| Year |
Nominees |
Film |
1980
1st Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum |
Meatballs |
| Mireille Dansereau |
Heartbreak |
| Allan Moyle, John Laing, Stephen Lack |
The Rubber Gun |
| Jim Osborne |
Summer's Children |
| Anne Claire Poirier, Marthe Blackburn |
A Scream from Silence |
| Steven Hilliard Stern |
Running |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Diana Maddox, William Gray |
The Changeling |
| Ted Allan |
It Rained All Night the Day I Left |
| Jean Beaudin, Marcel Sabourin |
Cordelia |
| R. J. Dryer, Martin Lager |
Jack London's Klondike Fever |
| Jean-Claude Lord, Jean Salvy |
Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) |
1981
2nd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| Réjean Ducharme |
Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) |
| Marc Rosen |
Final Assignment |
| Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jacques Benoit |
L'Affaire Coffin |
| Micheline Lanctôt |
L'Homme à tout faire |
| Ken Mitchell |
The Hounds of Notre Dame |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Max Fischer |
The Lucky Star |
| Bernard Slade |
Tribute |
| Ronald Sutherland, Robin Spry |
Suzanne |
1982
3rd Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| Terry Heffernan |
Heartaches |
| Clay Borris |
Alligator Shoes |
| Paul Illidge, James Sanderson |
Head On |
| Adam Arkin, Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky |
Improper Channels |
| Réjean Ducharme |
Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) |
| David Cronenberg |
Scanners |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Roger Lemelin, Gilles Carle |
Les Plouffe |
| Anne Cameron, Ralph L. Thomas |
Ticket to Heaven |
| Diana Maddox |
The Amateur |
1983
4th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| John Hunter |
The Grey Fox |
| Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor |
Big Meat Eater |
| David Lee Henry |
Harry Tracy, Desperado |
| John Juliani, Sharon Riis |
Latitude 55° |
| Roger Fournier |
Une journée en taxi |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Richard Paluck, Robert Guza, Jr. |
Melanie |
| Peter Dion |
The Hot Touch |
1984
5th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |
| Bob Clark |
A Christmas Story |
| David Cronenberg |
Videodrome |
| Jack Darcus |
Deserters |
| Timothy Findley |
The Wars |
1985
6th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |
| Daniel Petrie |
The Bay Boy |
| Micheline Lanctôt |
Sonatine |
| Michel Langlois, Léa Pool |
La Femme de l'hôtel |
| Don Owen |
Unfinished Business |
1986
7th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |
| Sandy Wilson |
My American Cousin |
| Lise Lemay-Rousseau |
Le Matou |
| Mordecai Richler |
Joshua Then and Now |
| Louise Rinfret, Claude Jutra |
La Dame en couleurs |
1987
8th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| Denys Arcand |
Le Déclin de l'empire américain |
| Sharon Riis |
Loyalties |
| Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi |
Pouvoir intime |
| Richard Nichol |
Sitting in Limbo |
| Michael Jones, Andy Jones |
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Leon Marr |
Dancing in the Dark |
| Gordon Pinsent |
John and the Missus |
| Peter Row |
Lost! |
1988
9th Genie Awards |
| Screenplay |
| Jean-Claude Lauzon |
Un Zoo la nuit |
| Sally Bochner, John N. Smith, Sam Grana |
Train of Dreams |
| Atom Egoyan |
Family Viewing |
| William D. MacGillivray |
Life Classes |
| Patricia Rozema |
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing |
1989
10th Genie Awards |
| Original screenplay |
| Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman |
Milk and Honey |
| André Melançon, Jacques Bobet |
La Grenouille et la baleine |
| Marie-Jose Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot |
Les Tisserands du pouvoir |
| Guy Maddin |
Tales from the Gimli Hospital |
| Michael Rubbo |
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Norman Snider, David Cronenberg |
Dead Ringers |
| Jackie Burroughs |
A Winter Tan |
| Francis Mankiewicz, Jacques Savoie |
The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes) |
| Robin Spry, Douglas Bowie |
Obsessed |
| Phil Savath |
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick |