# DGC Award for Best Short Film

The DGC Award for Best Short Film is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour the year's best Canadian short films.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Quiet at Dawn | Rob Blackie |
| 2010 | The Familiar | Kody Zimmermann |
| 2010 | Remote | Marc Roussel |
| 2010 | Serum 1831 | Anand Kanna |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Taxi Libre | Kaveh Nabatian |
| 2011 | Little Larry | Avi Federgreen |
| 2011 | She Said Lenny | Jim Donovan |
| 2011 | The Waking | John Stead |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Patch Town | Craig Goodwill |
| 2012 | Dave vs. Death | Patrick Hagarty |
| 2012 | The Seder | Justin Kelly |
| 2012 | Training Wheels | Ravi Steve |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar | Chris Cinnamon |
| 2013 | Frost | Jeremy Ball |
| 2013 | How to Keep Your Day Job | Sean Frewer |
| 2013 | The Sweetest Hippopotamus | Marc Roussel |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | The Golden Ticket | Patrick Hagarty |
| 2014 | Out | Jeremy LaLonde |
| 2014 | The Portal | Jonathan Williams |
| 2014 | Whispers of Life | Florian Halbedl |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Made in Bali | Michael Pohorly |
| 2015 | The Day Santa Didn't Come | Ryan Keller |
| 2015 | The Underground | Michelle Latimer |
| 2015 | Vox | Stephen Reynolds |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Portal to Hell! | Vivieno Caldinelli |
| 2016 | Big Little Girl | Viki Posidis |
| 2016 | Friends Like Us | Craig David Wallace |
| 2016 | The Offer | Winnifred Jong |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Gatekeeper | Yung Chang |
| 2017 | Tuesday, 10:08am | Jane Tattersall, Thomas Pepper |
| 2017 | Motherland | Jason Hreno |
| 2017 | Victory Square | Jacquie Gould |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Post No Bills | Robin Hays |
| 2018 | The Beep Test (La Course navette) | Maxime Aubert |
| 2018 | Escape (Évasion) | Anjali Nayar |
| 2018 | Shadow Nettes | Phillip Barker |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | I Beat Up My Rapist | Katrina Saville |
| 2019 | Hot Flash | Thea Hollatz |
| 2019 | Kitty's Naughty Knickers | Caitlyn Sponheimer |
| 2019 | The Story of Pema | Martin Buzora |
| 2019 | With Me | Weyni Mengesha |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Sing Me a Lullaby | Tiffany Hsiung |
| 2020 | Jesse Jams | Trevor Anderson |
| 2020 | A Simple Fucking Gesture | Jesse Shamata |
| 2020 | Take Me to Prom | Andrew Moir |
| 2020 | Teething | Glen Matthews |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Ingredients | Hannah Michielsen |
| 2021 | Georgeena | Weyni Mengesha |
| 2021 | Moon (Lune) | Zoé Pelchat |
| 2021 | On Falling | Josephine Anderson |
| 2021 | You Will Still Be Here Tomorrow | Michael Hanley |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Send the Rain | Hayley Gray |
| 2022 | Him & Her | Simonee Chichester |
| 2022 | Lover Boy's Little Dream | Ritvick Mehra |
| 2022 | Moore's Void | Brad Bangsboll |
| 2022 | Omi | Kelly Fyffe-Marshall |
| 2022 | Patty vs. Patty | Chris Strikes |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | SmokeBreak | Lisa Robertson |
| 2023 | Aftercare | Anubha Momin |
| 2023 | For Her | Mostafa Keshvari |
| 2023 | Redlights | Eva Thomas |
| 2023 | T-Minus | Emily Lerer |
| 2023 | Woman Meets Girl | Murry Peeters |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | I Was Here | Alyson Richards |
| 2024 | Bloodline | Richard Rotter |
| 2024 | Cash Cows | Shubham Chhabra |
| 2024 | Cold | Liz Whitmere |
| 2024 | EarthWorm | Phillip Barker |