- First Prize, Knokke-le-Zoute Film Festival (for Wavelength, 1967)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1972)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, Brock University, St. Catherine's, ON (1972)
- Officer, Order of Canada (1981)
- Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Independent Experimental Film (1983)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S. (1990)
- Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France (1995)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (1997)
- Companion, Order of Canada (1997)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (1999)
- Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada (2000)
- Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
- The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Independent Experimental Film/Video Award (2003)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, l'Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France (2004)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, The Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, B.C. (2004)
- Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2011)
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 

- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, QC
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
- Musée d'art moderne, Paris, France
- Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany and Vienna, Austria
- Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, QC
- Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
- Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby, BC
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MN
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
- Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
- Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
- Musée de Lachine, Lachine, QC
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
- Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
- MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
- Museum London, London, ON
- Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
- Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
- Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Jacques Hurtubise - Fernand Leduc - Marcelle Maltais - Jean McEwen - John Meredith - Guido Molinari - Jean-Paul Riopelle - Jordi Bonet - Jack Bush - Ulysse Comtois - Yves Trudeau - Charles Daudelin - Sorel Etrog - Robert Roussil - Albert Dumouchel - Marcelle Ferron - Yves Gaucher - Gordon A. Smith - Graham Coughtry - Tom Hodgson - Don Jarvis - Ray Mead - Rita Letendre - Fritz Brandtner - Denis Juneau - Alex Colville - Greg Curnoe - Gershon Iskowitz - Takao Tanabe - Jacques De Tonnancour - Claude Tousignant - David Sorensen