The Jay Scott Prize is an annual film award presented by the

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, in conjunction with

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, to an emerging talent in the Canadian film industry. First presented in 2009, the award was named in memory of influential Canadian

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. The award has been most commonly presented to film directors, but has also been given to actors; it is generally given to a filmmaker or performer who has achieved a significant career breakthrough in the previous year, but is ultimately given in consideration of the recipient's overall body of work rather than for that specific work. The winner of the award receives $10,000.

Winners

*2009:

Xavier Dolan Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2 ...

*2010:

Daniel Cockburn Daniel Ernest Cockburn is a Canadian performance artist, film director and video artist. Cockburn won the Jay Scott Prize in 2010 and the European Media Art Festival's principal award in 2011 for his debut feature film '' You Are Here.'' Edu ...

*2011:

Ingrid Veninger Ingrid Veninger (born August 21, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University. Veninger began her career in show business as a child actor in commercials and on television; as a teen, she was fea ...

*2012:

Nicolás Pereda Nicolás Pereda (born 1982) is a Mexican-Canadian film director. To date, he has directed nine features and three short films. Personal life Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship and is a resid ...

*2013: Matt Johnson *2014: Albert Shin *2015:

Anne Émond Anne Émond (born 1982) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Early life and education Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate pr ...

*2016:

Ashley McKenzie Ashley McKenzie (born 17 July 1989) is an English judoka competing at the men's 60 kg division. He was a member of the Great Britain Olympic Judo Team at London 2012 but was defeated in the second round by Hiroaki Hiraoka of Japan. He a ...

*2017:

Sofia Bohdanowicz Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut in 2016 with ''Never Eat Alone''. Her second feature film, ''Maison du Bonh ...

*2018:

Molly McGlynn Molly McGlynn is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.Deragh Campbell Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—'' Never Eat Alone'' (2016), '' Veslemøy's Song'' (2018), '' ...

*2020:

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall Kelly Fyffe-Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker best known for her 2020 two-part short film '' Black Bodies'', which won the Changemaker Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Actio ...

*2021:

Bretten Hannam Bretten Hannam is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.Jordan Parker"Two-Spirit filmmaker puts queer representation first in films" ''Halifax Today'', June 12, 2018. A Two-Spirit, non-binary Mi'kmaq person, Hannam was born and raised in Nova ...

*2022:

Carol Nguyen Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker. She is most noted for her films ''No Crying at the Dinner Table'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary, Best Short Documentary at the 8th C ...

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* {{TFCA Awards Chron Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

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