The DGC (Directors Guild of Canada) has unveiled its initial round of nominees, recognizing achievement in television series, movies for television and mini-series. Winners will be announced at the first in-person DGC Awards Gala since 2019 to be held at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto on Saturday, Oct. 21.
Among the series garnering multiple nominations are Crave/APTN ’60s scoop drama Little Bird; Amazon Prime Video mystery Three Pines; CBC series Essex County, Sort Of and Son of a Critch; Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home; The Roku Channel comedy Slip; Netflix’s Wednesday and horror collection Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities; and AppleTV+ productions Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and Jane.
Find the full list of nominees here:
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES
James Marshall – Wednesday, A Murder of Woes
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers – Little Bird, Love is all Around
Zoe Hopkins – Little Bird, Bineshi Kwe
Tracey Deer – Three Pines, The Cruellest Month – Part 1
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES
Zoe Lister-Jones – Slip, The Wife
Fabrizio Filippo – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah
Renuka Jeyapalan – Son of a Critch, Growing Apart
Jeremiah S. Chechik – Reginald the Vampire, Dead Weight
Pat Mills – Run the Burbs, Morning Phrenzy
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY SERIES
Felipe Rodriguez – Ruby and the Well, I Wish Things Could’ve Turned Out Differently
Jonathan Rosenbaum – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights
Grant Harvey – The Way Home, Building a Mystery
J.J. Johnson – Jane, Ursus maritimus
Lisa Rose Snow – Odd Squad, Why Did The Chick Cross The Dimension? / Off The Clock
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Danielle Sturk – El Toro, Épisode 5
Andrew Cividino – Essex County, Episode 3
Aisling Chin-Yee – Plan B, Episode 5
Anya Adams – Prom Pact
Simone Stock – The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – DRAMATIC SERIES
Tamara Deverell – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Autopsy
John Dondertman – Chucky, The Sinners Are Much More Fun
Elisa Sauvé – The Accused, Robyn’s Story
Martine Kazemirchuk – Three Pines, The Hangman: Part 2
Bill Fleming – Moonshine, 44.6304N 64.0515W
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Brian Kane – Essex County, Episode 3
Graham Caswell – Hotel for the Holidays
Zoë Sakellaropoulo – Snow Day
Ron Stefaniuk – Faith Heist: A Christmas Caper
Patrick Gauthier – Six Degrees of Santa
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
Danielle Sahota – Slip, The Wife
Domini Anderson – Jane, Danaus plexippus
Liz Bischof – Son of a Critch, Pope Visit
Ingrid Jurek – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah
Zoë Sakellaropoulo – Ghosts, Woodstone’s Hottest Couple
BEST PICTURE EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES
Wendy Hallam Martin – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe
Tad Seaborn – Vikings: Valhalla, The Reckoning
Cam McLauchlin – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Outside
Michele Conroy – From, The Kindness of Strangers
Aaron Marshall – Moonhaven, The Pilot
BEST PICTURE EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND MINI-SERIES
Gloria Tong – Designing Christmas
Chad Tremblay – El Toro, Episode 5
Chris Mutton, Sandy Pereira & Dev Singh – Essex County, Episode 3
Trevor Ambrose – All I Didn’t Want for Christmas
Roger Mattiussi – House of Chains
BEST PICTURE EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
Ana Yavari – Wednesday, Quid Pro Woe
Lara Johnston – The Consultant, Friday
Sandy Pereira – Slip, The Imposter
Luke Sargent – Circuit Breakers, Entangled
Sam Thomson – Sort Of, Sort of I Love You
BEST SOUND EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES
John Loranger, Dan Sexton, Kristi McIntyre, Alastair Gray, Faustine Pelipel – Wednesday, A Murder of Woes
Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Brennan Mercer, David Caporale, Dustin Harris, Krystin Hunter, Stefana Fratila, Christopher Alan King, Yuri Gorbachow – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe
Nelson Ferreira, Paul Germann, Rose Gregoris, Jill Purdy, Robert Hegedus – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Autopsy
J.R. Fountain, Dustin Harris, Kevin Banks, Jill Purdy, Josh Brown, Craig MacLellan – Locke and Key, Farewell
Adam Stein, Brent Pickett, Ryan Allam, Matthew Hearn, Kelly McGahey, Kevin Banks – From, Strangers in a Strange Land
BEST SOUND EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Alan Geldart, Aravind Sundar, John Laing – Essex County, Episode 4
Ryan Birnberg, Mark Dejczak, John Laing – Jolly Good Christmas
Ryan Birnberg, Dale Lennon, Mark Gingras – Moriah’s Lighthouse
BEST SOUND EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
John Douglas Smith, Kayla Stewart, Kevin Banks, Paul Talbott, Kelly McGahey, Taylor Brockelsby – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights
Sean Karp, Aravind Sundar, Cailey Milito – Jane, Apis mellifera
Dermain Finlayson, Ryan Birnberg, Mark Gingras – Home Sweet Rome, The Bats Own The Apartment Now
Mark Dejczak, Kayla Stewart, Kathy Choi, Josh Brown, Ethan Horbay, Kevin Banks – The Way Home, Building a Mystery
Sean Karp & Cailey Milito – Ghostwriter, The Ghost, the Mouse and the Motorcycle, Part 2
Nominations for feature film, documentary and short film will follow, along with the short-list for the DGC’s Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award which will be released after the DGC Awards juries meet on Sept. 9.
“These nominations are a reminder that Canadian filmmakers continue to elevate their craft year after year,” said DGC President Warren Sonoda. “We can’t wait to celebrate the creativity and talent of our members at this year’s ceremony.”
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