
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|[[Peter Gzowski]] || [[Shaw Festival]], [[Niagara-on-the-Lake]], [[Ontario]] || ''[[
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|[[27th Canadian Film Awards]] || October 21, 1976 || [[Lorne Greene]] || [[9 Channel Nine Court|CFTO-TV Studios]], [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough]], [[Ontario]] || None awarded || ''[[Lies My Father Told Me]]''
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070112152716/http://www.genieawards.ca/genie27/main.cfm Genie Awards site]
{{Canadian Screen Awards}}
[[Category:Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978)|*]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1949]]
[[Category:Awards disestablished in 1978]]
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