Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony.^[1] As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.^[2]

In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either category has fewer than five eligible submissions within the qualifying period; however, if both categories receive five or more eligible submissions, then separate awards are presented even if one category or the other ends up with fewer than five final nominees.^[3]

1960s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1968 20th Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Phillip Hersch	Wojeck: "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"	[4]
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Joan Finnigan	The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar	[4]

1970s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	William Fruet	Goin' Down the Road	[4]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Ian McNeill	Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man	[4]
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	Clément Perron	Mon oncle Antoine	[4]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Don Arioli	Propaganda Message and Hot Stuff	[4]
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	Gilles Carle	The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette)	[4]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Michel Tremblay	Françoise Durocher, Waitress	[4]
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	Jacques Benoît, Denys Arcand	Réjeanne Padovani	[4]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Alvin Goldman, Douglas Jackson	The Sloane Affair	[4]
1974
	No awards presented this year		[4]
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards
	Original Screenplay (Feature)
	Michel Brault	Orders (Les Ordres)	[4]
	Adapted Screenplay (Feature)
	William Weintraub	Why Rock the Boat?	[4]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Patricia Watson	A Bird in the House	[4]
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	Ted Allan	Lies My Father Told Me	[5]
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	David King	For Gentlemen Only	[4]
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards
	Original Screenplay (Feature)
	Robin Spry, Peter Pearson, Peter Madden	One Man	[4]
	Zale Dalen	Skip Tracer	[6]
	Marcel Sabourin	J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe)
	Ratch Wallace	Ragtime Summer
	Adapted Screenplay (Feature)
	James DeFelice	Why Shoot the Teacher?	[4]
	Richard Benner	Outrageous!	[6]
	Patricia Watson	Who Has Seen the Wind
	Stephen Zoller	Metal Messiah
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Cam Hubert	Dreamspeaker	[4]
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards
	Screenplay (Feature)
	Martyn Burke	Power Play	[4]
	Richard Gabourie	Three Card Monte	[7]
	William Gray, John Hunter	Blood and Guts
	Screenplay (Non-Feature)
	Gilles Carle	The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)	[4]

1980s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum	Meatballs	[4]
	Mireille Dansereau	Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur)	[8]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Diana Maddox, William Gray	The Changeling	[4]
	Ted Allan	It Rained All Night the Day I Left	[8]
	Jean Beaudin, Marcel Sabourin	Cordélia
	R. J. Dryer, Martin Lager	Jack London's Klondike Fever
	Jean-Claude Lord, Jean Salvy	Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat)
1981 2nd Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Réjean Ducharme	Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras)	[4]
	Marc Rosen	Final Assignment	[9]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Max Fischer	The Lucky Star	[4]
	Bernard Slade	Tribute	[9]
	Ronald Sutherland, Robin Spry	Suzanne
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Terence Heffernan	Heartaches	[4]
	Clay Borris	Alligator Shoes	[10]
	Paul Illidge, James Sanderson	Head On
	Adam Arkin, Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky	Improper Channels
	Réjean Ducharme	Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs)
	David Cronenberg	Scanners
	Adapted screenplay
	Roger Lemelin, Gilles Carle	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)	[4]
	Anne Cameron, Ralph L. Thomas	Ticket to Heaven	[10]
	Diana Maddox	The Amateur
1983 4th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	John Hunter	The Grey Fox	[4]
	Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor	Big Meat Eater	[11]
	David Lee Henry	Harry Tracy, Desperado
	John Juliani, Sharon Riis	Latitude 55°
	Roger Fournier	A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi)
	Adapted screenplay
	Richard Paluck, Robert Guza, Jr.	Melanie Award later rescinded, due to late discovery that it did not meet the qualifications[12]	[4]
	Peter Dion	The Hot Touch	[11]
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Bob Clark	A Christmas Story	[4]
	David Cronenberg	Videodrome	[13]
	Jack Darcus	Deserters
	Timothy Findley	The Wars
1985 6th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Daniel Petrie	The Bay Boy	[4]
	Micheline Lanctôt	Sonatine	[14]
	Michel Langlois, Léa Pool	A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel)
	Don Owen	Unfinished Business
1986 7th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Sandy Wilson	My American Cousin	[4]
	Lise Lemay-Rousseau	The Alley Cat (Le Matou)	[15]
	Mordecai Richler	Joshua Then and Now
	Louise Rinfret, Claude Jutra	The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs)
1987 8th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Denys Arcand	The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)	[4]
	Sharon Riis	Loyalties	[16]
	Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi	Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)
	Richard Nichol	Sitting in Limbo
	Michael Jones, Andy Jones	The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
	Adapted screenplay
	Leon Marr	Dancing in the Dark	[4]
	Gordon Pinsent	John and the Missus	[16]
	Peter Rowe	Lost!
1988 9th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Jean-Claude Lauzon	Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit)	[4]
	Sally Bochner, John N. Smith, Sam Grana	Train of Dreams	[17]
	Atom Egoyan	Family Viewing
	William D. MacGillivray	Life Classes
	Patricia Rozema	I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
1989 10th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman	Milk and Honey	[4]
	André Melançon, Jacques Bobet	The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine)	[18]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Norman Snider, David Cronenberg	Dead Ringers	[4]
	Jackie Burroughs	A Winter Tan	[18]
	Francis Mankiewicz, Jacques Savoie	The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
	Robin Spry, Douglas Bowie	Obsessed
	Phil Savath	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

