List of Canadian Academy Award winners and nominees

Not to be confused with Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

This is a list of Canadian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Canadian filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

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Best Actor

Leading Actor

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Walter Huston	Dodsworth	Nominated	First Canadian actor to receive a nomination for Best Actor
1940	Raymond Massey	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1941	Walter Huston	The Devil and Daniel Webster	Nominated
1942	Walter Pidgeon	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1943		Madame Curie	Nominated
1944	Alexander Knox	Wilson	Nominated
2006	Ryan Gosling	Nelson	Nominated

Best Actress

Leading Actress

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1928/29	Mary Pickford	Coquette	Won	First Canadian to win an Oscar. First Canadian actress to win an Oscar. First Canadian to receive an Oscar nomination. First Canadian actress to receive a nomination for Best Actress.
1929/30	Norma Shearer	The Divorcee	Won	First Canadian to receive multiple nominations.
		Their Own Desire	Nominated
1930/31	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill	Won	First time multiple Canadians received Oscar nominations. First time multiple Canadians received nominations in the same category.
	Norma Shearer	A Free Soul	Nominated
1931/32	Marie Dressler	Emma	Nominated
1934	Norma Shearer	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Nominated
1936		Romeo and Juliet	Nominated
1938		Marie Antoinette	Nominated
1969	Geneviève Bujold	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated
2007	Ellen Page	Juno	Nominated

Best Supporting Actor

Supporting Actor

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1942	Walter Huston	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Nominated	First Canadian actor to be nominated in multiple categories.
1944	Hume Cronyn	The Seventh Cross	Nominated
1946	Harold Russell	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won	Russell was a Canadian born, U.S. veteran. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar for Supporting Actor.
1948	Walter Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Won
1949	John Ireland	All the King's Men	Nominated	Ireland was born in Canada, but raised in the United States
1970	Chief Dan George	Little Big Man	Nominated	First First Nations actor to receive a nomination.
1989	Dan Aykroyd	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
1990	Graham Greene	Dances With Wolves	Nominated	Second First Nations actor to receive a nomination.
2009	Christopher Plummer	The Last Station	Nominated
2011		Beginners	Won

Best Supporting Actress

Supporting Actress

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1985	Meg Tilly	Agnes of God	Nominated	Tilly is an American born-Canadian actress. First Canadian actress to be nominated for Supporting Actress.
1991	Kate Nelligan	The Prince of Tides	Nominated
1993	Anna Paquin	The Piano	Won	Paquin is a Canadian born-New Zealand actress. First Canadian actress to win an Oscar for Supporting Actress.
1994	Jennifer Tilly	Bullets over Broadway	Nominated	Tilly is an American born-Canadian actress.
2015	Rachel McAdams	Spotlight	Nominated

Best Animated Film

Animated Film

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Animated Short Film

Animated Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1952	Colin Low(Director) Tom Daly (Producer)	The Romance of Transportation in Canada	Nominated	First Canadian film nominated in the category.
1963	Tom Daly (Producer) Colin Low(Producer)	My Financial Career	Nominated
1964	National Film Board of Canada	Christmas Cracker	Nominated

Best Art Direction

Art Direction

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Costume Design

Costume Design

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Director

Director

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1947	Edward Dmytryk	Crossfire	Nominated	First Canadian to be nominated for Best Director
1957	Mark Robson	Peyton Place	Nominated
1958		The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Nominated
1967	Norman Jewison	In the Heat of the Night	Nominated
1970	Arthur Hiller	Love Story	Nominated
1971	Norman Jewison	Fiddler on the Roof	Nominated	First director to receive multiple nomination.
1987		Moonstruck	Nominated
1997	James Cameron	Titanic	Won	First Canadian to win Best Director
	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated	Egoyan is an Egyptian born-Canadian filmmaker.
2005	Paul Haggis	Crash	Nominated
2007	Jason Reitman	Juno	Nominated
2009		Up in the Air	Nominated
	James Cameron	Avatar	Nominated

Best Documentary

Best Documentary

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1954	The Stratford Adventure	Guy Glover(producer)	Nominated

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1941	Churchill's Island	National Film Board of Canada	Won	First Canadian film to win an Oscar. First film to win Best Documentary (Short Subject)
	Warclouds in the Pacific		Nominated
1942	Inside Fighting China		Nominated	Received a nomination in the Best Documentary category.
	High over the Borders		Nominated
1949	The Rising Tide		Nominated
1950	The Fight: Science Against Cancer		Nominated
1952	Neighbours	Norman McLaren	Won
1958	The Living Stone	Tom Daly(producer)	Nominated
1961	Universe	Colin Low(director)	Nominated

Best Film Editing

Editing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film

Year	Film	Director	Status	Notes
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Denys Arcand	Nominated	(original title: Le Déclin de l'empire américain) First film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1989	Jesus of Montreal		Nominated	(original title: Jésus de Montréal)
2003	The Barbarian Invasions		Won	(original title: Les Invasions barbares) First Canadian film to win Best Foreign Language Film.
2006	Water	Deepa Mehta	Nominated	(original title: Water वाटर) First Canadian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film that is NOT spoken in French.
2010	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	Nominated
2011	Monsieur Lazhar	Philippe Falardeau	Nominated
2012	War Witch	Kim Nguyen	Nominated	(original title: Rebelle)

Best Live Action Short Film

Live Action Short Film

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1952	Neighbours	Norman McLaren	Nominated	Nominated for Best Short Subject, One-reel
1953	Herring Hunt	National Film Board of Canada	Nominated
1961	Very Nice, Very Nice		Nominated

Best Picture

Picture

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Music – Original Song

Original Song

Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes

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Best Music – Original Score

Original Score

Year	Name	Film	Status
2003	Howard Shore	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
2012	Mychael Danna	Life of Pi	Won

Best Short Film - Live Action

Live Action Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Sound or Sound Mixing

Sound

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1930	John Meehan	The Divorcee	Nominated
1965	Stanley Mann	The Collector	Nominated
1974	Lionel Chetwynd Mordecai Richler	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Nominated
1978	Bernard Slade	Same Time, Next Year	Nominated
1997	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated
2004	Paul Haggis	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
2007	Sarah Polley	Away from Her	Nominated
2009	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air	Nominated
	Terri Tatchell	District 9	Nominated
2016	Emma Donoghue	Room	Nominated

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1975	Ted Allan	Lies My Father Told Me	Nominated
1994	Roger Avary	Pulp Fiction	Won
2003	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions	Nominated
2005	Paul Haggis	Crash	Won
2006		Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated

See also

• Cinema of Canada
• List of Canadian films
• Genie Awards

External links

• A brief history of Canadian actors at the Oscars, Peter Knegt, CBC Arts