DCHP-2

Genie Award Genie, The Genies DCHP-2 (June 2016)

• 1 n. — Entertainment

  an annual award for excellence in film-making presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television between 1980 and 2012.

  Type: 1. Origin — The Academy of Canadian Cinema, now known as the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT), was created in 1979, in response to the fast growth of the Canadian film industry. The first awards ceremony took place on 20 March, 1980, in Toronto, ON. The Genie Awards replaced the Canadian Film Awards that were held annually from 1949 to 1978. The Genie Awards were, in turn, discontinued in 2012 and replaced with the Canadian Screen Awards in 2013.
  A major innovation in the Genies was the abandonment of the international jury system of the CFA in favour of a peer-voting system. Nominations for Genie Awards are made by nominating committees composed of Academy members, filmmakers, critics and other industry professionals. Members of the Academy's Cinema division are then eligible to "vote for categories directly related to his/her membership branch" (i.e. editors vote in the editing category), as well as all "best" categories (see Genie Awards reference). In 2012, the ACCT announced that the Gemini and Genie awards would be discontinued and replaced by the Canadian Screen Awards for all forms of media, including film, television and digital media (see the 2012 quotation).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "genie" (2), which is marked "Cdn", ITP Nelson, s.v. "genie" (3), and OED-3, s.v. "genie" (draft entry 3).

  See also: Gemini Award  Genie  ACTRA  ACTRA Award  Canadian Screen Awards  Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television  Screenies  

• 2 n.

  a statuette given in conjunction with the Genie Award (see Image 1).

  Type: 1. Origin — The Genie statuette was originally known as "The Etrog", named for sculpturist Sorel Etrog, who designed it for the Canadian Film Awards in 1968. According to Etrog, it is "a standing figure whose focus of energy is concentrated in the upper part of the body, thus reflecting the process involved in transforming an idea or concept into a visual reality" (see Genie Awards reference). The statuette weighs 14 pounds, is 14 inches tall, and is made of gold-plated bronze on a black marble base (see Image 1). When the Genie Awards replaced the Canadian Film Awards, the same statuette was used but was officially renamed as "The Genie" in 1980 (see also the 1980 quotation).