The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978) known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed its statuette.
Genie Awards
Cinema in Canada dates back to the earliest known display of film in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in 1896. The film industry in Canada has been dominated by the United States, which has utilized Canada as a shooting location and to bypass British film quota laws, throughout its history. Canadian filmmakers, English and French, have been active in the development of cinema in the United States.
Evangeline is the earliest recorded feature film in Canadian history.
A group of cameramen who worked for the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in 1925. Frank Badgley, the bureau's director from 1927 to 1941, is in the background.
John Grierson was the first commissioner of the National Film Board of Canada.
The financial success of Royal Journey, depicting Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip's tour of Canada, aided the NFB and was one of the reasons that John Grierson said that William Arthur Irwin "saved the Film Board".
