Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Feature Length Documentary. First presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, it became part of the Genie Awards in 1980[1] and the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards in 2013.
1960s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 20th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Never a Backward Step | Donald Brittain, Arthur Hammond, John Spotton | |
| 1969 21st Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Good Times Bad Times | Donald Shebib, Mark McCarty |
1970s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Wild Africa | William Bantings, John Livingston | |
| 1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Les Philharmonistes | Yves Leduc | |
| 1972 24th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| No award presented | ||
| 1973 25th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Grierson | Roger Blais | |
| Faire hurler les murs | Jean Saulnier | |
| 1974[1] | ||
| No award presented | ||
| 1975 26th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Janis | F. R. Crawley | |
| 1976 27th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| Ahô: The Forest People (Ahô au cœur du monde primitif) | Daniel Bertolino, François Floquet | |
| 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[1] | ||
| The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline | Jesse Nishihata | |
| 1978 29th Canadian Film Awards[1] | ||
| The Champions | Donald Brittain | |
| Fields of Endless Day | Terence Macartney-Filgate | |
| Healing | Pierre Lasry | |
| The Prophet from Pugwash | Carol Moore-Ede Myers | |
1980s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed | Donald Brittain, Marrin Canell | |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | |
| Cities: Glenn Gould's Toronto | John McGreevy, W. Paterson Ferns | |
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Some Even Fall in Love (Plusieurs tombent en amour) | Guy Simoneau | |
| The Dream Never Dies | William Johnston | |
| A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes) | Arthur Lamothe | |
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards[1] | ||
| P4W: Prison for Women | Janis Cole, Holly Dale | |
| Being Different | Harry Rasky | |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| The Devil at Your Heels | Robert Fortier, Adam Symansky, Bill Brind | |
| Gala | Michael McKennirey, John N. Smith | |
| The Great Chess Movie (Jouer sa vie) | Hélène Verrier | |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? | Nicole M. Boisvert | |
| The Ballad of Hard Times (La Turlute des années dures) | Lucille Veilleux | |
| Mémoire battante | Nicole Lamothe | |
| 1985 6th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive | David Harel, Wayne Arron | |
| Hookers on Davie | Holly Dale, Janis Cole | |
| To the Rhythm of My Heart (Au rythme de mon coeur) | Jean-Pierre Lefebvre | |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Final Offer | Robert Collison, Sturla Gunnarsson | |
| Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got | Brigitte Berman | |
| The Choice of a People (Le Choix d'un peuple) | Bernard Lalonde | |
| Tears Are Not Enough | John Zaritsky | |
| Waterwalker | Bill Mason | |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Dads and Kids | Christian Bruyère | |
| Ranch: The Alan Wood Ranch Project | Steven DeNure, Chris Lowry | |
| Return to Departure: The Biography of a Painting or Watching a Pigment Dry and other Realisms | Kirk Tougas | |
| Les Traces du rêve | Jacques Vallée | |
| O, Zoo! | Philip Hoffman | |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| God Rides a Harley | Stavros C. Stavrides and Andreas Erne | |
| The Canneries | Stephen Insley. Bonni Devlin | |
| Dance for Modern Times | Moze Mossanen | |
| Elephant Dreams | Martha Davis | |
| To Hurt and to Heal | Laura Sky | |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Comic Book Confidential | Ron Mann | |
| Calling the Shots | Janis Cole, Holly Dale | |
| Growing Up in America | Morley Markson | |
| A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution | Nettie Wild | |
| Witnesses: The Untold War in Afghanistan | Martyn Burke, David M. Ostriker |
1990s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 11th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Strand: Under the Dark Cloth | John Walker | |
| Le Trou du diable | Richard Lavoie, François Dupuis, Marc Daigle | |
| White Lake | Colin Browne | |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| The Famine Within | Katherine Gilday | |
| Au chic resto pop | Éric Michel | |
| The Falls | Michael McMahon, Brian Dennis | |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Deadly Currents | Ric Esther Bienstock, Simcha Jacobovici and Elliott Halpern | |
| Le Steak | Manon Leriche, Pierre Falardeau | |
| Wisecracks | Gail Singer, Signe Johansson | |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman | |
| Steppin' Razor: Red X | Edgar Egger | |
| Titanica | Stephen Low | |
| The Twist | Ron Mann | |
