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Molson Prizes Cumulative list of Winners

N.B. Before 2002, the Prizes were designated by the year of the Council’s financial statements. Starting in 2002, they will be designated by the year in which they are awarded.

2012

  • Dáirine Ní MheadhraCellist, Conductor, Co-Artistic Director of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre
  • Keren Rice, Professor in Linguistics and founding Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto

2011

  • Herménégilde Chiasson, poet/dramatist/essayist; visual artist
  • Peter Victor, Professor in the Faculty of  Environmental Studies at York University

2010

  • Édouard Lock, choreographer
  • Linda Hutcheon, Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto

2009

  • Ian H. Wallace, visual artist
  • L. Wayne Sumner, Professor emeritus in philosophy, University of Toronto

2008

  • Sheila Fischman, literary translator
  • Angus McLaren, world-renowned expert on the history of sexuality, University of Victoria

2007

  • Alex Pauk, composer, conductor and music educator
  • Paul Thagard, philosophy professor, University of Waterloo

2006

  • Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist and essayist
  • Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, McGill University

2005

  • Iain Baxter (aka IAIN BAXTER&), photographer, painter, sculptor, installation and conceptual artist
  • Ramsay Cook, historian, general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography

2004

  • Maria Campbell, author, playwright, filmmaker and professor
  • Richard Tremblay, professor and researcher, Université de Montréal

2003

  • Walter Boudreau, conductor, composer & musician
  • Janice Stein, International Relations, University of Toronto

2001

  • Christopher Newton, theatre director, playwright, actor
  • Margaret Lock, medical anthropologist, McGill University

2000

  • Jacques Poulin, novellist
  • Ian Hacking, philosopher, University of Toronto

1999

  • Kiawak Ashoona, visual artist- sculptor
  • Tom Courchene, economics and public policy, Queen's University

1998

  • Jeanne Lamon, music director
  • Trebilcock, Michael J., law, University of Toronto

1997

  • Mary Pratt, visual artist
  • Guy Rocher, sociologist, Université de Montréal

1996

  • Mavis Gallant, writer
  • Pierre Maranda, anthropologist, Université Laval

1995

  • Gerald Ferguson, painter and teacher
  • Donald Akenson, historian, McGill-Queen's University Press

1994

  • Michel Tremblay, playwright and novelist
  • Martin Friedland, criminal law scholar, University of Toronto

1993

  • R. Murray Schafer, composer, writer and educator
  • Juliet McMaster, literary scholar and humanist, University of Alberta

1992

  • Douglas Cardinal, architect
  • Fernand Dumont, sociologist, Université Laval

1991

  • Denys Arcand, filmmaker
  • Charles Taylor, philosopher, McGill University

1990

  • Alice Munro, short-story writer
  • Jean-Jacques Nattiez, musicologist, Université de Montréal

1989

  • Vera Frenkel, multidisciplinary artist and video producer
  • Fernande Saint-Martin, museologist, writer, researcher and teacher, Université du Québec à Montréal

1988

  • Robertson Davies, journalist, playwright and novelist
  • Terence Michael Penelhum, philosopher, author and editor, University of Calgary

1987

  • Yvette Brind'Amour, actress, director, cofounder and artistic director of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert
  • Marc-Adélard Tremblay, anthropologist and scholar, Université Laval

1986

  • J. Mavor Moore, playwright, director, actor and producer
  • William Dray, philosopher and historian, University of Ottawa

1985

  • Gaston Miron, writer
  • Ronald Melzack, psychologist, McGill University

1984

  • Marcel Dubé, dramatist
  • James G. Eayrs, teacher, scholar and writer, University of Toronto

1983

  • Brian Macdonald, choreographer and director
  • Frances Halpenny, editor and scholar, University of Toronto

1982

  • Alan C. Cairns, political scientist , University of Waterloo
  • Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geographer, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 
  • Jack McClelland, publisher
  • Gilles Vigneault, chansonnier

1980

  • Margaret Atwood, writer
  • Marcel Trudel, historian, University of Ottawa 
  • John Weinzweig, composer

1979

  • Michel Brault, filmmaker
  • Lois Marshall, singer
  • Robert Weaver, editor and radio producer

1978

  • Jean Duceppe, actor
  • Betty Oliphant, principal and director of the National Ballet School
  • Michael Snow, painter

1977

  • Gabrielle Roy, novelist
  • Jack Shadbolt, painter
  • George Story, lexicographer, Memorial University of Newfoundland

1976

  • John Hirsch, theatre director
  • Bill Reid, sculptor and carver
  • Jean-Louis Roux, actor and theatre director

1975

  • Orford String Quartet
  • Denise Pelletier, actress
  • Jon Vickers, tenor

1974

  • Alex Colville, painter
  • Pierre Dansereau, ecologist, Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Margaret Laurence, writer

1973

  • W.A.C.H. Dobson, sinologist, Massey College
  • Celia Franca, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the National Ballet
  • Jean-Paul Lemieux, painter

1972

  • John James Deutsch, economist, Queen's University
  • Alfred Pellan, painter
  • George Woodcock, writer

1971

  • Maureen Forrester, contralto
  • Rina Lasnier, poet
  • Norman McLaren, filmmaker

1970

  • Northrop Frye, literary scholar, Massey College 
  • Duncan MacPherson, cartoonist
  • Yves Thériault, writer

1969

  • Jean-Paul Audet, scholar
  • Morley Callaghan, writer
  • Arnold Spohr, artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

1968

  • Glenn Gould, pianist
  • Jean Le Moyne, writer

1967

  • Arthur Erickson, architect
  • Anne Hébert, poet
  • Marshall McLuhan, scholar and visionary, Fordham University

1966

  • Georges-Henri Lévesque, social scientist, Dominicains de St-Albert 
  • Hugh MacLennan, writer

1965

  • Jean Gascon , actor and theatre director
  • Frank Scott , lawyer and poet, McGill University

1964

  • Donald Creighton, historian
  • Alain Grandbois, poet