Aurora Award for Best Visual Presentation

The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Visual Presentation was first awarded in 2016. Previously film and television works had been under the Best Related Work category, and several TV show episodes had won that award. The French-language equivalent is given in the Best Audio, Visual and Artistic Creation category, which doesn't have a direct English-language equivalent.

Like the other categories in the Aurora Awards, only Canadians are credited, and so only the Canadian directors or production companies that work on the films and television series are recognized.

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year	Creators/Directors	Work	Production Company	Ref.
2016	John Fawcett* & Graeme Manson*	Orphan Black (Season 3)	Temple Street Productions & Bell Media	[1]
	Daegan Fryklind	Bitten (Season 2)	Hoodwink Entertainment, No Equal Entertainment, Entertainment One, Bell Media	[1]
	Simon Barry	Continuum (Season 4)	Reunion Pictures, Shaw Media & Boy Meets Girl Film Company	[1]
	Joseph Mallozzi	Dark Matter (Season 1)	Prodigy Pictures Inc.	[1]
	Michelle Lovretta	Killjoys (Season 1)	Mendacity Pictures, Bell Media & Temple Street Productions	[1]
2017	Denis Villeneuve*	Arrival	N/A	[2]
	Joseph Mallozzi	Dark Matter (Season 2)	Prodigy Pictures Inc.	[2]
	Michelle Lovretta	Killjoys (Season 2)	Mendacity Pictures, Bell Media & Temple Street Productions	[2]
	R. B. Carney, Cal Coons & Alexandra Zarowny	Murdoch Mysteries (Season 9)	Shaftesbury Films	[2]
	John Fawcett & Graeme Manson	Orphan Black (Season 4)	Temple Street Productions & Bell Media	[2]
2018	Denis Villeneuve*	Blade Runner 2049	N/A	[3]
	Joseph Mallozzi	Dark Matter (Season 3)	Prodigy Pictures Inc.	[3]
	Michelle Lovretta	Killjoys (Season 3)	Mendacity Pictures, Bell Media & Temple Street Productions	[3]
	John Fawcett & Graeme Manson	Orphan Black (Season 5)	Temple Street Productions & Bell Media	[3]
	Brad Wright (creator)	Travelers (Season 2)	Showcase	[3]
	Emily Andras (creator)	Wynonna Earp (Season 2)	SEVEN24 Films	[3]
2019	Ryan Reynolds* (producer)	Deadpool 2	20th Century Fox	[4]
	Domee Shi (director)	Bao	Walt Disney, Pixar Animation Studios	[4]
	Christina Jennings (executive producer) & Peter Mitchell (showrunner)	Murdoch Mysteries (Season 11-12)	Shaftesbury Films	[4]
	Brad Wright (creator), with Carrie Mudd, John G. Lenic, and Eric McCormack	Travelers (Season 3)	Netflix	[4]
	Emily Andras (creator)	Wynonna Earp (Season 3)	SEVEN24 Films	[4]
2020	Steve Blackman* (creator)	The Umbrella Academy	Dark Horse Entertainment, Borderline Entertainment, Universal Cable Productions	[5][6]
	Adam Barken & Michelle Lovretta (showrunner)	Killjoys (Season 5)	Temple Street Productions	[5][6]
	Christina Jennings (executive producer) & Peter Mitchell (showrunner)	Murdoch Mysteries (Season 12-13)	Shaftesbury Films	[5][6]
	Glenn Davis & William Laurin	V Wars	Netflix	[5][6]
	Jonathan Lloyd Walker	Van Helsing (Season 4)	Echo Lake Entertainment, Dynamic Television, Nomadic Pictures	[5][6]
2021	Steve Blackman* (creator)	The Umbrella Academy	Dark Horse Entertainment, Borderline Entertainment, Universal Cable Productions	[7]
	Tony Elliott (creator) & Michelle Latimer (creator)	Don't Text Back		[7]
	Christina Jennings (executive producer) & Peter Mitchell (showrunner), with Scott Garvie, Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy	Murdoch Mysteries (Season 13)	Shaftesbury Films	[7]
	Kaye Adelaide & Mariel Sharp	Trickster (Ep. 1-6)		[7]
	Emily Andras (creator)	Wynonna Earp (Season 4, Ep. 1-6)	SEVEN24 Films	[7]
2022	Denis Villeneuve* (director)	Dune	Legendary Entertainment	[8][9]
	Zacharias Kunuk	Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice	Kingulliit Productions; Taqqut Productions	[8][9]
	Shawn Levy (director)	Free Guy	20th Century Studios	[8][9]
	Jason Reitman (director)	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Columbia Pictures	[8][9]
	Emily Andras (showrunner)	Wynonna Earp (Season 4, Ep. 7-12)	Seven24 Films	[8][9]
2023	Denis Villeneuve* (director)	Dune: Part Two	Legendary Entertainment	[10]
	Shawn Levy (director)	The Adam Project	Skydance Media	[10]
	Jeffrey St. Jules* (director)	Brother	Elevation Pictures	[10]
	David Cronenberg* (director)	Crimes of the Future	Serendipity Point Films	[10]
	Zacharias Kunuk	Slash/Back	Kingulliit Productions	[10]
2024	Denis Villeneuve* (director)	Dune: Part Three	Legendary Entertainment	[11]
	Vincenzo Natali (director)	In the Tall Grass	Netflix	[11]
	Patricia Rozema* (director)	Mouthpiece	First Generation Films	[11]
	Zacharias Kunuk	Restless River	Kingulliit Productions	[11]
	Sarah Polley* (director)	Women Talking	Orion Pictures	[11]

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