Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

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The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actor.

1st Genie Awards

• Christopher Plummer, Murder by Decree
• Geoffrey Bowes, Something's Rotten
• Robin Gammell, Jack London's Klondike Fever
• Thomas Hauff, Summer's Children
• Stephen Lack, Rubber Gun

2nd Genie Awards

• Thomas Peacocke, The Hounds of Notre Dame
• Jocelyn Berube, L'Homme à toute faire
• Lewis Furey, Fantastica
• Winston Rekert, Suzanne
• August Schellenberg, L'Affaire Coffin

3rd Genie Awards

• Nick Mancuso, Ticket to Heaven
• Gabriel Arcand, Les Plouffe
• Gordon Pinsent, Silence of the North
• Christopher Plummer, The Amateur
• Winston Rekert, Heartaches

4th Genie Awards

• Donald Sutherland, Threshold
• Gilles Renaud, Une journée en taxi
• Saul Rubinek, By Design
• Marcel Sabourin, Doux Aveux
• August Schellenberg, Latitude 55

5th Genie Awards

• Eric Fryer, The Terry Fox Story
• Pierre Curzi, Lucien Brouillard
• Guy L'Ecuyer, Au clair de la lune
• Nick Mancuso, Maria Chapdelaine
• Alan Scarfe, Deserters

6th Genie Awards

• Gabriel Arcand, Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe
• Xavier Norman Petermann, Mario
• Winston Rekert, Walls
• Kiefer Sutherland, The Bay Boy
• Kenneth Welsh, Reno and the Doc

7th Genie Awards

• John Wildman, My American Cousin
• Serge Dupire, Le Matou
• Ed McNamara, Bayo
• Alan Scarfe, Overnight
• R. H. Thomson, Samuel Lount

8th Genie Awards

• Gordon Pinsent, John and the Missus
• Pierre Curzi, Le Déclin de l'empire américain
• Rémy Girard, Le Déclin de l'empire américain
• Winston Rekert, The Blue Man
• Kenneth Welsh, Loyalties

9th Genie Awards

• Roger Lebel, Un zoo la nuit
• David Hemblen, Family Viewing
• Jason St. Amour, Train of Dreams
• Gilles Maheu, Un zoo la nuit

10th Genie Awards

• Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers
• Zachary Ansley, Cowboys Don't Cry
• Elias Koteas, Malarek
• Jan Rubes, Something About Love
• Saul Rubinek, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
• Ron White, Cowboys Don't Cry

11th Genie Awards

• Lothaire Bluteau, Jésus de Montreal
• Maury Chaykin, Cold Comfort
• Michel Côté, Cruising Bar
• Michael McManus, Speaking Parts
• Stephen Ouimette, The Top of His Head

12th Genie Awards

• Rémy Girard, Amoureux fou
• Brad Dourif, Chaindance
• Mattias Habich, La Demoiselle sauvage
• Saeed Jaffrey, Masala
• Jean Rochefort, Amoureux Fou

13th Genie Awards

• Tony Nardi, La Sarrasine
• Jacques Godin, Being at Home with Claude
• Don McKellar, Highway 61
• Gildor Roy, Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur
• Peter Weller, Naked Lunch

14th Genie Awards

• Tom McCamus, I Love a Man in Uniform
• Roy Dupuis, Cap Tourmente
• Rémy Girard, La Florida
• Gilbert Sicotte, Cap Tourmente
• R. H. Thomson, The Lotus Eaters

15th Genie Awards

• Maury Chaykin, Whale Music
• Martin Drainville, Louis 19, le roi des ondes
• Gary Farmer, Henry and Verlin
• Elias Koteas, Exotica
• Gilbert Sicotte, Les pots cassés

16th Genie Awards

• David La Haye, L'Enfant d'eau
• Lothaire Bluteau, Le Confessional
• Matthew Ferguson, Eclipse
• Clive Russell, Margaret's Museum
• Peter Williams, Soul Survivor

17th Genie Awards

• William Hutt, Long Day's Journey into Night
• Jason Cadieux, Lilies
• Matthew Ferguson, Lilies
• Danny Gilmore, Lilies
• Tom McCamus, Long Day's Journey into Night
• Christopher Penn, The Boys Club

18th Genie Awards

• Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter
• Robin Aubert, La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge
• Bruce Greenwood, The Sweet Hereafter
• Peter Outerbridge, Kissed
• Alan Williams, The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati

19th Genie Awards

• Roshan Seth, Such a Long Journey
• Rémy Girard, Les Boys
• Tony Nardi, La Déroute
• Jonathan Pryce, Regeneration
• Samuel West, Rupert's Land

20th Genie Awards

• Bob Hoskins, Felicia's Journey
• Gabriel Arcand, Post Mortem
• Denis Bouchard, Histoires d'hiver
• Joël Drapeau-Dalpé, Histoires d'hiver
• Ralph Fiennes, Sunshine
• Daniel MacIvor, The Five Senses

21st Genie Awards

• Tony Nardi, My Father's Angel
• David Cubitt, The Perfect Son
• Colm Feore, The Perfect Son
• Timothy Webber, My Father's Angel
• James Whitmore, Here's to Life!

22nd Genie Awards

• Brendan Fletcher, The Law of Enclosures
• Zachary Bennett, Desire
• David La Haye, Un crabe dans la tête
• Peter Outerbridge, Marine Life
• Chris Owens, The Uncles
• Zinedine Soualem, L'Ange de goudron

23rd Genie Awards

• Luc Picard, Savage Messiah
• David Alpay, Ararat
• Philip DeWilde, Turning Paige
• Christopher Plummer, Ararat
• Colin Roberts, Flower & Garnet

24th Genie Awards

• Rémy Girard, Les invasions barbares
• Raymond Bouchard, Seducing Doctor Lewis
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Owning Mahowny
• Robert Lepage, La Face cachée de la lune
• Barry Pepper, The Snow Walker

25th Genie Awards

• Roy Dupuis, Mémoires affectives
• Michel Côté, Le Dernier tunnel
• David La Haye, Nouvelle-France
• Ian McKellen, Émile
• Nick Stahl, Twist

26th Genie Awards

• Michel Côté, C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Adam Butcher, Saint Ralph
• Marc-André Grondin, C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Paul Kaye, It's All Gone Pete Tong
• Luc Picard, L'Audition

27th Genie Awards

• Roy Dupuis, Maurice Richard (The Rocket)
• Colm Feore, Bon Cop, Bad Cop
• Olivier Gourmet, Congorama
• Patrick Huard, Bon Cop, Bad Cop
• Luc Picard, Un dimanche à Kigali (A Sunday in Kigali)

28th Genie Awards

• Gordon Pinsent, Away From Her
• Roy Dupuis, Shake Hands With the Devil
• Marc Labrèche, L'Âge des ténèbres (Days of Darkness)
• Claude Legault, Les 3 P'tits Cochons (The 3 Little Pigs)
• Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

29th Genie Awards

• Natar Ungalaaq, Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
• Paul Gross, Passchendaele
• Rupinder Nagra, Amal
• Christopher Plummer, Emotional Arithmetic
• Aaron Poole, This Beautiful City