Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design explained

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design.

1970s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1970 22nd Canadian Film Awards
	Anne Pritchard	The Act of the Heart	^[1]
1971 23rd Canadian Film Awards
	Aleksandr Kuznetsov	Tiki Tiki
1972 24th Canadian Film Awards
	Karen Bromley	Wedding in White
1973 25th Canadian Film Awards
	François Barbeau	Kamouraska
1974
	No award presented
1975 26th Canadian Film Awards
	François Barbeau	Eliza's Horoscope
1976 27th Canadian Film Awards
	Anne Pritchard	The Far Shore
1977 28th Canadian Film Awards
	Vianney Gauthier	J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe)
1978 29th Canadian Film Awards
	Wolf Kroeger	In Praise of Older Women
	Reuben Freed	Blood and Guts	^[2]
	Tony Hall	Three Card Monte
	Trevor Williams	The Silent Partner

1980s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1980 1st Genie Awards
	Trevor Williams	The Changeling
	Denis Boucher, Vianney Gauthier	Cordélia	^[3]
	Seamus Flannery	Fish Hawk
	Seamus Flannery	Jack London's Klondike Fever
	Wolf Kroeger	It Rained All Night the Day I Left
	Roy Forge Smith	Yesterday
	Carol Spier	The Brood
1981 2nd Genie Awards
	Anne Pritchard	Atlantic City, U.S.A.
	Glenn Bydwell	Terror Train	^[4]
	Anne Pritchard, Jocelyn Joly	Fantastica
	Michel Proulx	Good Riddance (Les bons débarras)
	Normand Sarazin	The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire)
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	William McCrow	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
	Trevor Williams	The Amateur	^[5]
	Ninkey Dalton, Charles Dunlop	Improper Channels
	Carol Spier	Scanners
	Bill Brodie	Silence of the North
	Claude Bonniere	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1983 4th Genie Awards
	Bill Brodie	The Grey Fox
	Richard Hudolin	Latitude 55°	^[6]
	Anne Pritchard	Threshold
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Jocelyn Joly	Maria Chapdelaine
	Gilles Aird	Lucien Brouillard	^[7]
	Glenn Bydwell	Ups and Downs
	Carol Spier	Videodrome
1985 6th Genie Awards
	Wolf Kroeger	The Bay Boy
	Denis Boucher	Mario	^[8]
	Bill Brodie	Draw!
	Vianney Gauthier	The Years of Dreams and Revolt (Les Années de rêves)
	Jocelyn Joly	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe)
1986 7th Genie Awards
	Anne Pritchard	Joshua Then and Now
	William Beeton	The Boy in Blue	^[9]
	Bill Brodie	One Magic Christmas
	Phil Schmidt	My American Cousin
	François Séguin	Night Magic
1987 8th Genie Awards
	Lillian Sarafinchan	Dancing in the Dark
	François Séguin	Exit	^[10]
	Michel Proulx	In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan)
	Michel Proulx	Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)
1988 9th Genie Awards
	Jean-Baptiste Tard	Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit)
	Ronald Fauteux	Brother André (Le Frère André)	^[11]
	Violette Daneau	The Great Land of Small
	François Séguin	Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)
1989 10th Genie Awards
	Carol Spier	Dead Ringers
	Anne Pritchard	The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)	^[12]
	Vianney Gauthier	Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu)