| Une enfance à Natashquan | Yvon Provost | |
| 1994 15th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| In the Gutter and Other Good Places | Cristine Richey | |
| André Mathieu, musicien | Jean-Claude Labrecque, Micheline Blais | |
| Fat Chance | Joseph MacDonald and Charles Konowal | |
| Folk Art Found Me | Alex Busby, Mike Mahoney | |
| Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | Alanis Obomsawin, Wolf Koenig | |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| The Champagne Safari | George Ungar | |
| Motherland: Tales of Wonder | Helene Klodawsky, Signe Johansson | |
| Narmada: A Valley Rises | Ali Kazimi | |
| Silent Witness | Harriet Wichin, Christine York | |
| Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics | Kent Martin, Terre Nash | |
| 1996 17th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Bones of the Forest | Heather Frise, Velcrow Ripper | |
| Power | Magnus Isacsson | |
| Project Grizzly | Peter Lynch | |
| Une vie comme rivière | Diane Cailhier, Alain Chartrand | |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Tu as crié: Let me go | Anne Claire Poirier, Paul Lapointe, Joanne Carrière | |
| Drowning in Dreams | Michael Allder, Tim Southam | |
| Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality | Julia Sereny, Maya Gallus | |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| A Place Called Chiapas | Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild | |
| Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier | |
| The Herd | Peter Lynch, Peter Starr | |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards[1] | ||
| Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation | Gerry Flahive, Catherine Annau, Yves Bisaillon | |
| Quest for the Lost Tribes | Simcha Jacobovici, Elliott Halpern | |
| Tops & Bottoms: Sex, Power and Sadomasochism | Cristine Richey |
2000s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | ||
| Grass | Ron Mann | |
| Rocks at Whiskey Trench | Alanis Obomsawin | |
| Spirits of Havana | Bay Weyman, Peter Starr, Luis O. Garcia | |
| Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment | Éric Michel, Adam Symansky, Peter Wintonick | |
| The Fairy Faith | John Walker, Kent Martin | |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | ||
| Westray | Paul Cowan | |
| Obāchan's Garden | Selwyn Jacob, Linda Ohama | |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | ||
| Gambling, Gods and LSD | Ingrid Veninger, Peter Mettler, Alexandra Gill, Cornelia Seitler | |
| Is the Crown at War with Us? | Alanis Obomsawin | |
| Le ring intérieur | Éric Michel, Dan Bigras | |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | ||
| FIX: The Story of an Addicted City | Betsy Carson, Nettie Wild | |
| Go Further | Ron Mann | |
| The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali | Silva Basmajian, Joseph Blasioli | |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | ||
| The Corporation | Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Bart Simpson | |
| What Remains of Us (Ce qu'il reste de nous) | François Prevost, Yves Bisaillon, Hugo Latulippe | |
| Mr. Mergler's Gift | Beverly Shaffer, Germaine Wong | |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | ||
| Scared Sacred | Velcrow Ripper, Tracey Friesen, Cari Green, Harry Sutherland | |
| Thieves of Innocence (Les Voleurs d'enfance) | Paul Arcand, Denise Robert | |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | ||
| Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Gerry Flahive, Daniel Iron, Peter Starr | |
| The White Planet (La Planète Blanche) | Jean Lemire, Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert | |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards[2] | ||
| Radiant City | Gary Burns, Jim Brown, Bonnie Thompson, Shirley Vercruysse | |
| Panache | André-Line Beauparlant, Danielle Leblanc | |
| Sharkwater | Rob Stewart | |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | ||
| Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang, Mila Aung-Thwin, John Christou, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong | |
| Infiniment Québec | Jean-Claude Labrecque, Yves Fortin, Christian Medawar | |
| My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin, Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro | |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | ||
| A Hard Name | Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon, Alan Zweig | |
| Inside Hana's Suitcase | Larry Weinstein, Rudolf Biermann, Jessica Daniel | |
| Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu) | Claude Demers | |
| Prom Night in Mississippi | Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman | |
| RiP: A Remix Manifesto | Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu, Brett Gaylor, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong |
2010s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | ||
| Last Train Home | Lixin Fan, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross | |
| In the Name of the Family | Shelley Saywell, Deborah Parks | |
