Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design explained

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian costume designer. It was formerly called the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design before the Genies were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards.

1980s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Louise Jobin	Cordélia	^[1]
	François Barbeau	Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat)	^[2]
		Fish Hawk
	Patti Unger	Jack London's Klondike Fever
	Julie Whitfield	Something's Rotten
		Tanya's Island
1981 2nd Genie Awards
	Anne Pritchard	Fantastica
	François Barbeau	Atlantic City, U.S.A.	^[3]
	Louise Jobin	Suzanne
	Linda Matheson	Middle Age Crazy
	Diane Paquet	Good Riddance (Les bons débarras)
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	Nicole Pelletier	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
	Olga Dimitrov	Silence of the North	^[4]
	Huguette Gagné	Happy Birthday to Me
	Julie Ganton	Heartaches
	Delphine White	Scanners
1983 4th Genie Awards
	John Hay	Quest for Fire
	Huguette Gagné	Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine)	^[5]
	Julie Ganton	Melanie
	Wendy Partridge	Latitude 55°
	Christopher Ryan	The Grey Fox
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Michèle Hamel	Maria Chapdelaine
		Lucien Brouillard	^[6]
	François Laplante	Au clair de la lune
		A Christmas Story
		Bonheur d'occasion
1985 6th Genie Awards
	Renée April	The Bay Boy
	Wendy Partridge	Isaac Littlefeathers	^[7]
	Huguette Gagné	The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques)
	Hélène Schneider	Sonatine
	Nicole Pelletier	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe)
1986 7th Genie Awards
	Louise Jobin	Joshua Then and Now	^[8]
	Sheila Bingham, Phillip Clarkson	My American Cousin	^[9]
	Olga Dimitrov	One Magic Christmas
	Olga Dimitrov	Samuel Lount
1987 8th Genie Awards
	Wendy Partridge	Loyalties
	Michèle Hamel	Exit	^[10]
	Nicole Pelletier	In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan)
	Louise Jobin	Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)
1988 9th Genie Awards
	Andrée Morin	Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit)
	Alexandra Z, Martine Matthew	I've Heard the Mermaids Singing	^[11]
	Denis Sperdouklis	Brother André (Le Frère André)
	Nicole Pelletier	Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)
	Michèle Hamel	The Great Land of Small
1989 10th Genie Awards
	François Barbeau	The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
	Denise Cronenberg	Dead Ringers	^[12]
	Christine Cost, Michèle Hamel	The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir)
	Maya Mani	Shadow Dancing
	Renée April	The Kiss
	Charlotte Penner	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

1990s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
	Louise Jobin	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
	Maureen Hiscox	Bye Bye Blues	^[13]
	Louise Labrecque	Cruising Bar
	Olga Dimitrov	Millennium
	Katherine Vieira	Palais Royale
	Martha Wynne Snetsinger	The Last Winter
1991 12th Genie Awards
	Olga Dimitrov
	Ruth Secord	Beautiful Dreamers	^[14]
	John Hay, Renée April	Black Robe
	Andrée Morin	The Party (Le Party)
	François Laplante	Nelligan
1992 13th Genie Awards
	François Barbeau	Léolo	^[15]
	François Barbeau	The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)	^[16]
	Michèle Hamel	Phantom Life (La vie fantôme)
	Denise Cronenberg	Naked Lunch
	Alisa Alexander	True Confections
1993 14th Genie Awards
	Olga Dimitrov	Shadow of the Wolf
	Sharon Fedoruk	Harmony Cats	^[17]
	Christiane Tessier, Gaudeline Sauriol	The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles)
	Dolly Ahluwalia, Aline Gilmore	The Burning Season
	Sheila Bingham	The Lotus Eaters
1994 15th Genie Awards
	Linda Muir	Exotica
	Jacinthe Demers	Jerome's Secret (Le secret de Jérôme)	^[18]
	Gaétanne Lévesque	Les pots cassés
	Francesca Chamberland	Matusalem
	Sabina Haag	Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir)
1995 16th Genie Awards
	Nicoletta Massone	Margaret's Museum
	Michele Hamel	Eldorado	^[19]
	Barbara Kidd	The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Crystine Booth	Once in a Blue Moon
	Linda Muir	When Night Is Falling
1996 17th Genie Awards
	Linda Muir	Lilies	^[20]
	Emma England	Blood and Donuts	^[21]
	Delphine White
	Denis Sperdouklis	Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur)
	Elisabetta Beraldo	Swann
1997 18th Genie Awards
	Denis Sperdouklis	Karmina
	Suzanne Harel	The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)	^[22]
	Francesca Chamberland	The Revenge of the Woman in Black (La vengeance de la femme en noir)
	Yveline Bonjean, Liz Vandal	Night of the Flood (La nuit du déluge)
	James A. Worthen	The Hanging Garden
	Beth Pasternak	The Sweet Hereafter
1998 19th Genie Awards
	Renée April	The Red Violin	^[23]
	Lovleen Bains	Such a Long Journey	^[24]
	Kate Carin	Regeneration
	Daniel Lalande	Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing)
	Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt	Nô
	Tamara Winston	Pale Saints
1999 20th Genie Awards
	Renée April	Grey Owl	^[25]
	Dominique Lemieux	Alegria	^[26]
	Sandy Powell	Felicia's Journey
	Linda Muir	Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
	Györgyi Szakacs	Sunshine

