# Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actress in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 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.
In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five. Supporting performances are now honoured with the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Film.

## 1970s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards |
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | Fernande Giroux | Red |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | Olivette Thibault | Mon oncle Antoine |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | Doris Petrie | Wedding in White |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | Camille Bernard | Kamouraska |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | Lila Kedrova | Eliza's Horoscope |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | Tedde Moore | Second Wind |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Carole Lazare | One Man |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Marilyn Lightstone | In Praise of Older Women |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Lynne Cavanagh | Three Card Monte |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Monique Mercure | The Third Walker |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Alberta Watson | In Praise of Older Women |

## 1980s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Geneviève Bujold | Murder by Decree |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Helen Burns | The Changeling |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Patricia Collins | Summer's Children |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Barbara Gordon | Wild Horse Hank |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Frances Hyland | The Changeling |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Kate Reid | Atlantic City |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Colleen Dewhurst | Tribute |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Gale Garnett | Tribute |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Frances Hyland | The Hounds of Notre Dame |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Denise Filiatrault | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Juliette Huot | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Chapelle Jaffe | The Amateur |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Anne Létourneau | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Dixie Seatle | Ticket to Heaven |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Jackie Burroughs | The Grey Fox |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Geneviève Brassard | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Clare Coulter | By Design |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Patricia Nolin | Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Trudy Young | Melanie |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Jackie Burroughs | The Wars |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Amulette Garneau | Maria Chapdelaine |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Elva Mai Hoover | The Terry Fox Story |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Tedde Moore | A Christmas Story |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Linda Sorgini | The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion) |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Linda Sorenson | Draw! |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Jackie Burroughs | The Surrogate |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Barbara Law | Bedroom Eyes |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Elizabeth Leigh-Milne | Walls |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Jane McKinnon | The Bay Boy |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Leah Pinsent | The Bay Boy |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Linda Sorenson | Joshua Then and Now |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Lally Cadeau | Separate Vacations |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Barbara Gordon | Overnight |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Fernanda Tavares | 90 Days |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Louise Portal | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Lucie Laurier | Anne Trister |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Andrée Pelletier | Bach and Broccoli (Bach et Bottine) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Geneviève Rioux | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Marie Tifo | In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan) |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Paule Baillargeon | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Jayne Eastwood | Night Friend |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Fran Gebhard | Blue City Slammers |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Ann-Marie MacDonald | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Maruska Stankova | Dreams Beyond Memory |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Colleen Dewhurst | Obsessed |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Janet-Laine Green | Cowboys Don't Cry |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Helen Hughes | Martha, Ruth and Edie |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Miou-Miou | The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes) |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Susan Douglas Rubeš | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick |

## 1990s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Robyn Stevan | Bye Bye Blues |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Pauline Martin | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Johanne-Marie Tremblay | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Danielle Proulx | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Winifred Holden | The Company of Strangers |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Sandrine Holt | Black Robe |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Ofelia Medina | Diplomatic Immunity |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Catherine Roche | The Company of Strangers |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Monique Mercure | Naked Lunch |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Krista Bridges | The Shower |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Judy Davis | On My Own |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Tracey Moore | Defy Gravity |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Johanne Marie Tremblay | The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine) |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Nicola Cavendish | The Grocer's Wife |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Brigitte Bako | I Love a Man in Uniform |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Céline Bonnier | Tectonic Plates |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Sylvie Drapeau | The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles) |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Charlene Fernetz | Harmony Cats |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Kate Hennig | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Martha Henry | Mustard Bath |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Wanda Cannon | For the Moment |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Mia Kirshner | Love and Human Remains |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Johanne McKay | My Friend Max (Mon amie Max) |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Joanne Vannicola | Love and Human Remains |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Kate Nelligan | Margaret's Museum |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Anne-Marie Cadieux | The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Rachael Crawford | Rude |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Marie Gignac | The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Pascale Montpetit | Eclipse |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Martha Burns | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Marie-Andrée Corneille | Mistaken Identity (Erreur sur la personne) |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Josée Deschênes | Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Maria de Medeiros | Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Manon Miclette | Love Me, Love Me Not (J'aime, j'aime pas) |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | | |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Seana McKenna | The Hanging Garden |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | France Castel | Karmina |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | France Castel | The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge) |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Kerry Fox | The Hanging Garden |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Joan Orenstein | The Hanging Garden |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Monique Mercure | Conquest |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Geneviève Bujold | Last Night |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Rachael Crawford | Pale Saints |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Anna Henry | The Fishing Trip |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Roberta Maxwell | Last Night |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Catherine O'Hara | The Life Before This |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Suzanne Champagne | Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Deborah Kara Unger | Sunshine |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Rachel Weisz | Sunshine |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Kathryn Zenna | Jack and Jill |

