7th Canadian Screen Awards | |
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Date | March 31, 2019 |
Location | Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Ontario |
Hosted by | None |
Highlights | |
Most awards | The Great Darkened Days (film), Anne with an E , Cardinal (television) |
Best Motion Picture | A Colony |
Best Dramatic Series | Anne with an E |
Best Comedy Series | Schitt's Creek |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | CBC |
The seventh annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018. [1]
Nominations were announced by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television on February 7, 2019. [2] Early coverage of the nominations highlighted the fact that the Best Picture category consisted entirely of French-language films from Quebec, with not a single English-language film named in the category. [3] This was also the first year that the ceremony did not have a host. [4]
The awards in many of the technical and craft categories were presented in a series of advance Canadian Screen Week galas in the week before the main ceremony. [1] The gala for non-fiction programming was held on March 26, [5] the gala for creative fiction storytelling was held on March 27, [6] the gala for digital production was held on March 28, [7] and the gala for film craft categories was held in the afternoon of March 31. [8]
The broadcast ceremony had no overall host, with the academy clarifying that the decision was made before the Academy Awards made the same announcement. [4] The ceremony did, however, included pretaped comedy segments from performers such as the casts of Baroness von Sketch Show and Letterkenny , as well as a short welcome introduction by actor Andrew Phung and drag queen Tynomi Banks. [9]
In film, The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur) was the year's big winner with five awards, although the Best Picture award went to A Colony (Une colonie). [10] In television, the drama series Anne with an E and Cardinal tied for the most wins, with seven awards each. [10]
The first recipients of the academy's special awards were announced on January 15. [11]
Drama series | Comedy series |
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Animated program or series | Documentary program |
Children's or youth fiction | Children's or youth non-fiction |
Limited Series or Program | History Documentary Program or Series |
Lifestyle Program or Series | Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series |
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Pre-School Program or Series | Reality/Competition Program or Series |
Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series (Rob Stewart Award) | Social/Political Documentary Program (Donald Brittain Award) |
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Factual Program or Series | Live entertainment special |
Variety or entertainment special | Talk program or series |
Golden Screen Awards | |
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Lead actor, drama | Lead actress, drama |
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Lead actor, comedy | Lead actress, comedy |
Lead actor, drama program or limited series | Lead actress, drama program or limited series |
Supporting actor, drama | Supporting actress, drama |
Supporting actor, comedy | Supporting actress, comedy |
Performance in a children's or youth program or series | Performance in a guest role, drama series |
Performance in an animated program or series | Ensemble performance in a variety or sketch comedy program or series |
National newscast | Local newscast |
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News or information series | News special |
News anchor, national | News anchor, local |
News reporter, national | News reporter, local |
Host or interviewer, news or information program or series | News or information program |
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News or information segment | Host in a program or series |
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Host in a live program or series | |
Live sporting event coverage | Sports analyst |
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Sports host | Sports play-by-play |
Sports feature segment | Sports opening |
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Sports program or series | |
Editorial research | Visual research |
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Make-Up | Costume Design |
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Photography in a comedy series | Photography in a documentary program or factual series |
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Photography in a drama program or series | Photography in a lifestyle or reality program or series |
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Photography in a news or information program, series or segment | Editing in a comedy program or series |
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Editing in a dramatic program or series | Editing in a documentary program or series |
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Editing in a factual program or series | Editing in a reality or competition program or series |
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Production design/art direction in a fiction program or series | Production design/art direction in a non-fiction program or series |
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Sound in a fiction program or series | Sound in a non-fiction program or series |
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Sound in an animated program or series | Visual effects |
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Casting | Hair |
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Children's or youth | Comedy |
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Documentary or factual series | Documentary program |
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Dramatic program or mini–series | Dramatic series |
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Lifestyle or information | Live sporting event |
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Reality or competition program or series | Variety or sketch comedy program or series |
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Animated program or series | |
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Fiction | Non-fiction |
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Animation | |
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Cross-Platform Project | Cross-Platform Project, Children's |
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Web Series, fiction | Web Series, Non-Fiction |
Original interactive production | Virtual reality game |
Lead performance, web program or series | Supporting performance, web program or series |
Direction, web program or series | Writing, web program or series |
Immersive experience, fiction | Immersive experience, non-fiction |
Host, web program or series | |
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