Betty Mitchell Awards were created in 1998 to celebrate and honour outstanding achievement in Calgary's professional theatre community.

[1][2][3] The awards ceremony for the 2018–19 season was held on June 24 at the Vertigo Theatre in Calgary.

[4] In 2019, Pakistani-Canadian actor Ahad Raza Mir, the first Pakistani actor to play Hamlet in Canada,[5] won the Betty for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama for his performance of the title role[6] In that same year Tiffany Ayalik became the first Inuit recipient of a Betty Award.

[7] Awards are given in the following categories: The original Betty Mitchell Award statue, designed by local Calgary sculptor, Petronella Overes, was inspired by the geography surrounding Calgary.

It was a steel base containing a glass monolith with motifs of mountains and prairies.