Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best original Canadian screenplay.

1st Genie Awards

* Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum, "Meatballs"
* Mireille Dansereau, "Heartbreak"
* Anne-Claire Poirier, Marthe Blackburn, "A Scream from Silence"
* Allan Moyle, John Laing, Stephen Lack, "Rubber Gun"
* Steven H. Stern, "Running"
* Jim Osborne, "Summer's Children"

2nd Genie Awards

* Réjean Ducharme, "Les Bons Débarras"
* Marc Rosen, "Final Assignment"
* Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jacques Benoit, "L'Affaire Coffin"
* Micheline Lanctôt, "L'Homme à tout faire"
* Ken Mitchell, "The Hounds of Notre Dame"

3rd Genie Awards

* Terry Heffernan, "Heartaches"
* Clay Borris, "Alligator Shoes"
* Paul Illidge, James Sanderson, "Head On"
* Adam Arkin, Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky, "Improper Channels"
* Réjean Ducharme, "Les Beaux Souvenirs"
* David Cronenberg, "Scanners"

4th Genie Awards

* John Hunter, "The Grey Fox"
* Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor, "Big Meat Eater"
* David Lee Henry, "Harry Tracy"
* John Juliani, Sharon Riis, "Latitude 55"
* Roger Fournier, "Une journeé en taxi"

8th Genie Awards

* Denys Arcand, "Le Déclin de l'empire américain"
* Sharon Riis, "Loyalties"
* Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi, "Pouvoir Intime"
* Richard Nochol, "Sitting in Limbo"
* Michael Jones, Andy Jones, "The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood"

10th Genie Awards

* Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman, "Milk and Honey"
* André Melançon, Jacques Bobet, "La Grenouille et La Baleine"
* Marie-Jose Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot, "Les Tisserands du Pouvoir"
* Guy Maddin, "Tales from the Gimli Hospital"
* Michael Rubbo, "Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller"

11th Genie Awards

* Denys Arcand, "Jesus de Montreal"
* Anne Wheeler, "Bye Bye Blues"
* Don McKellar, "Roadkill"
* Atom Egoyan, "Speaking Parts"
* Colleen Murphy, "Termini Station"
* Peter Mettler, "The Top of His Head"

12th Genie Awards

* Paul Quarrington, Eugene Lipinski, "Perfectly Normal"
* Claire Wojas, "Amoureux Fou"
* Darrell Wasyk, "H"
* Pierre Falardeau, "Le Party"
* André Forcier, Jacques Marcotte, "Un Histoire Inventée"

13th Genie Awards

* Jean-Claude Lauzon, "Léolo"
* Paul Donovan, Bill Fleming, "Buried on Sunday"
* Paul Tana, Bruno Ramirez, "La Sarrasine"
* Jeff Shultz, "North of Pittsburgh"
* Francis Damberger, "Solitaire"

15th Genie Awards

* Atom Egoyan, "Exotica"
* Mina Shum, "Double Happiness"
* Gilles Desjardins, "Les Pots Casses"
* Roger Cantin, "Matusalem"
* Léa Pool, "Mouvements du Desir"