# Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Award for Best Short Documentary is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film judged to be the year's best short documentary film. Prior to 2012 the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards program; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards.
The award has not always been presented at every past Genie or CSA ceremony. In years when the award was not presented, short documentary films were instead eligible for the Best Theatrical Short Film and/or Best (Theatrical/Feature-Length) Documentary categories. In the Canadian Film Awards era, it was often presented solely under the name Best Documentary, but was still presented to shorter documentaries and remained separate from the category for Best Theatrical Documentary.
Under current Academy regulations, the awards for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary can be collapsed into a single award for Best Documentary if either category receives three or fewer eligible submissions, but remain separate if both categories surpass three submissions.

## 1960s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | With Drums and Trumpets (Avec tambours et trompettes) | Marcel Carrière |
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards |
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | Juggernaut | Walford Hewitson |

## 1970s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards |
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards | KW+ | Aimée Danis |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards | The Sea | Bané Jovanovic |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards | Selling Out | Jack Winter, Tadeusz Jaworski |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | Grierson | Roger Blais |
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards | Faire hurler les murs | Jean Saulnier |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch | Deepa Mehta, Paul Saltzman |
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards | Cree Hunters of Mistassini | Tony Ianzelo, Boyce Richardson |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards | Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain, John Kramer, James de B. Domville, Robert A. Duncan |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales | Michael Chechik |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Henry Ford's America | Donald Brittain |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Potters at Work | Marty Gross |
| 1977 28th Canadian Film Awards | Ritual: The Collective Psyche of Japan | Kalle Lasn |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | The Hottest Show on Earth | Derek Lamb, Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Return of the Reluctant Prodigy | Les Rose |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | Song of the Paddle | Bill Mason |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards | The World of Noel Coward | Neil Sutherland |

## 1980s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Priory: The Only Home I've Got | Mark Dolgoy |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | It's Not an Illness | Claire Prieto |
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | Taking Chances | Marilyn Belec |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | No More Hiroshima | Martin Duckworth |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Neon, an Electric Memoir | Rudy Buttignol |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | Skyward | Roman Kroitor |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | The World Is Watching | Harold Crooks, Jim Munro, Peter Raymont |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Dying to Be Perfect | Eileen Hoeter |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | Space Pioneers, a Canadian Story | Rudy Buttignol |

## 1990s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Stunt People | Lois Siegel |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Reading Between the Lines | Martha Davis |
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | Who Gets In? | Barry Greenwald |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein | Richard Elson, Sally Bochner |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | The Actor | John Paskievich |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Hunters and Bombers | Rex Tasker, Alan Hayling |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | In Search of the Edge | Scott Barrie |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | Songololo: Voices of Change | Marianne Kaplan, Cari Green |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | A Song for Tibet | Anne Henderson, Abby Jack Neidek, Kent Martin |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | A Kind of Family | Andrew Koster |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | Xénofolies | Michel Moreau |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | The Measure of Your Passage (Le singe bleu) | Esther Valiquette |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project | Donald Winkler |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule | Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie, Rina Fraticelli |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya | Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Enigmatico | David Mortin, Patricia Fogliato |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | The Shaper | Martin Schliessler, Bill Sheppard |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | Time Is on My Side | Jacques Holender |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) | Daniele Caloz, Paul Carrière |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | A Balkan Journey: Fragments from the Other Side of War | Brenda Longfellow |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship | Maureen Judge, Janis Lundman |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Forgotten Warriors | Loretta Todd, Carol Geddes, Michael Doxtater, Jerry Krepakevich |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas | Ali Kazimi |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet | Anita Herczeg, Brenda Longfellow |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | bp: pushing the boundaries | Brian Nash, Elizabeth Yake |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | Remembering Memory | Elizabeth Yake, Lara Fitzgerald |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | Hemingway: A Portrait | Bernard Lajoie, Érik Canuel, Tatsuo Shimamura |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | In Time's Shadow, the Hegis | Rudy Buttignol, David Way |

