11th Canadian Film Awards
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| name = 11th Canadian Film Awards
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| date = June 5, 1959
| location = King Edward Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
| host = W. J. Sheridan
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| previous = 10th
| main = Canadian Film Awards
| next = 12th
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The 11th Canadian Film Awards were held on June 5, 1959 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}. pp. 45-47.
At this time, independent film production was improving and television production in Canada was booming, largely due to the Board of Broadcast Governors' anticipated Canadian Content ruling for television. Several production companies had been established, sound stages had been built; it was an encouraging atmosphere in which to recognize the previous year's filmmakers. The ceremony was hosted by W. J. Sheridan, the president of the Canadian Public Relations Society.
Winners
- Film of the Year: Not awarded
- Feature Film: No entries submitted
- Theatrical Short: The Tall Country — Parry Films, Lew Parry producer, Osmond Borradaile director{{cite web |title=The Tall Country |url=http://screenculture.org/cesif/film/tall-country |website=screenculture.org |publisher=CESIF |access-date=24 March 2023}}
::Money Minters — Crawley Films, Ted De Wit producer and director{{cite web |title=Money Minters |url=http://screenculture.org/cesif/film/money-minters |website=screenculture.org |publisher=CESIF |access-date=24 March 2023}}
::The Quest — National Film Board of Canada, Nicholas Balla producer, Stanley Jackson director{{cite web |title=The Quest |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=11680 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=24 March 2023}}
- Arts and Experimental: Not awarded
- TV Information: Winter Crossing at L'Isle-Aux-Coudres — National Film Board of Canada, Pierre Perrault producer, René Bonnière and Pierre Perrault, directors{{cite web |title=Winter Crossing at L'Isle-Aux-Coudres |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=33779 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=24 March 2023}}
::One Day's Poison — National Film Board of Canada, David Bairstow producer, Donald Wilder director{{cite web |title=One Day's Poison |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=75852 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=2 March 2023}}
::Blood and Fire — National Film Board of Canada, Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor producers, Terence Macartney-Filgate director{{cite web |title=Blood and Fire |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=11764 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=2 February 2023}}
- Films for Children: Not awarded
- Travel and Recreation: Grey Cup Festival '58 — Chetwynd Films, Arthur Chetwynd producer and director
::Quetico — Christopher Chapman and Bill Mason producers, Christopher Chapman director{{cite web |title=Quetico |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/quetico-a-christopher-chapman-film/oclc/680102233 |website=worldcat.org |publisher=Worldcat |access-date=15 March 2023}}
- General Information: The Living Stone — National Film Board of Canada, Tom Daly producer, John Feeney director{{cite web |title=The Living Stone |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=10609 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=22 January 2023}}
- Public Relations: Saskatchewan, Our University — Crawley Films, Edmund Reid producer and director{{cite web |title=Saskatchewan, Our University |url=http://screenculture.org/cesif/film/saskatchewan-our-university |website=screenculture.org |publisher=CESIF |access-date=24 March 2023}}
- Sales Promotion: Beauty to Live With — Crawley Films, Edmund Reid director{{cite web |title=Beauty to Live WIth |url=http://screenculture.org/cesif/film/9405 |website=screenculture.org |publisher=CESIF |access-date=24 March 2023}}
- Training and Instruction: Fire in Town — National Film Board of Canada, Peter Jones producer, Julian Biggs director{{cite web |title=Fire in Town |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=11769 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=12 February 2023}}
- Filmed Commercial: Du Maurier Cigarettes — Omega Productions, Richard J. Jarvis producer
- Amateur: Watch Out — John W. Ruddell{{cite web |title=Film Record: Watch Out |url=https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/film/watch-out |website=amateurcinema.org |publisher=University of Calgary |access-date=15 March 2023}}
::Pinoke — Jack S. Grassick{{cite web |title=Film Record: Pinoke |url=https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/film/pinoke |website=amateurcinema.org |publisher=University of Calgary |access-date=15 March 2023}}
- Special Awards
::- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — "for its encouragement of the appreciation of good filmmaking over the years through Gerald Pratley's two weekly radio programs, The Movie Scene and Music from the Films".
::- Dean Walker (writer) — "for encouragement of high standards in Canadian film production through his articles".