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==History==
The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education,<ref name=canenc>{{cite web | url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/canadian-film-awards/ | title=Canadian Film Awards | publisher=''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'' | accessdate=2009-01-26 | first=Paul | last=Townend }}</ref> under a steering committee that included the [[National Film Board]]'s [[James Beveridge]], the Canadian Foundation's Walter Herbert, filmmaker [[F. R. Crawley]], the [[National Gallery of Canada]]'s Donald Buchanan and diplomat Graham McInnes.<ref name=canenc /> The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin, managing editor of ''Canadian Film Weekly''; M. Stein of Famous Players; [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] film critic Gerald Pratley; Moira Armour of the Toronto and Vancouver Film societies; and Ian MacNeill from CAAE.<ref name=canenc /> The Canadian Foundation and the [[Canadian Film Institute]] were also brought in as sponsors of the awards.<ref name=topalovich>Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. [[Stoddart Publishing]], 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}. pp. 81-83.</ref>
The first presentation was held on April 27, 1949 at the Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa.<ref name=canenc />
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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, often also went to a short film. The awards were also almost totally dominated by the National Film Board, to the point that independent filmmakers sometimes alleged a [[systemic bias]] which was itself a contributing factor to the difficulty of building a sustainable commercial film industry in Canada.<ref name=geniealogy/> Particularly in the 1960s, [[television film]]s were also eligible for the awards; in 1969, in fact, no theatrical films were entered into the awards at all, and the nominees and winners consisted almost entirely of television films.<ref>{{cite news|title=No Theatre Films Up for Awards|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12890032/|newspaper=[[Ottawa Journal]]|date=September 24, 1969|page=31|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = August 5, 2017 }} {{Open access}}</ref> Despite the creation of the [[ACTRA Awards]] in 1972, the Canadian Film Awards continued to present selected "non-feature" awards, inclusive of television films, until the [[2nd Genie Awards]] in 1981.
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 1970.<ref name=topalovich/>
In 1968,
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