Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actress in a Canadian film.[1] The award was first presented in 1968 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1969, when no eligible feature films were submitted for award consideration, and 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year.
From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
From 1980 to 1983, only Canadian actresses were eligible for the award; non-Canadian actresses appearing in Canadian films were instead considered for the separate Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress.[2] After 1983, the latter award was discontinued, and from 1986 both Canadian and foreign actresses were eligible for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.[3]
1960s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Geneviève Bujold | Isabel | |
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | ||
| No award presented this year | ||
1970s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Geneviève Bujold | The Act of the Heart | |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Ann Knox | The Only Thing You Know | |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Micheline Lanctôt | The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) | |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Geneviève Bujold | Kamouraska | |
| 1974 | ||
| No award presented | ||
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Margot Kidder | A Quiet Day in Belfast | |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Marilyn Lightstone | Lies My Father Told Me | |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Monique Mercure | J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) | |
| Jayne Eastwood | One Man | |
| Carole Laure | The Angel and the Woman (L'Ange et la femme) | |
| Hollis McLaren | Outrageous! | |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | ||
| Helen Shaver | In Praise of Older Women | |
| Micheline Lanctôt | Blood and Guts | |
| Celine Lomez | The Silent Partner | |
| Andrée Pelletier | Marie-Anne | |
1980s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | ||
| Kate Lynch | Meatballs | |
| Micheline Lanctôt | A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) | |
| Louise Marleau | Heartbreak (L'arrache-cœur) | |
| Claire Pimparé | Yesterday | |
| Louise Portal | Cordélia | |
| 1981[4] 2nd Genie Awards | ||
| Marie Tifo | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) | |
| Geneviève Bujold | Final Assignment | |
| Jennifer Dale | Suzanne | |
| Charlotte Laurier | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) | |
| Andrée Pelletier | The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) | |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | ||
| Margot Kidder | Heartaches | |
| Kim Cattrall | Ticket to Heaven | |
| Lesleh Donaldson | Funeral Home | |
| Ronalda Jones | Alligator Shoes | |
| Monique Spaziani | Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) | |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | ||
| Rae Dawn Chong | Quest for Fire | |
| Sara Botsford | By Design | |
| Hélène Loiselle | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | |
| Monique Mercure | Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) | |
| Andrée Pelletier | Latitude 55° | |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | ||
| Martha Henry | The Wars | |
| Carole Laure | Maria Chapdelaine | |
| Barbara March | Deserters | |
| Marie Tifo | Lucien Brouillard | |
| Marie Tifo | Just a Game (Rien qu'un jeu) | |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | ||
| Louise Marleau | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) | |
| Pascale Bussières | Sonatine | |
| Linda Griffiths | Reno and the Doc | |
| Isabelle Mejias | Unfinished Business | |
| Andrée Pelletier | Walls | |
| Sonja Smits | That's My Baby! | |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | ||
| Margaret Langrick | My American Cousin | |
| Charlotte Laurier | The Lady in Colours (La Dame en couleurs) | |
| Christine Pak | 90 Days | |
| Monique Spaziani | The Alley Cat (Le Matou) | |
| Mary Steenburgen | One Magic Christmas | |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | ||
| Martha Henry | Dancing in the Dark | |
| Dorothée Berryman | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) | |
| Jackie Burroughs | John and the Missus | |
| Tantoo Cardinal | Loyalties | |
| Helen Shaver | Lost! | |
| Marie Tifo | Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime) | |
| 1988[5] 9th Genie Awards | ||
| Sheila McCarthy | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing | |
