Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film.
The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short and/or Amateur Film categories; due to the lack of an official Film of the Year winner, however, the winners in those categories are considered de facto films of the year.
In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same film was named the winner of both categories. After 1970, however, the Film of the Year category was no longer used except in 1975, when due to the cancellation of the awards in 1974, it was presented alongside the Feature Film category as a de facto second Best Picture award, so that winners for both 1974 and 1975 could be named.[1]
As of 1980, the award was taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; as of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Film of the Year (1949-1970, 1975)
Films coloured in yellow are official Films of the Year; films coloured in peach are those which were not formally named Film of the Year, but which were the highest award presented to a film in that year.
1940s
| Year | Film | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | ||
| The Loon's Necklace | F. R. Crawley |
1950s
| Year | Film | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||
| North Shore (La Terre de Cain) | James Beveridge | |
| Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) | Claude Jutra | |
| 1951 | ||
| After Prison, What? | Ron Weyman | |
| 1952 | ||
| Newfoundland Scene | F. R. Crawley | |
| 1953 | ||
| Tit-Coq | Gratien Gélinas | |
| 1954 | ||
| The Seasons | Christopher Chapman | |
| 1955 | ||
| The Stratford Adventure | Guy Glover | |
| 1956 | ||
| Gold | Colin Low | |
| 1957 | ||
| Prelude to Spring | Jack Ruddell | |
| 1958 | ||
| City of Gold | Tom Daly, Colin Low, Wolf Koenig | |
| 1959 | ||
| Money Minters | Ted De Wit | |
| The Quest | Nicholas Balla, Stanley Jackson | |
| The Tall Country | Lew Parry |
1960s
| Year | Film | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||
| Royal River | Gordon Sparling | |
| 1961 | ||
| Universe | Tom Daly | |
| 1962 | ||
| Morning on the Lièvre | David Bairstow, Guy Glover | |
| Wintertime (Au temps des ombres blanches) | Claude Savard | |
| 1963 | ||
| Lonely Boy | Roman Kroitor | |
| 1964 | ||
| Pour la suite du monde | Fernand Dansereau | |
| 1965 | ||
| No award presented | ||
| 1966 | ||
| The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam | Beryl Fox, Douglas Leiterman | |
| 1967 | ||
| Warrendale | Allan King, Patrick Watson | |
| 1968 | ||
| A Place to Stand | Christopher Chapman, David Mackay | |
| 1969 | ||
| The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar | John Kemeny | |
1970s
| Year | Film | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||
| To See Or Not to See (Psychocratie) | Robert Verral, Wolf Koenig | |
| 1975 | ||
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | John Kemeny |
Best Feature Film (1964-1978)
1960s
| Year | Film | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | ||
| À tout prendre | Claude Jutra, Robert Hershorne | |
| Amanita Pestilens | F. R. Crawley | |
| Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) | Jean Roy, Roger Blais, Pierre Patry | |
| 1965 | ||
| The Luck of Ginger Coffey | Leon Roth | |
| The Cat in the Bag (Le Chat dans le sac) | Jacques Bobet | |
| Nobody Waved Good-bye | Don Owen, Roman Kroitor | |
| Sweet Substitute | Larry Kent | |
| 1966 | ||
| Mission of Fear (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts) | André Belleau | |
| 1967 | ||
| Warrendale | Allan King | |
| 1968 | ||
| The Ernie Game | Robert Allen, Gordon Burwash | |
| It Isn't Jacques Cartier's Fault (C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier) | Georges Dufaux, Clément Perron | |
| Kid Sentiment | Clément Perron | |
| The Man Who Wanted Nothing | Mary Walker-Sawka, Paul Sawka | |
| The Paper People | David Gardner | |
| The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) | Guy L. Coté, Jacques Bobet | |
| Waiting for Caroline | Walford Hewitson | |
| 1969 | ||
| Vertige | Gilles Boivin, Clément Perron | |
| And No Birds Sing | John Thomson | |
| Hey, Cinderella! | John T. Ross, Peter Miner |
1970s
Best Motion Picture (1980-present)
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
References
- ↑ "Les Ordes [sic] takes top cinema award". Brandon Sun. October 15, 1975. p. 19. Retrieved March 28, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