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2000 21st Genie Awards
	Michel Robidas	Stardom	^[27]
	Patricia Hargreaves	Here's to Life!	^[28]
	Denis Sperdouklis	Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour)
	Suzanne Harel	Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite)
	Debra Hanson	New Waterford Girl
2001 22nd Genie Awards
	Howard Burden	The War Bride	^[29]
	Atuat Akkitirq		^[30]
	Sophie Lefebvre	The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)
	Joanne Hansen	The Claim
	Nicoletta Massone	Varian's War
2002 23rd Genie Awards
	Beth Pasternak	Ararat	^[31]
	Wendy Partridge	Almost America	^[32]
	Sophie Lefebvre	The Negro (Le nèg')
	Mario Davignon	Savage Messiah
	Denise Cronenberg	Spider
2003 24th Genie Awards
	Meg McMillan	The Saddest Music in the World	^[33]
	Abram Waterhouse	Blizzard	^[34]
	Louise Gagné	Seducing Doctor Lewis
	Michèle Hamel	(Séraphin: un homme et son péché)
	Debra Hanson	The Gospel of John
2004 25th Genie Awards
	Mario Davignon	Head in the Clouds	^[35]
	Sophia Lefebvre	Happy Camper (Camping sauvage)	^[36]
	Denis Sperdouklis	Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)
	Michèle Hamel	Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)
	François Barbeau	Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France)
2005 26th Genie Awards
	Ginette Magny	C.R.A.Z.Y.	^[37]
	Francesca Chamberland	Aurore	^[38]
	Francesca Chamberland	The Outlander (Le Survenant)
	Anne Dixon	Saint Ralph
	Dolly Ahluwalia	Water
2006 27th Genie Awards
	Francesca Chamberland	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)	^[39]
	Sandy Buck	Eve and the Fire Horse	^[40]
	Michelline Amaaq	The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
	Mario Davignon, Delphine White	Tideland
	Michèle Hamel	A Sunday in Kigali
2007 28th Genie Awards
	Carlo Poggioli, Kazuko Kurosawa	Silk	^[41]
	Denise Cronenberg	Eastern Promises	^[42]
	Mary E. McLeod	Fido
	Dolly Ahluwalia	Partition
	Joyce Schure	Shake Hands With the Devil
2008 29th Genie Awards
	Wendy Partridge	Passchendaele	^[43]
	Francesca Chamberland	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)	^[44]
	Marie-Geneviève Cyr	Who Is KK Downey?
	Michèle Hamel	Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)
	Michèle Hamel	The American Trap (Le Piège américain)
2009 30th Genie Awards
	Atuat Akkitirq	Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain)	^[45]
	Carmen Alie	Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles	^[46]
	Sarah Armstrong	Nurse.Fighter.Boy
	Brenda Broer	Cairo Time
	Anne-Karine Gauthier	1981

