Genie Award for Best Actress (Non-Feature) explained

Best Performance by an Actress (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 actress in film which was not a theatrical feature film, such as television films or short films.[1]

1960s

YearNomineeFilm
1969
21st Canadian Film Awards
Jackie BurroughsDulcima
Josephine BarringtonMcQueen

"There's a Car Upside Down on My Lawn"

Margot KidderCorwin

"Does Anybody Here Know Denny?"

1970s

YearNomineeFilm
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Linda GoransonThe Manipulators

"The Spike in the Wall"

1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Carole LazareThe Megantic Outlaw
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Patricia CollinsThe Golden Handshake
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Jackie BurroughsVicky
1974
No award presented
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Jayne EastwoodThe Collaborators

"Deedee"

1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
Luce GuilbeaultBargain Basement
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Marina DimakopoulosHappiness Is Loving Your Teacher
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Chapelle JaffeOne Night Stand
Sylvie LachanceThe Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)
Roberta MaxwellA Matter of Choice
Sarah TorgovDrying Up the Streets

1980s

YearNomineeFilm
1980
1st Genie Awards
Martha HenryThe Newcomers
Lynne GriffinEvery Person Is Guilty
Bronwen MantelRevolution's Orphans
Janet WardThe Wordsmith
1981[2]
Bijou Awards
Lally CadeauYou've Come a Long Way, Katie
Sharry FlettWar Brides
Dixie SeatleA Population of One

Notes and References

  1. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. .
  2. "Gems among Bijous". Vancouver Sun, October 8, 1981.