1990s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Denys Arcand	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)	[4]
	Anne Wheeler	Bye Bye Blues	[19]
	Don McKellar	Roadkill
	Atom Egoyan	Speaking Parts
	Colleen Murphy	Termini Station
	Peter Mettler	The Top of His Head
	Adapted screenplay
	Richard Beattie, Elliot L. Sims	Cold Comfort	[4]
	Dany Laferrière, Richard Sadler	How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer)	[19]
	John Varley	Millennium
1991 12th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Paul Quarrington, Eugene Lipinski	Perfectly Normal	[4]
	Claire Wojas	Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)	[20]
	Darrell Wasyk	H
	Pierre Falardeau	The Party (Le Party)
	André Forcier, Jacques Marcotte	An Imaginary Tale (Une Histoire inventée)
	Adapted screenplay
	Brian Moore	Black Robe	[4]
	James DeFelice, Anne Wheeler	Angel Square	[20]
	Léa Pool, Laurent Gagliardi, Michel Langlois	The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)
1992 13th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Jean-Claude Lauzon	Léolo	[21]
	Paul Donovan, Bill Fleming	Buried on Sunday	[22]
	Paul Tana, Bruno Ramirez	The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)
	Jeff Schultz	North of Pittsburgh
	Francis Damberger	Solitaire
	Adapted screenplay
	David Cronenberg	Naked Lunch	[21]
	Kelly Rebar	Bordertown Café	[22]
	Yvon Rivard, Jacques Leduc	Phantom Life (La Vie fantôme)
	David Brandes	The Quarrel
	Gail Singer	True Confections
1993 14th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Peggy Thompson	The Lotus Eaters	[4]
	Suzette Couture, Pierre Sarrazin	La Florida	[23]
	Atom Egoyan	Calendar
	François Girard, Don McKellar	Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
	David King	Harmony Cats
1994 15th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Atom Egoyan	Exotica	[4]
	Mina Shum	Double Happiness	[24]
	Gilles Desjardins	Les Pots cassés
	Roger Cantin	Matusalem
	Léa Pool	Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir)
	Adapted screenplay
	Brad Fraser	Love and Human Remains	[4]
	Jefferson Lewis	Ordinary Magic	[24]
	Paul Quarrington, Richard J. Lewis	Whale Music
1995 16th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Gerald Wexler, Mort Ransen	Margaret's Museum	[4]
	Sylvain Guy	Black List (Liste noire)	[25]
	Clément Virgo	Rude
	Stephen Williams	Soul Survivor
1996 17th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Pierre Gang	Not Me! (Sous-sol)	[4]
	Andrew Rai Berzins	Blood and Donuts	[26]
	Gilles Carle	Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur)
	Donald Martin	Never Too Late
	Peter Wellington, Doug Smith	The Boys Club
	Adapted screenplay
	David Cronenberg	Crash	[4]
	Noel S. Baker	Hard Core Logo	[26]
	Michel Marc Bouchard, Linda Gaboriau	Lilies
	John L'Ecuyer	Curtis's Charm
	Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard	Polygraph (Le Polygraphe)
1997 18th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Thom Fitzgerald	The Hanging Garden	[4]
	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	[27]
	André Forcier	The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)
	Gabriel Pelletier, Yves Pelletier, Andrée Pelletier, Ann Burke	Karmina
	Lynne Stopkewich, Angus Fraser	Kissed
1998 19th Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	François Girard, Don McKellar	The Red Violin	[28]
	Don McKellar	Last Night	[29]
	André Morency, Robert Lepage	Nô
	Allan Scott	Regeneration
	Sooni Taraporevala	Such a Long Journey
1999 20th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Louis Bélanger	Post Mortem	[4]
	Bruce McCulloch	Dog Park	[30]
	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)
	Adapted screenplay
	Atom Egoyan	Felicia's Journey	[4]
	François Bouvier, Marc Robitaille	Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)	[30]
	Jean-Philippe Duval, Alexis Martin	Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)
	Kim Hogan	Heart of the Sun
	Wayne Johnston	The Divine Ryans
	Monique Proulx, Jean Beaudin	Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes)

