Genie Award for Best Motion Picture

The Genie Award for Best Motion Picture is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian motion picture.

1st Genie Awards

*"The Changeling" (Garth Drabinsky, Joel B. Michaels)
*"Cordélia" (Jean-Marc Garand)
*"Klondike Fever" (Gilbert W. Taylor, Peter Welbeck)
*"Meatballs" (Daniel Goldberg, John Dunning, André Link)
*"Running" (Robert M. Cooper, John M. Eckert, Ronald I. Cohen)

2nd Genie Awards

*"Les Bons débarras" (Claude Godbout, Marcia Couelle)
*"L'Homme à tout faire" (René Malo)
*"The Hounds of Notre Dame" (Fil Fraser)
*"The Lucky Star" (André Fleury, Claude Léger)
*"Tribute" (Joel B. Michaels, Garth Drabinsky)

3rd Genie Awards

*"Ticket to Heaven" (Ronald I. Cohen, Vivienne Leebosh)
*"The Amateur" (Garth Drabinsky, Joel B. Michaels)
*"Heartaches" (David Patterson, Jerry Raibourn)
*"Les Plouffe" (Justine Héroux, Denis Héroux)
*"Scanners" (Victor Solnicki, Pierre David, Claude Héroux)

4th Genie Awards

*"The Grey Fox" (Peter O'Brian)
*"La Guerre du feu" (Denis Héroux, John Kemeny)
*"Harry Tracy, Desperado" (Ronald I. Cohen)
*"Latitude 55°" (August Schellenberg)
*"Threshold" (Jon Slan, Michael Burns)
*"Une journée en taxi" (Robert Ménard)

5th Genie Awards

*"The Terry Fox Story" (Robert M. Cooper)
*"A Christmas Story" (Bob Clark, René Dupont)
*"Lucien Brouillard" (René Gueissaz, Marc Daigle)
*"Maria Chapdelaine" (Murray Shostak, Robert Baylis)
*"The Wars" (Richard Neilson)

6th Genie Awards

*"The Bay Boy" (Denis Héroux,John Kemeny)
*"La Femme de l'hôtel" (Bernadette Payeur")
*"La Guerre des tuques" (Nicole Robert, Rock Demers)
*"Mario" (Jean Beaudin, Hélène Verrier)

7th Genie Awards

*"My American Cousin" (Peter O'Brian)
*"90 Days" (David Wilson, Giles Walker)
*"Joshua Then and Now" (Robert Lantos, Stephen J. Roth)
*"Le Matou" (Justine Héroux)
*"One Magic Christmas" (1985) (Peter O'Brian)

8th Genie Awards

*"The Decline of the American Empire" (Roger Frappier, René Malo)
*"Dancing in the Dark" (Anthony Kramreither)
*"John and the Missus" (John Hunter, Peter O'Brian)
*"Loyalties" (Ronald Lillie, William Johnston)
*"Pouvoir intime" (Claude Bonin)

9th Genie Awards

*"Night Zoo" (Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron)
*"Family Viewing" (Atom Egoyan)
*"I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" (Patricia Rozema, Alexandra Raffe)
*"Life Classes" (Stephen Reynolds)
*"Train of Dreams" (Sam Grana)

10th Genie Awards

*"Dead Ringers" (David Cronenberg, Marc Boyman)
*"The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick" (Stephen Foster)
*"Les Portes tournantes" (Francyne Morin, René Malo)
*"A Winter Tan" (Aerlyn Weissman, John Frizzell, Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, John Walker)
*"À corps perdu" (Robin Spry, Denise Robert)

11th Genie Awards

*"Jesus of Montreal" (Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron)
*"Bye Bye Blues" (Arvi Liimatainen, Anne Wheeler)
*"Cold Comfort" (Ray Sager, Ilana Frank)
*"Speaking Parts" (Atom Egoyan)
*"Termini Station" (Allan King)

12th Genie Awards

*"Black Robe" (Robert Lantos, Sue Milliken, Stéphane Reichel)
*"Chaindance" (Richard Davis)
*"Perfectly Normal" (Michael Burns)
*"The Company of Strangers" (David Wilson)
*"Une histoire inventée" (Claudio Luca, Robin Spry)

13th Genie Awards

*"Naked Lunch" (Gabriella Martinelli, Jeremy Thomas)
*"Being at Home with Claude" (Louise Gendron)
*"Léolo" (Aimée Danis, Lyse Lafontaine)
*"Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur" (Nicole Robert, Lorraine Dufour)
*"La Sarrasine" (Marc Daigle, Lise Abastado)

14th Genie Awards

*"Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" (Niv Fichman)
*"La Florida" (Pierre Sarrazin, Claude Bonin)
*"Harmony Cats" (Richard Davis, Alan Morinis)
*"The Lotus Eaters" (Sharon McGowan)
*"Le Sexe des étoiles" (Pierre Gendron, Jean-Roch Marcotte)

15th Genie Awards

*"Exotica" (Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg)
*"Double Happiness" (Rose Lam Waddell, Stephen Hegyes)
*"Louis 19, le roi des ondes" (Jacques Dorfmann, Richard Sadler)
*"Mon amie Max" (Aimée Danis,Danièle Bussy)
*"Whale Music" (Raymond Massey, Steven DeNure)

