A fter reviewing nearly 350 submissions, the 20th edition of the annual Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) Awards is in the books – with All My Puny Sorrows picking up two awards.
Covering the fields of feature film and television, Wendy Morgan won Outstanding Director Achievement for her feature film Sugar Daddy while Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan was named the Allan King Award winner for Excellence in Documentary, at the award ceremony held by the national labour union yesterday (Oct. 24).
Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders captured DGC Discovery Award Short List honours, while Hannah Michielsen’s Ingredients was named Best Short Film.
On the TV side, Tim Southam was recognized for his Outstanding Director Achievement in a Dramatic Series for “The Rapture of Burning, episode 308” of American Gods while Vivieno Caldinelli and Joyce Wong won the Comedy Series accolades for “Whatever you do, don’t smell his T-shirts, episode 501” of Baroness von Sketch Show.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Family Series went to Melanie Orr for “What Happened In Bridgeport, episode 108” of The Hardy Boys, while Danishka Esterhazy was honoured for her similar achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series for I Was Lorena Bobbitt.
Here’s the rundown of all the DGC Award winners:
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Wendy Morgan – Sugar Daddy
- Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary
Yung Chang – Wuhan Wuhan
- DGC Discovery Award Short List
Danis Goulet – Night Raiders
- Best Short Film
Hannah Michielsen – Ingredients
- Best Production Design – Feature Film
André Chamberland – Beans
- Best Picture Editing – Feature Film
Michelle Szemberg, Orlee Buium – All My Puny Sorrows
- Best Picture Editing – Documentary
Aisling Chin-Yee – No Ordinary Man
- Best Sound Editing – Feature Film
Jane Tattersall, Martin Gwynn Jones, Brennan Mercer, Sue Fawcett, Brent Pickett – All My Puny Sorrows
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Tim Southam – American Gods; episode 308, “The Rapture of Burning”
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
Vivieno Caldinelli & Joyce Wong – Baroness von Sketch Show; episode 501, “Whatever you do, don’t smell his T-shirts”
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Family Series
Melanie Orr – The Hardy Boys; episode 108, “What Happened in Bridgeport”
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television or Mini-series
Danishka Esterhazy – I Was Lorena Bobbitt
- Best Production Design – Dramatic Series
Mark Steel – The Umbrella Academy; episode 206, “A Light Supper”
- Best Production Design – Movies for Television and Mini-series
David Hackl – Salt-N-Pepa
- Best Production Design – Comedy or Family Series
Lisa Soper – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; episode 408, “At the Mountains of Madness”
- Best Picture Editing – Dramatic Series
Teresa De Luca – Coroner; episode 310, “Christmas Day”
- Best Picture Editing – Movies for Television and Mini-series
Courtney Goldman – Dino Dana: The Movie
- Best Picture Editing – Comedy or Family Series
Marianna Khoury – Workin’ Moms; episode 510, “Fack”
- Best Sound Editing – Dramatic Series
Brennan Mercer, Barry Gilmore, David McCallum, Jane Tattersall, David Caporale – Trickster; episode 101
- Best Sound Editing – Movies for Television and Mini-series
Allan Fung, Jesse Gillingham, Gray Aletter, Melissa Hinton, Holly Greenly, Ryan Eligh – Salt-N-Pepa
- Best Sound Editing – Comedy or Family Series
Melissa Hinton, Allan Fung, Holly Greenly, Robert Bertola, Jesse Gillingham – Private Eyes; episode 412, “Drop Dead Carny”