Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actor 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 new Canadian Screen Awards.
From 1980 to 1983, only Canadian actors were eligible for the award; non-Canadian actors appearing in Canadian films were instead considered for the separate Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor. After 1983, the latter award was discontinued, and both Canadian and foreign actors were eligible for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
Contents
1 1960s
2 1970s
3 1980s
4 1990s
5 2000s
6 2010s
7 References
1960s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | ||
Gerard Parkes | Isabel | |
| 1969 | ||
No award presented this year | ||
1970s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||
Paul Bradley | Goin' Down the Road | |
Doug McGrath | ||
| 1971 | ||
Jean Duceppe | Mon oncle Antoine | |
| 1972 | ||
Gordon Pinsent | The Rowdyman | |
| 1973 | ||
Jacques Godin | O.K. ... Laliberté | |
| 1974 | ||
No award presented | ||
| 1975 | ||
Stuart Gillard | Why Rock the Boat? | |
| 1976 | ||
André Melançon | Partis pour la gloire | |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Len Cariou | One Man | |
David Petersen | Skip Tracer | |
Craig Russell | Outrageous! | |
Marcel Sabourin | J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) | |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | ||
Richard Gabourie | Three Card Monte | |
John Juliani | Marie-Anne | |
Frank Moore | The Third Walker | |
Christopher Plummer | The Silent Partner | |
1980s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | ||
Christopher Plummer | Murder by Decree | |
Geoffrey Bowes | Something's Rotten | |
Robin Gammell | Jack London's Klondike Fever | |
Thomas Hauff | Summer's Children | |
Stephen Lack | The Rubber Gun | |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | ||
Thomas Peacocke | The Hounds of Notre Dame | |
Jocelyn Bérubé | The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) | |
Lewis Furey | Fantastica | |
Winston Rekert | Suzanne | |
August Schellenberg | The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin) | |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | ||
Nick Mancuso | Ticket to Heaven | |
Gabriel Arcand | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) | |
Gordon Pinsent | Silence of the North | |
Christopher Plummer | The Amateur | |
Winston Rekert | Heartaches | |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | ||
Donald Sutherland | Threshold | |
Gilles Renaud | A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) | |
Saul Rubinek | By Design | |
Marcel Sabourin | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | |
August Schellenberg | Latitude 55° | |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | ||
Eric Fryer | The Terry Fox Story | |
Pierre Curzi | Lucien Brouillard | |
Guy L'Écuyer | Au clair de la lune | |
Nick Mancuso | Maria Chapdelaine | |
Alan Scarfe | Deserters | |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | ||
Gabriel Arcand | The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe) | |
Xavier Norman Petermann | Mario | |
Winston Rekert | Walls | |
Kiefer Sutherland | The Bay Boy | |
Kenneth Welsh | Reno and the Doc | |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | ||
John Wildman | My American Cousin | |
Serge Dupire | The Alley Cat (Le Matou) | |
Ed McNamara | Bayo | |
Alan Scarfe | Overnight | |
R. H. Thomson | Samuel Lount | |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | ||
Gordon Pinsent | John and the Missus | |
Pierre Curzi | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) | |
Rémy Girard | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) | |
Winston Rekert | The Blue Man | |
Kenneth Welsh | Loyalties | |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | ||
Roger Lebel | Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit) | |
David Hemblen | Family Viewing | |
Jason St. Amour | Train of Dreams | |
Gilles Maheu | Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit) | |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | ||
Jeremy Irons | Dead Ringers | |
Zachary Ansley | Cowboys Don't Cry | |
Elias Koteas | Malarek | |
Jan Rubeš | Something About Love | |
Saul Rubinek | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | |
Ron White | Cowboys Don't Cry |
1990s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | ||
Lothaire Bluteau | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) | |
Maury Chaykin | Cold Comfort | |
Michel Côté | Cruising Bar | |
Michael McManus | Speaking Parts | |
Stephen Ouimette | The Top of His Head | |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | ||
Rémy Girard | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) | |
Brad Dourif | Chaindance | |
Matthias Habich | The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) | |
Saeed Jaffrey | Masala | |
Jean Rochefort | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) | |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | ||
Tony Nardi | La Sarrasine | |
Jacques Godin | Being at Home with Claude | |
Don McKellar | Highway 61 | |
Gildor Roy | Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur) | |
Peter Weller | Naked Lunch | |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | ||
Tom McCamus | I Love a Man in Uniform | |
Roy Dupuis | Cap Tourmente | |
Rémy Girard | La Florida | |
Gilbert Sicotte | Cap Tourmente | |
R. H. Thomson | The Lotus Eaters | |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | ||
Maury Chaykin | Whale Music | |
Martin Drainville | Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) | |
Gary Farmer | Henry & Verlin | |
Elias Koteas | Exotica | |
Gilbert Sicotte | Les Pots cassés | |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | ||
David La Haye | Water Child (L'Enfant d'eau) | |
Lothaire Bluteau | The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) | |
Matthew Ferguson | Eclipse | |
Clive Russell | Margaret's Museum | |
Peter Williams | Soul Survivor | |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | ||
