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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
1970s
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
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af 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.