1990s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
	François Séguin	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
	John Blackie	Bye Bye Blues	^[13]
	Reuben Freed	Palais Royale
1991 12th Genie Awards
	Gavin Mitchell, Herbert Pinter	Black Robe
	Seamus Flannery	Beautiful Dreamers	^[14]
	Anne Pritchard	Perfectly Normal
	Michel Proulx, Enrique Alarcón, Ren Huixing, Ronald Fauteux
	Phil Schmidt	Chaindance
1992 13th Genie Awards
	Carol Spier	Naked Lunch
	Andris Hausmanis	True Confections	^[15]
	Louise Jobin	Phantom Life (La Vie fantôme)
	François Séguin	Being at Home with Claude
	François Séguin	Léolo
	François Séguin	The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)
1993 14th Genie Awards
	Wolf Kroeger	Shadow of the Wolf
	Mark S. Freeborn	Digger	^[16]
	David Roberts	The Lotus Eaters
	Lynne Stopkewich	Harmony Cats
	Curtis Wehrfritz	Tectonic Plates
1994 15th Genie Awards
	Richard Paris, Linda Del Rosario	Exotica
	Luc J. Béland	Jerome's Secret (Le secret de Jérôme)	^[17]
	Serge Bureau	Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir)
	Marie-Carole de Beaumont	Les pots cassés
	Vianney Gauthier	Matusalem
1995 16th Genie Awards
	François Laplante	The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	André Guimond	Eldorado	^[18]
	Nilo Romis Jamero	Johnny Mnemonic
	Clyde Klotz, Michael O'Connor	Magic in the Water
	David McHenry, William Fleming	Margaret's Museum
1996 17th Genie Awards
	Sandra Kybartas	Lilies
	John Dondertman	Swann	^[19]
	Perri Gorrara	Screamers
	Paola Ridolfi	Never Too Late
	Taavo Soodor	The Boys Club
1997 18th Genie Awards
	Normand Sarazin	Karmina
	Phillip Barker, Patricia Cuccia, Kathleen Climie	The Sweet Hereafter	^[20]
	Serge Bureau	Night of the Flood (La nuit du déluge)
	Claude Paré	The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Baton Rouge)
	Taavo Soodor, Charlotte Harper, Darlene Shiels	The Hanging Garden
1998 19th Genie Awards
	François Séguin	The Red Violin
	Jasna Stefanovic	Cube	^[21]
	John Dondertman, Patricia Cuccia	Last Night
	Andy Harris	Regeneration
	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Such a Long Journey
1999 20th Genie Awards
	François Séguin	Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes)
	Patricia Cuccia, John Dondertman	Boy Meets Girl	^[22]
	Carol Spier, Elinor Rose Galbraith	eXistenZ
	Darryl Dennis Deegan, Erica Milo, Taavo Soodor	The Five Senses
	Atilla F. Kovacs	Sunshine

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2000 21st Genie Awards
	François Séguin, Danièle Rouleau	Possible Worlds	^[23]
	Sylvain Gingras	Maelström	^[24]
	Emmanuel Jannasch, Norma-Jean Sanders	New Waterford Girl
	Jean Morin, Zoë Sakellaropoulo	Stardom
	Ginette Robitaille, Anne Pritchard	The Art of War
2001 22nd Genie Awards
	Ken Rempel	The War Bride	^[25]
	Bill Fleming, Shelly Nieder	Deeply	^[26]
	André-Line Beauparlant	The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)
	Tony Devenyi	Last Wedding
	Ken Rempel	The Claim
2002 23rd Genie Awards
	François Séguin	Almost America	^[27]
	Phillip Barker	Ararat	^[28]
	André-Line Beauparlant	The Negro (Le nèg')
	Arvinder Grewal, Andrew Sanders	Spider
	Paryse Normandeau	Turning Paige
2003 24th Genie Awards
	Rob Gray, Christina Kuhnigk	Falling Angels	^[29]
	Normand Sarazin	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction)	^[30]
	Christian Legaré	Saved by the Belles
	Ronald Fauteux, Jean Bécotte	(Séraphin: un homme et son péché)
	Cal Loucks, Don Taylor	The Gospel of John
2004 25th Genie Awards
	Jean-Baptiste Tard	Nouvelle-France	^[31]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Happy Camper (Camping sauvage)	^[32]
	Jonathan Lee, Gilles Aird	Head in the Clouds
	Jean Bécotte	The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier tunnel)
	Michel Proulx	Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)
2005 26th Genie Awards
	Patrice Vermette	C.R.A.Z.Y.	^[33]
	Michel Proulx	Aurore	^[34]
	Deanne Rohde, Shawna Balas, Ricardo Alms	Seven Times Lucky
	Dilip Mehta	Water
	Phillip Barker, Cal Loucks	Where the Truth Lies
2006 27th Genie Awards
	Michel Proulx	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)	^[35]
	Jean Bécotte	Bon Cop, Bad Cop	^[36]
	Mary-Ann Liu, Athena Wong	Eve and the Fire Horse
	François Séguin	Angel's Rage (La Rage de l'ange)
	Jasna Stefanovic	Tideland
2007 28th Genie Awards
	Rob Gray, James Willcock	Fido	^[37]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)	^[38]
	Carol Spier	Eastern Promises
	Lindsey Hermer-Bell, Justin Craig	Shake Hands With the Devil
	François Séguin	Silk
2008 29th Genie Awards
	Carol Spier, Janice Blackie-Goodine	Passchendaele	^[39]
	Patrice Bengle	Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)	^[40]
	Matthew Davies, Erica Milo	Fugitive Pieces
	Rob Gray	The Stone Angel
	Danielle Labrie	The American Trap (Le Piège américain)
2009 30th Genie Awards
	Eve Stewart	Fifty Dead Men Walking	^[41]
	Diana Abbatangelo	Nurse.Fighter.Boy	^[42]
	Susan Avingaq	Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain)
	Jean Babin	The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)
	Patrice Vermette	1981

