Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary is an annual award, presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program to honour the year's best cinematography in a documentary film. It is presented separately from the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography for feature films.

On two prior occasions, at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 and at the short-lived Bijou Awards in 1981, awards were presented for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Non-Feature), covering short documentaries and television programs, but not for feature documentaries. Nonetheless, the winners and nominees in those years have been included below. In the 1960s, both short and feature documentary films were sometimes winners of the Canadian Film Award for Best Cinematography, as relatively few Canadian narrative features were made in that era, but this was not continued after 1969.

1980s edit

Year Nominees Film Ref
1980
1st Genie Awards
(Non-Feature)
Roger Rochat Ice Birds (Le Pilier de cristal) [1]
Ron Orieux Nails [2]
Barry Perles, Douglas Kiefer Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed
Charles Stewart Dieppe 1942
1981
Bijou Awards
(Non-Feature)
Robert Fresco Steady as She Goes [3]

2010s edit

Year Nominees Film Ref
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Patrick McLaughlin Everything Will Be [4]
Geoffroy Beauchemin, Alex Margineanu, Sami Mermer, Francois Vincelette The Sower (Le semeur) [5]
Nicolas Canniccioni, Jean-Pierre St-Louis Where I'm From (D’ou je viens)
Nicolas Canniccioni Guidelines (La marche à suivre)
Marie Davignon, Jessica Lee Gagné, Geneviève Perron All That We Make (Fermières)
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Arnaud Bouquet Last of the Elephant Men [6]
Thomas Burstyn Some Kind of Love [7]
Daniel Grant, Amar Arhab The Messenger
Léna Mill-Reuillard, Étienne Roussy Welcome to F.L. (Bienvenue à F.L.)
Simon Schneider, Sasha Snow Hadwin's Judgement
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
John Price I Am the Blues [8]
Joan Poggio Gun Runners [9]
Derek Rogers The Skyjacker's Tale
Chris Romeike Giants of Africa
Van Royko Koneline: Our Land Beautiful
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Alfonso Maiorana Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World [10]
Mike McLaughlin Unarmed Verses [11]
Duraid Munajim My Enemy, My Brother
Carlo Guillermo Proto Resurrecting Hassan
Vuk Stojanovic, François Jacob, Ilya Zima A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel)
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Nicholas de Pencier Anthropocene: The Human Epoch [12]
Nicolas Canniccioni First Stripes (Premières armes) [13]
Christy Garland What Walaa Wants
Étienne Roussy The Other Rio (L'autre Rio)
Matthieu Rytz Anote's Ark
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Pedro Ruiz Havana, from on High [14]
Mathieu Arsenault Head First (Tenir tête) [15]
Grant Baldwin This Mountain Life
Léna Mill-Reuillard, Stéphanie Weber Biron, Étienne Boilard City Dreamers
Pedro Pires Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou)

2020s edit

Year Nominees Film Ref
2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Ryan Randall Workhorse [16]
Jean-Philippe Archibald The Free Ones (Les libres) [17]
Glauco Bermudez, Mark Ó Fearghaíl Influence
Renaud Philippe, Olivier Higgins Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour)
Kiarash Sadigh Nahanni: River of Forgiveness
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Marianne Ploska Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue) [18]
Vince Arvidson The Magnitude of All Things [19]
Nicholas Castel, Gabriel Swift, Bronson Whytcross, John Fulton Coextinction
Rita Leistner Forest for the Trees
Patrick McLaughlin Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
2022
11th Canadian Screen Awards
Nicholas de Pencier The Colour of Ink [20]
Noura Kevorkian Batata [21]
Katerine Giguère Scrap
Jacquelyn Mills Geographies of Solitude
Étienne Roussy Zo Reken
2023
12th Canadian Screen Awards
Ben Giesbrecht, Luke Connor Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun [22]
Patrick McGowan, Jason Providence Coven
Kaveh Nabatian Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones
Ernesto Pardo The White Guard (La Garde blanche)
Étienne Roussy Beyond Paper (Au-delà du papier)

See also edit

References edit

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  3. ^ "War Brides top Bijou winner". Regina Leader-Post, October 30, 1981.
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  15. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards for Documentary & Factual". Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, May 25, 2020.
  16. ^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
  17. ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
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  20. ^ Jackson Weaver, "To Kill a Tiger, We're All Gonna Die and BLK emerge as top winners at CSAs' opening night". CBC News, April 11, 2023.
  21. ^ Pat Mullen, "2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominations for Documentary". Point of View, February 22, 2023.
  22. ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.