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37-708: The awards were succeeded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema 's Genie Awards in 1980; beginning in 2013 the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its separate Gemini Awards program for television to create the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards . The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, under a steering committee that included the National Film Board 's James Beveridge ,

74-502: A Love Story . The Board was asked to rate this film, along with three others, submitted by a group of artists, known as the Ontario Film and Video Appreciation Society (OFVAS). The Board refused to view or rate Not a Love Story on the grounds that OFVAS did not own the film or have any distribution rights. Ratings were provided on the other films. The artists then took the Board to court over

111-484: A field of four other much stronger nominees, with some writers later declaring that the film's victory, over enduring Canadian film classics such as Kamouraska and Réjeanne Padovani , essentially confirmed that the boycotting directors were correct in their beliefs. In the final years of the Canadian Film Awards, the dedicated festival was discontinued, and instead the eligible films were screened as part of

148-501: A job as chief operating officer of the Toronto International Film Festival . Since December 2023, the chair of the board of directors] is Thomas Santram and the vice-chair is Solange Attwood. The previous chair of the board of directors was John Young of Boat Rocker Media . Ontario Film Review Board The Ontario Film Review Board ( French : Commission de contrôle cinématographique de l’Ontario )

185-524: A replacement for the formerly distinct Genie Award (for film) and Gemini Award (for television) ceremonies. The Prix Gémeaux for French-language television remains a separate awards program. The organization also administers the Prism Prize for music videos. The chief executive officer as of October 2022 is Tammy Frick . The organization's previous CEO was Beth Janson , who left in April 2022 to take

222-516: A year-long pilot project to designate certain films which were deemed inappropriate for children. Theatre operators were required to identify such films as "adult entertainment" on marquees and advertising. The Blue Dahlia and Her Kind of Man were among the first films to be identified as adult entertainment in Ontario. Further changes to the Theatres Act in 1975 empowered what was now known as

259-471: Is a listing of all Canadian Film Awards Ceremonies. Academy of Canadian Cinema %26 Television The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian film industry and television industry professionals, most notably through the Canadian Screen Awards The mandate of the Academy

296-756: Is an inactive agency of the government of the Canadian province of Ontario that was formerly responsible for that province's motion picture rating system . Until 2015, the board reported to the Minister of Consumer Services but as of 1 October 2015, the board was overseen by the Ontario Film Authority. The board's activities were based on the Film Classification Act, 2005 . The Ontario Film Review Board ceased operation as of October 1, 2019, with responsibility for film classification being transferred from

333-474: Is to honour outstanding achievements; to heighten public awareness of and increase audience attendance of and appreciationпа of Canadian film and television productions; and to provide critically needed, high-quality professional development programs, conferences and publications. Since 2012, the Academy's primary national awards program is the Canadian Screen Awards , which were announced that year as

370-605: The Film Classification Act . In 2013, the Ontario Film Authority was incorporated. It entered into an agreement with the Minister of Consumer Services dated 5 May 2014. On 1 October 2015, an amendment to Ontario Regulation 187/09 came into effect, providing that the Ontario Film Authority is the sole administrative authority for the purpose of administering all provisions of the Film Classification Act, 2005 and

407-477: The 1st Genie Awards in 1980. A separate award for Best Feature Film was instituted in 1964. Acting awards were introduced in 1968, and then expanded into separate categories for lead and supporting performers in 1970. In 1968, the consortium of organizations that presented the awards up to that point discontinued their involvement, and the awards were reorganized into their own independent organization with their own board of directors. A new bronze award statuette

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444-619: The Canadian Film Institute were also brought in as sponsors of the awards. The first presentation was held on April 27, 1949 at the Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa. With only a handful of Canadian films released each year, they were generally a small affair. Unlike the eligibility rules for the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards , which are based on the film having already been screened theatrically in either commercial release or

481-625: The Festival of Festivals lineup after that event was launched in 1976, with the ceremony taking place at the end of the festival. After 1978, the awards were taken over by the new Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television , and reorganized into the new Genie Awards . Despite the renaming, Etrog's statuette was initially retained as the design of the Genie statuettes; they later underwent a modernized revamp, but were still based on Etrog's original design. The Genie Awards continued to be presented until 2012, when

