11th Canadian Screen Awards explained
The 11th Canadian Screen Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, honoured achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2022.[1] The ceremonies were held at Meridian Hall in Toronto from April 11–14, 2023, as part of Canadian Screen Week. Highlights of the ceremonies aired in a CBC Television special on April 16, 2023, hosted by Samantha Bee.
Nominees for all awards were announced on February 22, 2023. Brother led the film nominations, with 14 nods, while the CBC/BET+ drama The Porter led in television with 19 nods.[2] Brother and The Porter would each win 12 awards, including the awards for best motion picture and dramatic series respectively.
Ceremony information
After being held as a virtual event every year since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Canadian Screen Week festivities returned to being an in-person event. Genre-specific awards galas were hosted at Toronto's Meridian Hall from April 11–14.[3]
Television coverage would consist of an hour-long special hosted by comedian Samantha Bee, which premiered April 16 on CBC Television. The special featured highlights of the non-televised galas, segments highlighting the special award recipients, and the results of the Audience Choice award vote. The previous year's ceremony used a similar format accompanying a series of streaming presentations throughout the week, but the results for top categories were reserved for the CBC special.[4]
The new format was described as an attempt at making an entertainment-oriented special, given the ratings difficulties that traditional awards show telecasts have faced in recent years: producer Roma Ahi stated that there would be "more emphasis this time on storytelling than there would be during a live show where audiences are watching to see what people are wearing, what is said during acceptance speeches". Ahi's partner Katie Lafferty added that "we have to be entertainment-first, and the fun is in gathering what those moments could be from the various in-person ceremonies that happen earlier in the week."
The decision faced mixed reactions from several actors and filmmakers, most notably Eugene Levy, who felt that their achievements could potentially be overlooked (notwithstanding that even the live telecasts were unable to feature every single award due to time constraints).[5]
Category changes
In August 2022, the academy announced that it would discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance were presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.[6] Some of the other acting categories, notably those for guest performance, youth performance in children's programming, television films and web series performance were already gender-neutral.[7]
Other changes included the introduction of new categories for Best Original Music in a Documentary, Best Original Song in Television, Best Picture Editing - Children's or Youth and Best Writing - Pre-School, the splitting of television music and sound categories from a simple fiction/non-fiction distinction into several new categories for particular genres of fiction and non-fiction programming, and the introduction of a revised jury process for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award.
Special awards
Recipients of the academy's special awards were announced on January 18, 2023.[8]
Film
Best Motion Picture | Best Direction |
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- Brother — Damon D'Oliveira, Sonya Di Rienzo, Aeschylus Poulos, Clement Virgo
- Babysitter — Martin Paul-Hus, Fabrice Lambot, Catherine Léger, Pierre-Marcel Blanchot
- Falcon Lake — Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
- Riceboy Sleeps — Anthony Shim, Rebecca Steele, Bryan Demore
- Summer with Hope — Christina Piovesan, Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi
- Viking — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
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Best Lead Performance | Best Supporting Performance |
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Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
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Best Feature Length Documentary | Best Short Documentary |
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- To Kill a Tiger — Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe, David Oppenheim, Anita Lee, Atul Gawande
- Batata — Paul Scherzer, Noura Kevorkian
- Dear Audrey — Jeremiah Hayes, André Barro, Annette Clarke
- — Joey Haywood, Ryan Sidhoo, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, Kirk Thomas, Aron Phillips, Matt Aronson, Mark Starkey, Mario Soriano, Lizzy Karp
- Zo Reken — Emanuel Licha
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Best Live Action Short Drama | Best Animated Short |
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| - The Flying Sailor — Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis, David Christensen
- Arctic Song — Germaine Arnattaujuq, Neil Christopher, Louise Flaherty, Alicia Smith, David Christensen, Nadia Mike
- Impossible Figures and Other Stories I — Marta Pajek, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek, Maral Mohammadian
- The Shadow of My Life — Hajar Moradi
- Triangle of Darkness (Triangle noir) — Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas, Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
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Best Art Direction/Production Design | Best Cinematography |
