Canadian Film Awards

Canadian Film Awards
Awarded forBest film productions in Canada
CountryCanada
First awarded1949
Last awarded1978

The Canadian Film Awards were the leading 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.[1] In the 1970s they were also sometimes known as the Etrog Awards for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette.[2]

The awards were succeeded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema's Genie Awards in 1980;[3] beginning in 2013 the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its separate Gemini Awards program for television to create the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference canenc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Genie Awards profile and history Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's website
  3. ^ "The Genie Awards". Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Archived from the original on 2009-01-03. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  4. ^ "Goodbye Genies and Geminis, hello Canadian Screen Awards". The GATE. The GATE Entertainment Magazine. Retrieved 21 December 2015.