The Margaret Collier Award is a lifetime achievement award, presented to a Canadian writer for their outstanding body of work in film or television. Formerly presented as part of the

Gemini Awards The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in th ...

, it became part of the

Canadian Screen Awards The Canadian Screen Awards () are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy ...

in 2013. It can be presented to an individual writer or writing team. As of 2025, administration of the award has been transferred to the

Writers Guild of Canada The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) is a trade union representing professional writers working in film, television, radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the WGC write dramatic TV series, feature films, Movies of the Week, do ...

as part of its WGC Screenwriting Awards program.Nicholas Sokic
"Andrew Wreggit to receive WGC’s Margaret Collier Award"
'' Playback'', March 18, 2025. The award is named in honour of Margaret Collier, the longtime executive director of

ACTRA The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is a Canadian trade union representing performers in English-language media. It has over 30,000 members working in film, television, radio, and all other recorded media. Th ...

's chapter for television writers.

Past recipients

Genie Awards

*1986 - Charles E. Israel *1987 -

Grahame Woods Grahame Woods (January 31, 1934 – November 25, 2022) was a Canadian cinematographer and writer.Blaik Kirby, "Grahame Woods: too many talents to just stay put behind the camera". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 7, 1972. He is most noted as a cinem ...

*1988 - M. Charles Cohen *1989 -

Donald Brittain Donald Code Brittain, (June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada. Career '' Fields of Sacrifice'' (1964) is considered Brittain's first major film as director. His other notable ...

*1990 - Ted Allan *1992 -

Harry Rasky Harry Rasky, Order of Canada, CM, Order of Ontario, O.Ont (9 May 1928 – 9 April 2007) was a Canadians, Canadian documentary film director. Life and career Rasky was born in Toronto, Ontario into a Jewish family, where he completed studies ...

*1993 - George R. Robertson *1994 -

Alex Barris Alex Paul Barris, (September 16, 1922 – January 15, 2004) was an American-born Canadian television actor and writer. Member of ACTRA, he was a writer and panelist for the game show ''Front Page Challenge''.

*1995 -

Timothy Findley Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, (October 30, 1930 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright.

*1996 - Anna Sandor *1998 -

Douglas Bowie Douglas Bowie (born 1944) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter from Kingston, Ontario. Born and raised in Ottawa, he attended Queen's University and Carleton University, and worked in advertising copywriting in his early career. He won secon ...

*1998 - Frank Shuster, Johnny Wayne for their collaborations as Wayne & Shuster. Frank Shuster accepted the award as Wayne had died in 1989. *1999 - Suzette Couture *2000 - Rob Forsyth *2001 - David Barlow *2002 - Patrick Watson *2003 - Charles Lazer *2004 - Wayne Grigsby *2005 - ''not presented'' *2006 - Pete White *2007 - Susan Marcus, Chris Clark, Lilly Barnes, Joy Simons-Newall *2008 - David Cole *2009 - Barbara Samuels *2010 - Donald Martin *2011 - Bob Carney

Canadian Screen Awards

*2013 - Heather Conkie *2014 -

Semi Chellas Semi Chellas (born 1969) is a director, writer, producer who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She is known for her work on the television series ''Mad Men'' an ...

*2015 - Tassie Cameron *2016 - Karen Walton *2017 - Denis McGrath *2018 -

Brad Wright Brad Wright (born May 2, 1961) is a Canadian television producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of the television series ''Stargate SG-1'' (with Jonathan Glassner), ''Stargate Atlantis'' (with Robert C. Cooper) and '' Star ...

*2019 -

David Shore David Shore (born July 3, 1959) is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on '' Family Law'', ''NYPD Blue'' and '' Due South'', also producing many episodes of the latter. He created the critically acclaimed series ''House'' and more recent ...

Corey Atad
"Alex Trebek, David Suzuki, Dan Levy And More Among 2020 Canadian Screen Awards Special Honourees"
. ''

ET Canada ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' (commonly shortened to ''ET Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series that aired on the Global Television Network from 2005 to 2023. Its branding and format were based on the American entertainm ...

'', December 4, 2019.

WGC Screenwriting Awards

*2025 -

Andrew Wreggitt Andrew Wreggitt (born 1955) is a Canadian television writer and producer from Calgary, Alberta.Ken McGoogan, "Wreggitt keeps poetic fire burning". ''Calgary Herald'', February 21, 1998. He began his career as a writer for the television series ''Th ...

References

{{Canadian Screen Awards Gemini Awards Lifetime achievement awards Canadian Screen Award television categories Screenwriting awards for television * Retired Canadian Screen Awards

Past recipients

Genie Awards

Canadian Screen Awards

WGC Screenwriting Awards

See also

References