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Best Costume Design | Best Editing |
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Best Sound Editing | Best Sound Mixing |
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- Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Paul Germann, Krystin Hunter and Kevin Banks, Brother
- Sylvain Bellemare, Simon Meilleur, Frédéric Lavigne, Francis Gauthier and Claire Pochon, Viking
- Elma Bello and Davi Aquino, Stay the Night
- Robert Bertola, Tom Bjelic and Jill Purdy, Crimes of the Future
- Martin Gwynn Jones, Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor
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Best Original Score | Best Original Song |
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Best Makeup | Best Hair |
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Best Cinematography in a Documentary | Best Editing in a Documentary |
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Best Original Music in a Documentary | Best Visual Effects |
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| - Peter MacAuley, Kayden Anderson, Tom Turnbull and Caitlin Foster, Crimes of the Future
- Landon Bootsma, Dexter Davey, Ashley Hampton, Milton Muller and Dmitry Vinnik, Until Branches Bend
- Jean-François (Jafaz) Ferland, Marie-Claude Lafontaine and Charles Lamoureux, Lines of Escape (Lignes de fuite)
- Eric Gambini, Sarah Krusch Flanagan, Louis Mackall, Virginie Strub, Andrew Joe, Gabriel Chiang and Linus Burghardt, Bones of Crows
- Marc Hall, Babysitter
- James Anthony Young, Cult Hero
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John Dunning Best First Feature | Best Casting |
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Golden Screen Award |
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Television
Programs
Actors
Lead performance, drama | Supporting performance, drama |
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Lead performance, comedy | Supporting performance, comedy |
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Performance in a television film or miniseries | Performance in a children's or youth program or series |
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Performance in a guest role in a comedy series | Performance in a guest role in a drama series |
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Performance in an animated program or series | Performance in a variety or sketch comedy program or series |
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| - Mark Critch, Trent McClellan, Aba Amuquandoh and Stacey McGunnigle, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
- Guled Abdi, Tim Blair, Vance Banzo and Franco Nguyen, TallBoyz
- Nicola Correia-Damude, Adam DiMarco, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Sydney Scotia, Gregory Prest, Paolo Santalucia, Chris Robinson, Kwasi Thomas, Andrew Wheeler, Sharon Crandall and Vanessa Lauren Fox, Pillow Talk
- Russell Peters, Sabrina Jalees, K. Trevor Wilson, Ennis Esmer, Salma Hindy, Sophie Buddle, Ron Josol and Jean Paul, Roast Battle Canada
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News and information
News special | News information series |
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National newscast | Local newscast |
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News anchor, national | News anchor, local |
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News reporter, national | News reporter, local |
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News or information program | News or information segment |
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"Reporter's Notebook: Paul Workman in Afghanistan"
"Finding School 4: WE Charity's Donor Deception in Kenya"
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"Kidnapped by a Nun: Residential School Survivor Story"
"Kidney Donation"
"Rights of Nature"
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Host or interviewer, news or information program or series | Host, talk show or entertainment news |
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Host or presenter, factual or reality/competition | Host, live entertainment special |
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Host, lifestyle | Morning show |
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Sports
Live sporting event coverage | Sports analyst |
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Sports host | Sports play-by-play |
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Sports program or series | Sports feature segment |
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| - Josh Shiaman, Rick Westhead, Nigel Akam, Darren Oliver and Michael Banani, "Left Behind" — TSN
- Rob Dunn, Adam Fair, Kevin Fallis and Jason Wessel, "High Heat: Alli Schroder Story" — TSN
- Tracy Britnell, Devon Burns, Owen Ewers, Richard Liani, Adam Parsons and David Midgley, "Naked" — TSN
- Josh Shiaman, Farhan Lalji, Jacob Frenkel, Michael Banani and Jason Wessel, "Pivot: The Sheldon Guy Story" — TSN
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Sports opening |
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- Simon Garan, Jacob Frenkel, Kevin Fallis and James Judges, 2021 Toronto Raptors Season Opener on TSN
- Matt Dorman, Darren Oliver, Kevin Fallis, Devon Burns and Curry Leaman, 2021 Grey Cup on TSN
- Tim Thompson, Chris Irwin and Jeff Shelegy, 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on CBC
- Tim Thompson and Jeff Shelegy, 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games Women's Gold Medal Hockey Game on CBC
