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1st Genie Awards 1981

Highlights

Best Picture: The Changeling
Best Direction: Bob Clark
Best Leading Actor: Christopher Plummer
Best Leading Actress: Kate Lynch
Best Supporting Actor: Gordon Pinsent
Best Supporting Actress: Geneviève Bujold
Best Original Screenplay: Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg, Janis Allen
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Gray, Diana Maddox

Best Production Design / Art Direction: Trevor Williams
Best Cinematography: John Coquillon
Best Original Score: Carl Zitter, Paul Zaza
Best Costume Design: Louise Jobin
Best Editing: Stan Cole
Best Sound (Overall): Joe Grimaldi, Austin Grimaldi, Dino Pigat, Karl Scherer
Best Sound Editing: Patrick Drummond, Dennis Drummond, Robert Grieve
Best Live-action Short Film: Nails (S)
Best Animated Short: Every Child (S)
Best Feature Length Documentary: Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
Best Short Documentary: Priory: The Only Home I've Got
Best Independent Film: Track Stars (S)
Best TV Film: For the Record (TV Series)
Best TV Short: Bravery in the Field
Best Foreign Actor: George C. Scott
Best Foreign Actress: Trish Van Devere

Most awarded films

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Most nominated films

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Best Picture - 1981

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Poor Things

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- Bob Clark
  
  Winner
Murder by Decree
8 nominations 5 awards
- Peter Carter
Klondike Fever
- Anne Claire Poirier
A Scream from Silence
- Donald Shebib
Fish Hawk
- Eric Till
Wild Horse Hank

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- Kate Lynch
  
  Winner
Meatballs
8 nominations 2 awards
- Micheline Lanctôt
A Scream from Silence
- Louise Marleau
L'arrache-coeur
- Claire Pimparé
Yesterday
- Louise Portal
Cordélia

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- Gordon Pinsent
  
  Winner
Klondike Fever
9 nominations 1 award
- Harvey Atkin
Meatballs
- Lawrence Dane
Running
- Chris Makepeace
Meatballs
- Saul Rubinek
Agency
- Robert A. Silverman
The Brood

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Out of Darkness

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- John Coquillon
  
  Winner
The Changeling
10 nominations 8 awards
- Miklós Lente
Agency
- Pierre Mignot
Cordélia
- Reginald H. Morris
Murder by Decree
- Laszlo George
Running

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- Louise Jobin
  
  Winner
Cordélia
7 nominations 1 award
- François Barbeau
Chocolate Eclair
- Linda Matheson
Fish Hawk
- Patti Unger
Klondike Fever
- Julie Whitfield
Something's Rotten

Tanya's Island

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- Stan Cole
  
  Winner
Murder by Decree
8 nominations 5 awards
- George Appleby
Wild Horse Hank
- Jean Beaudin
Cordélia
- Debra Karen
Meatballs

Yesterday
- Marcel Pothier
L'arrache-coeur
- Ron Wisman
Fish Hawk

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- Joe Grimaldi, Austin Grimaldi, Dino Pigat, Karl Scherer
  
  Winners
The Changeling
10 nominations 8 awards
- David Appleby, Joe Grimaldi
Murder by Decree
- Gary C. Bourgeois, Richard Lightstone
Meatballs
- Joe Grimaldi, Bryan Day
The Brood
- Owen Langevin, Joe Grimaldi, David Appleby
Running

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Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
Winner
Cities (TV Series) (Episode: "Glenn Gould's Toronto")
2 nominations
Dieppe 1942

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Track Stars (S)
Winner

2 nominations 1 award
Cities (TV Series) (Episode: "Glenn Gould's Toronto")
2 nominations
Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas
2 nominations

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For the Record (TV Series) (Episode: "Certain Practices")
Winner

2 nominations 1 award
For the Record (TV Series) (Episode: "Every Person Is Guilty")
2 nominations 1 award
The Wordsmith (TV)

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- George C. Scott
  
  Winner
The Changeling
10 nominations 8 awards
- Michael Douglas
Running
- Bill Murray
Meatballs
- Will Sampson
Fish Hawk
- Rod Steiger
Klondike Fever

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