16th Genie Awards

*"The Confessional" (Denise Robert)
*"Liste noire" (Marcel Giroux)
*"Magic in the Water" (Rick Stevenson, Matthew O'Connor)
*"Margaret's Museum" (Christopher Zimmer, Mort Ransen, Claudio Luca, Steve Clark-Hall)
*"Rude" (Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King)

17th Genie Awards

*"Lilies" (Robin Cass, Arnie Gelbart, Anna Stratton)
*"Crash" (David Cronenberg)
*"Hard Core Logo" (Brian Dennis, Christine Haebler)
*"Long Day's Journey Into Night" (Niv Fichman, Daniel Iron)
*"Le Polygraphe" (Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Jobin, Jean-Pierre St-Michel, Ulrich Felsberg)

18th Genie Awards

*"The Sweet Hereafter" (Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg)
*"Cosmos"
*"The Hanging Garden" (Thom Fitzgerald, Louise Garfield)
*"Karmina" (Nicole Robert)
*"Kissed" (Dean English, Lynne Stopkewich)

19th Genie Awards

*"The Red Violin" (Niv Fichman)
*"Last Night" (Daniel Iron, Niv Fichman)
*"Regeneration" (Allan Scott, Peter R. Simpson)
*"Rupert's Land" (Bill Thumm, Scott Kennedy)
*"Such a Long Journey" (Paul Stephens, Simon MacCorkindale)

20th Genie Awards

*"Sunshine" (Robert Lantos, András Hámori)
*"eXistenZ" (Robert Lantos, David Cronenberg, András Hámori)
*"Felicia's Journey" (Bruce Davey)
*"The Five Senses" (Camelia Frieberg, Jeremy Podeswa)
*"Histoires d'hiver" (Claude Gagnon, Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon)
*"Post Mortem" (Lorraine Dufour)

21st Genie Awards

*"Maelström" (Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal)
*"Love Come Down" (Eric Jordan,Damon D'Oliveira, Clément Virgo)
*"New Waterford Girl" (Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny)
*"Possible Worlds" (Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Jobin)
*"Stardom" (Denise Robert, Robert Lantos)
*"To Walk with Lions" (Pieter Kroonenburg, Julie Allan)

22nd Genie Awards

*"Atanarjuat" (Norman Cohn, Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong)
*"Eisenstein" (Martin Paul-Hus, Regine Schmid)
*"Treed Murray" (Helen Du Toit)
*"Un crabe dans la tête" (Joseph Hillel, Luc Déry)
*"The War Bride" (Alistair MacLean-Clark, Douglas Berquist)

23rd Genie Awards

*"Ararat" (Robert Lantos, Atom Egoyan)
*"Bollywood/Hollywood" (David Hamilton, Robert Wertheimer)
*"Québec-Montréal" (Nicole Robert)
*"Rare Birds" (Paul Pope, Janet York)
*"Suddenly Naked" (Gavin Wilding)

24th Genie Awards

*"The Barbarian Invasions" (Denise Robert, Daniel Louis, Fabienne Vonier)
*"La Face cachée de la lune" (Bob Krupinski, Mario St-Laurent)
*"La Grande séduction" (Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal)
*"Owning Mahowny" (András Hámori, Alessandro Camon, Seaton McLean)
*"The Snow Walker" (Rob Merilees, William Vince)

25th Genie Awards

*"Les Triplettes de Belleville" (Paul Cadieux)
*"Being Julia" (Robert Lantos)
*"Love, Sex and Eating the Bones" (Jennifer Holness)
*"Ma vie en cinémascope" (Denise Robert, Daniel Louis)
*"Mémoires affectives" (Barbara Shrier)

26th Genie Awards

*"C.R.A.Z.Y." (Pierre Even, Jean-Marc Vallée)
*"Familia" (Luc Déry)
*"It's All Gone Pete Tong" (Elizabeth Yake, Allan Niblo, James Richardson)
*"Saint Ralph" (Michael Souther, Teza Lawrence, Andrea Mann, Seaton McLean)
*"Water" (David Hamilton)

27th Genie Awards

*"Bon Cop, Bad Cop" (Kevin Tierney)
*"The Little Book of Revenge" (Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal)
*"The Rocket" (Denise Robert, Daniel Louis)
*"" (Barrie Dunn, Mike Clattenburg, Michael Volpe)
*"A Sunday in Kigali" (Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca)

28th Genie Awards

*"Away From Her" (Daniel Iron, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss)
*"L'Âge des ténèbres" ["Days of Darkness"] (Denise Robert, Daniel Louis)
*"Continental, un film sans fusil" ["Continental, a Film Without Guns"] (Luc Déry, Kim McCraw)
*"Eastern Promises" (Robert Lantos, Paul Webster)
*"Shake Hands With the Devil" (Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan)

References

* [http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?categid=1&shownum=0&winonly=0&awards=1&rtype=5&curstep=4&submit.x=30&submit.y=15 Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television - Genie Award for Best Motion Picture]