2000s

Year	Nominees	Film	Ref
2000 21st Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Denis Villeneuve	Maelström	[31]
	Denys Arcand, Jacob Potashnik	Stardom
	Frank Borg	My Father's Angel
	Michel Marc Bouchard, Gilles Desjardins	The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines)
	Clement Virgo	Love Come Down
2001 22nd Genie Awards
	Screenplay
	Paul Apak Angilirq	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	[32]
	Renny Bartlett	Eisenstein
	Catherine Martin	Marriages (Mariages)
	Judith Thompson	Lost and Delirious
	André Turpin	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)
2002 23rd Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Deepa Mehta	Bollywood/Hollywood	[33]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Sharon Riis	Savage Messiah	[33]
	Dominique Demers	The Mysterious Miss C. (La Mystérieuse mademoiselle C.)
	Patrick McGrath	Spider
	Edward Riche	Rare Birds
	Judith Thompson	Perfect Pie
2003 24th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)
	Louis Bélanger	Gaz Bar Blues	[34]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Robert Lepage	Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune)
	Maurice Chauvet	Owning Mahowny	[34]
	Daniel MacIvor	Marion Bridge
	Charles Martin Smith	The Snow Walker
	Esta Spalding	Falling Angels
2004 25th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Francis Leclerc, Marcel Beaulieu	Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)	[35]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Luc Dionne, Sylvain Guy	Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)	[35]
	Joël Champetier, Daniel Roby	White Skin (La Peau blanche)
	Jerry Ciccoritti	Blood
	Todd Klinck, Jaie Laplante, John Palmer	Sugar
	Jacob Tierney	Twist
2005 26th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Jean-Marc Vallée, François Boulay	C.R.A.Z.Y.	[36]
	Louise Archambault	Familia
	Michael Dowse	It's All Gone Pete Tong
	Deepa Mehta	Water
	Luc Picard	Audition (L'Audition)
	Adapted screenplay
	Atom Egoyan	Where the Truth Lies	[36]
	Diane Cailhier	The Outlander (Le Survenant)
	David Christensen	Six Figures
	Luc Dionne	Aurore
	Nathalie Petrowski	Maman Last Call
2006 27th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Philippe Falardeau	Congorama
	Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté	A Family Secret (Le secret de ma mère)	[37]
	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)
	Adapted screenplay
	Robert Favreau, Gil Courtemanche	A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali)
	Mike Clattenburg, Robb Wells	Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
	François Létourneau	Cheech
2007 28th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Steven Knight	Eastern Promises	[38]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Sarah Polley	Away From Her	[38]
	Michael Donovan	Shake Hands With the Devil
	Maureen Medved	The Tracey Fragments
2008 29th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Bernard Émond	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)	[39]
	Randall Cole	Real Time
	Travis McDonald	Normal
	Deepa Mehta	Heaven on Earth
	Guillaume Vigneault	Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)
	Adapted screenplay
	Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Lyne Charlebois	Borderline	[39]
	Richie Mehta, Shaun Mehta	Amal
	Jeremy Podeswa	Fugitive Pieces
2009 30th Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Jacques Davidts	Polytechnique	[40]
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Kari Skogland	Fifty Dead Men Walking	[40]
	Tony Burgess	Pontypool
	Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq, Madeline Ivalu	Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain)

