1938 -- Deanna Durbin was awarded a miniature Oscar for her work as a child star
1938 -- Gene Lockhart was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "Algiers".
1940 -- Toronto actor Raymond Massey was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois".
1942 -- Walter Pidgeon, a native of Saint John, New Brunswick was nominated for Best Actor in "Mrs.Miniver".
He
was
also nominated in the same category in the following year for his work in "Madame Curie".
1944 -- Alexander Knox, from Strathroy, Ontario, was nominated for Best Actor in "Wilson".
1944 -- Hume Cronyn from London, Ontario, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "The Seventh Cross".
1949 -- John Ireland, from Vernon, British Columbia, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor
in "All The King's Men".
1969 -- Genevieve Bujold was nominated for Best Actress in "Anne of A Thousand Days".
1970 -- Chief Dan George was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "Little Big Man".
1985 -- Meg Tilly, nominated for Best Supporting Actress in "Agnes of God"
1992 -- Kate Nelligan nominated for Best Supporting Actress in "Prince of Tides".
1990 -- Dan Ackroyd nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "Driving Miss Daisy".
1990 -- Graham Greene from Brampton, Ontario, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor
in "Dances With Wolves".
1995 -- Jennifer Tilly nominated for Best Supporting Actress in "Bullets Over Broadway".
1999 -- Norman Jewison was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award for Lifetime Achievement. (
Jewison is
the most honored Canadian filmmaker in Hollywood history. A winner of awards from film festivals and film societies around
the world, Jewison has been nominated personally for four Oscars® and his films have received 45 nominations and 12
Academy Awards® -- including "best picture" for "In The Heat Of The Night". In 1988 he received
an honorary Genie for founding the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies; in 1998 he received
the Canadian Film Centre Lifetime Achievement Award; and he has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
)
2002 -- Arthur Hiller, a director, was awarded the Jean Hirsholt Humanitarian Award by
the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
2007 -- Ryan Gosling from London, Ontario was nominated for Best Actor in "Half Nelson"
2007 -- Deepa Mehta’s "Water" was nominated for Best Picture
2008 -- Ellen Page was nominated for Best Actress for her role in "Juno"
2008 -- Sarah Polley's comedy "Juno" was nominated for Best Picture
2008 -- Sarah Polley was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay "The Bear Came Over The Mountain"
Canada's National Film Board has received 69 Academy Award Nominations for its short films.
Here are the winners:
1941
Churchill's Island
Director: Stuart Legg
Category: Documentary Short
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1953
Neighbours
Director: Norman McLaren
Category: Documentary Short
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1978
The Sand Castle
Director: Co Hoedeman
Category: Animated Short
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1978
I'll Find a Way
Director: Beverly Shaffer
Category: Live-action Short
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1979
Special Delivery
Directors: John Weldon & Eunice Macaulay
Category: Animated Short
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1980
Every Child
Director: Eugene Fedorenko
Category: Animated Short
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1983
If You Love This Planet
Director: Terri Nash
Category: Documentary Short
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1984
Flamenco at 5:15
Director: Cynthia Scott
Category: Documentary Short
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1989
Honorary Oscar on NFB's 50th anniversary
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1995
Bob's Birthday
Directors: Alison Snowden & David Fine
Category: Animated Short
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1999
Technical achievement award to NFB scientists Ed H. Zwaneveld and Frederick
Gasoi and two colleagues for creating the DigiSync Film Keykode Reader
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