Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony.[1] As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.[2]
In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either category has fewer than five eligible submissions within the qualifying period; however, if both categories receive five or more eligible submissions, then separate awards are presented even if one category or the other ends up with fewer than five final nominees.[3]
1960s
Year | Nominee | Film |
---|---|---|
1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Phillip Hersch | Wojeck: "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" | |
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Joan Finnigan | The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar |
1970s
Year | Nominee | Film |
---|---|---|
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
William Fruet | Goin' Down the Road | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Ian McNeill | Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man | |
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Clément Perron | Mon oncle Antoine | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Don Arioli | Propaganda Message and Hot Stuff | |
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Gilles Carle | The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Michel Tremblay | Françoise Durocher, Waitress | |
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Jacques Benoît, Denys Arcand | Réjeanne Padovani | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Alvin Goldman, Douglas Jackson | The Sloane Affair | |
1974 | ||
No awards presented this year | ||
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Original Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Michel Brault | Les Ordres | |
Adapted Screenplay (Feature) | ||
William Weintraub | Why Rock the Boat? | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Patricia Watson | A Bird in the House | |
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Ted Allan | Lies My Father Told Me | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
David King | For Gentlemen Only | |
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Original Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Robin Spry, Peter Pearson, Peter Madden | One Man | |
Adapted Screenplay (Feature) | ||
James DeFelice | Why Shoot the Teacher? | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Cam Hubert | Dreamspeaker | |
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Screenplay (Feature) | ||
Martyn Burke | Power Play | |
Richard Gabourie | Three Card Monte | |
William Gray, John Hunter | Blood and Guts | |
Screenplay (Non-Feature) | ||
Gilles Carle | The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine) |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
See also
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