Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay

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The Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay is an award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for film writers. The academy presents the award when there are more than five films eligible for the category and five films eligible for Best Adapted Screenplay in a year; otherwise, a single Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay is awarded. [1] Previously, the film awards were presented as part of the Genie Awards; in 2013 they were merged into the Gemini Awards as the Canadian Screen Awards. [2] Before 1979, film honours were presented under the Canadian Film Awards. [3]

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1970s

YearWinnerFilm
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Michel Brault Les Ordres
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Robin Spry, Peter Pearson, Peter Madden One Man

1980s

YearNomineesFilm
1980
1st Genie Awards
Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum Meatballs
Mireille Dansereau Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur)
Allan Moyle, John Laing, Stephen Lack The Rubber Gun
Jim Osborne Summer's Children
Anne Claire Poirier, Marthe Blackburn A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête)
Steven Hilliard Stern Running
1981 [4]
2nd Genie Awards
Réjean Ducharme Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras)
Marc Rosen Final Assignment
Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jacques Benoit The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin)
Micheline Lanctôt The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire)
Ken Mitchell The Hounds of Notre Dame
1982
3rd Genie Awards
Terence Heffernan Heartaches
Clay Borris Alligator Shoes
Paul Illidge, James Sanderson Head On
Adam Arkin, Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky Improper Channels
Réjean Ducharme Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs)
David Cronenberg Scanners
1983
4th Genie Awards
John Hunter The Grey Fox
Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor Big Meat Eater
David Lee Henry Harry Tracy, Desperado
John Juliani, Sharon Riis Latitude 55°
Roger Fournier A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi)
1987
8th Genie Awards
Denys Arcand The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
Sharon Riis Loyalties
Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)
Richard Nichol Sitting in Limbo
Michael Jones, Andy Jones The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
1989 [5]
10th Genie Awards
Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman Milk and Honey
André Melançon, Jacques Bobet The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine)
Marie-José Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir)
Guy Maddin Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Michael Rubbo Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

1990s

YearNomineesFilm
1990 [6]
11th Genie Awards
Denys Arcand Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
Anne Wheeler Bye Bye Blues
Don McKellar Roadkill
Atom Egoyan Speaking Parts
Colleen Murphy Termini Station
Peter Mettler The Top of His Head
1991
12th Genie Awards
Paul Quarrington, Eugene Lipinski Perfectly Normal
Claire Wojas Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
Darrell Wasyk H
Pierre Falardeau The Party (Le Party)
André Forcier, Jacques Marcotte An Imaginary Tale (Une Histoire inventée)
1992 [7]
13th Genie Awards
Jean-Claude Lauzon Léolo
Paul Donovan, Bill Fleming Buried on Sunday
Paul Tana, Bruno Ramirez La Sarrasine
Jeff Schultz North of Pittsburgh
Francis Damberger Solitaire
1994
15th Genie Awards
Atom Egoyan Exotica
Mina Shum Double Happiness
Gilles Desjardins Les Pots cassés
Roger Cantin Matusalem
Léa Pool Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir)
1996
17th Genie Awards
Pierre Gang Not Me! (Sous-sol)
Andrew Rai Berzins Blood and Donuts
Gilles Carle Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur)
Donald Martin Never Too Late
Peter Wellington, Doug Smith The Boys Club
1999 [8]
20th Genie Awards
Louis Bélanger Post Mortem
Bruce McCulloch Dog Park
Jeremy Podeswa The Five Senses
Léa Pool Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)
Monique Proulx The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand Serpent du monde)

