- Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year
=Winners=
Best Songwriter (1971 - 1974)
*1971 -
Gene MacLellan (Special Award Canadian Composer)
*1972 -Rich Dodson
*1973 -Gordon Lightfoot
*1974 -Murray McLauchlan Composer of the Year (1975 - 1990)
*1975 -
Paul Anka
*1976 -Hagood Hardy , "The Homecoming "
*1977 -Gordon Lightfoot , "Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald "
*1978 -Dan Hill (Co-composer), "Sometimes When We Touch "
*1979 -Dan Hill (Co-composer), "Sometimes When We Touch "
*1980 -Frank Mills , "Peter Piper "
*1981 -Eddie Schwartz , "Hit Me With Your Best Shot "
*1982 -Mike Reno & Paul Dean, "Turn Me Loose "
*1983 -Bob Rock /Paul Hyde , "Eyes of a Stranger "
*1984 -Bryan Adams /Jim Vallance , "Cuts Like a Knife"
*1985 -Bryan Adams /Jim Vallance
*1986 -Jim Vallance
*1987 -Jim Vallance
*1989 -Tom Cochrane
*1990 -David Tyson /Christopher Ward ongwriter of the Year (1991 - 1998)
*1991 -
David Tyson
*1992 -Tom Cochrane
*1993 -k.d. lang /Ben Mink
*1994 -Leonard Cohen
*1995 -Jann Arden
*1996 -Alanis Morissette
*1997 -Alanis Morissette (Glen Ballard , co-songwriter)
*1998 -Sarah McLachlan /Pierre Marchand Best Songwriter (1999 - 2002)
*1999 -
Bryan Adams (Phil Thornalley andEliot Kennedy , co-songwriters)
*2000 -Shania Twain (Co-SongwriterRobert John "Mutt" Lange ), "Man! I Feel Like a Woman! ;You've Got a Way ;That Don't Impress Me Much ;"
*2001 -Nelly Furtado , "Turn off the Light ;I'm like a Bird ;...On the Radio (Remember the Days) ;"
*2002 -Jann Arden , "Never Mind "; (Co-songwriterRussell Broom ) - "Thing For You ";ongwriter of the Year (2003 - Present)
*2003 -
Chad Kroeger /Nickelback , "Hero " - "Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man "; "Too Bad " - "Silver Side Up "; "How You Remind Me " - "Silver Side Up ;"
*2004 -Sarah McLachlan , (Co-songwriterPierre Marchand ) - "World On Fire" - "Afterglow"; "Fallen, and Stupid " - "Afterglow;"
*2005 -Ron Sexsmith , "Whatever It Takes", "Not About to Lose ", "Hard Bargain" - "Retriever"
*2006 -Arcade Fire , "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" (withJosh Deu ), "Rebellion (Lies) ", "Wake Up "
*2007 -Gordie Sampson , "Jesus, Take the Wheel ", (co-songwritersBrett James /Hillary Lindsay ) -SOME HEARTS -Carrie Underwood AristaSONY BMG ; "Words Get In The Way ", (co-songwritersTroy Verges /Aimee Mayo ) -DANGEROUS MAN -Trace Adkins Capitol Nashville EMI ; "Crybaby ", (co-songwritersCarolyn Dawn Johnson /Troy Verges ) -LOVE & NEGOTIATION -Carolyn Dawn Johnson Angeline Universa Recordsl .
*2008 - Feist, "My Moon My Man", "1234", "I Feel It All"
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