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 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.
4-946: The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada 's English-language television industry . The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom . First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award , the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented
8-705: A design that essentially created two faces at the front and back of the statuette. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media , dubbed the " Canadian Screen Awards ". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. Academy of Canadian Cinema %26 Television Since 2012,
12-567: The Academy's primary national awards program is the Canadian Screen Awards , which were announced that year as 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
16-504: The one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. The awards' name was an allusion to Castor and Pollux , a mythological pair of twins ; this was in reference to Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, with the Academy's separate awards presentation for French-language television production named the Gémeaux Awards . The statuette, designed by Toronto artist Scott Thornley, evoked twins through
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