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The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, [1] 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. [1]
Canadian Screen Awards; Current: 12th Canadian Screen Awards: Awarded for: Artistic and technical merit in the Canadian film industry, recognizing excellence in film, television and digital media: Country: Canada: Presented by: Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television: First award: 2013 as a merger of the former Genie Awards for film and Gemini ...
The 29th Canadian Film Awards were held on September 21, 1978 to honour achievements in Canadian film. [1] They were the last Canadian Film Awards ceremony to be held before the program was taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and restructured into the new Genie Awards. [2] This year's awards had nearly been cancelled.
The 1st Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 3, 2013, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2012. [1] This was the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards ceremony, following the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's decision, announced in 2012, to merge its formerly separate Genie Awards (for film) and Gemini Awards (for television) into a ...
Award Sponsor Notes ACTRA Award: ACTRA:Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists: Main national television award from 1972 to 1986, when they were taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to create the Gemini Awards; [1] now presented as a regional film and television award to honour local production, by each of ACTRA's individual regional chapters.
It was renamed to the Diversity Award in 2014 after the Geminis were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards. It has not been presented since the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. National Film Board of Canada productions and co-productions have won approximately half of all Canada Awards.
The 18th Canadian Film Awards were held on May 6, 1966 to honour achievements in Canadian film. For the first time, CFA management decided to present the awards on television. The Directors Guild of Canada which, in another first, was presenting CFA awards, voiced what was on everyone's minds: the fear that a poorly-presented show would cause ...
Awards in many of the technical categories were presented in a series of galas, collectively called Canadian Screen Week, in the days leading up to the main ceremony. At the main ceremony, the film It's Only the End of the World and the television series Orphan Black won the most awards in film and television categories, with six and nine ...