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2010 31st Genie Awards
	Nicoletta Massone	Barney's Version	^[47]
	Denise Cronenberg		^[48]
	Mario Davignon	The Trotsky
	Patricia McNeil	The Wild Hunt
	Beverly Wowchuk	Gunless
2011 32nd Genie Awards
	Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt	Funkytown	^[49]
	Denise Cronenberg	A Dangerous Method	^[50]
	Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh	Afghan Luke
	Ginette Magny, Emmanuelle Youchnovski	Café de Flore
	Heather Neale	Keyhole
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards
	Xavier Dolan, François Barbeau	Laurence Anyways	^[51]
	Patricia Henderson	Mad Ship	^[52]
	Wendy Partridge
	Wendy Partridge
	Éric Poirier	War Witch (Rebelle)
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
	Carmen Alie	Louis Cyr	^[53]
	Lea Carlson	The Colony	^[54]
	Véronique Marchessault	Maïna
	Sarah Millman	Molly Maxwell
	Gersha Phillips
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
	Wendy Partridge	Pompeii	^[55]
	Francesca Chamberland	Henri Henri	^[56]
	Xavier Dolan	Mommy
	Sarah Dunsworth
	Valérie Levesque	1987
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
	Joanne Hansen	Beeba Boys	^[57]
	Arabella Bushnell	Songs She Wrote About People She Knows	^[58]
	Christopher Hargadon	Forsaken
	Katelynd Johnston	Hyena Road
	Judy Jonker	Corbo
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
	Patricia McNeil	Nelly	^[59]
	Bethana Briffett	Weirdos	^[60]
	Mario Davignon	Race
	Marjatta Nissinen	The Girl King
	Megan Oppenheimer	Operation Avalanche
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
	Trysha Bakker	Maudie	^[61]
	Julie Bécotte	We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres)	^[62]
	Mario Davignon	Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga, terre des âmes)
	Brigitte Desroches	Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)
	Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette	All You Can Eat Buddha
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards
	Patricia McNeil	The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)	^[63]
	Lea Carlson	Stockholm
	Eugénie Clermont	A Colony (Une colonie)
	Hanna Puley	Octavio Is Dead!
	Mara Zigler	Firecrackers
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards
	Patricia McNeil	The Twentieth Century	^[64]
	Anne Dixon	The Song of Names	^[65]
	Patricia McNeil	A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère)
	Caroline Poirier	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)
	Marissa Schwartz, Mara Zigler	American Woman

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
	Noémi Poulin	Blood Quantum	^[66]
	Bernadette Croft	Happy Place	^[67]
	Anne Dixon	Falling
	Marie Grogan Hales	The Marijuana Conspiracy
	Patricia McNeil, Ann Roth	My Salinger Year
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
	Kendra Terpenning	Night Raiders	^[68]
	Lea Carlson	The Exchange	^[69]
	Josée Castonguay	The Time Thief (L'Arracheuse de temps)
	Francesca Chamberland	Maria Chapdelaine
	Francesca Chamberland	The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland)
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
	Hanna Puley	Brother	^[70]
	Sig Burwash, Kathleen Darling	Queens of the Qing Dynasty	^[71]
	Carrie Cathrae-Keeling	Cult Hero
	Sophie Lefebvre	Viking
	Mayou Trikerioti	Crimes of the Future
	Mara Zigler	Tenzin
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
	Hanna Puley	BlackBerry	^[72]
	Kelly-Anne Bonieux	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	^[73]
	Rosalie Clermont	Ru
	Athena Theny	Seagrass
	Mara Zigler	Something You Said Last Night

See also

• Prix Iris for Best Costume Design

Notes and References

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39. "Bon Cop, Bad Cop' wins best picture Genie amid domination by 'The Rocket'". Prince Rupert Daily News, February 15, 2007.
40. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2007/01/09/bon-cop-bad-cop-the-rocket-top-genie-nominees/ "Bon Cop, Bad Cop, The Rocket Top Genie Nominees"
41. Isabelle Massé, "Eastern Promises et Away From Her consacrés aux Genie". La Presse, March 4, 2008.
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43. Web site: Passchendaele, Necessities of Life dominate Genie Awards . April 4, 2009 . CBC News.
44. Web site: Génie 2009 : Ça Intéresse-T-I Quelqu'un ? . Dumais . Manon . April 3, 2009 . Voir.
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46. Linda Barnard, "Drama rules as Genie nominations announced". Toronto Star, March 1, 2010.
47. Jay Stone, "'Incendies' dominated Genies awards; The film won eight awards including best motion picture, best leading actress and Villeneuve for best director". Nanaimo Daily News, March 12, 2011.
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