The Golden Screen Award, formerly known as the Golden Reel Award, is a Canadian
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award, presented to the Canadian film with the biggest
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
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'', January 22, 2013. 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
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to the top-grossing film from Quebec until that award was replaced by the fan-voted Public Prize in 2016.
In 2015, the Academy also introduced Golden Screen Awards for fiction and reality television, to recognize the most-watched Canadian television shows, based on
Numeris
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ratings.
Winners
Film
* 1976 - ''
Lies My Father Told Me
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''
* 1977 - ''
Why Shoot the Teacher?
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''
* 1978 - '' Who Has Seen the Wind''
* 1979 - ''not awarded this year''
* 1980 - ''
Meatballs
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Porky's
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The Dog Who Stopped the War
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(La Guerre des tuques)''
* 1986 - ''
The Care Bears Movie
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''
* 1987 - ''
The Decline of the American Empire
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(Le Déclin de l'empire américain)''
* 1988 - '' The Gate''
* 1989 - '' The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine)''
* 1990 - ''
Jesus of Montreal
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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 him, however, his prize is to be ...
(Louis 19, le roi des ondes)''
* 1995 - ''not awarded this year''
* 1996 - '' Crash''/''
Johnny Mnemonic
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''
* 1997 - ''
Air Bud
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The Art of War
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The 3 L'il Pigs
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CBC News
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''
* 2015 - ''
Snowtime!
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* 2017 - ''
Toronto Star
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...
'', March 9, 2018.
* 2018 - ''
1991
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''
* 2019 - ''
Compulsive Liar
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CBC News
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Sisters and Neighbors!
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(Nos belles-sœurs)''
Television
* 2014 - ''
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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The Amazing Race Canada
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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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