# Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary is an annual award, presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program to honour the year's best cinematography in a documentary film. It is presented separately from the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography for feature films.
On two prior occasions, at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 and at the short-lived Bijou Awards in 1981, awards were presented for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Non-Feature), covering short documentaries and television programs, but not for feature documentaries. Nonetheless, the winners and nominees in those years have been included below. In the 1960s, both short and feature documentary films were sometimes winners of the Canadian Film Award for Best Cinematography, as relatively few Canadian narrative features were made in that era, but this was not continued after 1969.

## 1980s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards (Non-Feature) |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards (Non-Feature) | Roger Rochat | Ice Birds (Le Pilier de cristal) |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards (Non-Feature) | Ron Orieux | Nails |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards (Non-Feature) | Barry Perles, Douglas Kiefer | Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards (Non-Feature) | Charles Stewart | Dieppe 1942 |
| 1981 Bijou Awards (Non-Feature) |
| 1981 Bijou Awards (Non-Feature) | Robert Fresco | Steady as She Goes |

## 2010s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Patrick McLaughlin | Everything Will Be |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Geoffroy Beauchemin, Alex Margineanu, Sami Mermer, Francois Vincelette | The Sower (Le semeur) |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Nicolas Canniccioni, Jean-Pierre St-Louis | Where I'm From (D’ou je viens) |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Nicolas Canniccioni | Guidelines (La marche à suivre) |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Marie Davignon, Jessica Lee Gagné, Geneviève Perron | All That We Make (Fermières) |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Arnaud Bouquet | Last of the Elephant Men |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Thomas Burstyn | Some Kind of Love |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Daniel Grant, Amar Arhab | The Messenger |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Léna Mill-Reuillard, Étienne Roussy | Welcome to F.L. (Bienvenue à F.L.) |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Simon Schneider, Sasha Snow | Hadwin's Judgement |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | John Price | I Am the Blues |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Joan Poggio | Gun Runners |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Derek Rogers | The Skyjacker's Tale |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Chris Romeike | Giants of Africa |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Van Royko | Koneline: Our Land Beautiful |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Alfonso Maiorana | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Mike McLaughlin | Unarmed Verses |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Duraid Munajim | My Enemy, My Brother |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Carlo Guillermo Proto | Resurrecting Hassan |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Vuk Stojanovic, François Jacob, Ilya Zima | A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Nicholas de Pencier | Anthropocene: The Human Epoch |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Nicolas Canniccioni | First Stripes (Premières armes) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Christy Garland | What Walaa Wants |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Étienne Roussy | The Other Rio (L'autre Rio) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Matthieu Rytz | Anote's Ark |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Pedro Ruiz | Havana, from on High |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Mathieu Arsenault | Head First (Tenir tête) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Grant Baldwin | This Mountain Life |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Léna Mill-Reuillard, Stéphanie Weber Biron, Étienne Boilard | City Dreamers |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Pedro Pires | Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou) |

## 2020s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Ryan Randall | Workhorse |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean-Philippe Archibald | The Free Ones (Les libres) |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Glauco Bermudez, Mark Ó Fearghaíl | Influence |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Renaud Philippe, Olivier Higgins | Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour) |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Kiarash Sadigh | Nahanni: River of Forgiveness |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Marianne Ploska | Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Vince Arvidson | The Magnitude of All Things |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Nicholas Castel, Gabriel Swift, Bronson Whytcross, John Fulton | Coextinction |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Rita Leistner | Forest for the Trees |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Patrick McLaughlin | Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Nicholas de Pencier | The Colour of Ink |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Noura Kevorkian | Batata |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Katerine Giguère | Scrap |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Jacquelyn Mills | Geographies of Solitude |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Étienne Roussy | Zo Reken |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Kaveh Nabatian | Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Ben Giesbrecht, Luke Connor | Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Patrick McGowan, Jason Providence | Coven |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Ernesto Pardo | The White Guard (La Garde blanche) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Étienne Roussy | Beyond Paper (Au-delà du papier) |