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Craft awards
Editorial research | Visual research |
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- Victoria Lean, Jackie Carlos, Rita Kotzia, Britt Wray, Stuart Henderson, Ben Travers and Simone Zucker, We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel): "Asteroid Armageddon"
- Jackie Carlos,
- Barri Cohen and Jessica Joy Wise,
- Kathy Grant and Lola Waheed, Black Liberators WWII
- Madison Thomas and Andrea Warner,
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- Barri Cohen and Jessica Joy Wise,
- Elspeth Domville, The Case Against Cosby
- Jessica Joy Wise, Bailey Johnson, Jennifer Dysart, Joan Prowse, Connie Littlefield and Allison Wolfe,
- Cindy Wolfe and Emma Kehayas,
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Make-Up | Hair |
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- Tracy George, Krista Hann and Alisha Talbot, The Porter: "Episode 102"
- Lauren Cavanaugh, Holly Hobbie: "The Friendship Fiasco"
- Deb Drennan, Murdoch Mysteries: "Rawhide Ralph"
- Kate Minnis, Haunted Hospitals: "The Gift, Room 19, The Cooler"
- Dorota Mitoraj and Sasha Pawluk, Coroner: "Death Goes On"
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Costume design | Visual effects |
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| - Joe Kicak and Sebastian Harder, Detention Adventure: "Negative Space"
- Matthew J.R. Bishop, Nial McFadyen, Susan Sullivan, Cody McCaig, Stephen Curran, James Wallace, Jeff Robinson, Belma Abdicevic, Tom Perry and Steve Lowry, Odd Squad Mobile Unit: "Odd Together Now"
- Jonathon Corbiere, Flavio de Paula, Julia Nadeau, Steve Murphy, Suzanna Brusikiewicz and Tyler Sammy, History by the Numbers: "The Roaring 20s"
- Alex Nadon, 2022 Legacy Awards
- Andy Powell and Raymond Pang, Super Wish: "The Floor Is Definitely Not Lava"
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Production design/art direction in a fiction program or series | Production design/art direction in a non-fiction program or series |
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- Réjean Labrie, Jon Van Winkle and Sara McCudden, The Porter: "Episode 101"
- Bill Fleming, Moonshine: "44.6304N 64.0515W"
- Ingrid Jurek, M-A Orenstein and Jenn Luckas, Sort Of: "Sort Of Janazah"
- Bob Sher, Murdoch Mysteries: "The Night Before Christmas"
- Brian Verhoog, Joel Guzman, Brianna Trush and Andrew Hill, The Hardy Boys: "An Unexpected Return"
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Casting, fiction | Casting, non-fiction |
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Photography
Photography in a comedy series | Photography in a documentary program or factual series |
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Photography in a drama program or series | Photography in a lifestyle or reality program or series |
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Photography in a news or information program, series or segment |
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Editing
Editing in a comedy program or series | Editing in a dramatic program or series |
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Editing in a children's or youth program or series | Editing in a documentary program or series |
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| - Avril Jacobson, BLK, An Origin Story: "Vancouver: Hogan's Alley"
- Erin Gulas and Nick Taylor, Sex with Sue
- Dave McMahon,
- Barry McMann, Pamela Bayne, Peter Denes and Nathan Shields,
- Marc Ricciardelli, Taylor G. McConnachie and Katie Flach, Beautiful Scars
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Editing in a factual program or series | Editing in a reality or competition program or series |
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Sound
Sound in a fiction program or series | Sound in a documentary or factual program or series |
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- Mario Auclair, Sylvain Brassard, Christian Rivest, Guy Pelletier, Claude Champagne, Guy Francoeur, Gaël Poisson-Lemay, Simon Pelletier and Simon-Pierre Fortin Leclerc, Transplant: "Rumination"
- Ed Douglas, David McCallum, Marvyn Dennis, Peter Thillaye, Stef Fraticelli, Jason Charbonneau, Martin Lee, Graham Rogers and Russ Dyck, The Porter: "Episode 108"
- Paul Germann, Martin Gwynn Jones, Rob Ainsley, Bryan Day, Graham Rogers, Goro Koyama and Jenna Dalla Riva, Sort Of: "Sort Of Future"
- Janice Ierulli, Mark Shnuriwsky, Matthew Hussey, Dave Johnson, Marco Döelle, Harvey Hyslop, Hilary Thomson and Matthew Thomson, Hudson & Rex: "No Man Is an Island"
- Graham Rogers, Stacy Coutts, Sue Conley, Paul Germann and Zenon Waschuk, Pretty Hard Cases: "Pigeon Party"
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- Stéphane Barsalou, Lynne Trépanier, Catherine Van Der Donckt and Benoît Dame, Dear Jackie
- Matt Drake and Devon Cooke, Doug and the Slugs and Me
- Michael Josselyn and Matthew McKenzie,
- Graham Rogers, Stefana Fratila, Krystin Hunter and Dane Kelly,
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Sound in a lifestyle, reality or entertainment program or series | Sound in an animated program or series |
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- John Diemer, Scott Brachmayer, Rosie Eberhard, Levi Linton, Rob Taylor, Alastair Sims and Eric Leigh, Canada's Drag Race: "Girls Trip: The Rusical"
- Peter Hamilton, Blown Away: "The Bigger the Better"
- Mark Krupka, Brian Gallant and Lisa Meitin, The Amazing Race Canada: "Is That a Wild Peacock?"
