The Donald Brittain Award is a Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour the year's best television documentary on a social or political topic. Formerly presented as part of the Gemini Awards, since 2013 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. The award may be presented to either a standalone broadcast of a documentary film, or to an individual full-length episode of a news or documentary series; documentary films which originally premiered theatrically, but were not already submitted for consideration in a CSA film category before being broadcast on television, are also considered television films for the purposes of the award.
The award is named in honour of Donald Brittain, a pioneering Canadian documentary filmmaker. [1] On one occasion to date, the award has been won by a documentary film about Brittain and his importance to the history of Canadian documentary film.
Year | Film | Filmmakers | Ref |
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2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
9/11 Kids | Steve Gamester, Michael Kot, Betty Orr, Elizabeth St. Philip | [47] | |
Above the Law | Geoff Morrison, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal | [48] | |
Assholes: A Theory | Ann Bernier, Annette Clarke, John Walker | ||
Meat the Future | Liz Marshall, Janice Dawe, Chris Hegedus | ||
The Walrus and the Whistleblower | Frederic Bohbot, Nathalie Bibeau | ||
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Ghosts of Afghanistan | Arnie Gelbart, Julian Sher, Natalie Dubois | [49] | |
Big News | Catherine Legge, Saman Malik, Michelle Mètivier, Sarah Peterson, Michael Gruzuk | [50] | |
Dispatches from a Field Hospital | Matt Gallagher, Cornelia Principe | ||
No Responders Left Behind | Rob Lindsay, Jaime Sanchez, Kelly Zemnickis, Kristine Yanoff | ||
We Know the Truth: Stories to Inspire Reconciliation | Meagan Fiddler, Bertram Schneider | ||
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
The Pretendians | Drew Hayden Taylor, Paul Kemp | [51] | |
Come Clean | Derreck Roemer, Neil Graham | [52] | |
Dear Jackie | Henri Pardo, Katarina Soukup | ||
Marketplace : "Crisis in Home Care" | Tiffany Foxcroft | ||
My Indian Name | Abraham Cote, Jason Brennan | ||
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
Coming Home: Wanna Icipus Kupi | Jennifer Podemski, Ernest Webb, Tanya Brunel, Michelle van Beusekom, Daniel Morin, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick | [53] | |
Category Woman | Howard Fraiberg | [54] | |
Marketplace : "Mortgage Fraud Caught on Camera" | Tiffany Foxcroft, Nelisha Vellani | ||
Naked: Sex and Gender | Michael McMahon, Kevin McMahon, Kay Siering | ||
The Passionate Eye : "Inside the Statue Wars" | Steve Gamester, Yuma Dean Hester, Elizabeth St. Philip, Michael Kot |
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