2010s

Year	Nominees	Films	Ref
2010 31st Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Jacob Tierney	The Trotsky	[41]
	Peter Stebbings	Defendor
	Adriana Maggs	Grown Up Movie Star
	Louis Bélanger, Alexis Martin	Route 132
	Claude Lalonde	10½
	Adapted screenplay
	Denis Villeneuve	Incendies	[41]
	Michael Konyves	Barney's Version
	Lee MacDougall	High Life
	Vic Sarin, Dennis Foon, Catherine Spear	A Shine of Rainbows
	Patrick Senécal	7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion)
2011 32nd Genie Awards
	Original screenplay
	Ken Scott, Martin Petit	Starbuck	[42]
	Anne Émond	Nuit #1
	Eilis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki	The Whistleblower
	Jean-Marc Vallée	Café de Flore
	Ryan Ward, Matthew Heiti	Son of the Sunshine
	Adapted screenplay
	Philippe Falardeau	Monsieur Lazhar	[42]
	Ryan Redford	Oliver Sherman
	Steven Silver	The Bang Bang Club
	David F. Shamoon	In Darkness
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Kim Nguyen	War Witch (Rebelle)
	Jason Buxton	Blackbird	[43]
	Xavier Dolan	Laurence Anyways
	Bernard Émond	All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes)
	Michael McGowan	Still Mine
	Adapted screenplay
	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
	Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg	Goon	[43]
	David Cronenberg	Cosmopolis
	Anita Doron	The Lesser Blessed
	Martin Villeneuve	Mars and April (Mars et Avril)
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Elan Mastai	The F Word
	Michel Marc Bouchard, Xavier Dolan	Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)
	Javier Gullón	Enemy
	Robert Lepage	Triptyque
	Ken Scott, Michael Dowse	The Grand Seduction
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Xavier Dolan	Mommy
	Pearl Ball-Harding, Albert Shin	In Her Place	[44]
	Atom Egoyan, David Fraser	The Captive
	Stéphane Lafleur	You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)
	Bruce Wagner	Maps to the Stars
	Adapted screenplay
	Nicolas Billon	Elephant Song
	Scott Abramovitch	The Calling
	Joel Thomas Hynes	Cast No Shadow
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Benjamin August	Remember
	Anne Émond	Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers)	[45]
	Philippe Falardeau	My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t'en-guerre)
	Matthew Hansen	Zoom
	André Turpin	Endorphine
	Adapted screenplay
	Emma Donoghue	Room
	Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout	Eadweard	[45]
	Wiebke von Carolsfeld	The Saver
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Daniel MacIvor	Weirdos
	Kevan Funk	Hello Destroyer	[46]
	Zacharias Kunuk	Searchers (Maliglutit)
	Johnny Ma	Old Stone
	Stella Meghie	Jean of the Joneses
	Adapted screenplay
	Xavier Dolan	It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)
	Bachir Bensaddek	Montreal, White City (Montréal la blanche)	[46]
	David Bezmozgis	Natasha
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	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
	Adapted screenplay
	Anita Doron	The Breadwinner
	Nicole Bélanger	Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)
	Susan Coyne	The Man Who Invented Christmas
	Simon Lavoie	The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)
	Gabriel Sabourin	It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier)
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	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)
	Adapted screenplay
	Robert Budreau	Stockholm
	Sharon Lewis	Brown Girl Begins
	Nathan Parker	Our House
	Arturo Pérez Torres	The Drawer Boy
	Paul Risacher, Claude Landry, Maxime Landry	Racetime (La Course des tuques)
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open	[47]
	Jonas Chernick, Jeremy Lalonde	James vs. His Future Self	[48]
	Anne Émond	Young Juliette (Jeune Juliette)
	Matthew Rankin	The Twentieth Century
	Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis	White Lie
	Adapted screenplay
	Sophie Deraspe	Antigone	[47]
	Louise Archambault	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)	[48]
	Denis Côté	Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparus)
	Guillaume de Fontenay, Guillaume Vigneault, Jean Barbe	Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable)
	Myriam Verreault, Naomi Fontaine	Kuessipan

