Genie Award for Best Actor (Non-Feature)

Best Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature) was a Canadian award which was presented by the Canadian Film Awards from 1969 to 1978, by the Genie Awards in 1980 and by the shortlived Bijou Awards in 1981, to honour the best performance by an actor in film which was not a theatrical feature film, such as television films or short films.

1960s

Year	Nominee	Film
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards
	Chris Wiggins	The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
	John Colicos	Dulcima
	Eric House	Quentin Durgens, M.P.: "The Night Nothing Happened"

1970s

Year	Nominee	Film
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards
	Joey Smallwood	A Little Fellow from Gambo
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards
	Colin Fox	Durham and the Two Nations
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards
	Sean Sullivan	Springhill
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards
	Marcel Sabourin	Des armes et les hommes
1974
	No award presented
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards
	William Hutt	The National Dream
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards
	Ed McNamara	For Gentlemen Only
	Hugh Webster
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards
	George Clutesi	Dreamspeaker
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards
	Brent Carver	One Night Stand
	Gabriel Arcand	The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)
	Gary Reineke	A Matter of Choice
	R. H. Thomson	Tyler

1980s

Year	Nominee	Film
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Rudi Lipp	Revolution's Orphans
	Ken Pogue	Every Person Is Guilty
	Saul Rubinek	The Wordsmith
1981 Bijou Awards
	Chuck Shamata	The Running Man
	Richard Monette	A Far Cry from Home
	Al Waxman	The Winnings of Frankie Walls