Peter Pearson and Rob Sim have been selected to receive two special awards from the Directors Guild of Canada to recognize their careers, the organization announced Wednesday.

Pearson will receive the Don Haldane Distinguished Service Award, which is presented to a DGC member to recognize outstanding service to the membership of the guild. Person’s long career includes time as the president of the Directors Guild (1972 – 1975) and chair of the Council of Canadian filmmakers.

He also served at the director of the Canadian Film Development Corporation’s Broadcast Development Fund from 1983 to 1985, and was the executive director of Telefilm from 1985 to 1987. His film credits include For the Record: The Insurance Man from Ingersoll, The Tar Sands and Snowbirds.

Sim will be this year’s recipient of the DGC Honourary Life Member Award, which is given in recognition of an individual’s outstanding contribution to the industry that has also had a positive impact on the DGC and its members. Sim co-founded Sim Digital (then known as Sim Video) in 1982, and also received the Bill Hilson Award from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers in 2011.

The two special awards will be presented during the 2014 edition of the DGC Awards Gala on Oct. 25 at The Carlu in Toronto.