## 2000s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Helen Shaver | We All Fall Down |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Annick Bergeron | Pandora's Beauty (La Beauté de Pandore) |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Céline Bonnier | The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines) |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Stacy Smith | New Waterford Girl |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Mary Walsh | New Waterford Girl |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Barbara Williams | Love Come Down |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Molly Parker | Last Wedding |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Marya Delver | Last Wedding |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Mimi Kuzyk | Lost and Delirious |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Brenda Fricker | The War Bride |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Molly Parker | The War Bride |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | | |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Pascale Montpetit | Savage Messiah |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Brigitte Bako | Saint Monica |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Moushmi Chatterji | Bollywood/Hollywood |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Rachel McAdams | Perfect Pie |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Dina Pathak | Bollywood/Hollywood |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Marie-Josée Croze | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Olympia Dukakis | The Event |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Emily Hampshire | A Problem with Fear |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Meredith McGeachie | Punch |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Annabella Piugattuk | The Snow Walker |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Childstar |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Juliette Gosselin | Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Sylvie Moreau | Love and Magnets (Les Aimants) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Elliot Page | Wilby Wonderful |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Susana Salazar | A Silent Love |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Danielle Proulx | C.R.A.Z.Y. |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Babz Chula | Seven Times Lucky |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Suzanne Clément | Audition (L'Audition) |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Marianne Fortier | Aurore |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | Familia |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Carrie-Anne Moss | Snow Cake |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Caroline Dhavernas | Niagara Motel |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Marie Gignac | The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Emily Hampshire | Snow Cake |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Vivian Wu | Eve and the Fire Horse |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Kristen Thomson | Away from Her |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Marie-Ginette Guay | Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Laurence Leboeuf | My Daughter, My Angel (Ma fille mon ange) |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Véronique Le Flaguais | Surviving My Mother (Comment survivre à sa mère) |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Fanny Mallette | Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Kristin Booth | Young People Fucking |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Céline Bonnier | Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur) |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Éveline Gélinas | The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Anie Pascale | Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait) |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Rosamund Pike | Fugitive Pieces |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Martha Burns | Love and Savagery |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Liane Balaban | One Week |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Marie Brassard | Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Isabel Richer | Babine |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Sonia Vachon | 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des ormes) |

## 2010s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Minnie Driver | Barney's Version |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Sonja Bennett | Cole |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Anne-Élisabeth Bossé | Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Terra Hazelton | FUBAR 2 |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Mary Walsh | Crackie |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Sophie Nélisse | Monsieur Lazhar |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Roxana Condurache | The Whistleblower |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Hélène Florent | Café de Flore |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Julie Le Breton | Starbuck |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Charlotte Sullivan | Citizen Gangster |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Seema Biswas | Midnight's Children |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Fefe Dobson | Home Again |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Alice Morel-Michaud | The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3D) |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Gabrielle Miller | Moving Day |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Sabrina Ouazani | Inch'Allah |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Sarah Gadon | Enemy |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Florence Blain Mbaye | Another House (L'autre maison) |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Evelyne Brochu | Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Mackenzie Davis | The F Word |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Jennifer Podemski | Empire of Dirt |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Suzanne Clément | Mommy |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Sandrine Bisson | 1987 |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Gil Hae-yeon | In Her Place |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine St-Laurent | You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Mia Wasikowska | Maps to the Stars |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Joan Allen | Room |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Cynthia Ashperger | The Waiting Room |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Christine Beaulieu | The Mirage (Le Mirage) |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Balinder Johal | Beeba Boys |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Mylène Mackay | Endorphine |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Molly Parker | Weirdos |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Nathalie Baye | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Kwena Bellemare-Boivin | Before the Streets (Avant les rues) |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Sherri Shepherd | Jean of the Joneses |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Gabrielle Tremblay | Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Bahar Noohian | Ava |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Oluniké Adeliyi | Boost |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Lucinda Armstrong Hall | Porcupine Lake |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Clare Coulter | Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols) |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Brigitte Poupart | Ravenous (Les Affamés) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Sarah Gadon | The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Irlande Côté | A Colony (Une colonie) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Romane Denis | Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Anna Lambe | The Grizzlies |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Kate Moyer | Our House |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Nour Belkhiria | Antigone |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Leanna Chea | 14 Days, 12 Nights (14 jours, 12 nuits) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Larissa Corriveau | Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparus) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Yamie Grégoire | Kuessipan |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Alison Midstokke | Happy Face |

## 2020s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Mary Walsh | Happy Place |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Agam Darshi | Funny Boy |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Felicity Huffman | Tammy's Always Dying |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | Laughter (Le Rire) |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Amy Groening | Bone Cage |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Cherish Violet Blood | Scarborough |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Tanja Björk | The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Kate Corbett | The Righteous |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Marine Johnson | Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Gail Maurice | Night Raiders |