The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has unveiled the initial round of nominees for the 23rd annual DGC Awards, led by nods for television series like political thriller Fellow Travelers; true crime miniseries Under the Bridge, delving into the murder of B.C. teen Reena Virk; and AppleTV+ supernatural horror series, The Changeling.

The television nominees cover categories for Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series:

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES

Hannah Cheesman – Something Undone, Make Yourselves Clean

Jeanne Leblanc – Bellefleur, Beau-papa

David Frazee – Billy the Kid, The Agony

Samir Rehem – Transplant, Torn

Amanda Tapping – Dead Boy Detectives, The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES

Tig Fong – What We Do In The Shadows, Exit Interview

Pat Mills – Run the Burbs, Phright Night

Yael Staav – One More Time, Bed Bugs

Fabrizio Filippo – Sort Of, Sort Of Hospital Again

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall – Bria Mack Gets a Life, Bria Makes a Move

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY SERIES

Winnifred Jong – Jane, Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Paul Fox – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Great Radish Ball

Felipe Rodriguez – Ruby and the Well, I Wish I Could Rest In Peace

Stefan Brogren – Popularity Papers, Notes on a Vandal

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES

Marie Clements – Bones of Crows, To Be Here

Nimisha Mukerji – Under the Bridge, Beautiful British Columbia

Felipe Rodriguez – Never Too Late to Celebrate

Michelle Ouellet – Dying in Plain Sight

Anne Wheeler – Heaven Down Here

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – DRAMATIC SERIES & MINI-SERIES

Rory Cheyne – Foundation, King and Commoner

Trevor Smith – Fargo, Trials & Tribulations

James Philpott – Bones of Crows, To Be Starved

Ludovic Dufresne – Fem, Épisode 1

Jennifer Morden – Under the Bridge, Mercy Alone

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Shayne Fox – What We Do In The Shadows, A Weekend at Morrigan Manor

Zoë Sakellaropoulo – Ghosts, Holes Are Bad

Ciara Vernon – Late Bloomer, Nudes

Ingrid Jurek – Run the Burbs, Phright Night

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES

Jonathan Eagan – The Changeling, Stormy Weather

Annie Ilkow – Transplant, Never Too Late to Start Again

D. Gillian Truster – Sight Unseen, Leo

Nicholas Wong – Halo, Halo

Erin Deck – Beacon 23, Corbenic

BEST PICTURE EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND MINI-SERIES

Robert de Lint – Maybe It’s You

Lara Johnston – Fellow Travelers, Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Julia Blua – Never Too Late to Celebrate

Gloria Tong – Friday Night Sext Scandal

BEST PICTURE EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Morgan Waters – Davey & Jonesie’s Locker, You Don’t Belong Here

Hugh Elchuk – Sort Of, Sort Of the Worst Yoda

Gloria Tong – Bria Mack Gets a Life, Bria Mack Gets a Job

Thorben Bieger – Moonshine, Get My Baby Back

Fabiola Caraza – Popularity Papers, Ghost Mortem

BEST SOUND EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES

Nelson Ferreira, Paul Germann, John Douglas Smith, Joe Mancuso, J.R. Fountain, Kirk Starkey, Spencer Clark – The Changeling, Stormy Weather

Adam Stein, Dale Sheldrake, Brennan Mercer, David Caporale, Nadya Hanlon, Claire Dobson, James Bastable, Andrew Wright, Alex Bullick, Jean Bot – Halo, Halo

David Caporale, Sue Conley, Kathy Choi, Ed Douglas, Nadya Hanlon, Jean Bot – Poacher, The Jungle

Dustin Harris, Nathan Robitaille, Krystin Hunter, Craig MacLellan, Jack Madigan – Silo, Freedom Day

J.R. Fountain, Brent Pickett, Joe Mancuso, Tyler Whitham, Kelly McGahey – Billy the Kid, The Day of the Dead

BEST SOUND EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES

Danielle McBride, Ed Douglas, Éve Corrêa-Guedes, Craig MacLellan, Scott Hitchon – Fellow Travelers, White Nights

Mark Dejczak, Kelly McGahey Stephen Barden, Ryan Allam – The Naughty Nine

P. Jason MacNeill, Raiza Rodrigues, John Laing – The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango

John Loranger, Faustine Pelipel, Scott Donald – Never Too Late to Celebrate

BEST SOUND EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Sean Karp, Cailey Milito, Aravind Sundar – Jane, Chlamyphorus truncates

John Douglas Smith, Paul Talbot, Kayla Stewart, Taylor Brockelsby, Kevin Banks – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Great Radish Ball

Kevin Howard, Robert Hegedus, Kevin Banks, Richard Calistan, Jason MacNeill – Heartland, Heat Of The Moment

Janice Ierulli, Mark Shnuriwsky, Matthew Hussey, Sue Fawcett, Michael Legedza, Joseph Wazana, Simon Miminis – The Hardy Boys, A Wild Ride

Richard Calistan, Kayla Stewart, Josh Brown, Kevin Banks, Ethan Horbay – The Way Home, How to Save a Life

Winners will be announced and presented online on Monday, Oct. 28.

DGC will announce nominations for Feature Film, Documentary and Short Film shortly, as well as the shortlist for the DGC’s Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award, following a meeting of the DGC Awards juries on Sept. 7.

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