2023 Canadian Screen Awards: Comedic & Dramatic Arts

The 2023 Canadian Screen Award winners in the Comedic & Dramatic Arts categories were presented Friday evening in Toronto, the final awards show of the week.

Recognizing the best of television performance and craft categories, CBC and BET+ period drama The Porter took home a record 12 awards, the most for any television show in Canadian Screen Awards history, including
Best Drama Series; Best Direction, Drama Series; Best Writing, Drama Series; and Best Guest Performance, Drama Series for Alfre Woodward.
Hamza Haq captured Best Lead Performer, Drama Series for CTV’s Transplant, his third consecutive win in the category.

CBC’s Sort Of took home seven awards, including Best Comedy Series; Best Lead Performer, Comedy for Bilal Baig; Best Guest Performance, Comedy for Amanda Brugel; and Best Writing, Comedy, for Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, marking back-to-back wins for the duo. TallBoyz, Pretty Hard Cases and the 2022 JUNO Awards broadcast also picked up multiple awards.

Special Award recipients included Ryan Reynolds, the recipient of the Humanitarian Award, Catherine O’Hara, recipient of the Academy Icon Award, Radius Award honouree Simu Liu, Earle Grey award recipient Peter MacNeill, and Jennifer Podemski, who was presented with this year’s Academy Board of Directors’ Tribute Award.
Find the full list of winners here:

Best TV Movie

Swindler Seduction

CTV Life Channel (Bell Media)

(Muse Entertainment Enterprises Inc.)

Shane Boucher, Jonas Prupas, Caitlin Delaney, Jesse Prupas, Colton Haynes, Piers Vellacott, Sara Murray

 

Best Direction, TV Movie

Under The Christmas Tree

CTV Drama Channel (Bell Media)

(Neshama Entertainment)

Lisa Rose Snow

 

Best Lead Performer, TV Movie

Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women

CBC 

(Melbar Entertainment Group)

Martha Henry

 

Best Performing Arts Program

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Starwalker

APTN/CBC

(Insight Productions)

Lindsay Cox, Gilles Paquin, John Brunton, Tracy Galvin, Jennifer Paterson, Kim Wheeler

 

Radius Award, presented by MADE | NOUS

Simu Liu

 

Best Writing, TV Movie

Miracle in Motor City

CTV Drama Channel (Bell Media)

(Cineflix Productions)

Rhonda Baraka

 

Best Writing, Drama Series 

The PorterEpisode 104

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Marsha Greene

 

Best Photography, Drama

The PorterEpisode 108

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Jordan Oram

 

Best Sound, Fiction

TransplantRumination

CTV (Bell Media)

(Sphere Media)

Mario Auclair, Sylvain Brassard, Christian Rivest, Guy Pelletier, Claude Champagne, Guy Francoeur, Gaël Poisson-Lemay, Simon Pelletier, Simon-Pierre Fortin Leclerc

 

Best Original Music, Drama

The PorterEpisode 101

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Jonathan Goldsmith

 

Best Original Music – Original Song

The Porter – Episode 104 – “Songbird”

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Jonathan Goldsmith, Kaïa Kater

 

Earle Grey Award, presented by eOne

Peter MacNeill

 

Best Picture Editing, Drama

The PorterEpisode 101

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Sandy Pereira

 

Best Direction, Drama Series

The PorterEpisode 101

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Charles Officer

 

Best Guest Performance, Drama Series

The PorterEpisode 102 / Episode 103

CBC 

Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures

Alfre Woodard

 

Best Supporting Performer, Drama

Departure

Global (Corus Entertainment)

(Shaftesbury, Deadpan Pictures)

Christopher Plummer

 

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series

Transplant

CTV (Bell Media)

(Sphere Media)

Hamza Haq

 

Best Drama Series

The Porter

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Jennifer Kawaja, Ian Dimerman, Bruno Dubé, Marsha Greene, Annmarie Morais, Charles Officer, R.T. Thorne, Arnold Pinnock, Bruce Ramsay, Aml Ameen, Alfre Woodard

 

Academy Board of Directors’ Tribute Award

Jennifer Podemski

 

Best Production Design or Art Direction, Fiction

The PorterEpisode 101

CBC

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Réjean Labrie, Jon Van Winkle, Sara McCudden

