The Golden Screen Award, formerly known as the Golden Reel Award, is a Canadian
film
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award, presented to the Canadian film with the biggest
box office
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Available fo ...
. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association introduced this award in 1976 as part of the
Canadian Film Awards
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until 1979. The Golden Reel became part of the
Genie Award
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s ceremonies in 1980, and is currently part of the
Canadian Screen Awards
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. It was renamed from Golden Reel to Golden Screen as of the
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
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film from
Quebec
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, the award often (although not always) went to the same film as the ''Billet d'or'' ("Golden Ticket"), which was presented by the
Prix Iris
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Public Prize in 2016.
In 2015, the Academy also introduced Golden Screen Awards for fiction and reality television, to honour the highest-rated Canadian television shows in each category.
Winners
Film
* 1976 - ''
Lies My Father Told Me
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Porky's
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''
* 1983 - ''
Strange Brew
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''
* 1984 - ''
The Dog Who Stopped the War
''The Dog Who Stopped the War'' (french: La guerre des tuques, lit. "The Tuque War") is a 1984 Canadian drama film directed by André Melançon. The film was the first in the '' Tales for All (Contes pour tous)'' series of children's movies created ...
(La Guerre des tuques)''
* 1985 - ''
The Care Bears Movie
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''
* 1986 - ''
The Decline of the American Empire
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(Le Déclin de l'empire américain)''
* 1987 - '' The Gate''
* 1988 - ''
The Tadpole and the Whale
''Tadpole and the Whale'' (french: La Grenouille et la baleine) is a Canadian children's fantasy film, directed by Jean-Claude Lord and released in 1988 as part of the Tales for All series."Demers film Tadpole wins a Golden Reel as box-office cha ...
(La Grenouille et la baleine)''
* 1989 - ''
Jesus of Montreal
''Jesus of Montreal'' (french: Jésus de Montréal) is a 1989 French Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand, and starring Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening and Johanne-Marie Tremblay. The film tells the story of a grou ...
''
* 1990 - ''
Ding et Dong, le film
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Louis 19, King of the Airwaves
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The film stars Martin Drainville as Louis Jobin, a television fanatic who wins a contest to be on television. Unbeknownst to ...
(Louis 19, le roi des ondes)''
* 1994 - ''
Johnny Mnemonic
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''
* 1995 - ''
Crash
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''
* 1996 - ''
Air Bud
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Plot
After ...
''
* 1997 - ''not awarded this year''
* 1998 - ''
Les Boys
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''
* 1999 - ''
Les Boys II
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''
* 2000 - ''
The Art of War
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''
* 2001 - ''
Wedding Night
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(Nuit de noces)''
* 2002 - ''
Les Boys III
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
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''
* 2006 - ''
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
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''
* 2007 - ''
The 3 L'il Pigs
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Father and Guns
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CBC News
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Pompeii
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''
* 2015 - ''
Snowtime!
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(La Guerre des tuques 3D)''
* 2016 - ''
The 3 L'il Pigs 2
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Toronto Star
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'', March 9, 2018.
* 2018 - ''
1991
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''
* 2019 - ''
Compulsive Liar
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Rookie Blue
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'' (fiction), ''
The Amazing Race Canada
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The Amazing Race Canada
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'' (reality)
* 2016 - ''
Murdoch Mysteries
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'' (fiction), ''
The Amazing Race Canada
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'' (reality)
* 2017 - ''
Murdoch Mysteries
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'' (fiction), ''
The Amazing Race Canada
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'' (reality)
* 2018 - ''
The Indian Detective
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ET Canada
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'', March 28, 2019.
* 2019 - ''
Murdoch Mysteries
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The Amazing Race Canada
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'' (reality)
See also
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Prix Iris Public Prize The Public Prize (french: Prix Public is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its annual Prix Iris, to honour the most popular film of the year among film audiences in Quebec.
First presented in 1999 as part of the Prix Jut ...