Canadian filmmakers David Cronenberg, Anthony Shim, Fabrizio Filippo, and Charles Officer earned top film and TV prizes at the 21st annual DGC Awards.

The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) announced the winners of the feature film and television categories, as well as the Special Awards, on Nov. 5 at the West Coast DGC Awards Gala in Vancouver.

Cronenberg won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his 2022 dystopian drama Crimes of the Future. The Canada/Greece coproduction was produced by Serendipity Point Films’ Robert Lantos alongside Athens-based prodco Argonaut Productions.

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, produced by Toronto’s J. Miles Dale, was the most-lauded project in the film category, winning three awards in total. Tamara Deverell was honoured for production design, Cam McLauchlin for picture editing, while the honour for sound editing went to Nathan Robitaille, Jill Purdy, Dashen Naidoo, Josh Brown, Nelson Ferreira, Kayla Stewart, Craig MacLellan, and Kevin Banks.

Shim won the DGC Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award for Riceboy Sleeps, which he produced under his banner Lonesome Heroes Productions alongside Rebecca Steele and Bryan Demore. The film has already won several awards including the $25,000 WIFF Prize in Canadian Film; the $15,000 Best Canadian Film Prize at the Vancouver International Film Festival; and the $20,000 Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The Allan King Award For Excellence in Documentary was awarded to Playback‘s 5 to Watch alum Madison Thomas for Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, produced by Eagle Vision, White Pine Pictures, and Paquin Entertainment. Meanwhile, Hayley Gray won Best Short Film for Send the Rain, which is produced by Elad Tzadok.

Rounding out the film winners is Barri Cohen’s Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children, produced by Craig Baines, with Sarah Peddie picking up an honour for picture editing for a documentary.

As for TV series and mini-series, Officer won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for The Porter (pictured), produced by Winnipeg’s Inferno Pictures and Toronto’s Sphere Media (formerly Sienna Films). The CBC and BET+ period drama also won Best Sound Editing for a Dramatic Series for David McCallum, Ed Douglas, Marvyn Dennis, Peter Thillaye, Kayla Stewart, and Jean Bot.

Filippo was awarded Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series for CBC’s Sort Of. The series is co-created by Bilal Baig and Filippo and is also produced by Sphere Media. Meanwhile, Melanie Orr picked up Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Family Series for The Hardy Boys, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions; and Helen Shaver won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series for HBO’s Station Eleven.

Hulu original The Handmaid’s Tale tied with The Porter for the most awards in the television category, picking up a picture editing win for Ana Yavari and a production design honour for Elisabeth Williams.

Other Canadian series to pick up honours in the television categories are Syfy and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s Astrid and Lilly Save the World (Blue Ice Pictures), with a picture editing win for Lee Walker; and Canada/U.K. copro The North Water (Rhombus Media/See-Saw Films), co-commissioned by CBC and BBC, which won for sound editing for Jane Tattersall, Brennan Mercer, Martin Gwynn Jones, and David Caporale.

The remaining production design winners are Elisa Sauvé for Disney+ original Sneakerella and Zoë Sakellaropoulo, who won for CBS’ Ghosts and Freeform’s The Bold Type. Meanwhile, Maureen Grant won a picture editing honour for the TV movie Stolen by Their Father, and Apple TV+’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock‘s John Douglas Smith, Kayla Stewart, Paul Talbott, Kelly McGahey, Taylor Brockelsby, and Kevin Banks won for sound editing.