518-537: The Gemini Awards were launched in 1986 to replace the ACTRAs as Canada's primary television awards. When Academy publicist Maria Topalovich was preparing a history of the awards for publication in the early 1980s, she found that even the Academy itself had not received complete documentation of the awards' past winners and nominees in the takeover, and instead she had to undertake extensive archival research. The following

555-512: The francophone film industry in Quebec . This began in 1970, when filmmaker Jean Pierre Lefebvre threatened to withdraw his film Q-Bec My Love from the competition if the Ontario Censor Board did not withdraw its demand for the film to be edited. Several other filmmakers were also prepared to withdraw in solidarity, although provincial cabinet minister James Auld intervened to dissuade

592-566: The Academy merged them with its Gemini Awards program for television to create the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards . After launching the Genies, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television created the Bijou Awards , which were presented in 1981 as a new home for several award categories that were being dropped from the Genies, although the Bijous were never presented again after 1981, and instead

629-522: The Board's ban of the fourth film, Amerika , the court ruled that the Board had no legally defined rights to determine what the public could view. The government appealed to the Ontario Supreme Court, but the appeal was dismissed in 1984. The government subsequently added regulations to define the Board`s powers. The board used the following motion picture rating system for theatrical releases in

666-583: The Canadian Foundation's Walter Herbert, filmmaker F. R. Crawley , the National Gallery of Canada 's Donald Buchanan and diplomat Graham McInnes. The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin , managing editor of Canadian Film Weekly ; M. Stein of Famous Players; CBC film critic Gerald Pratley ; Moira Armour of the Toronto and Vancouver Film societies; and Ian MacNeill from CAAE. The Canadian Foundation and

703-540: The Ontario Censor Board to review and censor videotapes and 8 mm film formats as well as conventional theatrical films. In the late 1970s and early 80s the Board was involved in a number of high-profile disputes with the Toronto International Film Festival (known then as the Festival of Festivals) over the Board's refusal to approve some films for screening without cuts, and for banning other films outright. In 1977,

740-743: The Ontario Film Authority, which is to be wound down, and the Ontario Film Review Board to the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Films were briefly deemed to have the same classification as those given by the British Columbia Film Classification Office , and adult films will be cleared for screening in Ontario if they have been approved by any jurisdiction in Canada. Ratings are now no longer required for movies to be shown in Ontario. A three-person Board of Censors

777-513: The awards for Best Short Film or Best Amateur Film instead constituting the highest honour given to a film that year. Even the award for Film of the Year, when presented at all, often also went to a short film. The awards were also almost totally dominated by the National Film Board, to the point that independent filmmakers sometimes alleged a systemic bias which was itself a contributing factor to

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814-423: The awards returned in 1975, the eligibility period covered the entire two-year period since the previous ceremony in 1973; however, the awards committee revived the defunct Film of the Year category alongside the ongoing Best Feature Film award, so that two Best Pictures, one for each of 1974 and 1975, could be named. The 1973 awards were also criticized for the jury's choice of Slipstream as Best Feature Film over

851-403: The board from insisting on the cuts. In 1973, a number of Quebec filmmakers boycotted the 25th Canadian Film Awards , out of a perception that the organization had a systemic bias against francophone films. This protest resulted in the last-minute cancellation of the 1973 awards ceremony, with the winners announced only at a press conference, and the complete cancellation of the 1974 awards. When

888-489: The board ordered cuts from the film Je, tu, il, elle which depicted two women having sex; the Festival pulled the film from its programme. In 1978, it demanded a 38-second cut from a love scene in In Praise of Older Women ; director Robert Lantos agreed but at the last minute substituted the uncut version of the film. The screening was introduced by federal Secretary of State for Canada John Roberts who publicly denounced

925-477: The board, telling the audience at the Elgin Theatre that “because of the actions of the Ontario censor it is time for an active affirmation that censors shouldn’t tell people what they should or should not see.” In 1982, the board refused to approve Pierre Rissient ’s Cinq et la peau ; instead of substituting another film, festival organizers protested the ban by posting a sign outside the theatre explaining why

