# Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony. As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either category has fewer than five eligible submissions within the qualifying period; however, if both categories receive five or more eligible submissions, then separate awards are presented even if one category or the other ends up with fewer than five final nominees.

## 1960s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | Phillip Hersch | Wojeck: "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" |
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | Joan Finnigan | The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar |

## 1970s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | William Fruet | Goin' Down the Road |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | Ian McNeill | Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | Clément Perron | Mon oncle Antoine |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | Don Arioli | Propaganda Message and Hot Stuff |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | Gilles Carle | The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | Michel Tremblay | Françoise Durocher, Waitress |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | Jacques Benoît, Denys Arcand | Réjeanne Padovani |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | Alvin Goldman, Douglas Jackson | The Sloane Affair |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | No awards presented this year | No awards presented this year |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards |
| Original Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | Michel Brault | Orders (Les Ordres) |
| Adapted Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | William Weintraub | Why Rock the Boat? |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | Patricia Watson | A Bird in the House |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | Ted Allan | Lies My Father Told Me |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | David King | For Gentlemen Only |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards |
| Original Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Robin Spry, Peter Pearson, Peter Madden | One Man |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Zale Dalen | Skip Tracer |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Marcel Sabourin | J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Ratch Wallace | Ragtime Summer |
| Adapted Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | James DeFelice | Why Shoot the Teacher? |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Richard Benner | Outrageous! |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Patricia Watson | Who Has Seen the Wind |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Stephen Zoller | Metal Messiah |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Cam Hubert | Dreamspeaker |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards |
| Screenplay (Feature) |||
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Martyn Burke | Power Play |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Richard Gabourie | Three Card Monte |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | William Gray, John Hunter | Blood and Guts |
| Screenplay (Non-Feature) |||
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Gilles Carle | The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine) |

## 1980s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum | Meatballs |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Mireille Dansereau | Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur) |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Allan Moyle, John Laing, Stephen Lack | The Rubber Gun |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Jim Osborne | Summer's Children |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Anne Claire Poirier, Marthe Blackburn | A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Steven Hilliard Stern | Running |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Diana Maddox, William Gray | The Changeling |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Ted Allan | It Rained All Night the Day I Left |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Jean Beaudin, Marcel Sabourin | Cordélia |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | R. J. Dryer, Martin Lager | Jack London's Klondike Fever |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Jean-Claude Lord, Jean Salvy | Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Réjean Ducharme | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Marc Rosen | Final Assignment |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jacques Benoit | The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin) |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Ken Mitchell | The Hounds of Notre Dame |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Max Fischer | The Lucky Star |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Bernard Slade | Tribute |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | Ronald Sutherland, Robin Spry | Suzanne |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Terence Heffernan | Heartaches |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Clay Borris | Alligator Shoes |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Paul Illidge, James Sanderson | Head On |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Adam Arkin, Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky | Improper Channels |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Réjean Ducharme | Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | David Cronenberg | Scanners |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Roger Lemelin, Gilles Carle | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Anne Cameron, Ralph L. Thomas | Ticket to Heaven |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | Diana Maddox | The Amateur |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | John Hunter | The Grey Fox |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor | Big Meat Eater |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | David Lee Henry | Harry Tracy, Desperado |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | John Juliani, Sharon Riis | Latitude 55° |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Roger Fournier | A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Richard Paluck, Robert Guza, Jr. | Melanie Award later rescinded, due to late discovery that it did not meet the qualifications |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | Peter Dion | The Hot Touch |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Bob Clark | A Christmas Story |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | David Cronenberg | Videodrome |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Jack Darcus | Deserters |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | Timothy Findley | The Wars |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | | |
| Screenplay |||
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Daniel Petrie | The Bay Boy |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | Sonatine |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Michel Langlois, Léa Pool | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | Don Owen | Unfinished Business |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | | |
| Screenplay |||
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Sandy Wilson | My American Cousin |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Lise Lemay-Rousseau | The Alley Cat (Le Matou) |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Mordecai Richler | Joshua Then and Now |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Louise Rinfret, Claude Jutra | The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Denys Arcand | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Sharon Riis | Loyalties |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi | Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime) |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Richard Nichol | Sitting in Limbo |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Michael Jones, Andy Jones | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Leon Marr | Dancing in the Dark |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Gordon Pinsent | John and the Missus |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | Peter Rowe | Lost! |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Sally Bochner, John N. Smith, Sam Grana | Train of Dreams |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Family Viewing |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | William D. MacGillivray | Life Classes |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | Patricia Rozema | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman | Milk and Honey |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | André Melançon, Jacques Bobet | The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Marie-José Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot | The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir) |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Guy Maddin | Tales from the Gimli Hospital |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Michael Rubbo | Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Norman Snider, David Cronenberg | Dead Ringers |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Jackie Burroughs | A Winter Tan |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Francis Mankiewicz, Jacques Savoie | The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes) |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Robin Spry, Douglas Bowie | Obsessed |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Phil Savath | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick |

## 1990s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Denys Arcand | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Anne Wheeler | Bye Bye Blues |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Don McKellar | Roadkill |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Speaking Parts |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Colleen Murphy | Termini Station |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Peter Mettler | The Top of His Head |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Richard Beattie, Elliot L. Sims | Cold Comfort |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Dany Laferrière, Richard Sadler | How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | John Varley | Millennium |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Paul Quarrington, Eugene Lipinski | Perfectly Normal |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Claire Wojas | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Darrell Wasyk | H |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Pierre Falardeau | The Party (Le Party) |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | André Forcier, Jacques Marcotte | An Imaginary Tale (Une Histoire inventée) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Brian Moore | Black Robe |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | James DeFelice, Anne Wheeler | Angel Square |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Léa Pool, Laurent Gagliardi, Michel Langlois | The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Léolo |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Paul Donovan, Bill Fleming | Buried on Sunday |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Paul Tana, Bruno Ramirez | The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine) |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Jeff Schultz | North of Pittsburgh |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Francis Damberger | Solitaire |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | David Cronenberg | Naked Lunch |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Kelly Rebar | Bordertown Café |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Yvon Rivard, Jacques Leduc | Phantom Life (La Vie fantôme) |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | David Brandes | The Quarrel |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Gail Singer | True Confections |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Peggy Thompson | The Lotus Eaters |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Suzette Couture, Pierre Sarrazin | La Florida |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Calendar |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | François Girard, Don McKellar | Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | David King | Harmony Cats |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Exotica |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Mina Shum | Double Happiness |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Gilles Desjardins | Les Pots cassés |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Roger Cantin | Matusalem |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Léa Pool | Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Brad Fraser | Love and Human Remains |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Jefferson Lewis | Ordinary Magic |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | Paul Quarrington, Richard J. Lewis | Whale Music |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Gerald Wexler, Mort Ransen | Margaret's Museum |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Sylvain Guy | Black List (Liste noire) |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Clément Virgo | Rude |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Stephen Williams | Soul Survivor |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Pierre Gang | Not Me! (Sous-sol) |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Andrew Rai Berzins | Blood and Donuts |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Gilles Carle | Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur) |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Donald Martin | Never Too Late |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Peter Wellington, Doug Smith | The Boys Club |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | David Cronenberg | Crash |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Noel S. Baker | Hard Core Logo |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Michel Marc Bouchard, Linda Gaboriau | Lilies |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | John L'Ecuyer | Curtis's Charm |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard | Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Thom Fitzgerald | The Hanging Garden |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | André Forcier | The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge) |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Gabriel Pelletier, Yves Pelletier, Andrée Pelletier, Ann Burke | Karmina |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Lynne Stopkewich, Angus Fraser | Kissed |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | François Girard, Don McKellar | The Red Violin |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Don McKellar | Last Night |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | André Morency, Robert Lepage | Nô |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Allan Scott | Regeneration |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Sooni Taraporevala | Such a Long Journey |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Louis Bélanger | Post Mortem |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Bruce McCulloch | Dog Park |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Jeremy Podeswa | The Five Senses |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Léa Pool | Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Monique Proulx | The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand Serpent du monde) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Felicia's Journey |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | François Bouvier, Marc Robitaille | Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Jean-Philippe Duval, Alexis Martin | Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi) |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Kim Hogan | Heart of the Sun |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Wayne Johnston | The Divine Ryans |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Monique Proulx, Jean Beaudin | Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes) |