- Mark Vreeken, Jeff Kozak and Doug McClement,
- Mark Vreeken, Jeff Kozak, Charles-Emile Beaudin and Doug McClement, Juno Awards of 2022
| - Richard Spence-Thomas, Tim Muirhead, Mitch Connors, Luke Dante, Kyle Peters, Ryan Ongaro and Patton Rodrigues, PAW Patrol: "Rescue Knights: Quest for the Dragon's Tooth"
- Ryan Araki, Evan Turner, Neil Parfitt, Andrew McDonnell and Richard Spence-Thomas, Super Wish: "Taste Buddies / Imagination Caboose"
- Ryan Araki, John Baktis, Andrew McDonnell and Simon Berry, : "Music is Everywhere / Backwards Day"
- Ryan Araki, John Baktis, Andrew McDonnell and Simon Berry, : "Race for the Sodor Cup"
- Todd Araki, Andrew Downton, Marcel Duperreault, Jason Fredrickson and Adam McGhie, The Snoopy Show: "Happiness Is Your Favourite Thing"
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Directing
Animation | Children's or youth |
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Comedy | Drama |
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Documentary program | Documentary series |
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Lifestyle or information | Live sporting event |
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- Jan McCharles, Mary Makes It Easy: "BBQ's and A's"
- John Keffer, The Marilyn Denis Show: "Marilyn Rocks Halloween"
- Jim MacPherson, : "Jodi & Mel"
- Harbinder Singh, Raufikat's Better Bake Along: "Toasty Pineapple Pastries"
- Les Stroud and Kevin Kossowan, Les Stroud's Wild Harvest: "Mussels & Wild Radish"
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Factual | Reality/competition |
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TV movie | Variety or sketch comedy program or series |
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Music
Best Original Music, Comedy | Best Original Music, Drama |
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- Ceréna, Emily Persich, Moël, Terrell Morris, Shan Vincent de Paul and Vivek Shraya, Sort Of
- Ames Bessada, Astrid and Lilly Save the World
- Alan Doyle and Keith Power, Son of a Critch
- Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia, Sarah Slean and Antonio Naranjo, Detention Adventure
- John Rowley, Pretty Hard Cases
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Best Original Music, Animation | Best Original Music, Documentary |
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Best Original Music, Factual, Lifestyle, Reality or Entertainment | Best Original Song |
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Writing
Children's or youth | Comedy |
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Documentary | Drama |
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Factual | Lifestyle or reality/competition |
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Pre-school | Variety or sketch comedy |
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| - Guled Abdi, Tim Blair, Vance Banzo and Franco Nguyen, TallBoyz: "Don't swear in front of the song"
- Simu Liu, Luciano Casimiri, Leonard Chan, Julie Kim and Kristeen Von Hagen, Juno Awards of 2022
- David F. Mewa and Milca Kuflu, 2022 Legacy Awards
- Ngozi Paul, FreeUp! The Emancipation Day Special
- George Reinblatt, Aisha Brown, Jeff Rothpan, Andrew Johnston and Rob Michaels, Roast Battle Canada: "Episode 201"
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Animation | TV movie |
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- Stephanie Kaliner and Lakna Edirisinghe, Pinecone & Pony: "The Pwettiest Pony / Try This Club On For Size"
- J. Green and Sean Jara, Team Zenko Go: "Pet Project / Mission Improbable"
- John May and Suzanne Bolch, 16 Hudson: "Spice Box"
- Scott Montgomery, The Snoopy Show: "Snoopy Swap"
- Sara Peters, Summer Memories: "Truth or Dare"
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All-platform awards
One major category is currently presented without regard to the distinction between film, television or web media content.
