| Tahun | Nominee | Film |
|---|
1980
Penghargaan Genie ke-1 |
| Skenario asli |
| Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum | Meatballs |
| Mireille Dansereau | Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur) |
| Allan Moyle, John Laing, Stephen Lack | The Rubber Gun |
| Jim Osborne | Summer's Children |
| Anne Claire Poirier, Marthe Blackburn | A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) |
| Steven Hilliard Stern | Running |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| 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
Penghargaan Genie ke-2 |
| Skenario Asli |
| Réjean Ducharme | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) |
| Marc Rosen | Final Assignment |
| Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jacques Benoit | L'Affaire Coffin |
| Micheline Lanctôt | The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) |
| Ken Mitchell | The Hounds of Notre Dame |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| Max Fischer | The Lucky Star |
| Bernard Slade | Tribute |
| Ronald Sutherland, Robin Spry | Suzanne |
1982
Penghargaan Genie ke-3 |
| Skenario Asli |
| Terence 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 |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| Roger Lemelin, Gilles Carle | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
| Anne Cameron, Ralph L. Thomas | Ticket to Heaven |
| Diana Maddox | The Amateur |
1983
Penghargaan Genie ke-4 |
| Skenario Asli |
| 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 | A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| Richard Paluck, Robert Guza, Jr. | Melanie |
| Peter Dion | The Hot Touch |
1984
Penghargaan Genie ke-5 |
| Skenario |
| Bob Clark | A Christmas Story |
| David Cronenberg | Videodrome |
| Jack Darcus | Deserters |
| Timothy Findley | The Wars |
1985
Penghargaan Genie ke-6 |
| Skenario |
| Daniel Petrie | The Bay Boy |
| Micheline Lanctôt | Sonatine |
| Michel Langlois, Léa Pool | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) |
| Don Owen | Unfinished Business |
1986
Penghargaan Genie ke-7 |
| Skenario |
| Sandy Wilson | My American Cousin |
| Lise Lemay-Rousseau | The Alley Cat (Le Matou) |
| Mordecai Richler | Joshua Then and Now |
| Louise Rinfret, Claude Jutra | The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs) |
1987
Penghargaan Genie ke-8 |
| Skenario Asli |
| Denys Arcand | The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) |
| Sharon Riis | Loyalties |
| Yves Simoneau, Pierre Curzi | Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime) |
| Richard Nichol | Sitting in Limbo |
| Michael Jones, Andy Jones | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| Leon Marr | Dancing in the Dark |
| Gordon Pinsent | John and the Missus |
| Peter Rowe | Lost! |
1988
Penghargaan Genie ke-9 |
| Skenario |
| Jean-Claude Lauzon | Night Zoo (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
Penghargaan Genie ke-10 |
| Skenario Asli |
| Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman | Milk and Honey |
| André Melançon, Jacques Bobet | The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) |
| Marie-Jose Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot | The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir) |
| Guy Maddin | Tales from the Gimli Hospital |
| Michael Rubbo | Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller |
| Skenario Adaptasi |
| 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 |
