Genie Award for Best Actress (Non-Feature)

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

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Year Nominee Film
1969
21st Canadian Film Awards
Jackie Burroughs Dulcima
Josephine Barrington McQueen: "There's a Car Upside Down on My Lawn"
Margot Kidder Corwin: "Does Anybody Here Know Denny?"

1970s

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Year Nominee Film
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Linda Goranson The Manipulators: "The Spike in the Wall"
1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Carole Lazare The Megantic Outlaw
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Patricia Collins The Golden Handshake
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Jackie Burroughs Vicky
1974
No award presented
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Jayne Eastwood The Collaborators: "Deedee"
1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
Luce Guilbeault Bargain Basement
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Marina Dimakopoulos Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Chapelle Jaffe One Night Stand
Sylvie Lachance The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)
Roberta Maxwell A Matter of Choice
Sarah Torgov Drying Up the Streets

1980s

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Year Nominee Film
1980
1st Genie Awards
Martha Henry The Newcomers
Lynne Griffin Every Person Is Guilty
Bronwen Mantel Revolution's Orphans
Janet Ward The Wordsmith
1981[2]
Bijou Awards
Lally Cadeau You've Come a Long Way, Katie
Sharry Flett War Brides
Dixie Seatle A Population of One

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, 1981.