Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actor.

1st Genie Awards

* Christopher Plummer, "Murder by Decree"
* Geoffrey Bowes, "Something's Rotten"
* Robin Gammell, "Jack London's Klondike Fever"
* Thomas Hauff, "Summer's Children"
* Stephen Lack, "Rubber Gun"

2nd Genie Awards

* Thomas Peacocke, "The Hounds of Notre Dame"
* Jocelyn Berube, "L'Homme à toute faire"
* Lewis Furey, "Fantastica"
* Winston Rekert, "Suzanne"
* August Schellenberg, "L'Affaire Coffin"

3rd Genie Awards

* Nick Mancuso, "Ticket to Heaven"
* Gabriel Arcand, "Les Plouffe"
* Gordon Pinsent, "Silence of the North"
* Christopher Plummer, "The Amateur"
* Winston Rekert, "Heartaches"

4th Genie Awards

* Donald Sutherland, "Threshold"
* Gilles Renaud, "Une journée en taxi"
* Saul Rubinek, "By Design"
* Marcel Sabourin, "Doux Aveux"
* August Schellenberg, "Latitude 55"

5th Genie Awards

* Eric Fryer, "The Terry Fox Story"
* Pierre Curzi, "Lucien Brouillard"
* Guy L'Ecuyer, "Au clair de la lune"
* Nick Mancuso, "Maria Chapdelaine"
* Alan Scarfe, "Deserters"

6th Genie Awards

* Gabriel Arcand, "Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe"
* Xavier Norman Petermann, "Mario"
* Winston Rekert, "Walls"
* Kiefer Sutherland, "The Bay Boy"
* Kenneth Welsh, "Reno and the Doc"

7th Genie Awards

* John Wildman, "My American Cousin"
* Serge Dupire, "Le Matou"
* Ed McNamara, "Bayo"
* Alan Scarfe, "Overnight"
* R. H. Thomson, "Samuel Lount"

8th Genie Awards

* Gordon Pinsent, "John and the Missus"
* Pierre Curzi, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
* Rémy Girard, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
* Winston Rekert, "The Blue Man"
* Kenneth Welsh, "Loyalties"

9th Genie Awards

* Roger Lebel, "Un zoo la nuit"
* David Hemblen, "Family Viewing"
* Jason St. Amour, "Train of Dreams"
* Gilles Maheu, "Un zoo la nuit"

10th Genie Awards

* Jeremy Irons, "Dead Ringers"
* Zachary Ansley, "Cowboys Don't Cry"
* Elias Koteas, "Malarek"
* Jan Rubes, "Something About Love"
* Saul Rubinek, "The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick"
* Ron White, "Cowboys Don't Cry"

11th Genie Awards

* Lothaire Bluteau, "Jésus de Montreal"
* Maury Chaykin, "Cold Comfort"
* Michel Côté, "Cruising Bar"
* Michael McManus, "Speaking Parts"
* Stephen Ouimette, "The Top of His Head"

12th Genie Awards

* Rémy Girard, "Amoureux fou"
* Brad Dourif, "Chaindance"
* Mattias Habich, "La Demoiselle sauvage"
* Saeed Jaffrey, "Masala"
* Jean Rochefort, "Amoureux Fou"

13th Genie Awards

* Tony Nardi, "La Sarrasine"
* Jacques Godin, "Being at Home with Claude"
* Don McKellar, "Highway 61"
* Gildor Roy, "Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur"
* Peter Weller, "Naked Lunch"

14th Genie Awards

* Tom McCamus, "I Love a Man in Uniform"
* Roy Dupuis, "Cap Tourmente"
* Rémy Girard, "La Florida"
* Gilbert Sicotte, "Cap Tourmente"
* R. H. Thomson, "The Lotus Eaters"

15th Genie Awards

* Maury Chaykin, "Whale Music"
* Martin Drainville, "Louis 19, le roi des ondes"
* Gary Farmer, "Henry and Verlin"
* Elias Koteas, "Exotica"
* Gilbert Sicotte, "Les pots cassés"

16th Genie Awards

*David La Haye, "L'Enfant d'eau"
*Lothaire Bluteau, "Le Confessional"
*Matthew Ferguson, "Eclipse"
*Clive Russell, "Margaret's Museum"
*Peter Williams, "Soul Survivor"

17th Genie Awards

*William Hutt, "Long Day's Journey into Night"
*Jason Cadieux, "Lilies"
*Matthew Ferguson, "Lilies"
*Danny Gilmore, "Lilies"
*Tom McCamus, "Long Day's Journey into Night"
*Christopher Penn, "The Boys Club"

18th Genie Awards

*Ian Holm, "The Sweet Hereafter"
*Robin Aubert, "La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge"
*Bruce Greenwood, "The Sweet Hereafter"
*Peter Outerbridge, "Kissed"
*Alan Williams, "The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati"

19th Genie Awards

*Roshan Seth, "Such a Long Journey"
*Rémy Girard, "Les Boys"
*Tony Nardi, "La Déroute"
*Jonathan Pryce, "Regeneration"
*Samuel West, "Rupert's Land"

20th Genie Awards

*Bob Hoskins, "Felicia's Journey"
*Gabriel Arcand, "Post Mortem"
*Denis Bouchard, "Histoires d'hiver"
*Joël Drapeau-Dalpé, "Histoires d'hiver"
*Ralph Fiennes, "Sunshine"
*Daniel MacIvor, "The Five Senses"

21st Genie Awards

*Tony Nardi, "My Father's Angel"
*David Cubitt, "The Perfect Son"
*Colm Feore, "The Perfect Son"
*Timothy Webber, "My Father's Angel"
*James Whitmore, "Here's to Life!"

22nd Genie Awards

*Brendan Fletcher, "The Law of Enclosures"
*Zachary Bennett, "Desire"
*David La Haye, "Un crabe dans la tête"
*Peter Outerbridge, "Marine Life"
*Chris Owens, "The Uncles"
*Zinedine Soualem, "L'Ange de goudron"

23rd Genie Awards

*Luc Picard, "Savage Messiah"
*David Alpay, "Ararat"
*Philip DeWilde, "Turning Paige"
*Christopher Plummer, "Ararat"
*Colin Roberts, "Flower & Garnet"

24th Genie Awards

*Rémy Girard, "Les invasions barbares"
*Raymond Bouchard, "Seducing Doctor Lewis"
*Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Owning Mahowny"
*Robert Lepage, "La Face cachée de la lune"
*Barry Pepper, "The Snow Walker"

25th Genie Awards

* Roy Dupuis, "Mémoires affectives"
* Michel Côté, "Le Dernier tunnel"
* David La Haye, "Nouvelle-France"
* Ian McKellen, "Émile"
* Nick Stahl, "Twist"

26th Genie Awards

* Michel Côté, "C.R.A.Z.Y."
* Adam Butcher, "Saint Ralph"
* Marc-André Grondin, "C.R.A.Z.Y."
* Paul Kaye, "It's All Gone Pete Tong"
* Luc Picard, "L'Audition"

27th Genie Awards

* Roy Dupuis, "Maurice Richard" ("The Rocket")
* Colm Feore, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Olivier Gourmet, "Congorama"
* Patrick Huard, "Bon Cop, Bad Cop"
* Luc Picard, "Un dimanche à Kigali" ("A Sunday in Kigali")

28th Genie Awards

* Gordon Pinsent, "Away From Her"
* Roy Dupuis, "Shake Hands With the Devil"
* Marc Labrèche, "L'Âge des ténèbres" ("Days of Darkness")
* Claude Legault, " Les 3 P'tits Cochons" ("The 3 Little Pigs")
* Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"