Canadian Screen Awards
| Canadian Screen Awards | |
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 5th Canadian Screen Awards
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| Awarded for | Best television, film, and digital media productions in Canada |
| Country | Canada |
| Presented by | Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television |
| First awarded | 2013 |
| Official website | academy.ca/awards |
The Canadian Screen Awards (French: Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media productions. The new awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television and film productions.
They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia and the IFTA Awards in Ireland.
In April 2012, the Academy announced that it would merge the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards into a new awards show that would better recognize Canadian accomplishments in film, television, and digital media. On September 4, 2012, the Academy announced that the new ceremony would be known as the Canadian Screen Awards, reflecting the multi-platform nature of the presentation's expanded scope and how Canadians consume media content. The inaugural ceremony, hosted by comedian Martin Short and broadcast by CBC Television, was on March 3, 2013.
To date, the Academy has not announced an official short form nickname for the awards, such as "Oscar" for the Academy Awards. Numerous Canadian television and film critics and other figures have suggested potential nicknames, including the straightforward abbreviation "Screenies"; tributes to film and television legends including "Candys" in memory of actor John Candy, "Pickfords" in honour of actress Mary Pickford and "Normans" in honour of director Norman Jewison; "Angels" as a descriptive reference to the CSA trophy's "wings"; and "Gemininies" as a portmanteau of the awards' former names.
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