Day two of the Canadian Screen Awards saw Canada’s Drag Race and PAW Patrol lead winners in the lifestyle and reality, and children’s and animation categories, respectively.

Crave original Canada’s Drag Race (Blue Ant Studios, Saloon Media) picked up six trophies overall on Wednesday evening (April 12) at the Lifestyle & Reality Awards, hosted by Mary Berg (Mary Makes It Easy), while PAW Patrol (Spin Master Entertainment) earned three wins earlier in the day at the Children’s & Animation Awards, hosted by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (The Mandalorian).

Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor won Best Host or Presenter, Factual or Reality/Competition for Canada’s Drag Race, which also picked up Best Direction, Reality/Competition for Shelagh O’Brien, and Best Writing, Lifestyle or Reality/Competition for Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Trevor Boris, Spencer Fritz, and Kevin Hazlehurst.

Additional wins for the drag competition series include Best Achievement in Casting, Non-Fiction (Heather Muir), Best Sound, Lifestyle, Reality, or Entertainment (John Diemer, Scott Brachmayer, Rosie Eberhard, Levi Linton, Rob Taylor, Alastair Sims, Eric Leigh), and Best Production Design or Art Direction, Non-Fiction (Andrew Kinsella).

Best Lifestyle Program or Series went to CTV Life’s Mary Makes It Easy (Proper Television), which won three awards overall during the evening ceremony, including Best Direction, Lifestyle or Information (Jan McCharles) and Best Photography, Lifestyle or Reality/Competition (Kevin C. W. Wong).

Best Reality/Competition Program or Series was awarded to CTV’s The Amazing Race Canada (Insight Productions), which also picked up Best Picture Editing, Reality/Competition for Michael Tersigni and Samantha Shields.

Additional winners at the Lifestyle & Reality Awards include Crave’s 1 Queen 5 Queers (Bell Media Studios) for Best Talk Program or Series; HGTV Canada’s Property Brothers: Forever Home (Scott Brothers Entertainment) for Best Host, Lifestyle (Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott); and Discovery Channel’s A Cut Above (marblemedia) for Best Original Music, Factual, Lifestyle, Reality, or Entertainment (Rachael Johnstone, Annelise Noronha, Brian Pickett, Jason Turriff, and Earl Torno).

Children’s & Animation Awards

TVOKids’ PAW Patrol won Best Pre-School Program or Series at the afternoon Children’s & Animation Awards ceremony. The series also received Best Sound, Animation, as well as a posthumous win for Charles E. Bastien for Best Direction, Animation.

Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series went to TVO’s All-Round Champion (marblemedia), which also won Best Picture Editing, Children’s or Youth (Al Manson). The other double winner at the ceremony was YTV’s The Hardy Boys (Lambur Productions), which picked up Best Writing, Children’s or Youth (Ramona Barckert) and Best Direction, Children’s or Youth (Melanie Orr).

Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series went to CBC Gem’s Detention Adventure (LoCo Motion Pictures), Best Animated Program or Series was awarded to Apple TV+ original The Snoopy Show (WildBrain), and the Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award went to Family Jr.’s The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy (Lopii Productions). The latter award is one of two Canadian Screen Awards categories decided by audience vote.

Best Performance, Children’s or Youth went to Saara Chaudry for Family Channel’s Holly Hobbie (Aircraft Pictures, Cloudco Entertainment, Wexworks Media), while Tricia Black won Best Performance, Animation for Family’s Summer Memories (A&N Productions, Aircraft Pictures, Yeti Farm Creative).

Rounding out the winning projects at the afternoon ceremony was Family Jr.’s Happy House of Frightenstein (Headspinner Productions) for Best Writing, Pre-School, Apple TV+’s Pinecone & Pony (First Generation Films) for Best Writing, Animation, and TVOKids’ Let’s Go Luna! (9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films) for Best Original Music, Animation.

The Canadian Screen Awards ceremonies continue today (April 13) with the Digital & Immersive Awards in the afternoon and the Cinematic Arts Awards in the evening.

Photo by George Pimentel, pictured (L-R): Brad Goreski, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Traci Melchor