Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short Film

The Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short Film was a Canadian film award, historically presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television through its Genie Awards program to a film judged as the year's best short film.^[1] The award has been inclusive of short films in the live action drama, animated and documentary genres.

Originally presented by the Canadian Film Awards from their creation in 1949, the award was presented annually until 1964 with the exceptions of 1955, when an honourable mention was given but no formal winner was named, and 1957, when the award was not presented. The award was then not presented in 1965, 1966 or 1967.

Beginning in 1968, the Canadian Film Awards instituted separate award categories for "Film Over 30 Minutes" and "Film Under 30 Minutes". This continued for three years until 1971, when the single award for Best Theatrical Short was reinstituted. Except for 1974, when the Canadian Film Awards were entirely cancelled, the award was presented continuously thereafter until the Canadian Film Awards evolved into the Genie Awards in 1980, and continued to be presented in the early years of the Genie Awards.

After 1985, however, the Academy's presentation of the award varied from year to year, with a single award for Best Theatrical Short presented in some years, while separate awards for Best Live Action Short Drama, Best Animated Short and Best Short Documentary were presented in others. This variability continued until the 17th Genie Awards in 1996; since then, the separate genre categories have been consistently presented at all subsequent Genie or Canadian Screen Award ceremonies, and the Best Theatrical Short category is no longer in use.

1940s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1949 1st Canadian Film Awards
	Who Will Teach Your Child?	Stanley Jackson	^[1]
	Canadian Cameo Series	Bernard Norrish	^[1]

1950s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1950 2nd Canadian Film Awards
	North Shore (La Terre de Cain)	James Beveridge	^[1]
		Stanley Jackson	^[1]
1951 3rd Canadian Film Awards
1951 3rd Canadian Film Awards	After Prison, What?	Ron Weyman	^[1]
1952 4th Canadian Film Awards
	Opera School	Gudrun Parker	^[1]
			^[1]
		Roger Blais

1953 5th Canadian Film Awards
	The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux)	Bernard Devlin, Jean Palardy	^[1]
			^[1]

		Jean Palardy

1954 6th Canadian Film Awards
	Farewell Oak Street	Grant McLean	^[1]
			^[1]
	(L'Abatis)	Bernard Devlin	^[1]
1955 7th Canadian Film Awards
		Grant McLean	^[1]
	Honourable mention only; no official winner named		^[1]
1956 8th Canadian Film Awards
	Gold	Colin Low	^[1]
		Colin Low	^[1]
		Julian Biggs	^[1]
1957 9th Canadian Film Awards
1957 9th Canadian Film Awards	No award presented		^[1]
1958 10th Canadian Film Awards
1958 10th Canadian Film Awards	The Sceptre and the Mace		^[1]
1959 11th Canadian Film Awards
	Money Minters		^[1]
	The Quest	, Stanley Jackson
	The Tall Country	Lew Parry, Osmond Borradaile

1960s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1960 12th Canadian Film Awards
1960 12th Canadian Film Awards	Royal River	Gordon Sparling	^[1]
1961 13th Canadian Film Awards
1961 13th Canadian Film Awards	Universe	Tom Daly, Colin Low, Roman Kroitor	^[1]
1962 14th Canadian Film Awards
1962 14th Canadian Film Awards	Morning on the Lièvre	David Bairstow, Guy Glover	^[1]
1963 15th Canadian Film Awards
1963 15th Canadian Film Awards	Nahanni	Donald Wilder	^[1]
1964 16th Canadian Film Awards
1964 16th Canadian Film Awards	Anniversary	William Weintraub	^[1]
1965 17th Canadian Film Awards
1965 17th Canadian Film Awards	No award presented		^[1]
1966 18th Canadian Film Awards
1966 18th Canadian Film Awards	No award presented		^[1]
1967 19th Canadian Film Awards
1967 19th Canadian Film Awards	No award presented		^[1]
1968 20th Canadian Film Awards
	Film Over 30 Minutes		^[1]
	Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate
	Film Under 30 Minutes
	This Is No Time for Romance (Ça n'est pas le temps des romans)	Fernand Dansereau
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards
	Film Over 30 Minutes		^[1]
	Vertige	, Clément Perron
	And No Birds Sing	John Thomson
	Hey, Cinderella!	,
	Film Under 30 Minutes
	At Home	Martin Lavut