| Journey's End (La Belle Visite) | Jean-François Caissy | |
| Leave Them Laughing | John Zaritsky, Montana Berg | |
| You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo | Luc Côté, Patricio Henriquez | |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | ||
| At Night, They Dance | Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault | |
| Beauty Day | Jay Cheel | |
| Family Portrait in Black and White | Julia Ivanova | |
| The Guantanamo Trap | Thomas Wallner | |
| Wiebo's War | David York | |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley, Anita Lee | |
| Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles) | Eric De Gheldere, Hugo Latulippe, Colette Loumède | |
| Indie Game: The Movie | Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky | |
| Over My Dead Body | Virginie Dubois, Stéphanie Morissette, Brigitte Poupart | |
| The World Before Her | Ed Barreveld, Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe | |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky | |
| Hi-Ho Mistahey! | Alanis Obomsawin | |
| My Prairie Home | Chelsea McMullan | |
| People of a Feather | Joel Heath | |
| Vanishing Point | Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs | |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Super Duper Alice Cooper | Sam Dunn, Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen | |
| All That We Make (Fermières) | Annie St-Pierre, Luc Déry, Élaine Hébert, Kim McCraw | |
| Guidelines (La marche à suivre) | Jean-François Caissy, Johanne Bergeron, Colette Loumède | |
| Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame | Tony Girardin | |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards[3] | ||
| Hurt | Peter Gentile, Alan Zweig | |
| The Amina Profile | Isabelle Couture, Nathalie Cloutier, Hugo Latulippe, Michel St-Cyr, Guy Villeneuve, Colette Loumède | |
| Hadwin's Judgement | Sasha Snow, Elizabeth Yake, David Allen, David Christensen, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen | |
| How to Change the World | Jerry Rothwell, Al Morrow, Bous De Jong, John Murray, Jonny Persey, Stewart Le Maréchal, David Nicholas Wilkinson, John Brunton, Barbara Bowlby | |
| Last of the Elephant Men | Daniel Ferguson, Arnaud Bouquet, Ian Oliveri, Ian Quenneville, Nathalie Barton, Karim Samai, Laurent Mini | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards[4] | ||
| I Am the Blues | Daniel Cross, Bob Moore, Mila Aung-Thwin, Bruce Cowley | |
| Gulîstan, Land of Roses | Zaynê Akyol, Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering, Yanick Létourneau, Mehmet Aktas, Denis McCready | |
| Koneline: Our Land Beautiful | Nettie Wild and Betsy Carson | |
| The Prison in Twelve Landscapes | Brett Story | |
| Waseskun | Steve Patry, Nathalie Cloutier, Denis McCready and Colette Loumède | |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards[5] | ||
| Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Lisa Roth, Stevie Salas, Tim Johnson, Diana Holtzberg, Jan Rofekamp, Ernest Webb | |
| Manic | Kalina Bertin, Marina Serrao, Bob Moore, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross | |
| A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) | Christine Falco, François Jacob, Vuk Stojanovic | |
| Resurrecting Hassan | Carlo Guillermo Proto, Roxanne Sayegh, Pablo Villegas, Maria Paz Gonzalez | |
| Unarmed Verses | Charles Officer, Lea Marin | |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards[6] | ||
| Anthropocene: The Human Epoch | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky | |
| The Devil's Share (La Part du diable) | Colette Loumède, Luc Bourdon | |
| Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt | Kenneth J. Harvey | |
| Letter from Masanjia | Leon Lee | |
| What Walaa Wants | Christy Garland, Matt Code, Anne Köhncke, Justine Pimlott, Anita Lee | |
| 2019[7] 8th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard, George Hupka, Jon Montes, Bonnie Thompson, Kathy Avrich-Johnson, David Christensen, Janice Dawe | |
| Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou) | Pedro Pires | |
| Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind | Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni, John Brunton, John Murray, Gary Slaight, Allan Slaight | |
| Invisible Essence: The Little Prince | Gordon Henderson, Michael A. Levine, Michel St. Cyr, Guy Villenueve, Stuart Henderson, Jake Yanowski, Mathieu Amadei, Charles Officer | |
| Prey | Matt Gallagher, Cornelia Principe |
See also
References
- Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
- "Genie Awards in brief". Daily Gleaner, March 3, 2008.
- "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
- "2017 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Revealed". ET Canada, January 17, 2017.
- "Canadian Screen Awards 2018: All the winners". Hello! Canada, March 12, 2018.
- Pat Mullen, "2019 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary". Point of View, February 7, 2019.
- Norman Wilner, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show". Now, February 18, 2020.
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