Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction

The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film director.

1st Genie Awards

*Bob Clark, "Murder by Decree"
*Peter Carter, "Klondike Fever"
*Anne-Claire Poirier, "Mourir à tue-tête"
*Donald Shebib, "Fish Hawk"
*Eric Till, "Wild Horse Hank

2nd Genie Awards

*Francis Mankiewicz, "Les bons débarras"
*Bob Clark, "Tribute"
*Zale Dalen, "Hounds of Notre Dame"
*Jean-Claude Labrecque, "L'Affaire Coffin"
*Micheline Lanctôt, "L'Homme à tout faire"

3rd Genie Awards

*Gilles Carle, "Les Plouffe"
*David Cronenberg, "Scanners"
*Allan King, "Silence of the North"
*Donald Shebib, "Heartaches"
*Ralph L. Thomas, "Ticket to Heaven"

4th Genie Awards

*Phillip Borsos, "The Grey Fox"
*Rex Bromfield, "Melanie"
*Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, "Les fleurs sauvages"
*Robert Ménard, "Une journée en taxi"
*Eric Till, "If You Could See What I Hear"

5th Genie Awards

*Bob Clark, "A Christmas Story" and David Cronenberg, "Videodrome" (tie)
*Bruno Carrière, "Lucien Brouillard"
*Jack Darcus, "Deserters"
*André Forcier, "Au clair de la lune"
*Brigitte Sauriol, "Rien qu'un jeu"

6th Genie Awards

*Micheline Lanctôt, "Sonatine"
*Atom Egoyan, "Next of Kin"
*Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, "Le Jour S..."
*Don Owen, "Unfinished Business"
*Léa Pool, "La Femme de l'hôtel"

7th Genie Awards

*Sandy Wilson, "My American Cousin"
*Jean Beaudin, "Le Matou"
*Claude Jutra, "La Dame en couleurs"
*Ted Kotcheff, "Joshua Then and Now"
*Giles Walker, "90 Days"

8th Genie Awards

*Denys Arcand, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
*Leon Marr, "Dancing in the Dark"
*Yves Simoneau, "Pouvoir intime"
*John N. Smith, "Sitting in Limbo"
*Anne Wheeler, "Loyalties"

9th Genie Awards

*Jean-Claude Lauzon, "Un zoo la nuit"
*Atom Egoyan, "Family Viewing"
*Marquise Lepage, "Marie s'en va-t-en ville"
*Patricia Rozema, "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"
*John N. Smith, "Train of Dreams"

10th Genie Awards

*David Cronenberg, "Dead Ringers"
*Roger Cardinal, "Malarek"
*Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, John Walker, Aerlyn Weissman and John Frizzell, "A Winter Tan"
*Francis Mankiewicz, "Les Portes tournantes"
*Anne Wheeler, "Cowboys Don't Cry"

11th Genie Awards

*Denys Arcand, "Jésus de Montréal"
*François Bouvier and Jean Beaudry, "Les Matins infidèles"
*Atom Egoyan, "Speaking Parts"
*John N. Smith, "Welcome to Canada"
*Anne Wheeler, "Bye Bye Blues"

12th Genie Awards

*Bruce Beresford, "Black Robe"
*Phillip Borsos, ""
*Atom Egoyan, "The Adjuster"
*André Forcier, "Une histoire inventée"
*Darrell Wasyk, "H"

13th Genie Awards

*David Cronenberg, "Naked Lunch"
*Jean Beaudin, "Being at Home with Claude"
*Eli Cohen, "The Quarrel"
*Jean-Claude Lauzon, "Léolo"
*Robert Morin, "Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur"

14th Genie Awards

*François Girard, "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"
*Paule Baillargeon, "Le Sèxe des étoiles"
*Atom Egoyan, "Calendar"
*George Mihalka, "La Florida"
*Sandy Wilson, "Harmony Cats"

