Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Award for Best Short Documentary is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film judged to be the year's best short documentary film.[1] Prior to 2012 the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards program; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards.
The award has not always been presented at every past Genie or CSA ceremony. In years when the award was not presented, short documentary films were instead eligible for the Best Theatrical Short Film and/or Best (Theatrical/Feature-Length) Documentary categories. In the Canadian Film Awards era, it was often presented solely under the name Best Documentary, but was still presented to shorter documentaries and remained separate from the category for Best Theatrical Documentary.
1960s
Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
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1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | |||
With Drums and Trumpets (Avec tambours et trompettes) | Marcel Carrière | [1] | |
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | |||
Juggernaut | Walford Hewitson | [1] |
1970s
Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
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1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | |||
KW+ | Aimée Danis | [1] | |
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | |||
The Sea | Bané Jovanovic | [1] | |
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | |||
Selling Out | Jack Winter, Tadeusz Jaworski | [1] | |
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | |||
Grierson | Roger Blais | [1] | |
Faire hurler les murs | Jean Saulnier | ||
1974 | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | |||
At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch | Deepa Mehta, Paul Saltzman | [1] | |
Cree Hunters of Mistassini | Tony Ianzelo, Boyce Richardson | ||
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | |||
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain, John Kramer, James de B. Domville, Robert A. Duncan | [1] | |
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | |||
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales | Michael Chechik | [1] | |
Henry Ford's America | Donald Brittain | [2] | |
Potters at Work | Marty Gross | ||
Ritual: The Collective Psyche of Japan | Kalle Lasn | ||
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | |||
The Hottest Show on Earth | Derek Lamb, Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate | [1] | |
Return of the Reluctant Prodigy | Les Rose | [3] | |
Song of the Paddle | Bill Mason | ||
The World of Noel Coward | Neil Sutherland |
1980s
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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1980 1st Genie Awards | |||
Priory: The Only Home I've Got | Mark Dolgoy | [1] | |
It's Not an Illness | Claire Prieto | [4] | |
Taking Chances | Marilyn Belec | ||
1981 2nd Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1982 3rd Genie Awards | |||
1983 4th Genie Awards | |||
1984 5th Genie Awards | |||
1985 6th Genie Awards | |||
1986 7th Genie Awards | |||
No More Hiroshima | Martin Duckworth | [1] | |
Neon, an Electric Memoir | Rudy Buttignol | [5] | |
Skyward | Roman Kroitor | ||
1987 8th Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1988 9th Genie Awards | |||
1989 10th Genie Awards | |||
The World Is Watching | Harold Crooks, Jim Munro, Peter Raymont | [1] | |
Dying to be Perfect | Eileen Hoeter | [6] | |
Space Pioneers, a Canadian Story | Rudy Buttignol |
1990s
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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1990 11th Genie Awards | |||
Stunt People | Lois Siegel | [1] | |
Reading Between the Lines | Martha Davis | [7] | |
Who Gets In? | Barry Greenwald | ||
1991 12th Genie Awards | |||
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein | Richard Elson, Sally Bochner | [1] | |
The Actor | John Paskievich | [8] | |
Hunters and Bombers | Rex Tasker, Alan Hayling | ||
In Search of the Edge | Scott Barrie | ||
Songololo: Voices of Change | Marianne Kaplan, Cari Green | ||
1992 13th Genie Awards | |||
A Song for Tibet | Anne Henderson, Abby Jack Neidek, Kent Martin | [1] | |
A Kind of Family | Andrew Koster | [9] | |
Xénofolies | Michel Moreau | ||
1993 14th Genie Awards | |||
The Measure of Your Passage (Le singe bleu) | Esther Valiquette | [1] | |
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project | Donald Winkler | [10] | |
1994 15th Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1995 16th Genie Awards | |||
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule | Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie, Rina Fraticelli | [1] | |
Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya | Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey | [11] | |
Enigmatico | David Mortin, Patricia Fogliato | ||
The Shaper | Martin Schliessler, Bill Sheppard | ||
Time Is on My Side | Jacques Holender | ||
1996 17th Genie Awards | |||
Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) | Daniele Caloz, Paul Carrière | [1] | |
A Balkan Journey: Fragments from the Other Side of War | Brenda Longfellow | [12] | |
1997 18th Genie Awards | |||
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship | Maureen Judge, Janis Lundman | [1] | |
Forgotten Warriors | Loretta Todd, Carol Geddes, Michael Doxtater, Jerry Krepakevich | [13] | |
Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas | Ali Kazimi | ||
1998 19th Genie Awards | |||
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet | Anita Herczeg, Brenda Longfellow | [1] | |