## 2000s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards |
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | The Delian Mode | Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Passages | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter, Laura Severinac |

## 2010s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards |
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Sirmilik | Zacharias Kunuk, Joel McConvey, Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon, Geoff Morrison, Ryan J. Noth |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | 75 Watts | John Cullen |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | Derailments | Chelsea McMullan |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | The Boxing Girls of Kabul | Annette Clarke, Ariel Nasr |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar | Igor Drljaca |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) | Deco Dawson, Catherine Chagnon |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Let the Daylight Into the Swamp | Anita Lee, Jeffrey St. Jules |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Three Walls | Zaheed Mawani, Andrea Bussman |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Chi | Anne Wheeler, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Just As I Remember | Andrew Moir |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Mary & Myself | Sam Decoste, Annette Clarke |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Jutra | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Marc Bertrand, René Chénier |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | The Chaperone 3D | Fraser Munden |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Seth's Dominion | Luc Chamberland, Gerry Flahive, Michael Fukushima, Marcy Page |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Bacon and God's Wrath | Sol Friedman |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson, Blake McWilliam |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Quiet Zone | David Bryant, Julie Roy, Karl Lemieux |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Rebel (Bihttoš) | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Laura Good |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | World Famous Gopher Hole Museum | Chelsea McMullan, Douglas Nayler |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | This River | Katherena Vermette, Erika MacPherson, Alicia Smith, David Christensen |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Frame 394 | Rich Williamson, Shasha Nakhai, Ed Barreveld |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | The Road to Webequie | Ryan Noth, Tess Girard |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Stone Makers (Carrière) | Jean-Marc E. Roy, Colette Loumède, Denis McCready, Claudia Chabot |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Tshiuetin | Caroline Monnet, Éric Cinq-Mars |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Take a Walk on the Wildside | Lisa Rideout, Lauren Grant, Sasha Fisher |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Babe, I Hate to Go | Andrew Moir |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Three Thousand | Asinnajaq, Kat Baulu |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes | Charlie Tyrell |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Bonfires | Martin Bureau |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi | Barry Avrich, Howie Mandel, Brandon Gross, Skyler Gross |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Prince's Tale | Jamie Miller |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Voices of Kidnapping | Ryan McKenna |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Take Me to Prom | Andrew Moir |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Acadiana | Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin, Jean-Pierre Vezina |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Gun Killers | Jason Young, Rohan Fernando, Annette Clarke |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | No Crying at the Dinner Table | Carol Nguyen, Aziz Zoromba |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter, Selwyn Jacob, Shirley Vercruysse |

## 2020s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Sing Me a Lullaby | Tiffany Hsiung |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | CHSLD | François Delisle |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines | Alexandra Bailey, Theola Ross |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Jesse Jams | Trevor Anderson, Alyson Richards, Alexandra Lazarowich, Penny Frazier, Kim Hsu Guise, Lizzy Karp, Christina Willings |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Mutts (Clebs) | Halima Ouardiri |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Nalujuk Night | Jennie Williams, Latonia Hartery, Kat Baulu, Rohan Fernando, Annette Clarke |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Babushka | Kristina Wagenbauer |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | The Brother (Le Frère) | Jérémie Battaglia |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Still Processing | Sophy Romvari |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Patty vs. Patty | Chris Strikes, Kate Fraser, Maya Annik Bedward |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | The Benevolents (Les Bienvaillants) | Sarah Baril Gaudet |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Bill Reid Remembers | Alanis Obomsawin, Annette Clarke |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | The Goats of Monesiglio | Emily Graves, Anna Cooley, Raj Dhillon |
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | Perfecting the Art of Longing | Kitra Cahana, Kat Baulu, Ariel Nasr, Annette Clarke |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Cherry | Laurence Gagné-Frégeau |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Oasis | Justine Martin, Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Violet Gave Willingly | Claire Sanford |
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | Zug Island | Nicolas Lachapelle |