The Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short is awarded by the

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to the best

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.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . Formerly part of the

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, since 2012 it has been presented as part of the

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Best Theatrical Short Film

In the 1980s and 1990s, the award was not always presented at every Genie Award ceremony. In years when the award for animated shorts was not presented, a single award was instead presented for Best Theatrical Short Film, inclusive of both animated and live-action shorts.

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Multiple winners (3 or more)

* Marcy Page-8 * Michael Scott-3 *

Chris Landreth Chris Landreth (born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film ''Ryan (film), Ryan''. He has made many Computer-generated imagery, CGI animated films since the mid-1990s, including ''The En ...

-3 *Marc Betrand-3 * John Weldon-3

Multiple nominations (3 or more)

*Marcy Page-10 (8 wins) *Marcel Jean-10 (1 win) *Marc Betrand-8 (3 wins) *

Julie Roy Julie Roy (born May 11, 1973) is a Canadian producer of animated films, who since 2014 is the executive producer of the French animation studio at the National Film Board.Theodore Ushev Theodore Asenov Ushev ( bg, Теодор Асенов Ушев; born 4 February 1968) is a Bulgarian animator, film director and screenwriter based in Montreal. He is best known for his work at the National Film Board of Canada, including the 2 ...

-5 (2 wins) *Michael Scott-4 (3 wins) * John Weldon-4 (3 wins) *

Claude Cloutier Claude Cloutier is a Canadian film animator and illustrator based in Quebec. Cloutier to date has made seven short films with the National Film Board of Canada. Cloutier began his animation career with the 1988 short ''The Persistent Peddler (Le ...

-4 (1 win) * Christopher Hinton-3 (2 wins) *

Cordell Barker Cordell Barker (born 1956) is a Canadian animator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He began animating in his late teens after taking on an apprenticeship at Kenn Perkins Animation. A two-time Academy Award nominee, Barker is an animation filmmaker wi ...

-3 (2 wins) *Yves Leduc-3 (no wins) *Jelena Popović-3 (no wins)

References

{{Canadian Screen Awards Animated Short Canadian animation awards Awards established in 1968