Draft:Canadian Screen Award Audience Choice Award

The Audience or Fan Choice Award is a special award given at the Canadian Screen Awards starting at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards where 2 Fan Choice awards were given to Zoie Palmer for Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star and Lost Girl for Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Show (Palmer was a lead in Lost Girl). The award is chosen based on online voting by fans. The award has been given to both shows and individual actors in the past.

Today, the fan awards are the Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award and the Shaw Rocket Fund Kids' Choice Award. As of 2022, both awards have been given to TV Shows, not actors.

1st Canadian Screen Awards
No audience choice awards were given.

2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Show: Lost Girl

Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star: Zoie Palmer for Lost Girl

3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Academy Fan’s Choice Award: Anna Silk for Lost Girl

4th Canadian Screen Awards
Fan Choice Award: Yannick Bisson for Murdoch Mysteries

6th Canadian Screen Awards
Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award: Elise Bauman for Carmilla

9th Canadian Screen Awards
The 9th Awards featured the debut of a children focused award: The Shaw Rocket Fund Kids' Choice Award, an award given to children's shows.

10th Canadian Screen Awards
At the 10th Awards, shows not individual actors received the awards for the first time since fan chosen awards were first given at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. The winning Congeco Fund Award show was not one of the originally announced nominees, winning instead through write in.