Digital media
Original Program or Series, Fiction | Original Program or Series, Non-Fiction |
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Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series | Supporting Performance in a Web Program or Series |
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Direction in a Web Program or Series | Writing in a Web Program or Series |
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Host in a Web Program or Series | Live Production for Social Media |
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"Tate McRae"
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Immersive Experience, Fiction | Immersive Experience, Non-Fiction |
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- The Orchid and the Bee
- Brainstream
- Unceded Territories
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- The Choice
- Partita for 8 Voices
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Video game |
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Reception
Reception to the television special for the ceremony was mostly negative.
Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail called it "humourless, dispiriting, condescending, and ultimately disrespectful to anyone who was nominated or won an award". He wrote that "the program focused not on the actual nominees and award-winners, but a random assortment of Canadian stars who found fame in the United States. While I don’t begrudge the Canadian Academy from shoehorning in some familiar names via its “special awards” to goose excitement, the structure of how they were included Sunday night was shameful. There is a distinct difference between using Humanitarian Award winner Ryan Reynolds and Radius Award winner Simu Liu as Trojan Horses to get audiences aware and interested in actual Canadian film and television, and simply giving those actors gobs of screen time instead of, say, Clement Virgo's film Brother (which won a remarkable 12 awards) or the CBC series The Porter (which dominated the television category with 12 statuettes of its own). Given that there are almost 150 awards categories spread out across the CSAs, you would think that the producers of Sunday's show would deign to include acceptance speeches from a few dozen of them. But instead, we got stingily edited packages of brief messages from the winners, inserted almost as a courtesy. I'm positive that the CSAs included more clips of Liu's Marvel movie Shang-Chi than Brother."[9]
On Elamin Abdelmahmoud's radio show Commotion the following day, cultural critics Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Jesse Wente also criticized the television special as a failure, with Newman-Bremang criticizing the fact that the special had largely failed to clearly communicate who won what awards, and Wente stating that it felt like a preview trailer for the real awards ceremony.[10]
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/reynolds-ohara-canadian-screen-awards-1.6717759 "Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Hara to attend star-studded Canadian Screen Awards"
- Web site: Vlessing . Etan . 2023-02-22 . Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama 'The Porter' Leads With 19 Nominations . 2023-07-26 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
- News: Hertz . Barry . 2023-02-07 . Samantha Bee to host 2023 Canadian Screen Awards, this time with gender-neutral nominations . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2023-04-12.
- News: Hertz . Barry . 2023-04-06 . Experimental 2023 Canadian Screen Awards ask an unusual question: Are you not entertained? . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2023-04-12.
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/csa-pretaped-format-1.6754927 "Actors questioning Canadian Screen Awards move to pre-taped format"
- Joseph Pugh, "Canadian Screen Awards switching to gender-neutral performance categories". CBC News, August 25, 2022.
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canadian-screen-awards-makes-next-years-acting-categories-gender/ "Canadian Screen Awards to make next year’s acting categories gender neutral"
- Etan Vlessing, "Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu, Catherine O’Hara to Receive Honorary Canadian Screen Awards". The Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2023.
- Barry Hertz, "Embarrassing and condescending, 2023 Canadian Screen Awards failed our film and television artists: Humourless, dispiriting, condescending, and ultimately disrespectful to anyone who was nominated or won an award, the 11th annual CSAs were painful to endure". The Globe and Mail, April 16, 2023.
- Amelia Eqbal, "The Canadian Screen Awards took a big risk with their new format. Did it pay off?". CBC Arts, April 17, 2023.