The Canadian Cinema Editors hosted its annual gala last night, with some of the top series, films and editors in Canada honoured for editing prowess.

Held at the new Delta hotel in the heart of downtown Toronto on June 2, the event was an intimate and cheerful celebration of domestic achievements, hosted by the always-entertaining Richard Crouse. After introducing the CCE’s Lifetime Achievement Award to Roushell Goldstein, who referenced the CTV lifestyle show Live It Up in her acceptance speech, Crouse got so excited recalling its theme song, he found and played it off his cell phone in the middle of the ceremony. (In all fairness, it is pretty epic.)

Michael Doherty was recognized in the One Hour Scripted category for his work on the Hannibal episode, “Antipasto,” while the honours in the MOW/Miniseries category went to Don Cassidy for Texas Rising. In the Half-Hour Scripted category, Jorge Parra won for Still Standing “Eganville.”

Also on the TV side were wins for Neil Sitka and Miles Davren for their work on Vegas Rat Rods (Ep 201) and Steve Taylor, Michael Tersigni, Anna Bigos and James Osso won for the epic editing adventure that is The Amazing Race Canada, episode “I Said Straight, You Gorilla.” The Best Editing in Animation award also fell on the TV side, with Stephanie Duncan, Joycelyn Poon and Lee Maund winning for Trucktown “Trucktown Run.”

On the feature/film side, festival and awards darling Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah made the top of the list, with its editor, Tiffany Beaudin, winning in the Documentary – Short Form category, Cathy Gulkin took the feature doc category for Guantanamo’s Child. Gulkin fairly brought down the house with her thoughtful and forthright acceptance speech, in which she praised strides make in gender equality in the editing bays but urged the industry to up its diversity game. “Hire an assistant that doesn’t look like you for once,” she compelled the audience.

On the scripted side, Duff Smith took home a trophy for his work on Jamie Dagg’s River, while Stéphane Lafleur was the winner in the Short category for O Negative.

Meanwhile, Best Editing in Web Based Series went to Nicholas Wong for We Are Disorderly “Our New Friend.”

The CCE awards also recognize a host of up-and-comers every year, with the Student Award of Merit. Earning CCE honours in the category were Eric Bos of Sheridan College for House of Glory; Kevin Horan of Vancouver Film School (VFS) for Voskhod; Centennial College’s Andriy Koval for As I Like Her; Chi-Hsin Lui, also of VFS for Reflect; Humber College’s Harrison Perez for Evan; and Rene Seijas Zamboni and Miguel Quintero (VFS) for Reconnection.