# Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award

The Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour works by emerging filmmakers.
Presented for the first time in 2016, the award is given primarily to filmmakers making their first or second feature films in any genre; however, more established filmmakers are also eligible for their first film outside their usual genre, such as a narrative filmmaker making their first documentary film or vice versa. An initial longlist of between 10 and 15 nominees is announced, which is then reduced to a shortlist of four to six films, before the award is presented at the annual DGC award gala.
Formerly presented as the DGC Discovery Award, it was renamed in 2022 in memory of director Jean-Marc Vallée following his death in December 2021.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Film | Director | Result |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Before the Streets (Avant les rues) | Chloé Leriche | Winner |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Luk'Luk'I | Wayne Wapeemukwa | Winner |
| 2017 | All You Can Eat Buddha | Ian Lagarde | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Mass for Shut-Ins | Winston DeGiobbi | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Never Steady, Never Still | Kathleen Hepburn | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Adventures in Public School | Kyle Rideout | Longlist |
| 2017 | Allure | Carlos and Jason Sanchez | Longlist |
| 2017 | Ava | Sadaf Foroughi | Longlist |
| 2017 | Black Cop | Cory Bowles | Longlist |
| 2017 | The Crescent | Seth A. Smith | Longlist |
| 2017 | Gregoire | Cody Bown | Longlist |
| 2017 | Indian Horse | Stephen Campanelli | Longlist |
| 2017 | Maison du Bonheur | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Longlist |
| 2017 | Still Night, Still Light (Mes nuits feront écho) | Sophie Goyette | Longlist |
| 2017 | Suck It Up | Jordan Canning | Longlist |
| 2017 | Sweet Virginia | Jamie M. Dagg | Longlist |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Fausto | Andrea Bussmann | Winner |
| 2018 | Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna) | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Firecrackers | Jasmin Mozaffari | Shortlist |
| 2018 | A Little Wisdom | Yuqi Kang | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Ville Neuve | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Clara | Akash Sherman | Longlist |
| 2018 | Family First (Chien de garde) | Sophie Dupuis | Longlist |
| 2018 | Freaks | Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein | Longlist |
| 2018 | Giant Little Ones | Keith Behrman | Longlist |
| 2018 | Incredible Violence | Gaelen Patrick Condon | Longlist |
| 2018 | M/M | Drew Lint | Longlist |
| 2018 | The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs | Bojan Bodružić | Longlist |
| 2018 | The New Romantic | Carly Stone | Longlist |
| 2018 | Take Light | Shasha Nakhai | Longlist |
| 2018 | Transformer | Michael Del Monte | Longlist |
| 2019 | | | Longlist |
| 2019 | Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard | Winner |
| 2019 | Black Conflux | Nicole Dorsey | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Murmur | Heather Young | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Raf | Harry Cepka | Shortlist |
| 2019 | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby | Longlist |
| 2019 | Castle in the Ground | Joey Klein | Longlist |
| 2019 | Drag Kids | Megan Wennberg | Longlist |
| 2019 | A Kandahar Away | Aisha Jamal | Longlist |
| 2019 | L.A. Tea Time | Sophie Bédard Marcotte | Longlist |
| 2019 | The Rest of Us | Aisling Chin-Yee | Longlist |
| 2019 | There's Something in the Water | Elliot Page, Ian Daniel | Longlist |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Beans | Tracey Deer | Winner |
| 2020 | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer | Shortlist |
| 2020 | No Ordinary Man | Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Violation | Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Shortlist |
| 2020 | La Contemplation du mystère | Albéric Aurtenèche | Longlist |
| 2020 | Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open | Oksana Karpovych | Longlist |
| 2020 | The Forbidden Reel | Ariel Nasr | Longlist |
| 2020 | Happy Place | Helen Shaver | Longlist |
| 2020 | Kenbe la, Until We Win (Kenbe la, jusqu’à la victoire) | Will Prosper | Longlist |
| 2020 | Little Orphans | Ruth Lawrence | Longlist |
| 2020 | Monkey Beach | Loretta Todd | Longlist |
| 2020 | Queen of the Morning Calm | Gloria Ui Young Kim | Longlist |
| 2020 | Vagrant | Caleb Ryan | Longlist |
| 2020 | The Walrus and the Whistleblower | Nathalie Bibeau | Longlist |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | Winner |
| 2021 | The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) | Philippe Grégoire | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Without Havana (Sin la Habana) | Kaveh Nabatian | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Bootlegger | Caroline Monnet | Longlist |
| 2021 | Fortitude (La Fortaleza) | Jorge Thielen Armand | Longlist |
| 2021 | Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | Longlist |
| 2021 | Learn to Swim | Thyrone Tommy | Longlist |
| 2021 | Night Blooms | Stephanie Joline | Longlist |
| 2021 | One of Ours | Yasmine Mathurin | Longlist |
| 2021 | Portraits from a Fire | Trevor Mack | Longlist |
| 2021 | Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Longlist |
| 2021 | Subjects of Desire | Jennifer Holness | Longlist |
| 2022 | | | Longlist |
| 2022 | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim | Winner |
| 2022 | Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Rosie | Gail Maurice | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Slash/Back | Nyla Innuksuk | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Something You Said Last Night | Luis De Filippis | Shortlist |
| 2022 | When Morning Comes | Kelly Fyffe-Marshall | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Anyox | Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson | Longlist |
| 2022 | Before I Change My Mind | Trevor Anderson | Longlist |
| 2022 | Broken Angel (MaaShwaKanManiTo) | Jules Arita Koostachin | Longlist |
| 2022 | Dark Nature | Berkley Brady | Longlist |
| 2022 | Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt | Longlist |
| 2022 | Francheska: Prairie Queen | Laura O'Grady | Longlist |
| 2022 | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills | Longlist |
| 2022 | Golden Delicious | Jason Karman | Longlist |
| 2022 | Reset | Min Bae | Longlist |
| 2022 | This House (Cette maison) | Miryam Charles | Longlist |
| 2022 | Until Branches Bend | Sophie Jarvis | Longlist |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) | Ariane Louis-Seize | Winner |
| 2023 | Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw) | Chloé Leriche | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Hey, Viktor! | Cody Lightning | Shortlist |
| 2023 | In Flames | Zarrar Kahn | Shortlist |
| 2023 | The Queen of My Dreams | Fawzia Mirza | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun | Banchi Hanuse | Longlist |
| 2023 | Coaching While Black | Alex Eskandarkhah | Longlist |
| 2023 | Gabor | Joannie Lafrenière | Longlist |
| 2023 | I'm Just Here for the Riot | Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman | Longlist |
| 2023 | Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown | Longlist |
| 2023 | With Love and a Major Organ | Kim Albright | Longlist |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Seeds | Kaniehtiio Horn | Winner |
| 2024 | 7 Beats per Minute | Yuqi Kang | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Sweet Angel Baby | Melanie Oates | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Universal Language | Matthew Rankin | Shortlist |
| 2024 | You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) | Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Shortlist |
| 2024 | A French Youth (Une jeunesse française) | Jérémie Battaglia | Longlist |
| 2024 | Inedia | Liz Cairns | Longlist |
| 2024 | Lovely | Serville Poblete | Longlist |
| 2024 | Monica's News | Pamela Gallant | Longlist |
| 2024 | Seguridad | Tamara Segura | Longlist |
| 2024 | Simply Johanne (Johanne, tout simplement) | Nadine Valcin | Longlist |
| 2024 | Young Werther | José Lourenço | Longlist |