| Frédérique Collin | Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville) | |
| Jacinta Cormier | Life Classes | |
| Kate Lynch | Taking Care | |
| Gabrielle Rose | Family Viewing | |
| 1989[6] 10th Genie Awards | ||
| Jackie Burroughs | A Winter Tan | |
| Geneviève Bujold | Dead Ringers | |
| Kerrie Keane | Hitting Home | |
| Josette Simon | Milk and Honey | |
| Monique Spaziani | The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes) |
1990s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | ||
| Rebecca Jenkins | Bye Bye Blues | |
| Colleen Dewhurst | Termini Station | |
| Megan Follows | Termini Station | |
| Margaret Langrick | Cold Comfort | |
| Gabrielle Rose | Speaking Parts | |
| Catherine Wilkening | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) | |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | ||
| Pascale Montpetit | H | |
| Alice Diabo | The Company of Strangers | |
| Cissy Meddings | The Company of Strangers | |
| Kate Nelligan | White Room | |
| Nina Petronzio | Vincent and Me (Vincent et moi) | |
| 1992[7] 13th Genie Awards | ||
| Janet Wright | Bordertown Café | |
| Janet-Laine Green | The Shower | |
| Viveca Lindfors | North of Pittsburgh | |
| Enrica Maria Modugno | La Sarrasine | |
| Valerie Pearson | Solitaire | |
| 1993[8] 14th Genie Awards | ||
| Sheila McCarthy | The Lotus Eaters | |
| Élise Guilbault | Cap Tourmente | |
| Andrée Lachapelle | Cap Tourmente | |
| Pauline Lapointe | La Florida | |
| Aloka McLean | The Lotus Eaters | |
| 1994[9] 15th Genie Awards | ||
| Sandra Oh | Double Happiness | |
| Nancy Beatty | Henry & Verlin | |
| Geneviève Bujold | My Friend Max (Mon amie Max) | |
| Valérie Kaprisky | Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) | |
| Marie Tifo | Les Pots cassés | |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | ||
| Helena Bonham Carter | Margaret's Museum | |
| Pascale Bussières | Eldorado | |
| Pascale Bussières | When Night Is Falling | |
| Pascale Montpetit | Eldorado | |
| Isabel Richer | Eldorado | |
| 1996[10] 17th Genie Awards | ||
| Martha Henry | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
| Marie Brassard | Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) | |
| Helene Clarkson | Blood and Donuts | |
| Brenda Fricker | Swann | |
| Louise Portal | Not Me! (Sous-sol) | |
| 1997[11] 18th Genie Awards | ||
| Molly Parker | Kissed | |
| Isabelle Cyr | Karmina | |
| Sarah Polley | The Sweet Hereafter | |
| Gabrielle Rose | The Sweet Hereafter | |
| Alberta Watson | Shoemaker | |
| 1998[12] 19th Genie Awards | ||
| Sandra Oh | Last Night | |
| Anne-Marie Cadieux | Nô | |
| Pascale Montpetit | Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing) | |
| Ginette Reno | It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) | |
| Pierrette Robitaille | It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) | |
| 1999[13] 20th Genie Awards | ||
| Sylvie Moreau | Post Mortem | |
| Elaine Cassidy | Felicia's Journey | |
| Jennifer Ehle | Sunshine | |
| Rosemary Harris | Sunshine | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | The Five Senses |
2000s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000[14] 21st Genie Awards | ||
| Marie-Josée Croze | Maelström | |
| Kim Hunter | Here's to Life! | |
| Ginette Reno | Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite) | |
| Pierrette Robitaille | Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite) | |
| Tilda Swinton | Possible Worlds | |
| 2001[15] 22nd Genie Awards | ||
| Élise Guilbault | The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) | |
| Jillian Fargey | Protection | |
| Anna Friel | The War Bride | |
| Sarah Polley | The Law of Enclosures | |
| Katja Riemann | Desire | |
| 2002[16] 23rd Genie Awards | ||
| Arsinée Khanjian | Ararat | |
| Isabelle Blais | Savage Messiah | |
| Molly Parker | Men With Brooms | |
| Deborah Kara Unger | Between Strangers | |
| Polly Walker | Savage Messiah | |
| 2003[17] 24th Genie Awards | ||
| Sarah Polley | My Life Without Me | |
| Rebecca Jenkins | Marion Bridge | |
| Micheline Lanctôt | How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause) | |
| Molly Parker | Marion Bridge | |
| Karine Vanasse | Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) | |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | ||
| Pascale Bussières | Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) | |
| Isabelle Blais | Love and Magnets (Les Aimants) | |
| Céline Bonnier | Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille) | |
| Emily Hampshire | Blood | |
| Jacinthe Laguë | The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq) | |
| 2005[18] 26th Genie Awards | ||
| Seema Biswas | Water | |
