The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Award for Best Short Documentary is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film judged to be the year's best short documentary film.[1] Prior to 2012 the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards program; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards.
The award has not always been presented at every past Genie or CSA ceremony. In years when the award was not presented, short documentary films were instead eligible for the Best Theatrical Short Film and/or Best (Theatrical/Feature-Length) Documentary categories. In the Canadian Film Awards era, it was often presented solely under the name Best Documentary, but was still presented to shorter documentaries and remained separate from the category for Best Theatrical Documentary.
Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
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1968 20th Canadian Film Awards | |||
With Drums and Trumpets (Avec tambours et trompettes) | Marcel Carrière | [1] | |
1969 21st Canadian Film Awards | |||
Juggernaut | Walford Hewitson | [1] |
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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1980 1st Genie Awards | |||
Priory: The Only Home I've Got | Mark Dolgoy | [1] | |
It's Not an Illness | Claire Prieto | [4] | |
Taking Chances | Marilyn Belec | ||
1981 2nd Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1982 3rd Genie Awards | |||
1983 4th Genie Awards | |||
1984 5th Genie Awards | |||
1985 6th Genie Awards | |||
1986 7th Genie Awards | |||
No More Hiroshima | Martin Duckworth | [1] | |
Neon, an Electric Memoir | Rudy Buttignol | [5] | |
Skyward | Roman Kroitor | ||
1987 8th Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1988 9th Genie Awards | |||
1989 10th Genie Awards | |||
The World Is Watching | Harold Crooks, Jim Munro, Peter Raymont | [1] | |
Dying to be Perfect | Eileen Hoeter | [6] | |
Space Pioneers, a Canadian Story | Rudy Buttignol |
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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1990 11th Genie Awards | |||
Stunt People | Lois Siegel | [1] | |
Reading Between the Lines | Martha Davis | [7] | |
Who Gets In? | Barry Greenwald | ||
1991 12th Genie Awards | |||
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein | Richard Elson, Sally Bochner | [1] | |
The Actor | John Paskievich | [8] | |
Hunters and Bombers | Rex Tasker, Alan Hayling | ||
In Search of the Edge | Scott Barrie | ||
Songololo: Voices of Change | Marianne Kaplan, Cari Green | ||
1992 13th Genie Awards | |||
A Song for Tibet | Anne Henderson, Abby Jack Neidek, Kent Martin | [1] | |
A Kind of Family | Andrew Koster | [9] | |
Xénofolies | Michel Moreau | ||
1993 14th Genie Awards | |||
The Measure of Your Passage (Le singe bleu) | Esther Valiquette | [1] | |
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project | Donald Winkler | [10] | |
1994 15th Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [1] | ||
1995 16th Genie Awards | |||
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule | Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie, Rina Fraticelli | [1] | |
Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya | Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey | [11] | |
Enigmatico | David Mortin, Patricia Fogliato | ||
The Shaper | Martin Schliessler, Bill Sheppard | ||
Time Is on My Side | Jacques Holender | ||
1996 17th Genie Awards | |||
Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) | Daniele Caloz, Paul Carrière | [1] | |
A Balkan Journey: Fragments from the Other Side of War | Brenda Longfellow | [12] | |
1997 18th Genie Awards | |||
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship | Maureen Judge, Janis Lundman | [1] | |
Forgotten Warriors | Loretta Todd, Carol Geddes, Michael Doxtater, Jerry Krepakevich | [13] | |
Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas | Ali Kazimi | ||
1998 19th Genie Awards | |||
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet | Anita Herczeg, Brenda Longfellow | [1] | |
bp: pushing the boundaries | Brian Nash, Elizabeth Yake | [14] | |
Remembering Memory | Elizabeth Yake, Lara Fitzgerald | ||
1999 20th Genie Awards | |||
Hemingway: A Portrait | Bernard Lajoie, Érik Canuel, Tatsuo Shimamura | [1] | |
In Time's Shadow, the Hegis | Rudy Buttignol, David Way | [15] |
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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2000 21st Genie Awards | |||
No award presented | [16] | ||
2001 22nd Genie Awards |
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2002 23rd Genie Awards |
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2003 24th Genie Awards |
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2004 25th Genie Awards |
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2005 26th Genie Awards |
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2006 27th Genie Awards |
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2007 28th Genie Awards |
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2008 29th Genie Awards |
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2009 30th Genie Awards | |||
The Delian Mode | Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [25] | |
Passages | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [26] | |
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter, Laura Severinac |