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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]
The Canadian Screen Awards has roughly 130 categories in total. There are 30 film categories, 100 television categories, and 10 digital media categories. As with the Genie Awards, all Canadian films, regardless of language, are eligible to receive awards in the film categories.
Name Film Status Milestone / Notes 1941 National Film Board of Canada: Churchill's Island: Won First Canadian film to win an Oscar. First film to win Best Documentary (Short Subject). Warclouds in the Pacific: Nominated 1942 Inside Fighting China: Nominated In 1942, documentary features and short subjects competed together for Best Documentary.
The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film. [1] In 2012, the cash prize accompanying the award was increased to $ 100,000, making it the largest arts award in Canada.
In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same film was named the winner of both categories.
Award for Best Canadian Film ($8,000 prize) – Violent, Andrew Huculiak (Canada) Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film Award – The Cut, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles (Canada) Rogers People's Choice Award – The Vancouver Asahi, Ishii Yuya (Japan) VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award – Preggoland, Jacob Tierney (Canada)
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, to honour the best Canadian film cinematography.. The award was first presented in 1963 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, with separate categories for colour and black-and-white cinematography; the separate categories were discontinued after 1969, with only a single category ...
The Amplify Voices awards were presented to three films overall, with one award open to all feature films made by Canadian directors and designated as the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Film, while the other two awards are open to any feature films, regardless of nationality, directed by BIPOC filmmakers; however, all three awards are ...