| Gina Chiarelli | See Grace Fly | |
| Macha Grenon | Familia | |
| Arsinée Khanjian | Sabah | |
| Sylvie Moreau | Familia | |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | ||
| Julie Le Breton | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | |
| Jodelle Ferland | Tideland | |
| Fatou N'Diaye | A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) | |
| Ginette Reno | A Family Secret (Le secret de ma mère) | |
| Sigourney Weaver | Snow Cake | |
| 2007[19] 28th Genie Awards | ||
| Julie Christie | Away from Her | |
| Anne-Marie Cadieux | You (Toi) | |
| Elliot Page[a] | The Tracey Fragments | |
| Molly Parker | Who Loves the Sun | |
| Béatrice Picard | My Aunt Aline (Ma tante Aline) | |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | ||
| Ellen Burstyn | The Stone Angel | |
| Isabelle Blais | Borderline | |
| Marianne Fortier | Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur) | |
| Susan Sarandon | Emotional Arithmetic | |
| Preity Zinta | Heaven on Earth | |
| 2009[20][21] 30th Genie Awards | ||
| Karine Vanasse | Polytechnique | |
| Madeline Ivalu | Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) | |
| Karen LeBlanc | Nurse.Fighter.Boy | |
| Carinne Leduc | 3 Seasons (3 saisons) | |
| Gabrielle Rose | Mothers & Daughters |
2010s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010[22] 31st Genie Awards | ||
| Lubna Azabal | Incendies | |
| Tatiana Maslany | Grown Up Movie Star | |
| Molly Parker | Trigger | |
| Rosamund Pike | Barney's Version | |
| Tracy Wright | Trigger | |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | ||
| Vanessa Paradis | Café de Flore | |
| Catherine De Léan | Nuit #1 | |
| Pascale Montpetit | The Girl in the White Coat | |
| Rachel Weisz | The Whistleblower | |
| Michelle Williams | Take This Waltz | |
| 2012[23] 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Rachel Mwanza | War Witch (Rebelle) | |
| Evelyne Brochu | Inch'Allah | |
| Geneviève Bujold | Still Mine | |
| Marilyn Castonguay | L'Affaire Dumont | |
| Suzanne Clément | Laurence Anyways | |
| 2013[24][25] 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Gabrielle Marion-Rivard | Gabrielle | |
| Cara Gee | Empire of Dirt | |
| Isabelle Guérard | The Storm Within (Rouge sang) | |
| Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs | Rhymes for Young Ghouls | |
| Tatiana Maslany | Cas & Dylan | |
| 2014[26] 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Anne Dorval | Mommy | |
| Ahn Ji-hye | In Her Place | |
| Julianne Côté | You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) | |
| Julianne Moore | Maps to the Stars | |
| Yoon Da-gyeong | In Her Place | |
| 2015[27] 4th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Brie Larson | Room | |
| Céline Bonnier | The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine) | |
| Leah Goldstein | Diamond Tongues | |
| Karelle Tremblay | Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) | |
| Hadas Yaron | Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) | |
| 2016[28] 5th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Tatiana Maslany | The Other Half | |
| Nathalie Doummar | Boundaries (Pays) | |
| Carmen Ejogo | Born to Be Blue | |
| Sasha K. Gordon | Natasha | |
| Bhreagh MacNeil | Werewolf | |
| 2017[29][30] 6th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Sally Hawkins | Maudie | |
| Denise Filiatrault | It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) | |
| Shirley Henderson | Never Steady, Never Still | |
| Mahour Jabbari | Ava | |
| Marine Johnson | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) | |
| 2018[31] 7th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Émilie Bierre | A Colony (Une colonie) | |
| Valeria Henríquez | The Padre | |
| Rose-Marie Perreault | Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) | |
| Brigitte Poupart | Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau) | |
| Carla Turcotte | Sashinka | |
| 2019[32] 8th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Nahéma Ricci | Antigone | |
| Deragh Campbell | Anne at 13,000 Ft. | |
| Violet Nelson | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | |
| Kacey Rohl | White Lie | |
| Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open |
2020s[]
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2020[33] 9th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Michelle Pfeiffer | French Exit | |
| Carrie Coon | The Nest | |
| Carmen Moore | Rustic Oracle | |
| Rosalie Pépin | Vacarme | |
| Madeleine Sims-Fewer | Violation |
See also[]
- Prix Iris for Best Actress
Notes[]
- ^ Credited as Ellen Page
References[]
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