The Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Film is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program, to honour the best leading performance in a short film.
The award was presented for the first time in 2024."Rules and Regulation Change Highlights". Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, August 2023.
2020s Year Actor Film Ref 2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards Behtash Fazlali Motherland Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Cinematic Arts". Broadcast Dialogue, May 30, 2024. Léokim Beaumier-Lépine Invincible "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024. Florence Blain Mbaye Making Babies (Faire un enfant) Eric K. Boulianne Making Babies (Faire un enfant) Marine Johnson Until You Die (Jusqu’à ce que tu meures) Agathe Ledoux Heat Spell (L'Été des chaleurs) Ilyes Tarmasti Muscat Anthony Therrien Until You Die (Jusqu’à ce que tu meures) 2024 13th Canadian Screen Awards Bryn McAuley Bibi's Dog Is Dead Jamie Casemore, "CSAs ‘25: Universal Language takes five at Cinematic Arts Awards". Playback, May 31, 2025. Ali Eldurssi Hatch Canadian Screen Awards: Film Nominations. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, March 26, 2025. Tara Hakim I Never Promised You a Jasmine Garden Laura Luu The Little Shopping Trolley (Le petit panier à roulettes) Lío Mehiel Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? Zoë Peak On a Sunday at Eleven Ralph Prosper Someone's Trying to Get In Ayo Tsalithaba Gender Reveal 2025 14th Canadian Screen Awards Fiona Fu Year of the Dragon Jamie Casemore, "CSAs ’26: R.T. Thorne’s 40 Acres leads cinematic arts winners". Playback, May 28, 2026. Sumathy Balaram Karupy "The 14th Canadian Screen Awards Nominations (2026)". The Canadian Film Reviewer, March 26, 2026. Charles-Alexis Desgagnés A Dying Tree (La Peau de l'autre) Siobhan Connors Headcase Noam Desbiens-Lépine Himalia Jamie Thomas King The Light Before the Sun Lee Lawson Thin Walls Hannan Younis Halfway Haunted
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