The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature, the award has been presented since the 14th Genie Awards in 1993.[1][2]

Formerly a juried prize whose winner was announced in advance of the ceremony, the award is now presented as a conventional category with a full shortlist of nominees.

To date six films, The Confessional (Le Confessionnal), Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Away from Her, A Colony (Une colonie), Beans and Scarborough, have won both the Best First Feature and Best Picture awards in the same year; the directors of Le Confessionnal, Atanarjuat, Away from Her and Scarborough also won the award for Best Director for the same films.

History

The award was originally named in memory of Claude Jutra, a Canadian film director who died in 1986.[3] Formerly part of the Genie Awards ceremonies, the Claude Jutra Award was transitioned to be part of the new Canadian Screen Awards in 2013.

Following the February 2016 publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which contained allegations that Jutra had sexually abused underage children during his lifetime, the Academy announced that it was removing Jutra's name from the award.[4] Québec Cinéma also removed Jutra's name from its Prix Jutra ceremonies on the same day.[4]

Beginning with the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, the award was presented as the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature. In the same year the John Dunning Discovery Award, named in memory of film producer John Dunning, was introduced to honour microbudget films. Initially it was a separate award from the Best First Feature category, with the two awards presented alongside each other to different films,[5] until the two awards were merged under the John Dunning Best First Feature Award name beginning with the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.

Winners

Claude Jutra Award

Year Film Director Ref
1993
14th Genie Awards		The Grocer's WifeJohn Pozer[1]
1994
15th Genie Awards		Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)Michel Poulette[1]
1995
16th Genie Awards		The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)Robert Lepage[1]
1996
17th Genie Awards		Joe's So Mean to JosephinePeter Wellington[1]
1997
18th Genie Awards		The Hanging GardenThom Fitzgerald[1]
1998
19th Genie Awards		Last NightDon McKellar[1]
1999
20th Genie Awards		Post MortemLouis Bélanger[1]
2000
21st Genie Awards		The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La Moitié gauche du frigo)Philippe Falardeau[1]
2001
22nd Genie Awards		Atanarjuat: The Fast RunnerZacharias Kunuk[1]
2002
23rd Genie Awards		Flower & GarnetKeith Behrman[1]
2003
24th Genie Awards		How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)Sébastien Rose[1]
2004
25th Genie Awards		White Skin (La Peau blanche)Daniel Roby[1]
2005
26th Genie Awards		FamiliaLouise Archambault[1]
2006
27th Genie Awards		Eve and the Fire HorseJulia Kwan[1]
The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux)Stéphane Lapointe
2007
28th Genie Awards		Away from HerSarah Polley[1]
2008
29th Genie Awards		Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)Yves Christian Fournier[1]
2009
30th Genie Awards		I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)Xavier Dolan[1]
2010
31st Genie Awards		Exit 67 (Sortie 67)Jephté Bastien[6]
2011
32nd Genie Awards		Nuit #1Anne Émond[7]
2012
1st Canadian Screen Awards		BlackbirdJason Buxton[8]
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards		WhitewashEmanuel Hoss-Desmarais[9]
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards		Bang Bang BabyJeffrey St. Jules[10]

Best First Feature

Year Film Director Ref
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards		RiverJamie M. Dagg[11]
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards		Old StoneJohnny Ma[12]
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards		AvaSadaf Foroughi[13]

John Dunning Discovery Award

Year Film Director Ref
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Mina Walking Yosef Baraki [14]
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
The Lockpicker Randall Okita [15]
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Black Cop Cory Bowles [16]
The Devout Connor Gaston [17]
Wexford Plaza Joyce Wong

John Dunning Best First Feature Award

Year Film Director Ref
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
A Colony (Une colonie) Geneviève Dulude-De Celles [18]
Family First (Chien de garde) Sophie Dupuis [18]
Firecrackers Jasmin Mozaffari
The Nest (Le nid) David Paradis
Touched Karl R. Hearne
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Murmur Heather Young [19]
Black Conflux Nicole Dorsey [20]
Mad Dog Labine Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr, Renaud Lessard
Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable) Guillaume de Fontenay
The Twentieth Century Matthew Rankin
2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Beans Tracey Deer [21]
The Kid Detective Evan Morgan [22]
Tito Grace Glowicki
Vacarme Neegan Trudel
Violation Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Scarborough Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson [23]
Islands Martin Edralin [24]
Night Raiders Danis Goulet
The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) Philippe Grégoire
Without Havana (Sin la Habana) Kaveh Nabatian
2022
11th Canadian Screen Awards
Falcon Lake Charlotte Le Bon [25]
The Maiden Graham Foy [26]
Noemie Says Yes (Noémie dit oui) Geneviève Albert
Rodeo (Rodéo) Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Wolves Danny Dunlop

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Claude Jutra Award, The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Valerie J. Webster (1998). Awards, Honors & Prizes: United States and Canada 1999. Gale Research. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7876-1501-7.
  3. ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 199-203.
  4. 1 2 "Claude Jutra's name to be pulled from Quebec film awards" Archived March 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Canadian Screen Awards leave Hollywood behind". The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Incendies, Barney's Version dominate Genies". CBC News, March 10, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Quebec's Anne Émond wins debut director award". CBC News, February 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Blackbird director Jason Buxton wins first-film honour". CBC News. January 29, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Le Claude-Jutra à Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais". Le Devoir. January 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Academy Names Claude Jutra Award Winner" Archived 2015-02-04 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, February 3, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Jamie M. Dagg wins Claude Jutra Award for Laos-set thriller River". CBC News, February 4, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Ma's 'Old Stone' gets Canadian academy's Best First Feature award". CTV News, February 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Sadaf Foroughi's 'Ava' wins best first feature film from Canadian Screen Awards". National Post, January 31, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Mina Walking Honoured with Inaugural Discovery Award". Cision, January 19, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Randall Okita to receive inaugural John Dunning Discovery Award". Playback, January 12, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Northern Banner picks up Cory Bowles’ Black Cop". Playback, April 25, 2018.
  17. ↑ Norman Wilner, "The Canadian Screen Awards showers love on (almost) everyone". Now, January 16, 2018.
  18. 1 2 "Les Québécois remportent plus de la moitié des trophées à l'avant-gala des prix Écrans canadiens". Ici Radio-Canada, March 31, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Filmmaker from Saint John wins Canadian Screen Award". CBC News New Brunswick, June 1, 2020.
  20. ↑ Norman Wilner, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show". Now, February 18, 2020.
  21. ↑ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
  22. ↑ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  23. ↑ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  24. ↑ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
  25. ↑ Jenna Benchetrit, "Brother dominates with a dozen wins on third night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 13, 2023.
  26. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
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