The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actress in a Canadian film.[1] The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year.

From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards.

In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.[2] Supporting performances are now honoured with the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Film.

1970s

Year Nominee Film Ref
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Fernande Giroux Red [1]
1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Olivette Thibault Mon oncle Antoine [1]
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Doris Petrie Wedding in White [1]
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Camille Bernard Kamouraska [1]
1974
No award presented [1]
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Lila Kedrova Eliza's Horoscope [1]
1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
Tedde Moore Second Wind [1]
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Carole Lazare One Man [1]
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Marilyn Lightstone In Praise of Older Women [1]
Lynne Cavanagh Three Card Monte [3]
Monique Mercure The Third Walker
Alberta Watson In Praise of Older Women

1980s

Year Nominee Film Ref
1980
1st Genie Awards
Geneviève Bujold Murder by Decree [1]
Helen Burns The Changeling [4]
Patricia Collins Summer's Children
Barbara Gordon Wild Horse Hank
Frances Hyland The Changeling
1981
2nd Genie Awards
Kate Reid Atlantic City [1]
Colleen Dewhurst Tribute [5]
Gale Garnett Tribute
Frances Hyland The Hounds of Notre Dame
Micheline Lanctôt The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin)
1982
3rd Genie Awards
Denise Filiatrault The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) [1]
Juliette Huot The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) [6]
Chapelle Jaffe The Amateur
Anne Létourneau The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
Dixie Seatle Ticket to Heaven
1983
4th Genie Awards
Jackie Burroughs The Grey Fox [1]
Geneviève Brassard Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) [7]
Clare Coulter By Design
Patricia Nolin Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine)
Trudy Young Melanie
1984
5th Genie Awards
Jackie Burroughs The Wars [1]
Amulette Garneau Maria Chapdelaine [8]
Elva Mai Hoover The Terry Fox Story
Tedde Moore A Christmas Story
Linda Sorgini The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion)
1985
6th Genie Awards
Linda Sorenson Draw! [1]
Jackie Burroughs The Surrogate [9]
Barbara Law Bedroom Eyes
Elizabeth Leigh-Milne Walls
Jane McKinnon The Bay Boy
Leah Pinsent The Bay Boy
1986
7th Genie Awards
Linda Sorenson Joshua Then and Now [1]
Lally Cadeau Separate Vacations [10]
Barbara Gordon Overnight
Fernanda Tavares 90 Days
1987
8th Genie Awards
Louise Portal The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) [1]
Lucie Laurier Anne Trister [11]
Andrée Pelletier Bach and Broccoli (Bach et Bottine)
Geneviève Rioux The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
Marie Tifo In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan)
1988
9th Genie Awards
Paule Baillargeon I've Heard the Mermaids Singing [1]
Jayne Eastwood Night Friend [12]
Fran Gebhard Blue City Slammers
Ann-Marie MacDonald I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Maruska Stankova Dreams Beyond Memory
1989
10th Genie Awards
Colleen Dewhurst Obsessed [1]
Janet-Laine Green Cowboys Don't Cry [13]
Helen Hughes Martha, Ruth and Edie
Miou-Miou The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
Susan Douglas Rubeš The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

1990s

Year Nominee Film Ref
1990
11th Genie Awards
Robyn Stevan Bye Bye Blues [1]
Pauline Martin Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) [14]
Johanne-Marie Tremblay Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
1991
12th Genie Awards
Danielle Proulx Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) [1]
Winifred Holden The Company of Strangers [15]
Sandrine Holt Black Robe
Ofelia Medina Diplomatic Immunity
Catherine Roche The Company of Strangers
1992
13th Genie Awards
Monique Mercure Naked Lunch [1]
Krista Bridges The Shower [16]
Judy Davis On My Own
Tracey Moore Defy Gravity
Johanne Marie Tremblay La Sarrasine
1993
14th Genie Awards
Nicola Cavendish The Grocer's Wife [1]
Brigitte Bako I Love a Man in Uniform [17]
Céline Bonnier Tectonic Plates
Sylvie Drapeau The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles)
Charlene Fernetz Harmony Cats
Kate Hennig Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1994
15th Genie Awards
Martha Henry Mustard Bath [1]
Wanda Cannon For the Moment [18]
Mia Kirshner Love and Human Remains
Johanne McKay My Friend Max (Mon amie Max)
Joanne Vannicola Love and Human Remains
1995
16th Genie Awards
Kate Nelligan Margaret's Museum [1]
Anne-Marie Cadieux The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) [19]
Rachael Crawford Rude
Marie Gignac The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Pascale Montpetit Eclipse
1996
17th Genie Awards
Martha Burns Long Day's Journey into Night [1]
Marie-Andrée Corneille Mistaken Identity (Erreur sur la personne) [20]
Josée Deschênes Polygraph (Le Polygraphe)
Maria de Medeiros Polygraph (Le Polygraphe)
Manon Miclette Love Me, Love Me Not (J'aime, j'aime pas)
1997
18th Genie Awards
Seana McKenna The Hanging Garden [1]
France Castel Karmina [21]
France Castel The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)
Kerry Fox The Hanging Garden
Joan Orenstein The Hanging Garden
1998
19th Genie Awards
Monique Mercure Conquest [1]
Geneviève Bujold Last Night [22]
Rachael Crawford Pale Saints
Anna Henry The Fishing Trip
Roberta Maxwell Last Night
1999
20th Genie Awards
Catherine O'Hara The Life Before This [1]
Suzanne Champagne Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver) [23]
Deborah Kara Unger Sunshine
Rachel Weisz Sunshine
Kathryn Zenna Jack and Jill