William Hutt | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
Jason Cadieux | Lilies | |
Matthew Ferguson | Lilies | |
Danny Gilmore | Lilies | |
Tom McCamus | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
Christopher Penn | The Boys Club | |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | ||
Ian Holm | The Sweet Hereafter | |
Robin Aubert | The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge) | |
Bruce Greenwood | The Sweet Hereafter | |
Peter Outerbridge | Kissed | |
Alan Williams | The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati | |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | ||
Roshan Seth | Such a Long Journey | |
Rémy Girard | Les Boys | |
Tony Nardi | Mr. Aiello (La Déroute) | |
Jonathan Pryce | Regeneration | |
Samuel West | Rupert's Land | |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | ||
Bob Hoskins | Felicia's Journey | |
Gabriel Arcand | Post Mortem | |
Denis Bouchard | Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) | |
Joël Drapeau-Dalpé | Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) | |
Ralph Fiennes | Sunshine | |
Daniel MacIvor | The Five Senses |
2000s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | ||
Tony Nardi | My Father's Angel | |
David Cubitt | The Perfect Son | |
Colm Feore | The Perfect Son | |
Timothy Webber | My Father's Angel | |
James Whitmore | Here's to Life! | |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | ||
Brendan Fletcher | The Law of Enclosures | |
Zachary Bennett | Desire | |
David La Haye | Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) | |
Peter Outerbridge | Marine Life | |
Chris Owens | The Uncles | |
Zinedine Soualem | Tar Angel (L'Ange de goudron) | |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | ||
Luc Picard | Savage Messiah | |
David Alpay | Ararat | |
Philip DeWilde | Turning Paige | |
Christopher Plummer | Ararat | |
Colin Roberts | Flower & Garnet | |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | ||
Rémy Girard | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) | |
Raymond Bouchard | Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Owning Mahowny | |
Robert Lepage | Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune) | |
Barry Pepper | The Snow Walker | |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | ||
Roy Dupuis | Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) | |
Michel Côté | The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier Tunnel) | |
David La Haye | Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) | |
Ian McKellen | Émile | |
Nick Stahl | Twist | |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | ||
Michel Côté | C.R.A.Z.Y. | |
Adam Butcher | Saint Ralph | |
Marc-André Grondin | C.R.A.Z.Y. | |
Paul Kaye | It's All Gone Pete Tong | |
Luc Picard | Audition (L'Audition) | |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | ||
Roy Dupuis | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | |
Colm Feore | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | |
Olivier Gourmet | Congorama | |
Patrick Huard | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | |
Luc Picard | A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) | |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | ||
Gordon Pinsent | Away From Her | |
Roy Dupuis | Shake Hands With the Devil | |
Marc Labrèche | Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) | |
Claude Legault | The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) | |
Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | ||
Natar Ungalaaq | The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) | |
Paul Gross | Passchendaele | |
Rupinder Nagra | Amal | |
Christopher Plummer | Emotional Arithmetic | |
Aaron Poole | This Beautiful City | |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | ||
Joshua Jackson | One Week | |
Jean-Carl Boucher | 1981 | |
Paul-Dylan Ivalu | Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) | |
Clark Johnson | Nurse.Fighter.Boy | |
Stephen McHattie | Pontypool |
2010s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | ||
Paul Giamatti | Barney's Version | |
Jay Baruchel | The Trotsky | |
Robert Naylor | 10½ | |
Timothy Olyphant | High Life | |
François Papineau | Route 132 | |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | ||
Mohamed Fellag | Monsieur Lazhar | |
Garret Dillahunt | Oliver Sherman | |
Michael Fassbender | A Dangerous Method | |
Patrick Huard | Starbuck | |
Scott Speedman | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
James Cromwell | Still Mine | |
Patrick Drolet | All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes) | |
Marc-André Grondin | L'Affaire Dumont | |
David Morse | Collaborator | |
Melvil Poupaud | Laurence Anyways | |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Gabriel Arcand | The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) | |
Brendan Gleeson | The Grand Seduction | |
Jake Gyllenhaal | Enemy | |
Daniel Radcliffe | The F Word | |
Rajesh Tailang | Siddharth | |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Antoine-Olivier Pilon | Mommy | |
Evan Bird | Maps to the Stars | |
Bruce Greenwood | Elephant Song | |
Michael Murphy | Fall | |
Ryan Reynolds | The Captive | |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Jacob Tremblay | Room | |
Maxim Gaudette | Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) | |
Jasmin Geljo | The Waiting Room | |
Christopher Plummer | Remember | |
Rossif Sutherland | River | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Stephan James | Race | |
Jared Abrahamson | Hello Destroyer | |
Lawrence Barry | Riverhead | |
Chen Gang | Old Stone | |
Andrew Gillis | Werewolf | |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Nabil Rajo | Boost | |
Antoine L'Écuyer | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) | |
Tzi Ma | Meditation Park | |
Émile Proulx-Cloutier | We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) | |
Gabriel Sabourin | It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) |
References
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