2020s

Year	Nominees	Films	Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Charles Officer, Wendy Motion Brathwaite	Akilla's Escape	[49]
	Jeff Barnaby	Blood Quantum	[50]
	Sean Durkin	The Nest
	Sophie Dupuis	Underground (Souterrain)
	Evan Morgan	The Kid Detective
	Adapted screenplay
	Shyam Selvadurai, Deepa Mehta	Funny Boy	[49]
	Johnny Darrell, Andrew Duncan, Loretta Todd	Monkey Beach	[50]
	Patrick deWitt	French Exit
	Catherine Léger	Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)
	Taylor Olson	Bone Cage
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Danis Goulet	Night Raiders	[51]
	Igor Drljaca	The White Fortress (Tabija)	[52]
	Bretten Hannam	Wildhood
	Kaveh Nabatian	Without Havana (Sin la Habana)
	Mark O'Brien	The Righteous
	Adapted screenplay
	Catherine Hernandez	Scarborough	[51]
	David Bezmozgis, Erik Rutherford	Charlotte	[52]
	Sylvain Guy	Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions)
	Fred Pellerin	The Time Thief (L'Arracheuse de temps)
	Éric Tessier	You Will Remember Me (Tu te souviendras de moi)
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Anthony Shim	Riceboy Sleeps	[53]
	Marie Clements	Bones of Crows	[54]
	Sadaf Foroughi	Summer with Hope
	Sophie Jarvis	Until Branches Bend
	Stéphane Lafleur, Éric K. Boulianne	Viking
	Adapted screenplay
	Clement Virgo	Brother	[53]
	Charlotte Le Bon	Falcon Lake	[54]
	Catherine Léger	Babysitter
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	[55]
	Monia Chokri	The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain)	[56]
	Brandon Cronenberg	Infinity Pool
	Delphine Girard	Through the Night (Quitter la nuit)
	Cody Lightning, Samuel Miller	Hey, Viktor!
	Pascal Plante	Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges)
	Adapted screenplay
	Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller	BlackBerry	[55]
	Sarah-Maude Beauchesne	Billie Blue (Cœur de slush)	[56]
	Éric K. Boulianne, Francis Leclerc	The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur)
	Jacques Davidts	Ru
	Fawzia Mirza	The Queen of My Dreams
	Alexandra Weir	North of Normal
2024 13th Canadian Screen Awards
	Original screenplay
	Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Ila Firouzabadi	Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	[57]
	Henry Bernadet, Isabelle Brouillette, Nicolas Krief	Gamma Rays (Les Rayons gammma)	[58]
	Karen Chapman	Village Keeper
	Kaniehtiio Horn	Seeds
	Sarah Lévesque, François Péloquin	The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces)
	Jerome Yoo	Mongrels
	Adapted screenplay
	Sook-Yin Lee, Joanne Sarazen	Paying for It	[57]
	Jason Buxton	Sharp Corner	[58]
	Sophie Deraspe, Mathyas Lefebure	Shepherds (Bergers)
	Atom Egoyan	Seven Veils
	Sébastien Girard	Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux)
	Naomi Jaye	Darkest Miriam

See also

• Prix Iris for Best Screenplay