2000s

Year Nominee Film Ref
2000
21st Genie Awards
Helen Shaver We All Fall Down [24]
Annick Bergeron Pandora's Beauty (La Beauté de Pandore) [25]
Céline Bonnier The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines)
Stacy Smith New Waterford Girl
Mary Walsh New Waterford Girl
Barbara Williams Love Come Down
2001
22nd Genie Awards
Molly Parker Last Wedding [26]
Marya Delver Last Wedding [27]
Mimi Kuzyk Lost and Delirious
Brenda Fricker The War Bride
Molly Parker The War Bride
2002
23rd Genie Awards
Pascale Montpetit Savage Messiah [28]
Brigitte Bako Saint Monica [29]
Moushmi Chatterji Bollywood/Hollywood
Rachel McAdams Perfect Pie
Dina Pathak Bollywood/Hollywood
2003
24th Genie Awards
Marie-Josée Croze The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) [30]
Olympia Dukakis The Event [31]
Emily Hampshire A Problem with Fear
Meredith McGeachie Punch
Annabella Piugattuk The Snow Walker
2004
25th Genie Awards
Jennifer Jason Leigh Childstar [32]
Juliette Gosselin Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) [33]
Sylvie Moreau Love and Magnets (Les Aimants)
Elliot Page[a] Wilby Wonderful
Susana Salazar A Silent Love
2005
26th Genie Awards
Danielle Proulx C.R.A.Z.Y. [35]
Babz Chula Seven Times Lucky [36]
Suzanne Clément Audition (L'Audition)
Marianne Fortier Aurore
Micheline Lanctôt Familia
2006
27th Genie Awards
Carrie-Anne Moss Snow Cake [37]
Caroline Dhavernas Niagara Motel [38]
Marie Gignac The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux)
Emily Hampshire Snow Cake
Vivian Wu Eve and the Fire Horse
2007
28th Genie Awards
Kristen Thomson Away from Her [39]
Marie-Ginette Guay Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) [40]
Laurence Leboeuf My Daughter, My Angel (Ma fille mon ange)
Véronique Le Flaguais Surviving My Mother (Comment survivre à sa mère)
Fanny Mallette Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)
2008
29th Genie Awards
Kristin Booth Young People Fucking [41]
Céline Bonnier Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur) [42]
Éveline Gélinas The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Anie Pascale Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)
Rosamund Pike Fugitive Pieces
2009
30th Genie Awards
Martha Burns Love and Savagery [43]
Liane Balaban One Week [44]
Marie Brassard Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs)
Isabel Richer Babine
Sonia Vachon 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des ormes)

2010s

Year Nominee Film Ref
2010
31st Genie Awards
Minnie Driver Barney's Version [45]
Sonja Bennett Cole [46]
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires)
Terra Hazelton FUBAR 2
Mary Walsh Crackie
2011
32nd Genie Awards
Sophie Nélisse Monsieur Lazhar [47]
Roxana Condurache The Whistleblower [48]
Hélène Florent Café de Flore
Julie Le Breton Starbuck
Charlotte Sullivan Citizen Gangster
2012
1st Canadian Screen Awards
Seema Biswas Midnight's Children [49]
Fefe Dobson Home Again [50]
Alice Morel-Michaud The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3D)
Gabrielle Miller Moving Day
Sabrina Ouazani Inch'Allah
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Sarah Gadon Enemy [51]
Florence Blain Mbaye Another House (L'autre maison) [52]
Evelyne Brochu Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)
Mackenzie Davis The F Word
Jennifer Podemski Empire of Dirt
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Suzanne Clément Mommy [53]
Sandrine Bisson 1987 [54]
Gil Hae-yeon In Her Place
Catherine St-Laurent You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)
Mia Wasikowska Maps to the Stars
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Joan Allen Room [55]
Cynthia Ashperger The Waiting Room [56]
Christine Beaulieu The Mirage (Le Mirage)
Balinder Johal Beeba Boys
Mylène Mackay Endorphine
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
Molly Parker Weirdos [57]
Nathalie Baye It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) [58]
Kwena Bellemare-Boivin Before the Streets (Avant les rues)
Sherri Shepherd Jean of the Joneses
Gabrielle Tremblay Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau)
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Bahar Noohian Ava [59]
Oluniké Adeliyi Boost [60]
Lucinda Armstrong Hall Porcupine Lake
Clare Coulter Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)
Brigitte Poupart Ravenous (Les Affamés)
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Sarah Gadon The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur) [61]
Irlande Côté A Colony (Une colonie) [62]
Romane Denis Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun)
Anna Lambe The Grizzlies
Kate Moyer Our House
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Nour Belkhiria Antigone [63]
Leanna Chea 14 Days, 12 Nights (14 jours, 12 nuits) [64]
Larissa Corriveau Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparus)
Yamie Grégoire Kuessipan
Alison Midstokke Happy Face

2020s

Year Nominee Film Ref
2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Mary Walsh Happy Place [65]
Agam Darshi Funny Boy [66]
Felicity Huffman Tammy's Always Dying
Micheline Lanctôt Laughter (Le Rire)
Amy Groening Bone Cage
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Cherish Violet Blood Scarborough [67]
Tanja Björk The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) [68]
Kate Corbett The Righteous
Marine Johnson Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres)
Gail Maurice Night Raiders

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As Ellen Page; the awards show took place before Page came out as transgender.[34]

References

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