Genie Award for Best Actor (Non-Feature)

Best Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature) was a Canadian award which was presented by the Canadian Film Awards from 1969 to 1978, by the Genie Awards in 1980 and by the shortlived Bijou Awards in 1981, to honour the best performance by an actor in film which was not a theatrical feature film, such as television films or short films.[1]

1960s

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Year Nominee Film
1969
21st Canadian Film Awards
Chris Wiggins The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
John Colicos Dulcima
Eric House Quentin Durgens, M.P.: "The Night Nothing Happened"

1970s

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Year Nominee Film
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Joey Smallwood A Little Fellow from Gambo
1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Colin Fox Durham and the Two Nations
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Sean Sullivan Springhill
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Marcel Sabourin Des armes et les hommes
1974
No award presented
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
William Hutt The National Dream
1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
Ed McNamara For Gentlemen Only
Hugh Webster
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
George Clutesi Dreamspeaker
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Brent Carver One Night Stand
Gabriel Arcand The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)
Gary Reineke A Matter of Choice
R. H. Thomson Tyler

1980s

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Year Nominee Film
1980
1st Genie Awards
Rudi Lipp Revolution's Orphans
Ken Pogue Every Person Is Guilty
Saul Rubinek The Wordsmith
1981[2]
Bijou Awards
Chuck Shamata The Running Man
Richard Monette A Far Cry from Home
Al Waxman The Winnings of Frankie Walls

References

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  1. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
  2. ^ "Gems among Bijous". Vancouver Sun, October 8, 1991.