The Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Film is an annual award, presented by the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as part of the
Canadian Screen Awards program, to honour the best leading performance in a theatrical film.
It is a merger of the former awards for
Best Actor
Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play.
The term most often refers to th ...
and
Best Actress, following the academy's announcement in August 2022 that it would start presenting gender-neutral acting awards instead of gendered ones.
[Joseph Pugh]
"Canadian Screen Awards switching to gender-neutral performance categories"
CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. ...
, August 25, 2022. The category was presented only at the
11th Canadian Screen Awards
11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables.
Name
"Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...
in 2023; beginning with the
12th Canadian Screen Awards
The 12th Canadian Screen Awards is an upcoming ceremony, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2023. They are scheduled to be held at the Can ...
in 2023, separate categories will instead be presented for Best Leading Performance in a Drama Film and Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Film.
2020s
References
{{Canadian Screen Awards
Film awards for lead actor
Film awards for lead actress
Lead Performance
Awards established in 2023
*