## 2000s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Denis Villeneuve | Maelström |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Denys Arcand, Jacob Potashnik | Stardom |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Frank Borg | My Father's Angel |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Michel Marc Bouchard, Gilles Desjardins | The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines) |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | Clement Virgo | Love Come Down |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |||
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Paul Apak Angilirq | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Renny Bartlett | Eisenstein |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Catherine Martin | Marriages (Mariages) |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | Judith Thompson | Lost and Delirious |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | André Turpin | Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Deepa Mehta | Bollywood/Hollywood |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Ararat |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Paul Gross, John Krizanc | Men with Brooms |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Robert Morin | The Negro (Le nèg') |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Jean-Phillipe Pearson, Patrice Robitaille, Ricardo Trogi | Québec-Montréal |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Sharon Riis | Savage Messiah |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Dominique Demers | The Mysterious Miss C. (La Mystérieuse mademoiselle C.) |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Patrick McGrath | Spider |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Edward Riche | Rare Birds |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | Judith Thompson | Perfect Pie |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Louis Bélanger | Gaz Bar Blues |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Sébastien Rose | How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause) |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Ken Scott | Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Peter Wellington | Luck |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Robert Lepage | Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune) |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Maurice Chauvet | Owning Mahowny |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Daniel MacIvor | Marion Bridge |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Charles Martin Smith | The Snow Walker |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | Esta Spalding | Falling Angels |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Francis Leclerc, Marcel Beaulieu | Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Denise Filiatrault | Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Federico Hidalgo, Paulina Robles | A Silent Love |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Don McKellar, Michael Goldbach | Childstar |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | David "Sudz" Sutherland | Love, Sex and Eating the Bones |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Luc Dionne, Sylvain Guy | Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Joël Champetier, Daniel Roby | White Skin (La Peau blanche) |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Jerry Ciccoritti | Blood |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Todd Klinck, Jaie Laplante, John Palmer | Sugar |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | Jacob Tierney | Twist |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Jean-Marc Vallée, François Boulay | C.R.A.Z.Y. |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Louise Archambault | Familia |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Michael Dowse | It's All Gone Pete Tong |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Deepa Mehta | Water |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Luc Picard | Audition (L'Audition) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Where the Truth Lies |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Diane Cailhier | The Outlander (Le Survenant) |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | David Christensen | Six Figures |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Luc Dionne | Aurore |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | Nathalie Petrowski | Maman Last Call |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Philippe Falardeau | Congorama |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté | A Family Secret (Le secret de ma mère) |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Stéphane Lapointe | The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Ken Scott | The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petite vengeance) |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Ken Scott | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Robert Favreau, Gil Courtemanche | A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | Mike Clattenburg, Robb Wells | Trailer Park Boys: The Movie |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | François Létourneau | Cheech |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Steven Knight | Eastern Promises |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Denys Arcand | Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Douglas Coupland | Everything's Gone Green |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Pierre Lamothe, Claude Lalonde | The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Marc-André Lavoie, Simon Olivier Fecteau and David Gauthier | Bluff |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Sarah Polley | Away From Her |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Michael Donovan | Shake Hands With the Devil |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | Maureen Medved | The Tracey Fragments |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Bernard Émond | The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Randall Cole | Real Time |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Travis McDonald | Normal |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Deepa Mehta | Heaven on Earth |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Guillaume Vigneault | Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Lyne Charlebois | Borderline |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Richie Mehta, Shaun Mehta | Amal |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | Jeremy Podeswa | Fugitive Pieces |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Jacques Davidts | Polytechnique |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | David Bezmozgis | Victoria Day |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Atom Egoyan | Adoration |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Émile Gaudreault, Ian Lauzon | Father and Guns (De père en flic) |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Charles Officer, Ingrid Veninger | Nurse.Fighter.Boy |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Kari Skogland | Fifty Dead Men Walking |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Tony Burgess | Pontypool |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq, Madeline Ivalu | Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain) |

