The CTV medical drama series Transplant, and Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s coming-of-age feature Scarborough emerged as the overall winners of the 10th annual Canadian Screen Awards, taking a total of eight trophies each over six nights of presentations.

Transplant (Sphere Media; pictured above left) was declared Best Drama Series during a pre-recorded broadcast on CBC and CBC Gem on Sunday night (April 10), with Jocelyn Deschênes, Bruno Dubé, Joseph Kay, Tara Woodbury, Virginia Rankin, Josée Vallée, Stefan Pleszczynski, and Adam Barken all named in the honour.

Hamza Haq and Laurence Leboeuf also took leading acting honours in the awards show hosted by CBC sketch troupe TallBoyz, adding to the five trophies the series won in a virtual presentation on Thursday (April 7). Haq is set to reprise his starring role as a Syrian refugee doctor in a third season of Transplant, announced in February.

The Compy Films-produced Scarborough (pictured above right) was named Best Motion Picture, while Nakhai and Williamson won Best Achievement in Direction, and teen star Liam Diaz took Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Adapted from Catherine Hernandez’s award-winning 2017 novel about three children in a low-income neighbourhood in east-end Toronto, Scarborough also won five Canadian Screen Awards — including the $25,000 John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award and Adapted Screenplay for Hernandez — in Friday’s virtual ceremony honouring cinematic arts. It’s distributed by levelFILM in Canada.

The debut season of the HBO Max and CBC original Sort Of (Sienna Films) won Best Comedy Series on Sunday, with co-creators, co-showrunners and executive producers Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo named in the honour alongside fellow executive producers Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny, and Bruno Dubé.

On Thursday, the series starring Baig (pictured right) as a genderfluid nanny and bartender won two awards — Best Writing, Comedy for Baig and Fab Filippo, as well as Best Achievement in Make-Up. Sort Of was renewed for a second season in February.

Lead acting nods in the comedy category went to Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon for the fifth and final season of CBC’s hit Korean-Canadian family series Kim’s Convenience (Thunderbird Entertainment; pictured left), adding to the trophy it took on Thursday — Best Supporting Actor for Andrew Phung, marking his fifth win in that category.

Phung also won Best Host, Live Entertainment Special on Wednesday (April 6) alongside fellow host Arisa Cox for the TVO New Year’s Eve special From Ontario With Love: A Celebration of Hope.

Danis Goulet’s dystopian drama Night Raiders racked up a sixth Canadian Screen Award on Sunday, as Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (pictured right) took a lead performance honour for playing a mother trying to rescue her daughter from a forced-education camp. 

Elevation Pictures is the distributor for the feature, which won five honours on Friday, including Original Screenplay for Goulet. Night Raiders is produced by the aforementioned Woodbury for Uno Bravo; Paul Barkin for Alcina Pictures; Ainsley Gardiner and Georgina Condor for Miss Conception Films/Whenua Films; and co-produced with Chelsea Winstanley for Defender Films.

Tailfeathers emerged victorious in another category: Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, which she write, directed and produced, about a harm-reduction strategy used to save lives in her southern Alberta community of Kainai First Nation. Producers David Christensen and Lori Lozinski were also named in the honour. The film is co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Landing the Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award was CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s supernatural/Western series Wynonna Earp (SEVEN24 Films, Cineflix Studios; pictured left), after its five wins on Thursday, including Best Supporting Actor, Drama for Tim Rozon.

Best Host or Presenter, Factual or Reality/Competition went to the personalities of Crave competition series Canada’s Drag Race (Saloon Media, Blue Ant Studios; pictured right) — Brooke Lynn Hytes, Traci Melchor, Amanda Brugel, and Brad Goreski.

That’s on top of six Canadian Screen Awards it won in Wednesday’s virtual presentation, including Best Reality/Competition Program or Series. That makes it the second-highest winner overall with seven awards.

Sunday’s broadcast also handed out several of this year’s special honours and marked the end of Canadian Screen Week, which pivoted to virtual and pre-recorded events in early February amid lingering uncertainty over the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

“There is no denying the past couple of years have been filled with challenges. Yet, with those challenges came opportunities to defy the status quo and try new things,” said Beth Janson, CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, in a statement. “That is exactly what we strived for with the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards — an opportunity to reinvent the awards show as we know it. With incredible support from the resilient Canadian creative community, we were able to do just that. Congratulations to all who helped put this celebration together, and of course to this year’s talented winners!”