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Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor

Retired annual Canadian media award

Summary

Retired annual Canadian media award

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actor in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1968 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1969, when no eligible feature films were submitted for award consideration, and 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year.

From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards.

From 1980 to 1983, only Canadian actors were eligible for the award; non-Canadian actors appearing in Canadian films were instead considered for the separate Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor. After 1983, the latter award was discontinued, and both Canadian and foreign actors were eligible for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five. Lead performances are now honoured with the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Film.

1960s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1968
20th Canadian Film Awards
Gerard Parkes	Isabel
1969
21st Canadian Film Awards
No award presented this year

1970s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Paul Bradley	Goin' Down the Road
Doug McGrath
1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Jean Duceppe	Mon oncle Antoine
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Gordon Pinsent	The Rowdyman
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Jacques Godin	O.K. ... Laliberté
1974
No award presented
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Stuart Gillard	Why Rock the Boat?
1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
André Melançon	Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire)
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Len Cariou	One Man
David Petersen	Skip Tracer
Craig Russell	Outrageous!
Marcel Sabourin	J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe)
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Richard Gabourie	Three Card Monte
John Juliani	Marie-Anne
Frank Moore	The Third Walker
Christopher Plummer	The Silent Partner

1980s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1980
1st Genie Awards
Christopher Plummer	Murder by Decree
Geoffrey Bowes	Something's Rotten
Robin Gammell	Jack London's Klondike Fever
Thomas Hauff	Summer's Children
Stephen Lack	The Rubber Gun
1981
2nd Genie Awards
Thomas Peacocke	The Hounds of Notre Dame
Jocelyn Bérubé	The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire)
Lewis Furey	Fantastica
Winston Rekert	Suzanne
August Schellenberg	The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin)
1982
3rd Genie Awards
Nick Mancuso	Ticket to Heaven
Gabriel Arcand	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
Gordon Pinsent	Silence of the North
Christopher Plummer	The Amateur
Winston Rekert	Heartaches
1983
4th Genie Awards
Donald Sutherland	Threshold
Gilles Renaud	A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi)
Saul Rubinek	By Design
Marcel Sabourin	Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux)
August Schellenberg	Latitude 55°
1984
5th Genie Awards
Eric Fryer	The Terry Fox Story
Pierre Curzi	Lucien Brouillard
Guy L'Écuyer	Au clair de la lune
Nick Mancuso	Maria Chapdelaine
Alan Scarfe	Deserters
1985
6th Genie Awards
Gabriel Arcand	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe)
Xavier Norman Petermann	Mario
Winston Rekert	Walls
Kiefer Sutherland	The Bay Boy
Kenneth Welsh	Reno and the Doc
1986
7th Genie Awards
John Wildman	My American Cousin
Serge Dupire	The Alley Cat (Le Matou)
Ed McNamara	Bayo
Alan Scarfe	Overnight
R. H. Thomson	Samuel Lount
1987
8th Genie Awards
Gordon Pinsent	John and the Missus
Pierre Curzi	The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
Rémy Girard	The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
Winston Rekert	The Blue Man
Kenneth Welsh	Loyalties
1988
9th Genie Awards
Roger Lebel	Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit)
David Hemblen	Family Viewing
Jason St. Amour	Train of Dreams
Gilles Maheu	Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit)
1989
10th Genie Awards
Jeremy Irons	Dead Ringers
Zachary Ansley	Cowboys Don't Cry
Elias Koteas	Malarek
Jan Rubeš	Something About Love
Saul Rubinek	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Ron White	Cowboys Don't Cry

1990s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1990
11th Genie Awards
Lothaire Bluteau	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
Maury Chaykin	Cold Comfort
Michel Côté	Cruising Bar
Michael McManus	Speaking Parts
Stephen Ouimette	The Top of His Head
1991
12th Genie Awards
Rémy Girard	Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
Brad Dourif	Chaindance
Matthias Habich	The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)
Saeed Jaffrey	Masala
Jean Rochefort	Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
1992
13th Genie Awards
Tony Nardi	The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)
Jacques Godin	Being at Home with Claude
Don McKellar	Highway 61
Gildor Roy	Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur)
Peter Weller	Naked Lunch
1993
14th Genie Awards
Tom McCamus	I Love a Man in Uniform
Roy Dupuis	Cap Tourmente
Rémy Girard	La Florida
Gilbert Sicotte	Cap Tourmente
R. H. Thomson	The Lotus Eaters
1994
15th Genie Awards
Maury Chaykin	Whale Music
Martin Drainville	Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)
Gary Farmer	Henry & Verlin
Elias Koteas	Exotica
Gilbert Sicotte	Les Pots cassés
1995
16th Genie Awards
David La Haye	Water Child (L'Enfant d'eau)
Lothaire Bluteau	The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Matthew Ferguson	Eclipse
Clive Russell	Margaret's Museum
Peter Williams	Soul Survivor
1996
17th Genie Awards
William Hutt	Long Day's Journey into Night
Jason Cadieux	Lilies
Matthew Ferguson	Lilies
Danny Gilmore	Lilies
Tom McCamus	Long Day's Journey into Night
Christopher Penn	The Boys Club
1997
18th Genie Awards
Ian Holm	The Sweet Hereafter
Robin Aubert	The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)
Bruce Greenwood	The Sweet Hereafter
Peter Outerbridge	Kissed
Alan Williams	The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati
1998
19th Genie Awards
Roshan Seth	Such a Long Journey
Rémy Girard	Les Boys
Tony Nardi	Mr. Aiello (La Déroute)
Jonathan Pryce	Regeneration
Samuel West	Rupert's Land
1999
20th Genie Awards
Bob Hoskins	Felicia's Journey
Gabriel Arcand	Post Mortem
Denis Bouchard	Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)
Joël Drapeau-Dalpé	Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)
Ralph Fiennes	Sunshine
Daniel MacIvor	The Five Senses

