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A day after the Canadian Screen Awards, the critically acclaimed Canadian-Irish film Room continues to collect awards—and this time, the winner decided to donate the cash prize to help out others.

In Toronto today (March 14), Telefilm Canada presented screenwriter Emma Donoghue with the Golden Box Office Award. The award celebrates the top Canadian English-language features, which earned at least $1 million at the box office in the previous year.

The $40,000 cash-prize award is shared by the film director and screenwriter.

However, because Room director Lenny Abrahamson is not a Canadian, only Donoghue, who lives in London, Ontario, was eligible to collect her half.

However, in a show of surprising generosity and devotion to Canada's film industry, Donoghue announced she would not keep any of the prize but instead donate it to a Toronto aboriginal film festival.

"The movie involved so many talented Canadians, and I accept this award on their behalf," she stated in a news release. "I will be donating the cash prize to the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, a Toronto event that offers an international showcase for aboriginal film, video, radio and new media."

She explained that she wanted to do her part to help the film industry improve.

"I think everyone can agree that this particular year there's no doubt that how to make the film industry better is to make it more diverse," Donoghue told the CBC. "And as a woman entering into screenwriting, where we are probably a minority compared with men, I'm so aware that you need help to get into an industry that can seem like it has closed walls."

The film, about a mother and son contending with growing up held captive within the confines of a one-room shed, collected nine awards at the Canadian Screen Awards, held on March 13 in Toronto.

In addition to best director (Abrahamson), best screenwriter (Donoghue), and best actress (Brie Larson, who also won an Oscar for her lead role), and best supporting actress (Joan Allen), Vancouver's Jacob Tremblay won best actor.

Donoghue, who wrote the novel that she based her script upon, said during a featured appearance at the 2015 Whistler Film Festival that she had written the screenplay before the novel was published as she had anticipated that there would be interest in turning it into a film.