Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour achievements in visual effects in Canadian film.

The award was introduced for the first time at the 32nd Genie Awards. It has been presented since as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.

Note that years listed here are the year of the nominated films' release, not the year of the award presentation.

## 2010s

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2011
32nd Genie Awards
Vincent Dudouet, Cynthia Mourou, Éric Normandin, Martin Pensa, Marc Cote, Stephanie Broussaud, Sylvain Theroux, Luc Sansfacon, Nathalie Tremblay, Garry Chuntz | Café de Flore |
Ovidiu Cinazan, Mike Borrett, Milan Schere, Oliver Hearsey, Dennis Berardi, Mathew Borrett, Wilson Cameron, Jim Price, Wojciech Zielinski, Jason Edwardh  | A Dangerous Method |
Robert Crowther, Tony Cybulski, Ian Britton, Tom Turnbull  | Citizen Gangster
Geoffroy Lauzon  | BumRush
Jacques Levesque, Eve Brunet, Philippe Roberge  | Snow & Ashes
2012
1st Canadian Screen Awards
Dennis Berardi, Jason Edwardh, Matt Glover, Trey Harrell, Leann Harvey, Jo Hughes, Ethan Lee, Scott Riopelle, Eric Robinson, Kyle Yoneda | Resident Evil: Retribution |
Dennis Berardi, Keith Acheson, Michael Borrett, Wilson Cameron, Michael DiCarlo, Tom Nagy, Britton Plewes, Scott Riopelle, Matt Whelan, Wojciech Zielinski  | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D |
Ève Brunet, Marc Morissette, Alexandra Vaillancourt  | War Witch (Rebelle)
Ralph Maiers, Debora Dunphy, John Fukushima, Patrick Kavanaugh, Bill Martin, Chris Philips, Jeremy Price, Kenton Rannie, Lauren Weidel  | Midnight's Children
Carlos Monzon, Martin Belleau, Dominic Daigle, Nathalie Dupont, Gaël Hollard, Benoît Ladouceur, Viviane Levesque Bouchard, Jérémie Lodomez, Anie Normandin, Alexandra Vaillancourt  | Mars and April (Mars et Avril)
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Andy Robinson, Dennis Berardi, Edward J. Taylor IV, James Cooper, Jason Edwardh, Jo Hughes, Leann Harvey, Sean Mills, Stephen Wagner, Trey Harrell | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones |
Aélis Héraud, Antoine Wibaut, Catherine Hébert, Cyntha Carrier, David Raymond, Jonathan Legris, Josée Chapdelaine, Louis-Alexandre Lord, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Sarah Neveu | Louis Cyr |
Annie Normandin, Dominic Daigle, François Dumoulin, Marc Morisette, Olivier Goulet | Upside Down
Laetitia Séguin, Marie-Cecile Dahan, Mathieu Veillette, Matthew Rouleau, Mikael Damant-Sirois, Patrick David and Vincent Poitras | Enemy
Aaron Weintraub, Ayo Burgess, Dennis Berardi, Edward J. Taylor IV, Jason Gougeon, Kyle Yoneda, Michael Borrett, Michael Rice, Sarah McMurdo, Tamara Stone | Mama
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Keith Acheson, Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Naomi Foakes, Jo Hughes, Chris MacLean, Mohsen Mousavi, Scott Riopelle, Andy Robinson, Eric Robinson | Pompeii |
Ian Britton, Robert Crowther, Steve Elliott, Oleksiy Golovchenko, Matt Philip, Jiang Shuming, Jay Stanners, Rob Tasker, Perunika Yorgova, Lexi Young  | Wet Bum |
Jason Dowdeswell, Neil Eskuri, Patti Gannon, Ivan Hayden, Neil Impey, Zach Lipovsky, James Rorick, Adele Venables  | Afflicted
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Phil Jones, Sarah Wormsbecher, Eric Doiron, Anthony DeChellis, Lon Molnar, Geoff D.E. Scott, Nathan Larouche, Mark Fordham | Hyena Road |
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Paulo Barcellos, Adams Carvalho, George Schall, Luis Dourado, Emerson Bonadias, Diego Moreira, Luciano Santa Barbara, Thiago Sá, Luis Dreyfuss | Zoom |
Eric Doiron, Sarah Wormsbecher, Nathan Larouche, Anthony DeChellis, Geoff D.E. Scott, Jason Snea, Joel Chambers, Kaiser Thomas, Lon Molnar, Rob Kennedy | Remember
Alain Lachance, Eve Brunet | Endorphine
Darren Wall | Borealis
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
Martin Lipmann, Cynthia Mourou, Benoît Touchette, Jonathan Piché-Delorme, Frédéric Breault | Race |
Bob Habros, Adele Venables, Julika Pape, Milos Djakovic, Adam Kube, Mike Wearing, Richard Darwin  | The Unseen |
Tristan Zerafa  | Operation Avalanche
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Alain Lachance, Yann Jouannic, Hugo Léveillé, Nadège Bozetti, Antonin Messier-Turcotte, Thibault Deloof, Francis Bernard | Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes) |
Greg Behrens, Brendan Taylor, Jasmine Scott, Martin O'Brien  | The Man Who Invented Christmas |
Marc Hall  | The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron)
Marc Hall, Jonathan Cyr, Emmanuel Bazin, Clément Natiez, Emmanuelle Gill  | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)
Jonathan Piché Delorme, Fabienne Mouillac, Alain Lachance, Caroline Guagliardo, Alexandre Tremblay, Thibault Deloof, Benoit Gagnon  | We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres)
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Benoit Brière, Bruno Maillard | Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) |
William Chang, Brian Huynh | Our House |
Philippe Frère, Stéphane Thibert, Alexandre Rouil, Véronique Dessard, Loïc Poës, Barthélémy Beaux, Morgan Hardy, Bernard Devillers, Gaël Durant | The Hummingbird Project
Fredrik Nord | Stockholm
Jean-François Talbot, Jean-Pierre Boies | 1991
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Adam Jewett, Steve Ramone, Michelle Brennen, Tim Sibley, Aneesh Bhatnagar, Saikrishna Aleti, Peter Giliberti, Alex Basso, Arminus Billones, Marshall Lau | Brotherhood |
Sam Javanrouh, Helen Thach  | Astronaut | [1]
Steven Sangster  | Road to the Lemon Grove
Benoît Brière, Kinga Sabela  | Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable)
Marc-Antoine Rousseau  | The Song of Names

