Film Commissioners over the years

List of former Commissioners of the NFB:

• John Grierson
  1939-1945
• Ross McLean
  1945-1947 (interim)
  1947-1950
• W. Arthur Irwin
  1950-1952
• Albert William Trueman
  1953-1957
• Guy Roberge
  1957-1966
• Grant McLean
  1966-1967 (interim)
• Hugo McPherson
  1967-1970
• Sydney Newman
  1970-1975
• André Lamy
  1975-1979
• James de Beaujeu Domville
  1979-1984
• François N. Macerola
  1984-1988
• Joan Pennefather
  1989-1994
• Sandra M. Macdonald
  1995-2001
• Jacques Bensimon
  2001-2006
• Claude Joli-Coeur
  2006-2007 (interim)
• Tom Perlmutter
  2007-2013
• Claude Joli-Coeur
  2014-2019 (first term)
  2019-2022 (second term)