The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) handed out the 22nd Annual DGC Awards on Saturday evening at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, the organization’s first in-person awards gala since 2019.
“Women Talking” earned a leading four awards, including Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Sarah Polley and her team, Best Production Design – Feature Film for Peter Cosco, Best Picture Editing – Feature Film for Christopher Donaldson & Roslyn Kalloo, in addition to Best Sound Editing. CBC/HBO Max comedy Sort Of picked up three awards including Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series for Fabrizio Filippo. Documentary To Kill A Tiger, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Handmaid’s Tale and Essex County also picked up multiple honours.
Find the full list of winners here:
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM
Sarah Polley & Team – Women Talking
Nisha Pahuja – To Kill a Tiger
Ariane Louis-Seize – Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person)
Lisa Robertson – smokeBreak
Peter Cosco – Women Talking
Christopher Donaldson & Roslyn Kalloo – Women Talking
Mike Munn (With Dave Kazala) – To Kill a Tiger
David McCallum, Jane Tattersall, Alex Bullick, Krystin Hunter, Christopher Alan King – Women Talking
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Team – Little Bird, Love is all Around
Fabrizio Filippo & Team – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah
Jonathan Rosenbaum & Team – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights
Lisa Rose Snow & Team – Odd Squad, Why Did The Chick Cross The Dimension? / Off The Clock
Aisling Chin-Yee & Team – Plan B, Episode 5
Tamara Deverell – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Autopsy
Brian Kane – Essex County, Episode 3
Ingrid Jurek – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah
BEST PICTURE EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES
Wendy Hallam Martin – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe
Chris Mutton, Sandy Pereira & Dev Singh – Essex County, Episode 3
Sam Thomson – Sort Of, Sort of I Love You
Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Brennan Mercer, David Caporale, Dustin Harris, Krystin Hunter, Stefana Fratila, Christopher Alan King, Yuri Gorbachow – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe
Jane Tattersall, Ed Douglas, David Caporale, Alex Bullick, David Evans, Susan Conley, Kathy Choi, Rob Hutchins, Kevin Banks, Nadya Hanlon, Jean Bot – Thai Cave Rescue, To Not Offend the Gods
John Douglas Smith, Kayla Stewart, Kevin Banks, Paul Talbott, Kelly McGahey, Taylor Brockelsby – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights
As previously announced, this year’s Special Awards honourees included DGC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Denys Arcand, DGC Impact Award honouree Marie Clements, and Honourary Life Member Patricia Gallivan.
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