{{Short description|Retired annual Canadian media award}} The '''Bijou Awards''' were a [[Canada|Canadian]] award for non-feature films, launched in 1981 but presented only once before being discontinued.<ref>"Brides nominated for 7 awards". ''[[The Province]]'', October 7, 1981.</ref> Created as a joint project of the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television|Academy of Canadian Cinema]] and the [[Canadian Media Producers Association|Canadian Film and Television Association]] (CFTA), the awards were essentially a new home for many of the categories, particularly but not exclusively the ones for [[television film]]s, that had been dropped after the old [[Canadian Film Awards]] transitioned into the [[Genie Awards]] in 1980,<ref name=topalovich>Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. [[Stoddart Publishing]], 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}. pp. 135-139.</ref> as well as for the CFTA's trade and craft awards in areas such as television advertising and educational films.<ref>"Bijou Awards bow for shorts and TV prods". ''[[Cinema Canada]]'', November 1981.</ref>
The ceremony was held on October 28, 1981, at [[Casa Loma]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], and hosted by [[Nancy White (singer-songwriter)|Nancy White]].<ref>"War Brides top Bijou winner". ''[[Regina Leader-Post]]'', October 30, 1981.</ref>
The awards were not presented in 1982, as the Academy of Canadian Cinema undertook detailed planning toward introducing permanent television awards.<ref>Mark Dillon, [https://playbackonline.ca/2014/03/07/playback-tribute-a-reinvigorated-academy-celebrates-its-legacy/ "Playback tribute: a reinvigorated Academy celebrates its legacy"]. ''[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]'', March 7, 2014.</ref> In 1983, the Academy formally proposed that the Bijou Awards replace the [[ACTRA Awards]] as the primary national television award,<ref>Lorne Parton, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105780702/ "TV trade looking at alternatives to the ACTRA awards"]. ''[[The Province]]'', April 21, 1983.</ref> although this did not occur and the Bijous were ultimately never presented again; instead, the [[Gemini Awards]], the Academy's permanent awards for television production, were launched in 1986,<ref>Matthew Fraser, "New awards for TV films announced". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 31, 1985.</ref> and in 2012 the Genies and the Geminis were merged into the contemporary [[Canadian Screen Awards]].
Some later sources have occasionally misattributed the Bijou winners as Genie or Gemini winners.<ref>For example, the headline "Hard life, hard film: true story of Linda M is sequel to Gemini winner Nose and Tina" (''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'', October 17, 1995) mistakenly ascribes a Bijou winner listed here as a Gemini winner.</ref>
==Winners and nominees== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Television Drama Over 30 Minutes ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Television Drama Under 30 Minutes |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]'' — Bill Gough''' *''[[The Running Man (1981 film)|The Running Man]]'' *''[[You've Come a Long Way, Katie]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[The Olden Days Coat]]'' — [[Michael MacMillan]], [[Seaton McLean]], Janice Platt''' *''Dernier Voyage'' *''[[The Kids of Degrassi Street|Irene Moves In]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Challenger: An Industrial Romance]]'' — [[Stephen Low (filmmaker)|Stephen Low]]''' *''[[The Last Days of Living]]'' *''[[The Lost Pharaoh]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Nose and Tina]]'' — [[Wolf Koenig]]''' *''[[Laughlines]]'' *''[[Steady as She Goes (film)|Steady as She Goes]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Genie Award for Best Actor (Non-Feature)|Best Actor]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Genie Award for Best Actress (Non-Feature)|Best Actress]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Chuck Shamata]], ''[[The Running Man (1981 film)|The Running Man]]''''' *[[Richard Monette]], ''[[A Far Cry from Home (film)|A Far Cry from Home]]'' *[[Al Waxman]], ''[[The Winnings of Frankie Walls]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Lally Cadeau]], ''[[You've Come a Long Way, Katie]]''''' *[[Sharry Flett]], ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]'' *[[Dixie Seatle]], ''[[A Population of One]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Animation ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Television Variety or Music |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Getting Started]]'' — [[Richard Condie]], Jerry Krepavich''' *''[[One Way Street (1980 film)|One Way Street]] (Les Naufragés du quartier)'' — [[Bernard Longpré]] *''Premiers jours'' — [[Clorinda Warny]], [[Suzanne Gervais]], [[Lina Gagnon]] | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce]]'' — Trevor Evans''' *''Catulli Carmina'' *''[[The Hawk (1982 film)|The Hawk]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Director of a Drama ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Director of a Documentary |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Donald Brittain]], ''[[The Running Man (1981 film)|The Running Man]]''''' *[[Martin Lavut]], ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]'' *[[Peter Rowe (filmmaker)|Peter Rowe]], ''[[Final Edition]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Norma Bailey]], ''[[Nose and Tina]]''''' *[[Robert Fresco (cinematographer)|Robert Fresco]], ''[[Steady as She Goes (film)|Steady as She Goes]]'' *[[Nick Kendall (filmmaker)|Nick Kendall]], ''[[The Last Pharaoh]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Nielsen-Ferns International First Production Award ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Chetwynd Award for Business Promotion |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''Exposure'' - Wayne Arron''' *''Against the River'' — [[York University]] Film Department *''Steady as She Goes'' — Pretty Pictures | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''PFA Labs''' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Screenplay ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Non-Dramatic Script |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Gilles Carle]] and [[Roger Lemelin]], ''[[The Plouffe Family (film)|The Plouffe Family]] (Les Plouffe)''''' *[[Tony Sheer]], ''[[Final Edition]]'' *[[Grahame Woods]], ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Michel Gerard, ''[[The Canadian Establishment (TV series)|The Canadian Establishment]]'': "Ten Toronto Street"''' *[[Donald Brittain]], ''[[The Lost Pharaoh]]'' *[[Gail Singer]], ''[[Love, Honoured and Bruised]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Instructional Program ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Commercial |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''Estuary'' — Peter Jones''' *''Class Project: The Garbage Movie'' *''What's Bugging Him?'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Imperial Oil]]: "Energy Efficiency" — Patti Grech''' *Coffee Council: "Cowboys" — Rabko Television Productions *[[Sunlight (cleaning product)|Sunlight]]: "Wedding" — The Partners Film Co. |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Art Direction ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Music Score |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Barbara McLean, ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]''''' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Larry Crosley]], ''[[The Lost Pharaoh]]''''' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Cinematography in a Drama ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Cinematography in a Documentary |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Vic Sarin]], ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]''''' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Robert Fresco (cinematographer)|Robert Fresco]], ''[[Steady as She Goes (film)|Steady as She Goes]]''''' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Independent Production ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Sales, Promotion or Public Relations Film |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''The Breakthrough'' — Ira Levy, Peter Williamson''' *''[[The Olden Days Coat]]'' *''[[One Thousand Dozen]]'' *''Le Paradis des Chefs — Badji le pur'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''Snow'' — Lloyd Walton for [[Ontario Parks]]''' *''Be a Winner!'' — Pro Creation Canada *''The Little Paper That Grew'' — Extra Modern Productions |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Editing in a Drama ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Editing in a Documentary |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Myrtle Virgo, ''[[War Brides (1980 film)|War Brides]]''''' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Harvey Zlatarits, ''[[The Hawk (1982 film)|The Hawk]]''''' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Sound ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Visual Effects |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Ed Chong, ''[[The Running Man (1981 film)|The Running Man]]''''' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Colin Chivers, [[RC Cola]]: "Innertube"''' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Audio-Video, 1-7 Projector Programs ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Audio-Video, 8-18 Projector Programs |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''Modulighting''''' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''The Green Network''''' |}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Canadian Screen Awards}}
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