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2010 31st Genie Awards
	Claude Paré, Élise de Blois	Barney's Version	^[43]
	Gilles Aird	10½	^[44]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Incendies
	Arvinder Grewal
	Myron Hyrak	FUBAR 2
2011 32nd Genie Awards
	James McAteer	A Dangerous Method	^[45]
	Jean Bécotte	Funkytown	^[46]
	Aidan Leroux, Rob Hepburn	Citizen Gangster
	Patrice Vermette	Café de Flore
	Emelia Weavind	The Bang Bang Club
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards
	Emmanuel Fréchette, Josée Arsenault	War Witch (Rebelle)	^[47]
	Arvinder Grewal	Antiviral	^[48]
	André Guimond	L'Affaire Dumont
	Dilip Mehta	Midnight's Children
	Anne Pritchard	Laurence Anyways
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
	Michel Proulx	Louis Cyr	^[49]
	Jean Bécotte	Maïna	^[50]
	Mario Hervieux	The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement)
	Anthony Ianni, François Séguin
	Patrice Vermette	Enemy
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
	Paul Denham Austerberry, Nigel Churcher	Pompeii	^[51]
	Phillip Barker	The Captive	^[52]
	Xavier Georges	Cast No Shadow
	William Layton	Fall
	Colombe Raby	Mommy
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
	Ethan Tobman, Mary Kirkland	Room	^[53]
	Arvinder Grewal, Steve Shewchuk, Larry Spittle	Hyena Road	^[54]
	Galen Johnson, Brigitte Henry, Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski	The Forbidden Room
	Ken Rempel, Kathy McCoy, Erik Gerlund	Forsaken
	Louisa Schabas	Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira)
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
	Emmanuel Fréchette	Two Lovers and a Bear	^[55]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes)	^[56]
	David Brisbin, Isabelle Guay, Jean-Pierre Paquet	Race
	Aidan Leroux, Joel Richardson	Born to Be Blue
	Matt Likely	Weirdos
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
	François Séguin	Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes)	^[57]
	Guillaume Couture	Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)	^[58]
	Sophie Jarvis, Elizabeth Cairns	Never Steady, Never Still
	Siamak Karinejad	Ava
	Marjorie Rhéaume	The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards
	Patricia McNeil and Sylvain Dion	The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)	^[59]
	Emmanuel Fréchette	The Hummingbird Project	^[60]
	Marie-Claude Gosselin	For Those Who Don't Read Me (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas)
	Iñigo Navarro	The Padre
	Elisa Sauve	Octavio Is Dead!
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards
	Dany Boivin	The Twentieth Century	^[61]
	Chris Crane	Run This Town	^[62]
	Jennifer Morden, Danny Haeberlin	Riot Girls
	François Séguin, Pierre Perrault	The Song of Names
	Marian Wihak, Svjetlana Jaklenec	Stand!

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
	Louisa Schabas, Sylvain Lemaitre	Blood Quantum	^[63]
	Phillip Barker	Guest of Honour	^[64]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)
	Jennifer Morden, Matthew Bianchi	The Kid Detective
	Carol Spier	Falling
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
	Arnaud Brisebois, Jean Babin, Ève Turcotte	The Time Thief (L'arracheuse de temps)	^[65]
	Jean Babin	Maria Chapdelaine	^[66]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)
	Nigel Churcher	The Exchange
	Danny Haeberlin	All My Puny Sorrows
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
	Jason Clarke, John Kim, Richard Racicot	Brother	^[67]
	André-Line Beauparlant	Viking	^[68]
	Jennifer Morden	Alice, Darling
	Dan Herrick, Zoë Woodrow	Cult Hero
	Carol Spier	Crimes of the Future
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
	Adam Belanger, Kerry Noonan, Lucy Larkin	BlackBerry	^[69]
	Ludovic Dufresne	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	^[70]
	Thea Hollatz	Fitting In
	Marie-Hélène Lavoie	Ru
	Michael Pierson	The Queen of My Dreams

See also

• Prix Iris for Best Art Direction

Notes and References

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