Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actor in a Canadian film.^[1] The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 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.

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.^[2] Supporting performances are now honoured with the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Film.

1970s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards
	Gratien Gélinas	Red	[1]
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards
	Danny Freedman	Fortune and Men's Eyes	[1]
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards
	Donald Pilon	The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette)	[1]
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards
	Willie Lamothe	The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron)	[1]
1974
	No award presented		[1]
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards
	Henry Beckman	Why Rock the Boat?	[1]
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards
	Frank Moore	The Far Shore	[1]
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards
	Jean Lapointe	One Man	[1]
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards
	Henry Beckman	Blood and Guts	[1]
	Michael Ironside	I, Maureen	[3]
	Robert MacKay	I, Maureen

1980s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Gordon Pinsent	Jack London's Klondike Fever	[1]
	Harvey Atkin	Meatballs	[4]
	Lawrence Dane	Running
	Chris Makepeace	Meatballs
	Saul Rubinek	Agency
	Robert A. Silverman	The Brood
1981 2nd Genie Awards
	Germain Houde	Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras)	[1]
	Gabriel Arcand	Suzanne	[5]
	David Ferry	The Hounds of Notre Dame
	Robert Joy	Atlantic City, U.S.A.
	John Marley	Tribute
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	Saul Rubinek	Ticket to Heaven	[1]
	Nicholas Campbell	The Amateur	[6]
	Émile Genest	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
	Michael Ironside	Scanners
	R. H. Thomson	Ticket to Heaven
1983 4th Genie Awards
	R. H. Thomson	If You Could See What I Hear	[1]
	Nicholas Campbell	The Man in 5A	[7]
	Doug McGrath	Porky's
	Gary Reineke	The Grey Fox
	Wayne Robson	The Grey Fox
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Michael Zelniker	The Terry Fox Story	[1]
	Les Carlson	Videodrome	[8]
	Pierre Curzi	Maria Chapdelaine
	Peter Dvorsky	Videodrome
	Kenneth Welsh	Tell Me That You Love Me
1985 6th Genie Awards
	Alan Scarfe	The Bay Boy	[1]
	John Cooper	My Kind of Town	[9]
	Peter Donat	The Bay Boy
	Donald Pilon	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe)
	Peter Spence	Unfinished Business
1986 7th Genie Awards
	Alan Arkin	Joshua Then and Now	[1]
	Richard Donat	My American Cousin	[10]
	Duncan Fraser	Overnight
	Sam Grana	90 Days
	Sean Sullivan	The Boy in Blue
1987 8th Genie Awards
	Gabriel Arcand	The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)	[1]
	Robert Gravel	Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)	[11]
	Roland Hewgill	John and the Missus
	Tom Jackson	Loyalties
	Yves Jacques	The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
1988 9th Genie Awards
	Germain Houde	Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit)	[1]
	Hrant Alianak	Family Viewing	[12]
	Leon Dubinsky	Life Classes
	Tony Nardi	Concrete Angels
	Murray Westgate	Blue City Slammers
1989 10th Genie Awards
	Rémy Girard	The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)	[1]
	Maury Chaykin	Iron Eagle II	[13]
	Ron James	Something About Love
	Michael Rudder	Buying Time