1970s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards
	Film Over 30 Minutes		^[1]
	A Matter of Fat	William Weintraub
	Film Under 30 Minutes
	Blake	Bill Mason
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards	Don't Knock the Ox	Tony Ianzelo	^[1]
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards	This Is a Photograph	Albert Kish	^[1]
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards	Goodbye Sousa	Tony Ianzelo	^[1]
1974
1974	No award presented		^[1]
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards	Along These Lines	, Patrick Watson, Peter Pearson	^[1]
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards	Cooperage	Phillip Borsos	^[1]
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards
	Spartree	Phillip Borsos	^[1]
			^[2]
	The Sand Castle (Le Chateau de sable)	Co Hoedeman
		, ,
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards	The Bronswik Affair (L'Affaire Bronswik)	,	^[1]

1980s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Nails	Phillip Borsos	^[1]
		Giles Walker	^[3]
		Terry Burke	^[3]
1981 2nd Genie Awards
	The Strongest Man in the World		^[1]
		,	^[4]
	History of the World in Three Minutes Flat	Michael Mills	^[4]
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	Zea	, Robert Forget,	^[1]
		Ishu Patel	^[5]
		Roger Frappier,	^[5]
1983 4th Genie Awards
	Elvis Gratton	Pierre Falardeau, Julien Poulin	^[1]
			^[6]

		David Fine, Ron Mann
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Ted Baryluk's Grocery	Michael Scott, Wolf Koenig	^[1]
			^[7]
		, Tibor Takács	^[7]
1985 6th Genie Awards
	Charade		^[1]
			^[8]
		,
		,
1986 7th Genie Awards
1986 7th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]
1987 8th Genie Awards
1987 8th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]
1988 9th Genie Awards
	George and Rosemary	David Fine and Alison Snowden	^[1]
	Fashion 99		^[9]
			^[9]
1989 10th Genie Awards
1989 10th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]

1990s[]

Year	Film	Filmmakers	Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
1990 11th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]
1991 12th Genie Awards
	Saeed		^[1]
	Edsville	James O'Regan	^[10]
	Man Descending	,
	(La Nuit du visiteur)	René Gueissaz

1992 13th Genie Awards
1992 13th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]
1993 14th Genie Awards
1993 14th Genie Awards	No award presented; see separate genre lists.		^[1]
1994 15th Genie Awards
	*Arrowhead*	, Peter Lynch	^[1]
	Bob's Birthday	David Fine, Alison Snowden	^[11]
	Collateral Damage	Leonard Farlinger,
	Save My Lost Nigga Soul	Damon D'Oliveira, Clement Virgo
		, Gary Yates
1995 16th Genie Awards
	Magical Flowers (Les fleurs magiques)	Jean-Marc Vallée	^[1]
		Marcy Page, Paul Driessen	^[12]

		,
		,
1996 17th Genie Awards
	The Home for Blind Women	Sandra Kybartas	^[1]
	Curtains (Rideau)	Mark Morgenstern, Stephanie Morgenstern	^[13]
		Colleen Murphy, Elizabeth Yake	^[13]

References[]

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^ "Canadian Film Awards nominations". The Albertan, October 18, 1977.
^ Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
^ Jay Scott, "Genie nominations released". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1981.
^ Jay Scott, "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.
^ Jay Scott, "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner movie". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1983.
^ Carole Corbeil, "Does anybody care about Genie shorts and documentaries?". The Globe and Mail, March 16, 1984.
^ Bruce Bailey, "Quebec sweeps nominations for best-picture Genie awards". Montreal Gazette, February 15, 1985.
^ "Quebec film picks up 14 nominations: Zoo paces race for Genies". The Globe and Mail, February 17, 1998.
^ Christopher Harris, "Black Robe leads race for Genies: Film community notes surprising omissions in list of nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1991.
^ "Exotica dominates Genie nominations". Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1994.
^ "Lepage leads Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, November 8, 1995.
^ Christopher Harris, "Greyson's Lilies leads Genie field Film with all-male cast gets 14 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 17, 1996.

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[2] "Canadian Film Awards nominations". The Albertan, October 18, 1977.

[3] Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.

[4] Jay Scott, "Genie nominations released". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1981.

[5] Jay Scott, "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.

[6] Jay Scott, "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner movie". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1983.

[7] Carole Corbeil, "Does anybody care about Genie shorts and documentaries?". The Globe and Mail, March 16, 1984.

[8] Bruce Bailey, "Quebec sweeps nominations for best-picture Genie awards". Montreal Gazette, February 15, 1985.

[9] "Quebec film picks up 14 nominations: Zoo paces race for Genies". The Globe and Mail, February 17, 1998.

[10] Christopher Harris, "Black Robe leads race for Genies: Film community notes surprising omissions in list of nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1991.

[11] "Exotica dominates Genie nominations". Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1994.

[12] "Lepage leads Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, November 8, 1995.

[13] Christopher Harris, "Greyson's Lilies leads Genie field Film with all-male cast gets 14 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 17, 1996.

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