Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress

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	The Saracen Woman (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

• Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress

Notes

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

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