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Sweet Angel Baby leads DGC Awards’ film nominations

The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has unveiled the 2024 DGC Awards nominees for Feature Film, Documentary and Short Film.

Newfoundland-set drama Sweet Angel Baby – which premiered at TIFF and screened as the Atlantic gala at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) last week – heads into the awards with a leading three nominations in the film categories, including Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design, in addition to director Melanie Oates being among those up for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.

The Queen of My Dreams, Queen of Bones, Disco’s Revenge, Code 8 Part II, We Forgot to Break Up, and The Silent Planet also received multiple nominations.

Find the full list of nominees here:

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM

J. Stevens & Team – Really Happy Someday

Queen of My Dreams

Fawzia Mirza & Team – The Queen of My Dreams

Karen Chapman & Team – Village Keeper

Jeff Chan & Team Code 8 Part II

Karen Knox & Team – We Forgot to Break Up

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY

Chelsea McMullan – Swan Song

Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee – Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Omar Majeed & Peter Mishara – Disco’s Revenge

Aeyliya Husain – An Unfinished Journey

Shannon Walsh – Adrianne & the Castle

Adrian Wills – A Quiet Girl

JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD

Kaniehtiio Horn – Seeds

Universal Language

Matthew Rankin – Universal Language

Marie-Hélène Viens & Philippe Lupien – You Are Not Alone

Yuqi Kang – 7 Beats per Minute

Melanie Oates – Sweet Angel Baby

BEST SHORT FILM

Alyson Richards – I Was Here

Phillip Barker – EarthWorm

Richard Rotter – Bloodline

Shubham Chhabra – Cash Cows

Liz Whitmere – Cold

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FILM

Tamara Deverell – Priscilla

Carol Spier & Jason Clarke – The Dead Don’t Hurt

Oleg M. Savytski – Queen of Bones

Yola van Leeuwenkamp – Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FILM (LIMITED BUDGET)

Andrew Berry – The Silent Planet

Stephen Britton Osler – Monica’s News

Joel Richardson – Kipkemboi

Xavier Georges Sweet Angel Baby

Meagan Budgell – We Forgot to Break Up

Michael Pierson – The Queen of My Dreams

BEST PICTURE EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Matt Lyon – Code 8 Part II

Hugh Elchuk – Suze

Anna Catley – We Forgot to Break Up

Jorge Weisz – Sweetland

Sandy Pereira Young Werther

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DOCUMENTARY

Peter Denes & Steve Taylor – The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal

Nile Rodgers in Disco’s Revenge

Mike Munn – Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Omar Majeed with Peter Mishara & Navin Harrilal – Disco’s Revenge

Shane Belcourt & Matt Lyon – Wilfred Buck

Mike Munn & Eamonn O’Connor with Caitlin Durlak – Black Life: Untold Stories, Migrations

BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Dashen Naidoo, Jill Purdy, Jack Madigan – Trap

Elma Bello, J.R. Fountain, Kevin Banks, Krystin Hunter, Paul Germann, Ian Geldart, Nadya Hanlon – Queen of Bones

Claudia Pinto, Kelly McGahey – Sweet Angel Baby

Bryson Cassidy, Jeremy Laing – The Silent Planet

The nominees for Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series were announced earlier this month.

Selected from over 500 submissions, DGC says the full slate of nominations emerged from an incredibly competitive process, demonstrating the creative strength of the Canadian film and television industry.

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


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