Genie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature)
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The Genie Award
for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Non-Feature) was awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
to the best Canadian actor
in a non-feature film
role.
Genie Award
Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...
for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Non-Feature) was awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize over 4,000 Canadian film industry and television industry professionals...
to the best Canadian actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
in a non-feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
role.
1st Genie Awards
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, The Wordsmith