962-563: The difficulty of building a sustainable commercial film industry in Canada. Particularly in the 1960s, television films were also eligible for the awards; in 1969, in fact, no theatrical films were entered into the awards at all, and the nominees and winners at the 21st Canadian Film Awards consisted almost entirely of television films. Despite the creation of the ACTRA Awards in 1972, the Canadian Film Awards continued to present selected "non-feature" awards, inclusive of television films, until

999-401: The festival into the minds of the public, but internationally it was hugely embarrassing. And it filled the theatre with the wrong people, because they came looking for nothing but blow jobs, and they found themselves in the middle of a long, hard, boring film waiting for a few seconds of a grainy image showing something that looked vaguely like a male sex organ.” In 1985, the name of the board

1036-412: The film festival circuit, in the Canadian Film Awards era films, even if otherwise unreleased, were eligible for nominations or awards based solely on their submission to a dedicated Canadian Film Awards screening festival. In 1957, The Globe and Mail columnist Ronald Johnson criticized the awards' publicity efforts, noting that even Bossin was not actually receiving the press releases and that many of

1073-429: The province: Ratings used from 1946 - 1953: Ratings used from c.  1953 - 1981: Ratings used from 1981 - 2003: The ratings used from 2003–present: These ratings include a set of Content Advisories: The primary reason for the addition of the 18A category was films such as Scary Movie and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut . Adult movies were given a sticker which denotes: Janet Robinson

1110-496: The ratings given, and the refusal to rate Not a Love Story. The Board's actions were challenged under the new Canadian Constitution . The Ontario Divisional Court ruled in 1983 that film classification and censorship were justifiable under the Constitution. The court also determined that three of the Board's rulings were valid. Approval with time and place restrictions in the case of The Art of Worldly Wisdom and Rameau's Nephew

1147-481: The regulations made under that Act. This restructuring of administrative oversight in 2015 was "part of a larger provincial initiative to streamline more than 200 boards and commissions", according to The Toronto Star . Significant cases have occurred where a film was either banned outright in Ontario, or certain scenes were ordered removed: Several sources claim the Board banned the NFB anti-pornography documentary Not

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1184-409: The releases which were going out were being sent to journalists not involved in covering or reporting on film. The paper's film critic Jay Scott later described them as "honours given by presenters no one knew, to recipients no one recognized, to films no one had seen." With very few feature films made in Canada at all prior to the 1960s, in some years no Film of the Year winner was named at all, with

1221-404: The screen was being kept dark. The board's high profile actions against various films being screened at the festival had the unintended effect of raising their profile and audience interest. According to former festival director Helga Stephenson, “Silly old [Ontario Censor Board chairman] Mary Brown filled some theatres with some pretty tame stuff. The ranting and raving was a very good way to get

1258-399: Was changed to the Ontario Film Review Board after the provincial government amended the Theatres Act . The Board composition changed from full-time civil servants to part-time members of the public. In 1988 festival films became exempt from review by the board provided the audience was limited to those eighteen and over. In 2005, the original and much amended Theatres Act was replaced by

1295-409: Was considered a "valid exercise of the Board's power." The Board's refusal to review Not A Love Story: A Film About Pornography was acceptable as the Board did not need to perform hypothetical reviews. The film had not been submitted for commercial distribution, and the judge noted "the applicants were seeking permission to show a film they did not own and which they had no right to exhibit." Concerning

1332-562: Was designed by sculptor Sorel Etrog , and thereafter the award was often referred to as an Etrog , although the name of the ceremony itself remained the Canadian Film Awards. Two special awards, the John Grierson Award for outstanding contribution to Canadian cinema and the Wendy Michener Award for outstanding artistic achievement, were also added in later years. In the 1970s, the organization frequently faced crises related to

1369-585: Was established on 27 June 1911 following passage of the Theatres and Cinematographs Act, 1911 . The initial members were Chair George E. Armstrong, Robert Wilson and Otter Elliott. From that point, films to be shown in Ontario legally required review and approval by the board. The Board's censorship authority included newsreels, for example footage from a 1937 General Motors strike was banned "to avoid propaganda by either side." The Board of Censors began to provide basic film classifications from 1 June 1946, initially as

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