2000s

YearNomineesFilm
2002 [9]
23rd Genie Awards
Deepa Mehta Bollywood/Hollywood
Atom Egoyan Ararat
Paul Gross, John Krizanc Men with Brooms
Robert Morin The Negro (Le nèg')
Jean-Phillipe Pearson, Patrice Robitaille, Ricardo Trogi Québec-Montréal
2003 [10]
24th Genie Awards
Denys Arcand The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)
Louis Bélanger Gaz Bar Blues
Sébastien Rose How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)
Ken Scott Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction)
Peter Wellington Luck
2004
25th Genie Awards
Francis Leclerc, Marcel Beaulieu Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)
Denise Filiatrault Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)
Federico Hidalgo, Paulina Robles A Silent Love
Don McKellar, Michael Goldbach Childstar
David "Sudz" Sutherland Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
2005 [11]
26th Genie Awards
Jean-Marc Vallée, François Boulay C.R.A.Z.Y.
Louise Archambault Familia
Michael Dowse It's All Gone Pete Tong
Deepa Mehta Water
Luc Picard Audition (L'Audition)
2006
27th Genie Awards
Philippe Falardeau Congorama
Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté A Family Secret (Le secret de ma mère)
Stéphane Lapointe The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux)
Ken Scott The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petite vengeance)
Ken Scott The Rocket (Maurice Richard)
2007 [12]
28th Genie Awards [13]
Steven Knight Eastern Promises
Denys Arcand Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres)
Douglas Coupland Everything's Gone Green
Pierre Lamothe, Claude Lalonde The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)
Marc-André Lavoie, Simon Olivier Fecteau and David Gauthier Bluff
2008 [14]
29th Genie Awards
Bernard Émond The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Randall Cole Real Time
Travis McDonald Normal
Deepa Mehta Heaven on Earth
Guillaume Vigneault Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)
2009 [15]
30th Genie Awards
Jacques Davidts Polytechnique
David Bezmozgis Victoria Day
Atom Egoyan Adoration
Émile Gaudreault, Ian Lauzon Father and Guns (De père en flic)
Charles Officer, Ingrid Veninger Nurse.Fighter.Boy

2010s

YearFilmFilmmakers
2010 [16]
31st Genie Awards
Jacob Tierney The Trotsky
Peter Stebbings Defendor
Adriana Maggs Grown Up Movie Star
Louis Bélanger, Alexis Martin Route 132
Claude Lalonde 10½
2011 [17]
32nd Genie Awards
Ken Scott, Martin Petit Starbuck
Anne Émond Nuit #1
Eilis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki The Whistleblower
Jean-Marc Vallée Café de Flore
Ryan Ward, Matthew Heiti Son of the Sunshine
2012 [18]
1st Canadian Screen Awards
Kim Nguyen War Witch (Rebelle)
Jason Buxton Blackbird
Xavier Dolan Laurence Anyways
Bernard Émond All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes)
Michael McGowan Still Mine
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Shannon Masters Empire of Dirt
Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Marc Tulin Whitewash
Richie Mehta Siddharth
Sébastien Pilote The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement)
Jonathan Sobol The Art of the Steal
2014 [19]
Xavier Dolan Mommy
Pearl Ball-Harding, Albert Shin In Her Place
Atom Egoyan, David Fraser The Captive
Stéphane Lafleur Tu dors Nicole
Bruce Wagner Maps to the Stars
2015 [20]
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Benjamin August Remember
Anne Émond Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers)
Philippe Falardeau My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t'en-guerre)
Matthew Hansen Zoom
André Turpin Endorphine
2016 [21]
5th Canadian Screen Awards
Daniel MacIvor Weirdos
Kevan Funk Hello Destroyer
Zacharias Kunuk Searchers (Maliglutit)
Johnny Ma Old Stone
Stella Meghie Jean of the Joneses
2017 [22]
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Sherry White Maudie
Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout Adventures in Public School
Sadaf Foroughi Ava
Kathleen Hepburn Never Steady, Never Still
Sarah Kolasky, Adam Garnet Jones Great Great Great
2018 [23]
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Catherine Léger Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun)
Renée Beaulieu Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau)
Marc Bisaillon With Love (L'Amour)
Philippe Lesage Genesis (Genèse)
Guillaume Lemans Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume)
2019 [24]
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Jonas Chernick, Jeremy Lalonde James vs. His Future Self
Anne Émond Jeune Juliette
Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Matthew Rankin The Twentieth Century
Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis White Lie

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