# Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film

The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, formerly also known as the NFB John Spotton Award, is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best Canadian short film of the festival. As of 2017, the award is sponsored by International Watch Company and known as the "IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film".

## Winners

| Year | Film | Director | ACCT honours |
| 1989 | Stealing Images | Alan Zweig | |
| 1989 | Justine's Film (Le film de Justine) | Jeanne Crépeau | |
| 1990 | Shaggie: Letters from Prison | Janis Cole | |
| 1990 | New Shoes | Ann Marie Fleming | |
| 1991 | The Making of Monsters | John Greyson | |
| 1991 | The Learning Path | Loretta Todd | |
| 1991 | Unknown Soldiers | Veronika Soul | |
| 1992 | Letters of Transit (Les Sauf-conduits) | Manon Briand | |
| 1992 | Blue | Don McKellar | |
| 1992 | The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore | Laurie Lynd | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 1992 | Moose Jaw: There's a Future in Our Past | Rick Hancox | |
| 1992 | My Niagara | Helen Lee | |
| 1993 | Save My Lost Nigga Soul | Clement Virgo | Best Theatrical Short Film nominee |
| 1993 | Me, Mom and Mona | Mina Shum | |
| 1994 | Frank's Cock | Mike Hoolboom | |
| 1994 | Technilogic Ordering | Philip Hoffman | |
| 1994 | Make Some Noise | Andrew Munger | |
| 1995 | Reconstruction | Laurence Green | |
| 1995 | Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Guy Maddin | |
| 1995 | Use Once and Destroy | John L'Écuyer | |
| 1996 | Letters from Home | Mike Hoolboom | |
| 1996 | Sin Cycle | Jack Cocker, Ben Famiglietti | |
| 1996 | Lodela | Philippe Baylaucq | |
| 1997 | Cotton Candy | Roshell Bissett | |
| 1997 | bp: pushing the boundaries | Brian Nash | Best Short Documentary nominee |
| 1998 | When Ponds Freeze Over | Mary Lewis | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 1999 | Discharge (Décharge) | Patrick Demers | |
| 1999 | Karaoke | Stéphane Lafleur | |
| 2000 | The Hat (Le Chapeau) | Michèle Cournoyer | |
| 2000 | Ernest | Keith Behrman | |
| 2001 | FILM(dzama) | Deco Dawson | |
| 2002 | Blue Skies | Ann Marie Fleming | |
| 2003 | Aspiration | Constant Mentzas | |
| 2004 | Man. Feel. Pain. | Dylan Akio Smith | |
| 2005 | Big Girl | Renuka Jeyapalan | Best Live Action Short Drama nominee |
| 2005 | There's a Flower in My Pedal | Andrea Dorfman | |
| 2006 | The Days (Les Jours) | Maxime Giroux | |
| 2007 | Pool | Chris Chong Chan Fui | |
| 2008 | Block B | Chris Chong Chan Fui | |
| 2008 | Next Floor | Denis Villeneuve | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2009 | Danse Macabre | Pedro Pires | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2009 | The Armoire | Jamie Travis | |
| 2010 | Little Flowers (Les Fleurs de l'âge) | Vincent Biron | |
| 2011 | Doubles with Slight Pepper | Ian Harnarine | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2011 | No Words Came Down | Ryan Flowers, Lisa Pham | |
| 2011 | Of Events (D'aléas) | Mathieu Tremblay | |
| 2012 | Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) | Deco Dawson | |
| 2012 | Crackin' Down Hard | Mike Clattenburg | |
| 2013 | Noah | Walter Woodman, Patrick Cederberg | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2013 | The Chaperone 3D | Fraser Munden | Best Short Documentary nominee |
| 2013 | Yellowhead | Kevan Funk | |
| 2014 | The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer | Randall Okita | |
| 2015 | Overpass | Patrice Laliberté | Best Live Action Short Drama nominee |
| 2015 | Bacon and God's Wrath | Sol Friedman | Best Short Documentary winner |
| 2016 | Mutants | Alexandre Dostie | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2017 | Pre-Drink | Marc-Antoine Lemire | Best Live Action Short Drama nominee |
| 2017 | The Tesla World Light | Matthew Rankin | Best Animated Short nominee |
| 2018 | Brotherhood (Ikhwène) | Meryam Joobeur | |
| 2018 | Fauve | Jérémy Comte | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2019 | Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | |
| 2019 | The Physics of Sorrow | Theodore Ushev | |
| 2020 | Benjamin, Benny, Ben | Paul Shkordoff | Best Live Action Short Drama nominee |
| 2021 | Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Best Animated Short winner |
| 2021 | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Best Short Documentary nominee |
| 2022 | Simo | Aziz Zoromba | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2022 | Same Old | Lloyd Lee Choi | |
| 2023 | Motherland | Jasmin Mozaffari | Best Live Action Short Drama winner |
| 2024 | Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? | Bec Pecaut | |