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2000
21st Genie Awards
Tony Nardi	My Father's Angel
David Cubitt	The Perfect Son
Colm Feore	The Perfect Son
Timothy Webber	My Father's Angel
James Whitmore	Here's to Life!
2001
22nd Genie Awards
Brendan Fletcher	The Law of Enclosures
Zachary Bennett	Desire
David La Haye	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)
Peter Outerbridge	Marine Life
Chris Owens	The Uncles
Zinedine Soualem	Tar Angel (L'Ange de goudron)
2002
23rd Genie Awards
Luc Picard	Savage Messiah
David Alpay	Ararat
Philip DeWilde	Turning Paige
Christopher Plummer	Ararat
Colin Roberts	Flower & Garnet
2003
24th Genie Awards
Rémy Girard	The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)
Raymond Bouchard	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction)
Philip Seymour Hoffman	Owning Mahowny
Robert Lepage	Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune)
Barry Pepper	The Snow Walker
2004
25th Genie Awards
Roy Dupuis	Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)
Michel Côté	The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier Tunnel)
David La Haye	Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France)
Ian McKellen	Émile
Nick Stahl	Twist
2005
26th Genie Awards
Michel Côté	C.R.A.Z.Y.
Adam Butcher	Saint Ralph
Marc-André Grondin	C.R.A.Z.Y.
Paul Kaye	It's All Gone Pete Tong
Luc Picard	Audition (L'Audition)
2006
27th Genie Awards
Roy Dupuis	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)
Colm Feore	Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Olivier Gourmet	Congorama
Patrick Huard	Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Luc Picard	A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali)
2007
28th Genie Awards
Gordon Pinsent	Away From Her
Roy Dupuis	Shake Hands With the Devil
Marc Labrèche	Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres)
Claude Legault	The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)
Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises
2008
29th Genie Awards
Natar Ungalaaq	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Paul Gross	Passchendaele
Rupinder Nagra	Amal
Christopher Plummer	Emotional Arithmetic
Aaron Poole	This Beautiful City
2009
30th Genie Awards
Joshua Jackson	One Week
Jean-Carl Boucher	1981
Paul-Dylan Ivalu	Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain)
Clark Johnson	Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Stephen McHattie	Pontypool

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2010
31st Genie Awards
Paul Giamatti	Barney's Version
Jay Baruchel	The Trotsky
Robert Naylor	10½
Timothy Olyphant	High Life
François Papineau	Route 132
2011
32nd Genie Awards
Mohamed Fellag	Monsieur Lazhar
Garret Dillahunt	Oliver Sherman
Michael Fassbender	A Dangerous Method
Patrick Huard	Starbuck
Scott Speedman	Citizen Gangster
2012
1st Canadian Screen Awards
James Cromwell	Still Mine	url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/03/03/canadian_screen_awards_raises_the_star_wattage.html	title=Canadian Screen Awards raises the star wattage	date= March 3, 2013	work=Toronto Star}}
Patrick Drolet	All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes)
Marc-André Grondin	L'Affaire Dumont
David Morse	Collaborator
Melvil Poupaud	Laurence Anyways
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Gabriel Arcand	The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement)
Brendan Gleeson	The Grand Seduction
Jake Gyllenhaal	Enemy
Daniel Radcliffe	The F Word
Rajesh Tailang	Siddharth
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Antoine Olivier Pilon	Mommy
Evan Bird	Maps to the Stars
Bruce Greenwood	Elephant Song
Michael Murphy	Fall
Ryan Reynolds	The Captive
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Jacob Tremblay	Room
Maxim Gaudette	Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers)
Jasmin Geljo	The Waiting Room
Christopher Plummer	Remember
Rossif Sutherland	River
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
Stephan James	Race
Jared Abrahamson	Hello Destroyer
Lawrence Barry	Riverhead
Chen Gang	Old Stone
Andrew Gillis	Werewolf
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Nabil Rajo	Boost
Antoine L'Écuyer	The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)
Tzi Ma	Meditation Park
Émile Proulx-Cloutier	We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres)
Gabriel Sabourin	It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier)
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Théodore Pellerin	Family First (Chien de garde)
Martin Dubreuil	The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)
Paul Nutarariaq	The Grizzlies
Brandon Oakes	Through Black Spruce
Michael Rowe	Crown and Anchor
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Mark O'Brien	Goalie
Dan Beirne	The Twentieth Century
Marc-André Grondin	Mafia Inc.
Ryan McDonald	Black Conflux
Gilbert Sicotte	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Michael Greyeyes	Blood Quantum
Lance Henriksen	Falling
Joakim Robillard	Underground (Souterrain)
Saul Williams	Akilla's Escape
Alex Wolff	Castle in the Ground
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Liam Diaz	Scarborough
Rogelio Balagtas	Islands
Pavle Čemerikić	The White Fortress (Tabija)
Phillip Lewitski	Wildhood
Thomas Antony Olajide	Learn to Swim

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