The Golden Screen Award, formerly known as the Golden Reel Award, is a Canadian
film award, presented to the Canadian film with the biggest
box office gross of the year.[1] The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association introduced this award in 1976 as part of the
Canadian Film Awards until 1979.[2] The Golden Reel became part of the
Genie Awards ceremonies in 1980, and is currently part of the
Canadian Screen Awards.[1] It was renamed from Golden Reel to Golden Screen as of the
3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.
As the economics of Canadian film production mean that the year's top-grossing Canadian film is often a
francophone film from
Quebec, 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 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 honour the highest-rated Canadian television shows in each category.
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Note: Awards by year articles are listed here by the year of eligibility for nomination; due to variable scheduling of the ceremonies, this is not always the same year in which the awards were presented.