The Golden Reel Award (GRA) was established in 1976 by the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association to recognize the producer(s) of the Canadian feature that achieved the highest box-office gross in Canada. Since 1980, the GRA has been awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and presented at the annual Genie Awards. No award was given in 1998.
1977
Anthony Bedrich and Harry Gulkin,
Lies My Father Told Me (released 1975)
1978
Lawrence Hertzog,
Why Shoot the Teacher? (released 1977)
1979
Allan King,
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (released 1977)
1980
Dan Goldberg and Ivan Reitman,
MEATBALLS (released 1979)
1981
Joel Michaels and Garth Drabinsky,
The Changeling (released 1980)
1982
Ivan Reitman,
Heavy Metal (released 1981)
1983
Harold Greenberg and Melvin Simon,
PORKY'S (released 1981)
1984
Jack Grossberg and Louis Silverstein,
Strange Brew (released 1983)
1985
Rock Demers and Nicole Robert,
THE DOG WHO STOPPED THE WAR (released 1984)
1986
Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, and Clive Smith,
The Care Bears Movie (released 1985)
1987
Roger Frappier and René Malo,
LE DÉCLIN DE L'EMPIRE AMÉRICAIN (released 1986)
1988
Andras Hamori and John Kemeny,
The Gate (released 1987)
1989
Rock Demers,
The Tadpole and the Whale (released 1988)
1990
Roger Frappier and Pierre Gendron,
JÉSUS DE MONTRÉAL (released 1989)
1991
Roger Frappier,
Ding et Dong, le film (released 1990)
1992
Robert Lantos, Sue Milliken, and Stephane Reichel,
BLACK ROBE (released 1991)
1993
Claude Bonin and Pierre Sarrazin,
La Florida (released 1993)
1994
Jacques Dorfman and Richard Sadler,
Louis 19, le roi des ondes (released 1994)
1995
Don Carmody,
Johnny Mnemonic (released 1995)
1996
David Cronenberg and Robert Lantos,
CRASH (released 1996)
1997
Michael Strange and Robert Vince,
Air Bud (released 1997)
1999
Richard Goudreau,
Les Boys (released 1997)
2000
Richard Goudreau,
Les Boys II (released 1998)
2001
Nicholas Clermont,
The Art of War (released 2000)
2002
Denise Robert and Daniel Louis,
Nuit des noces (released 2001)
2003
Richard Goudreau,
Les Boys III (released 2002)
2004
Lorraine Richard,
Séraphin: Heart of Stone (released 2003)
2005
Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, and Don Carmody,
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (released 2004)
2006
Pierre Even and Jean-Marc Vallée,
C.R.A.Z.Y. (released 2005)
2007
Kevin Tierney,
BON COP, BAD COP (released 2006)
2008
Christian Larouche, Pierre Gendron,
Les 3 Petits Cochons (released 2007)
2009
Francis Damberger, Niv Fichman, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa,
Passchendaele (released 2008)
2010
Denise Robert, Daniel Louis,
De père en flic (released 2009)
2011
André Rouleau,
Starbuck (Released 2011)
2012
Don Carmody,
Resident Evil: Retribution (Released 2012)
Author
PAUL TOWNEND
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