bp: pushing the boundaries | Brian Nash, Elizabeth Yake | [14] | |
Remembering Memory | Elizabeth Yake, Lara Fitzgerald | ||
1999 20th Genie Awards | |||
Hemingway: A Portrait | Bernard Lajoie, Érik Canuel, Tatsuo Shimamura | [1] | |
In Time's Shadow, the Hegis | Rudy Buttignol, David Way | [15] |
2000s
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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2000 21st Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [16] | ||
2001 22nd Genie Awards | [17] | ||
2002 23rd Genie Awards | [18] | ||
2003 24th Genie Awards | [19] | ||
2004 25th Genie Awards | [20] | ||
2005 26th Genie Awards | [21] | ||
2006 27th Genie Awards | [22] | ||
2007 28th Genie Awards | [23] | ||
2008 29th Genie Awards | [24] | ||
2009 30th Genie Awards | |||
The Delian Mode | Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [25] | |
Passages | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [26] | |
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter, Laura Severinac |
2010s
Year | Film | Filmmakers | Ref |
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2010 31st Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [27] | ||
2011 32nd Genie Awards | |||
Sirmilik | Zacharias Kunuk, Joel McConvey, Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon, Geoff Morrison, Ryan J. Noth | [28] | |
75 Watts | John Cullen | [29] | |
Derailments | Chelsea McMullan | ||
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | |||
The Boxing Girls of Kabul | Annette Clarke, Ariel Nasr | [30] | |
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar | Igor Drljaca | [31] | |
Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) | Deco Dawson, Catherine Chagnon | ||
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp | Anita Lee, Jeffrey St. Jules | ||
Three Walls | Zaheed Mawani, Andrea Bussman | ||
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Chi | Anne Wheeler, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen | [32] | |
Just As I Remember | Andrew Moir | [33] | |
Mary & Myself | Sam Decoste, Annette Clarke | ||
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Jutra | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Marc Bertrand, René Chénier | [34] | |
The Chaperone 3D | Fraser Munden | [35] | |
Seth's Dominion | Luc Chamberland, Gerry Flahive, Michael Fukushima, Marcy Page | ||
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Bacon and God's Wrath | Sol Friedman | [36] | |
The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson, Blake McWilliam | [37] | |
Quiet Zone | David Bryant, Julie Roy, Karl Lemieux | ||
Rebel (Bihttoš) | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Laura Good | ||
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum | Chelsea McMullan, Douglas Nayler | ||
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
This River | Katherena Vermette, Erika MacPherson, Alicia Smith, David Christensen | [38] | |
Frame 394 | Rich Williamson, Shasha Nakhai, Ed Barreveld | [39] | |
The Road to Webequie | Ryan Noth, Tess Girard | ||
Stone Makers (Carrière) | Jean-Marc E. Roy, Colette Loumède, Denis McCready, Claudia Chabot | ||
Tshiuetin | Caroline Monnet, Éric Cinq-Mars | ||
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Take a Walk on the Wildside | Lisa Rideout, Lauren Grant, Sasha Fisher | [40] | |
Babe, I Hate to Go | Andrew Moir | [41] | |
Three Thousand | Asinnajaq, Kat Baulu | ||
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes | Charlie Tyrell | [42] | |
Bonfires | Martin Bureau | [43] | |
On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi | Barry Avrich, Howie Mandel, Brandon Gross, Skyler Gross | ||
Prince's Tale | Jamie Miller | ||
Voices of Kidnapping | Ryan McKenna | ||
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Take Me to Prom | Andrew Moir | [44] | |
Acadiana | Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin, Jean-Pierre Vezina | [45] | |
Gun Killers | Jason Young, Rohan Fernando, Annette Clarke | ||
No Crying at the Dinner Table | Carol Nguyen, Aziz Zoromba | ||
Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter, Selwyn Jacob, Shirley Vercruysse |
2020s
Year | Film | Filmmakers | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Sing Me a Lullaby | Tiffany Hsiung | [46] | |
CHSLD | François Delisle | [47] | |
êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines | Alexandra Bailey, Theola Ross | ||
Jesse Jams | Trevor Anderson, Alyson Richards, Alexandra Lazarowich, Penny Frazier, Kim Hsu Guise, Lizzy Karp, Christina Willings | ||
Mutts (Clebs) | Halima Ouardiri | ||
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Nalujuk Night | Jennie Williams, Latonia Hartery, Kat Baulu, Rohan Fernando, Annette Clarke | [48] | |
Babushka | Kristina Wagenbauer | [49] | |
The Brother (Le Frère) | Jérémie Battaglia | ||
Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | ||
Still Processing | Sophy Romvari | ||
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Patty vs. Patty | Chris Strikes, Kate Fraser, Maya Annik Bedward | [50] | |
The Benevolents (Les Bienvaillants) | Sarah Baril Gaudet | [51] | |
Bill Reid Remembers | Alanis Obomsawin, Annette Clarke | ||
The Goats of Monesiglio | Emily Graves, Anna Cooley, Raj Dhillon | ||
Perfecting the Art of Longing | Kitra Cahana, Kat Baulu, Ariel Nasr, Annette Clarke | ||
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti | [52] | |
Cherry | Laurence Gagné-Frégeau | [53] | |
Oasis | Justine Martin, Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu | ||
Violet Gave Willingly | Claire Sanford | ||
Zug Island | Nicolas Lachapelle |
See also
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