1990s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
	Rémy Girard	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)	[1]
	Don McKellar	Roadkill	[14]
	Michael Ontkean	Bye Bye Blues
	Gilles Pelletier	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
	Wayne Robson	Bye Bye Blues
1991 12th Genie Awards
	August Schellenberg	Black Robe	[1]
	Michael Hogan	Diplomatic Immunity	[15]
	Julien Poulin	The Party (Le Party)
	Michael Riley	Diplomatic Immunity
	Paul Soles	Falling Over Backwards
1992 13th Genie Awards
	Michael Hogan	Solitaire	[1]
	Jean-Guy Bouchard	Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur)	[16]
	Tano Cimarosa	The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)
	Robbie Coltrane	Oh, What a Night
	Andrew Miller	Oh, What a Night
1993 14th Genie Awards
	Kevin Tighe	I Love a Man in Uniform	[1]
	Jim Byrnes	Harmony Cats	[17]
	Yvan Canuel	La Florida
	Tobie Pelletier	The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles)
	Christopher Plummer	Impolite
1994 15th Genie Awards
	Don McKellar	Exotica	[1]
	Matthew Ferguson	Love and Human Remains	[18]
	Scott Kraft	For the Moment
	Callum Keith Rennie	Double Happiness
	Michel Rivard	My Friend Max (Mon amie Max)
1995 16th Genie Awards
	Kenneth Welsh	Margaret's Museum	[1]
	Robert Brouillette	Eldorado	[19]
	David Fox	When Night Is Falling
	Clark Johnson	Rude
	Aubert Pallascio	Black List (Liste noire)
1996 17th Genie Awards
	Peter Donaldson	Long Day's Journey into Night	[1]
	Alexander Chapman	Lilies	[20]
	James Hyndman	Rowing Through
	Sean McCann	Swann
	Ron White	Screamers
1997 18th Genie Awards
	Peter MacNeill	The Hanging Garden	[1]
	Frédéric Desager	The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)	[21]
	Hardee T. Lineham	Shoemaker
	Tom McCamus	The Sweet Hereafter
1998 19th Genie Awards
	Callum Keith Rennie	Last Night	[1]
	Kurush Deboo	Such a Long Journey	[22]
	Michael Riley	Pale Saints
	Saul Rubinek	Pale Saints
	George Wendt	Rupert's Land
1999 20th Genie Awards
	Mark McKinney	Dog Park	[1]
	Gabriel Arcand	The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand Serpent du monde)	[23]
	James Frain	Sunshine
	William Hurt	Sunshine
	Alex Ivanovici	Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2000 21st Genie Awards
	Martin Cummins	Love Come Down	[24]
	Ian Bannen	To Walk with Lions	[25]
	Nicholas Campbell	New Waterford Girl
	Patrick Huard	Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour)
	Jean-Nicolas Verreault	Maelström
2001 22nd Genie Awards
	Vincent Gale	Last Wedding	[26]
	Loren Dean	The War Bride	[27]
	Michel Forget	The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)
	Julian Richings	The Claim
	Tom Scholte	Last Wedding
2002 23rd Genie Awards
	Elias Koteas	Ararat	[28]
	Ranjit Chowdhry	Bollywood/Hollywood	[29]
	Dominic Darceuil	Inside (Histoire de pen)
	Brendan Fletcher	Turning Paige
	Gabriel Gascon	The Marsh (Le Marais)
2003 24th Genie Awards
	Stéphane Rousseau	The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)	[30]
	Benoît Brière	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction)	[31]
	Roy Dupuis	Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)
	David Hayman	The Wild Dogs
	Christopher Plummer	Blizzard
2004 25th Genie Awards
	Jean Lapointe	The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier tunnel)	[32]
	Gary Farmer	Twist	[33]
	Brendan Fehr	Sugar
	Bruce Greenwood	Being Julia
	Kyle MacLachlan	Touch of Pink
2005 26th Genie Awards
	Denis Bernard	Audition (L'Audition)	[34]
	Rémy Girard	Aurore	[35]
	Gordon Pinsent	Saint Ralph
	Campbell Scott	Saint Ralph
	Bernard Starlight	Hank Williams First Nation
2006 27th Genie Awards
	Stephen McHattie	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)	[36]
	Hugh Dillon	Trailer Park Boys: The Movie	[37]
	Robert Joy	Whole New Thing
	Lester Chit-Man Chan	Eve and the Fire Horse
	Michel Muller	The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petite vengeance)
2007 28th Genie Awards
	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Eastern Promises	[38]
	Danny Glover	Poor Boy's Game	[39]
	Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge	The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)
	Michel-Ange Nzojibwami	Shake Hands With the Devil
	Gilbert Sicotte	Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)
2008 29th Genie Awards
	Callum Keith Rennie	Normal	[40]
	Normand D'Amour	Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)	[41]
	Benoît McGinnis	Le Banquet
	Rade Šerbedžija	Fugitive Pieces
	Max von Sydow	Emotional Arithmetic
2009 30th Genie Awards
	Maxim Gaudette	Polytechnique	[42]
	Patrick Drolet	Father and Guns (De père en flic)	[43]
	John Dunsworth	Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
	Rémy Girard	Father and Guns (De père en flic)
	Scott Speedman	Adoration

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2010 31st Genie Awards
	Dustin Hoffman	Barney's Version	[44]
	Martin Dubreuil	10½	[45]
	Alexis Martin	Route 132
	Callum Keith Rennie	Gunless
	Rossif Sutherland	High Life
2011 32nd Genie Awards
	Viggo Mortensen	A Dangerous Method	[46]
	Antoine Bertrand	Starbuck	[47]
	Kevin Durand	Citizen Gangster
	Marin Gerrier	Café de Flore
	Taylor Kitsch	The Bang Bang Club
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards
	Serge Kanyinda	War Witch (Rebelle)	[48]
	Jay Baruchel	Goon	[49]
	Kim Coates	Goon
	Stephan James	Home Again
	Elias Koteas	Winnie
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
	Gordon Pinsent	The Grand Seduction	[50]
	Jay Baruchel	The Art of the Steal	[51]
	Pierre-Yves Cardinal	Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)
	Marc Labrèche	Whitewash
	Alexandre Landry	Gabrielle
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
	John Cusack	Maps to the Stars	[52]
	Justin Chatwin	Bang Bang Baby	[53]
	Kris Demeanor	The Valley Below
	Marc-André Grondin	You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)
	Robert Pattinson	Maps to the Stars
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
	Nick Serino	Sleeping Giant	[54]
	Waris Ahluwalia	Beeba Boys	[55]
	Irdens Exantus	My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t'en-guerre)
	Patrick Hivon	Ville-Marie
	Tony Nardi	Corbo
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
	Vincent Cassel	It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)	[56]
	Henry Czerny	The Other Half	[57]
	Evan Mercer	Riverhead
	Jacques Newashish	Before the Streets (Avant les rues)
	Michael Reventar	Kidnap Capital
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
	Ethan Hawke	Maudie	[58]
	Sylvio Arriola	All You Can Eat Buddha	[59]
	Jahmil French	Boost
	Sladen Peltier	Indian Horse
	Natar Ungalaaq	Iqaluit
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards
	Richard Clarkin	The Drawer Boy	[60]
	Paul Ahmarani	Genesis (Genèse)	[61]
	Paul Doucet	With Love (L'Amour)
	Michel Robin	Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume)
	Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie	A Colony (Une colonie)
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards
	Rémy Girard	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)	[62]
	Douglas Grégoire	Kuessipan	[63]
	Matt Johnson	Anne at 13,000 Ft.
	Andy McQueen	Disappearance at Clifton Hill
	Daniel Stern	James vs. His Future Self

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
	Colm Feore	Sugar Daddy	[64]
	Jesse LaVercombe	Violation	[65]
	Stephen McHattie	Come to Daddy
	Ronnie Rowe Jr.	Akilla's Escape
	Thamela Mpumlwana	Akilla's Escape
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
	Joshua Odjick	Wildhood	[66]
	Esteban Comilang	Islands	[67]
	David La Haye	Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions)
	Claude Legault	Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres)
	Mark O'Brien	The Righteous

See also

• Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actor