## 2010s

| Year | Nominees | Films |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Jacob Tierney | The Trotsky |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Peter Stebbings | Defendor |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Adriana Maggs | Grown Up Movie Star |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Louis Bélanger, Alexis Martin | Route 132 |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Claude Lalonde | 10½ |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Denis Villeneuve | Incendies |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Michael Konyves | Barney's Version |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Lee MacDougall | High Life |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Vic Sarin, Dennis Foon, Catherine Spear | A Shine of Rainbows |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | Patrick Senécal | 7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion) |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Ken Scott, Martin Petit | Starbuck |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Anne Émond | Nuit #1 |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Eilis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki | The Whistleblower |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Jean-Marc Vallée | Café de Flore |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Ryan Ward, Matthew Heiti | Son of the Sunshine |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Philippe Falardeau | Monsieur Lazhar |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Ryan Redford | Oliver Sherman |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Steven Silver | The Bang Bang Club |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | David F. Shamoon | In Darkness |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Kim Nguyen | War Witch (Rebelle) |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Jason Buxton | Blackbird |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Xavier Dolan | Laurence Anyways |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Bernard Émond | All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes) |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Michael McGowan | Still Mine |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg | Goon |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | David Cronenberg | Cosmopolis |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Anita Doron | The Lesser Blessed |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Martin Villeneuve | Mars and April (Mars et Avril) |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Shannon Masters | Empire of Dirt |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Marc Tulin | Whitewash |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Richie Mehta | Siddharth |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Sébastien Pilote | The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Jonathan Sobol | The Art of the Steal |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Elan Mastai | The F Word |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Michel Marc Bouchard, Xavier Dolan | Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Javier Gullón | Enemy |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Robert Lepage | Triptyque |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Ken Scott, Michael Dowse | The Grand Seduction |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Xavier Dolan | Mommy |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Pearl Ball-Harding, Albert Shin | In Her Place |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Atom Egoyan, David Fraser | The Captive |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Stéphane Lafleur | You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Bruce Wagner | Maps to the Stars |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Nicolas Billon | Elephant Song |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Scott Abramovitch | The Calling |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Joel Thomas Hynes | Cast No Shadow |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Benjamin August | Remember |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Anne Émond | Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Philippe Falardeau | My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t'en-guerre) |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Matthew Hansen | Zoom |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | André Turpin | Endorphine |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Emma Donoghue | Room |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout | Eadweard |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Wiebke von Carolsfeld | The Saver |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Daniel MacIvor | Weirdos |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Kevan Funk | Hello Destroyer |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Zacharias Kunuk | Searchers (Maliglutit) |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Johnny Ma | Old Stone |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Stella Meghie | Jean of the Joneses |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Xavier Dolan | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Bachir Bensaddek | Montreal, White City (Montréal la blanche) |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | David Bezmozgis | Natasha |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Sherry White | Maudie |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout | Adventures in Public School |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Sadaf Foroughi | Ava |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Kathleen Hepburn | Never Steady, Never Still |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Sarah Kolasky, Adam Garnet Jones | Great Great Great |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Anita Doron | The Breadwinner |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Nicole Bélanger | Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols) |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Susan Coyne | The Man Who Invented Christmas |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Simon Lavoie | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Gabriel Sabourin | It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Léger | Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Renée Beaulieu | Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Marc Bisaillon | With Love (L'Amour) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Philippe Lesage | Genesis (Genèse) |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Guillaume Lemans | Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Robert Budreau | Stockholm |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Sharon Lewis | Brown Girl Begins |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Nathan Parker | Our House |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Arturo Pérez Torres | The Drawer Boy |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Risacher, Claude Landry, Maxime Landry | Racetime (La Course des tuques) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Jonas Chernick, Jeremy Lalonde | James vs. His Future Self |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Anne Émond | Young Juliette (Jeune Juliette) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Matthew Rankin | The Twentieth Century |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis | White Lie |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Sophie Deraspe | Antigone |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Louise Archambault | And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Denis Côté | Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparus) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Guillaume de Fontenay, Guillaume Vigneault, Jean Barbe | Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable) |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Myriam Verreault, Naomi Fontaine | Kuessipan |

## 2020s

| Year | Nominees | Films |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Charles Officer, Wendy Motion Brathwaite | Akilla's Escape |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Jeff Barnaby | Blood Quantum |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Sean Durkin | The Nest |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Sophie Dupuis | Underground (Souterrain) |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Evan Morgan | The Kid Detective |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Shyam Selvadurai, Deepa Mehta | Funny Boy |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Johnny Darrell, Andrew Duncan, Loretta Todd | Monkey Beach |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Patrick deWitt | French Exit |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Léger | Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu) |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Taylor Olson | Bone Cage |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Danis Goulet | Night Raiders |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Igor Drljaca | The White Fortress (Tabija) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Bretten Hannam | Wildhood |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Kaveh Nabatian | Without Havana (Sin la Habana) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Mark O'Brien | The Righteous |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Hernandez | Scarborough |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | David Bezmozgis, Erik Rutherford | Charlotte |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Sylvain Guy | Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Fred Pellerin | The Time Thief (L'Arracheuse de temps) |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Éric Tessier | You Will Remember Me (Tu te souviendras de moi) |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Anthony Shim | Riceboy Sleeps |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Marie Clements | Bones of Crows |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Sadaf Foroughi | Summer with Hope |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Sophie Jarvis | Until Branches Bend |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Stéphane Lafleur, Éric K. Boulianne | Viking |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Clement Virgo | Brother |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Charlotte Le Bon | Falcon Lake |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Léger | Babysitter |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards |
| Original screenplay |||
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Monia Chokri | The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Brandon Cronenberg | Infinity Pool |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Delphine Girard | Through the Night (Quitter la nuit) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Cody Lightning, Samuel Miller | Hey, Viktor! |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Pascal Plante | Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges) |
| Adapted screenplay |||
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller | BlackBerry |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Sarah-Maude Beauchesne | Billie Blue (Cœur de slush) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Éric K. Boulianne, Francis Leclerc | The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur) |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Jacques Davidts | Ru |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Fawzia Mirza | The Queen of My Dreams |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Alexandra Weir | North of Normal |