The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has announced its full list of nominees for the 2020 DGC Awards, including those for Feature Film, Documentary and Short Film. The nominees for Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series were previously announced on Sept. 3.
Akilla’s Escape, a multigenerational gangland morality play from filmmaker Charles Officer, is tied to lead the Feature Film category nominees with three, including an Outstanding Directorial Achievement nomination for Officer; a Best Sound Editing – Feature Film nomination for David McCallum, Dave Rose, Krystin Hunter and Amelia Chiarelli; and a Best Production Design nod for Diana Abbatangelo.
In The Tall Grass, a supernatural horror drama, written and directed by Vincenzo Natali and based on Stephen King and Joe Hill’s 2012 novella, also garnered three nominations, including a Directorial Achievement nomination for Natali, a Best Picture Editing nomination for Michele Conroy, and a Best Sound Editing nod.
Michelle Latimer’s Inconvenient Indian leads the Documentary categories with nominations for the Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary, as well as making the DGC Discovery Award Shortlist, alongside Tracey Deer’s Beans, Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s No Ordinary Man, and Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s Violation.
Winners will be announced at the 19th Annual Awards on consecutive nights, beginning Oct. 24.
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM
Charles Officer – Akilla’s Escape
Jeanne Leblanc – Les Nôtres / Our Own
Sonia Bonspille Boileau – Rustic Oracle
Daniel Roby – Target Number One
Vincenzo Natali – In the Tall Grass
Yung Chang- This is Not a Movie
Michelle Latimer – Inconvenient Indian
Claude Guilmain – High Wire / Sur la Corde Raide
Charles Wilkinson – Haida Modern
Danielle Sturk – El Toro
DGC DISCOVERY AWARD SHORT LIST
Michelle Latimer – Inconvenient Indian
Tracey Deer – Beans
Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt – No Ordinary Man
Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer – Violation
BEST SHORT FILM
Andrew Moir – Take Me to Prom
Trevor Anderson – Jesse Jams
Tiffany Hsiung – Sing Me a Lullaby
Glen Matthews – Teething
Jesse Shamata – A Simple F*cking Gesture (formerly The Wave)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
François Séguin – The Song of Names
Craig Lathrop – The Lighthouse
Diana Abbatangelo – Akilla’s Escape
David Pelletier – Mafia Inc
BEST PICTURE EDITING – FEATURE FILM
Ron Sanders – Falling
Matthew Hannam – The Nest
Michele Conroy – In the Tall Grass
Jorge Weisz – Hammer
Michelle Szemberg, Orlee Buium – Queen of the Morning Calm
BEST PICTURE EDITING – DOCUMENTARY
Caroline Christie (with Roland Schlimme) – Meat the Future
Jennifer Abbott – The Magnitude of all Things
Lee Walker – Butterflies in the Storm
Caroline Christie – First We Eat
Nicholas Montgomery – No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave
BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM
Robert Bertola, Marvyn Dennis, Kelly McGahey – The Education of Fredrick Fitzell
Dave Rose, David McCallum, Adam Stein, Claire Dobson, Krystin Hunter, Kevin Banks, Jean Bot, Christopher Alan King – In the Tall Grass
David McCallum, Dave Rose, Krystin Hunter, Amelia Chiarelli – Akilla’s Escape
Adam Stein, Joseph Bracciale, Kevin Banks, Rose Gregoris – Ready or Not
Faustine Pelipel – Things I Do for Money
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