 

Best Costume Design

The PorterEpisode 102

CBC

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Heather Neale

 

Best Achievement in Make-Up

The PorterEpisode 102

CBC 

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Tracy George, Krista Hann, Alisha Talbot

 

Best Visual Effects

Detention Adventure – Negative Space

CBC Gem

(LoCo Motion Pictures, Broken Compass Films)

Joe Kicak, Sebastian Harder

 

Best Achievement in Hair

The PorterEpisode 102

CBC

(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)

Heather Streilein, Tremaine Thomas

 

Best Stunt Coordination 

Pretty Hard CasesCrystal Ball

CBC 

(Cameron Pictures)

John Stead, Anita Nittoly, Dejah Dixon-Green, Nova Zatzman, George Tchortov

 

Best Achievement in Casting, Fiction

Transplant

CTV (Bell Media)

(Sphere Media)

Andrea Kenyon, Randi Wells, Jason Knight, John Buchan

 

Academy Icon Award, presented by CBC

Catherine O’Hara

 

Best Host, Live Entertainment Special

The 2022 JUNO Awards

CBC 

(Insight Productions)

Simu Liu

 

Best Live Entertainment Special

The 2022 JUNO Awards

CBC

(Insight Productions)

Allan Reid, Mark Cohon, John Brunton, Lindsay Cox, Simu Liu, Pam de Montmorency, Tracy Galvin, Kristine Pleau, Jennifer Paterson, Luciano Casimiri, Leonard Chan, Julie Kim, Kristeen Von Hagen, Orin Isaacs, Alex Nadon, Mike Langevin

 

Best Picture Editing, Comedy

Sort OfSort Of 2gethr

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Marianna Khoury

 

Best Original Music, Comedy

Sort Of – Sort Of Who She Is

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Ceréna, Emily Persich (EARTH TO EMILY), Moël, Terrell Morris, SVDP, Vivek Shraya

 

Best Writing, Comedy

Sort OfSort Of I Love You

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Bilal Baig, Fab Filippo

 

Best Writing, Variety or Sketch Comedy

TallBoyzDon’t swear in front of the song

CBC 

(Accent Entertainment)

Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair, Franco Nguyen

 

Humanitarian Award, presented by Paramount+

Ryan Reynolds

 

Best Guest Performance, Comedy

Sort OfSort Of Amsterdam / Sort Of I Love You

CBC

(Sphere Media)

Amanda Brugel

 

Best Direction, Variety or Sketch Comedy

TallBoyzDon’t swear in front of the song

CBC

(Accent Entertainment)

Bruce McCulloch

 

Best Direction, Comedy

Sort OfSort Of Janazah

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Fab Filippo

 

Best Photography, Comedy

Pretty Hard CasesPencil Skirts

CBC 

(Cameron Pictures)

Kristin Fieldhouse, csc

 

Best Performance, Sketch Comedy (Individual or Ensemble)

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

CBC 

(IoM Media Ventures Inc., 22M-Hour Productions (NS) 29 Inc.)

Mark Critch, Trent McClellan, Aba Amuquandoh, Stacey McGunnigle

 

Best Sketch Comedy Program or Series

TallBoyz

CBC 

(Accent Entertainment)

Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair, Franco Nguyen, Susan Cavan, Thea Gagliardi, Paula J. Smith, Bruce McCulloch

 

Best Supporting Performer, Comedy

Children Ruin Everything 

CTV (Bell Media)

(New Metric Media Inc.)

Ennis Esmer

 

Best Lead Performer, Comedy

Sort Of

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Bilal Baig

 

Best Comedy Series

Sort Of

CBC 

(Sphere Media)

Jennifer Kawaja, Bruno Dubé, Bilal Baig, Fab Filippo


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Connie has worked coast-to-coast as a reporter, editor, anchor and host at CKNW and News 1130 in Vancouver, News 95.7 and CBC in Halifax, and CFCW Edmonton, among other stations. With a passion for music, film and community service, she led News 95.7 to a 2013 Atlantic Journalism Award and regional RTDNA award for Best Radio Newscast. More recently, she was nominated for Music Journalist of the Year at Canadian Music Week 2019. To report a typo or error please email - corrections@broadcastdialogue.com

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