15th Genie Awards

*Atom Egoyan, "Exotica"
*André Forcier, "Le Vent du Wyoming"
*Micheline Lanctôt, "Deux actrices"
*Richard J. Lewis, "Whale Music"
*Léa Pool, "Mouvements du désir"
*Mina Shum, "Double Happiness"

16th Genie Awards

* Robert Lepage, "Le Confessional"
* Charles Binamé, "Eldorado"
* Mort Ransen, "Margaret's Museum"
* Jean-Marc Vallée, "Liste Noire"
* Clement Virgo, "Rude"

17th Genie Awards

* David Cronenberg, "Crash"
* John Fawcett, "The Boys Club"
* John Greyson, "Lilies"
* Robert Lepage, "Le Polygraphe"
* Bruce McDonald, "Hard Core Logo"

18th Genie Awards

* Atom Egoyan, "The Sweet Hereafter"
* Thom Fitzgerald, "The Hanging Garden"
* André Forcier, "La Comtesse de Baton Rouge"
* Gabriel Pelletier, "Karmina"
* Lynne Stopkewich, "Kissed"

19th Genie Awards

* François Girard, "The Red Violin"
* Sturla Gunnarsson, "Such a Long Journey"
* Don McKellar, "Last Night"
* Gillies MacKinnon, "Regeneration"
* Jonathan Tammuz, "Rupert's Land"

20th Genie Awards

* Jeremy Podeswa, "The Five Senses"
* Louis Bélanger, "Post Mortem"
* Atom Egoyan, "Felicia's Journey"
* Léa Pool, "Emporte-moi"
* Istvan Szabo, "Sunshine"

21st Genie Awards

* Denis Villeneuve, "Maelström"
* Gary Burns, "waydowntown"
* Alain DesRochers, "La Bouteille"
* Robert Favreau, "Les Muses Orphelines"
* Robert Lepage, "Possible Worlds"

22nd Genie Awards

* Zacharias Kunuk, ""
* Denis Chouinard, "L'ange de goudron"
* Renny Bartlett, "Eisenstein"
* Bernard Émond, "La Femme qui boit"
* William Phillips, "Treed Murray"

23rd Genie Awards

* David Cronenberg, "Spider"
* Jean Beaudin, "Le collectionneur"
* Sturla Gunnarsson, "Rare Birds"
* Ricardo Trogi, "Quebec - Montreal"
* Anne Wheeler, "Suddenly Naked"

24th Genie Awards

* Denys Arcand, "The Barbarian Invasions"
* Robert Lepage, "The Far Side of the Moon"
* Jean-François Pouliot, "Seducing Doctor Lewis"
* Guy Maddin, "The Saddest Music in the World"
* Charles Martin Smith, "The Snow Walker"

25th Genie Awards

* Francis Leclerc, "Looking for Alexander"
* Denise Filiatrault, "Ma vie en cinémascope"
* Pierre Houle, "Monica la mitraille"
* Bronwen Hughes, "Stander"
* David "Sudz" Sutherland, "Love, Sex and Eating the Bones"

26th Genie Awards

* Jean-Marc Vallée, "C.R.A.Z.Y."
* Louise Archambault, "Familia"
* Michael Dowse, "It's All Gone Pete Tong"
* Deepa Mehta, "Water"
* Luc Picard, "L'Audition"

27th Genie Awards

* Charles Binamé, "The Rocket"
* Robert Favreau, "A Sunday in Kigali"
* Stéphane Lapointe, "La Vie secrète des gens heureux"
* Jean-François Pouliot, "Guide de la Petite Vengeance"

28th Genie Awards

* Sarah Polley, "Away From Her"
* Denys Arcand, "L'Âge des ténèbres" ("Days of Darkness")
* David Cronenberg, "Eastern Promises"
* Bruce McDonald, "The Tracey Fragments"
* Roger Spottiswoode, "Shake Hands With the Devil"