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.
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.
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 Porter – Episode 104
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Marsha Greene
Best Photography, Drama
The Porter – Episode 108
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Jordan Oram
Best Sound, Fiction
Transplant – Rumination
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 Porter – Episode 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 Porter – Episode 101
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Sandy Pereira
Best Direction, Drama Series
The Porter – Episode 101
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Charles Officer
Best Guest Performance, Drama Series
The Porter – Episode 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
Best Production Design or Art Direction, Fiction
The Porter – Episode 101
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Réjean Labrie, Jon Van Winkle, Sara McCudden
Best Costume Design
The Porter – Episode 102
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Heather Neale
Best Achievement in Make-Up
The Porter – Episode 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 Porter – Episode 102
CBC
(Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures)
Heather Streilein, Tremaine Thomas
Best Stunt Coordination
Pretty Hard Cases – Crystal 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
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 Of – Sort 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 Of – Sort Of I Love You
CBC
(Sphere Media)
Bilal Baig, Fab Filippo
Best Writing, Variety or Sketch Comedy
TallBoyz – Don’t swear in front of the song
CBC
(Accent Entertainment)
Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair, Franco Nguyen
Humanitarian Award, presented by Paramount+
Best Guest Performance, Comedy
Sort Of – Sort Of Amsterdam / Sort Of I Love You
CBC
(Sphere Media)
Amanda Brugel
Best Direction, Variety or Sketch Comedy
TallBoyz – Don’t swear in front of the song
CBC
(Accent Entertainment)
Bruce McCulloch
Best Direction, Comedy
CBC
(Sphere Media)
Fab Filippo
Best Photography, Comedy
Pretty Hard Cases – Pencil 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
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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