The Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour achievements in visual effects in Canadian film.
The award was introduced for the first time at the 32nd Genie Awards. It has been presented since as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Note that years listed here are the year of the nominated films' release, not the year of the award presentation.
| Year | Nominees | Films | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | |||
| Vincent Dudouet, Cynthia Mourou, Éric Normandin, Martin Pensa, Marc Cote, Stephanie Broussaud, Sylvain Theroux, Luc Sansfacon, Nathalie Tremblay, Garry Chuntz | Café de Flore | ||
| Ovidiu Cinazan, Mike Borrett, Milan Schere, Oliver Hearsey, Dennis Berardi, Mathew Borrett, Wilson Cameron, Jim Price, Wojciech Zielinski, Jason Edwardh | A Dangerous Method | ||
| Robert Crowther, Tony Cybulski, Ian Britton, Tom Turnbull | Citizen Gangster | ||
| Geoffroy Lauzon | BumRush | ||
| Jacques Levesque, Eve Brunet, Philippe Roberge | Snow & Ashes | ||
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Dennis Berardi, Jason Edwardh, Matt Glover, Trey Harrell, Leann Harvey, Jo Hughes, Ethan Lee, Scott Riopelle, Eric Robinson, Kyle Yoneda | Resident Evil: Retribution | ||
| Dennis Berardi, Keith Acheson, Michael Borrett, Wilson Cameron, Michael DiCarlo, Tom Nagy, Britton Plewes, Scott Riopelle, Matt Whelan, Wojciech Zielinski | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D | ||
| Ève Brunet, Marc Morissette, Alexandra Vaillancourt | War Witch (Rebelle) | ||
| Ralph Maiers, Debora Dunphy, John Fukushima, Patrick Kavanaugh, Bill Martin, Chris Philips, Jeremy Price, Kenton Rannie, Lauren Weidel | Midnight's Children | ||
| Carlos Monzon, Martin Belleau, Dominic Daigle, Nathalie Dupont, Gaël Hollard, Benoît Ladouceur, Viviane Levesque Bouchard, Jérémie Lodomez, Anie Normandin, Alexandra Vaillancourt | Mars and April (Mars et Avril) | ||
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Andy Robinson, Dennis Berardi, Edward J. Taylor IV, James Cooper, Jason Edwardh, Jo Hughes, Leann Harvey, Sean Mills, Stephen Wagner, Trey Harrell | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | ||
| Aélis Héraud, Antoine Wibaut, Catherine Hébert, Cyntha Carrier, David Raymond, Jonathan Legris, Josée Chapdelaine, Louis-Alexandre Lord, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Sarah Neveu | Louis Cyr | ||
| Annie Normandin, Dominic Daigle, François Dumoulin, Marc Morisette, Olivier Goulet | Upside Down | ||
| Laetitia Séguin, Marie-Cecile Dahan, Mathieu Veillette, Matthew Rouleau, Mikael Damant-Sirois, Patrick David and Vincent Poitras | Enemy | ||
| Aaron Weintraub, Ayo Burgess, Dennis Berardi, Edward J. Taylor IV, Jason Gougeon, Kyle Yoneda, Michael Borrett, Michael Rice, Sarah McMurdo, Tamara Stone | Mama | ||
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Keith Acheson, Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Naomi Foakes, Jo Hughes, Chris MacLean, Mohsen Mousavi, Scott Riopelle, Andy Robinson, Eric Robinson | Pompeii | ||
| Ian Britton, Robert Crowther, Steve Elliott, Oleksiy Golovchenko, Matt Philip, Jiang Shuming, Jay Stanners, Rob Tasker, Perunika Yorgova, Lexi Young | Wet Bum | ||
| Jason Dowdeswell, Neil Eskuri, Patti Gannon, Ivan Hayden, Neil Impey, Zach Lipovsky, James Rorick, Adele Venables | Afflicted | ||
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Phil Jones, Sarah Wormsbecher, Eric Doiron, Anthony DeChellis, Lon Molnar, Geoff D.E. Scott, Nathan Larouche, Mark Fordham | Hyena Road | ||
| Marcelo Alves de Souza, Paulo Barcellos, Adams Carvalho, George Schall, Luis Dourado, Emerson Bonadias, Diego Moreira, Luciano Santa Barbara, Thiago Sá, Luis Dreyfuss | Zoom | ||
| Eric Doiron, Sarah Wormsbecher, Nathan Larouche, Anthony DeChellis, Geoff D.E. Scott, Jason Snea, Joel Chambers, Kaiser Thomas, Lon Molnar, Rob Kennedy | Remember | ||
| Alain Lachance, Eve Brunet | Endorphine | ||
| Darren Wall | Borealis | ||
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Martin Lipmann, Cynthia Mourou, Benoît Touchette, Jonathan Piché-Delorme, Frédéric Breault | Race | ||
| Bob Habros, Adele Venables, Julika Pape, Milos Djakovic, Adam Kube, Mike Wearing, Richard Darwin | The Unseen | ||
