Winners in the news and sports, documentary, lifestyle, reality and digital media categories were handed out Wednesday night at a gala hosted by comedian Steve Patterson (The Debators).

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television tonight (Feb. 27) handed out its first round of the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards.

Among the winners are CBC’s The Nature of Things, HGTV’s Income Property, and My Babysitter’s a Vampire Interactive: Humans vs. Vampires.

And six Academy Special Awards were given out to Victor Loewy, Ian Greenberg, cop drama series Flashpoint, Andrea Sheffer, The Honourable Laurier LaPierre, Heather Conkie and the Imax Corporation.

A total of 46 awards were handed out at tonights’s event held at Toronto’s Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

TV – News and sports, documentary, lifestyle, reality

Breakthrough Entertainment won the award for best animated program or series for Producing Parker, an animated comedy that shows the behind-the-scenes antics of a producer, the self-centred host and crew of a daytime talk show.

CBC’s The Nature of Things with David Suzuki won the award for best doc program or series, while Skit Inc.’s Income Property was named best lifestyle program or series.

And CBC News The National won the award for best national newscast, while the best local newscast prize went to Global Toronto.

Digital Media

In digital, My Babysitter’s a Vampire Interactive: Humans vs. Vampires, from Secret Location and Fresh TV Inc., won for best children’s and youth cross-platform project.

And Stitch Media’s  Drunk and on Drugs the Happy Funtime Hour won for best cross-platform fiction project, while the non-fiction prize went to Truth & Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden, produced by CBC News, the fifth estate, Sean Embury and Fulscrn Digital Media.

And in original digital media programming, mystery web series Guidestones, from ithentic and 3 o’clock.tv won in the fiction category, while the NFB’s Highrise: One Millionth Tower, took the prize for non-fiction.

A full list of the winners and project credits is available here.

Tomorrow’s gala (Feb. 28) will see Canadian Screen Awards handed out in the drama, children’s or youth, comedy and variety categories, at a reception hosted by Seamus O’Regan at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The Canadian Screen Awards gala will take place March 3 at the Sony Centre in Toronto at 8 p.m.

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