## 2020s

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2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Joshua Sherrett, Barbara Rosenstein, Ibi Atemie, David Atexide, Juan Carlos Ferrá, Alex Flynn, Andrei Gheorghiu, Felix Sherrett-Brown, Ali Hamidikia, Tony Wu | Blood Quantum | [2]
Brian Huynh, William Chang, Steven Huynh, Sophia Jooyeon Lee, Justin Perreault  | Code 8 | [3]
Peter McAuley, Michael Bishop, Derek Gebhart, Armen Bunag, Luke White, James Marin, Marco Polsinelli, Andrew Rolfe, Davor Celar  | Funny Boy
Liam Neville, Kenneth Coyne, Piers Larchet, Rob Murray, Shane Browne, Dave Thomas, Mihail Dumbravestu, Allen Sillery, Christoph Gaudi, Michael McCarthy  | French Exit
François Trudel, Cynthia Mourou  | Laughter (Le Rire)
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Martin Tori, Darwin Go, John Mariella, Frank Rueter | Night Raiders | [4]
Alex Boothby  | All My Puny Sorrows | [5]
Marc Côté, Michael Beaulac, Robert Rioux, Lisa Purisima, Maxime Lepage, Anouk Cazalis, Alex Harvey, Wesley Lemieux, Daniel Coupal, Randy Santandrea  | Brain Freeze
Matthew J.R. Bishop, Ila Soleimani, Jeff Robinson, Aravindan Rajasingham, Gustavo Fernandes, Belma Abdicevic, Tom Perry, Steve Lowry, Tarl Lambert  | Dino Dana: The Movie
Alain Lachance, Loïc Laurelut, Eric Clément, Marie-Claude Lafontaine  | The Time Thief (L'arracheuse de temps)
2022
11th Canadian Screen Awards
Peter MacAuley, Kayden Anderson, Tom Turnbull, Caitlin Foster | Crimes of the Future | [6]
Landon Bootsma, Dexter Davey, Ashley Hampton, Milton Muller, Dmitry Vinnik  | Until Branches Bend | [7]
Jean-François Ferland, Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Charles Lamoureux  | Lines of Escape (Lignes de fuite)
Eric Gambini, Sarah Krusch Flanagan, Louis Mackall, Virginie Strub, Andrew Joe, Gabriel Chiang, Linus Burghardt  | Bones of Crows
Marc Hall  | Babysitter
James Anthony Young  | Cult Hero
2023
12th Canadian Screen Awards
Andy Robinson | Infinity Pool | [8]
Jeff Bruneel, James Miligan, Tamara Young, Nick Winger, Adam Graves  | In Flames | [9]
Adam Graves  | The King Tide
Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Jean-François Ferland, Simon Beaupré  | One Summer (Le temps d'un été)
Tristan Zerafa, Lou Gatti, Matthew Nayman, Mike Boers  | BlackBerry

## See also

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* Prix Iris for Best Visual Effects

## References

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1. ^ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
2. ^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
3. ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
4. ^ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
5. ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
6. ^ Jenna Benchetrit, "Brother dominates with a dozen wins on third night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 13, 2023.
7. ^ "The 2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominees". Windsor International Film Festival, February 22, 2023.
8. ^ Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Cinematic Arts". Broadcast Dialogue, May 30, 2024.
9. ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.

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