| Tristan Zerafa | Operation Avalanche | ||
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Alain Lachance, Yann Jouannic, Hugo Léveillé, Nadège Bozetti, Antonin Messier-Turcotte, Thibault Deloof, Francis Bernard | Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes) | ||
| Greg Behrens, Brendan Taylor, Jasmine Scott, Martin O'Brien | The Man Who Invented Christmas | ||
| Marc Hall | The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron) | ||
| Marc Hall, Jonathan Cyr, Emmanuel Bazin, Clément Natiez, Emmanuelle Gill | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) | ||
| Jonathan Piché Delorme, Fabienne Mouillac, Alain Lachance, Caroline Guagliardo, Alexandre Tremblay, Thibault Deloof, Benoit Gagnon | We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) | ||
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Benoit Brière, Bruno Maillard | Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) | ||
| William Chang, Brian Huynh | Our House | ||
| Philippe Frère, Stéphane Thibert, Alexandre Rouil, Véronique Dessard, Loïc Poës, Barthélémy Beaux, Morgan Hardy, Bernard Devillers, Gaël Durant | The Hummingbird Project | ||
| Fredrik Nord | Stockholm | ||
| Jean-François Talbot, Jean-Pierre Boies | 1991 | ||
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Adam Jewett, Steve Ramone, Michelle Brennen, Tim Sibley, Aneesh Bhatnagar, Saikrishna Aleti, Peter Giliberti, Alex Basso, Arminus Billones, Marshall Lau | Brotherhood | ||
| Sam Javanrouh, Helen Thach | Astronaut | [1] | |
| Steven Sangster | Road to the Lemon Grove | ||
| Benoît Brière, Kinga Sabela | Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable) | ||
| Marc-Antoine Rousseau | The Song of Names |
| Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Joshua Sherrett, Barbara Rosenstein, Ibi Atemie, David Atexide, Juan Carlos Ferrá, Alex Flynn, Andrei Gheorghiu, Felix Sherrett-Brown, Ali Hamidikia, Tony Wu | Blood Quantum | [2] | |
| Brian Huynh, William Chang, Steven Huynh, Sophia Jooyeon Lee, Justin Perreault | Code 8 | [3] | |
| Peter McAuley, Michael Bishop, Derek Gebhart, Armen Bunag, Luke White, James Marin, Marco Polsinelli, Andrew Rolfe, Davor Celar | Funny Boy | ||
| Liam Neville, Kenneth Coyne, Piers Larchet, Rob Murray, Shane Browne, Dave Thomas, Mihail Dumbravestu, Allen Sillery, Christoph Gaudi, Michael McCarthy | French Exit | ||
| François Trudel, Cynthia Mourou | Laughter (Le Rire) | ||
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Martin Tori, Darwin Go, John Mariella, Frank Rueter | Night Raiders | [4] | |
| Alex Boothby | All My Puny Sorrows | [5] | |
| Marc Côté, Michael Beaulac, Robert Rioux, Lisa Purisima, Maxime Lepage, Anouk Cazalis, Alex Harvey, Wesley Lemieux, Daniel Coupal, Randy Santandrea | Brain Freeze | ||
| Matthew J.R. Bishop, Ila Soleimani, Jeff Robinson, Aravindan Rajasingham, Gustavo Fernandes, Belma Abdicevic, Tom Perry, Steve Lowry, Tarl Lambert | Dino Dana: The Movie | ||
| Alain Lachance, Loïc Laurelut, Eric Clément, Marie-Claude Lafontaine | The Time Thief (L'arracheuse de temps) | ||
| 2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Peter MacAuley, Kayden Anderson, Tom Turnbull, Caitlin Foster | Crimes of the Future | [6] | |
| Landon Bootsma, Dexter Davey, Ashley Hampton, Milton Muller, Dmitry Vinnik | Until Branches Bend | [7] | |
| Jean-François Ferland, Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Charles Lamoureux | Lines of Escape (Lignes de fuite) | ||
| Eric Gambini, Sarah Krusch Flanagan, Louis Mackall, Virginie Strub, Andrew Joe, Gabriel Chiang, Linus Burghardt | Bones of Crows | ||
| Marc Hall | Babysitter | ||
| James Anthony Young | Cult Hero | ||
| 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Andy Robinson | Infinity Pool | [8] | |
| Jeff Bruneel, James Miligan, Tamara Young, Nick Winger, Adam Graves | In Flames | [9] | |
| Adam Graves | The King Tide | ||
| Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Jean-François Ferland, Simon Beaupré | One Summer (Le temps d'un été) | ||
| Tristan Zerafa, Lou Gatti, Matthew Nayman, Mike Boers | BlackBerry |
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