Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary
Annual Canadian film award
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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.
| Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Presented by | Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television |
| First award | 1968 |
| Currently held by | The Muse (2025) |
| Website | academy.ca/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.
Under current Academy regulations, the awards for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary can be collapsed into a single award for Best Documentary if either category receives three or fewer eligible submissions, but remain separate if both categories surpass three submissions.[2]
1960s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
1970s
1980s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | |||
| Priory: The Only Home I've Got | Mark Dolgoy | [1] | |
| It's Not an Illness | Claire Prieto | [5] | |
| 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 | [6] | |
| 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 | [7] | |
| Space Pioneers, a Canadian Story | Rudy Buttignol | ||
1990s
2000s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | [17] | ||
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards |
[18] | ||
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards |
[19] | ||
| 2003 24th Genie Awards |
[20] | ||
| 2004 25th Genie Awards |
[21] | ||
| 2005 26th Genie Awards |
[22] | ||
| 2006 27th Genie Awards |
[23] | ||
| 2007 28th Genie Awards |
[24] | ||
| 2008 29th Genie Awards |
[25] | ||
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | |||
| The Delian Mode | Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [26] | |
| Passages | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | [27] | |
| Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter, Laura Severinac | ||