A ctor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs, actor Lamar Johnson and journalist Paul Workman are among the second group of Special Award recipients announced by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (Canadian Academy).

The trio will be feted during the 2024 Canadian Screen Week and join a group of Special Award recipients announced earlier by the Academy.

Jacobs, an actor, writer, director and producer, who is from Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, and Johnson, an actor, director, dancer and artist, will receive the Radius Award, which honours a Canadian artist who has made “a resounding global impact.”

Jacobs recently starred in and was a producer on D.W. Waterson’s queer cheer drama Backspot. Her acting credits also include FX’s Reservation Dogs, on which she also wrote and directed, and the Marvel Studios series Echo, among others.

Johnson was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role on HBO’s The Last of Us, won the 2023 Canadian Screen Award for Performance in a Leading role for Brother, and was previously named one of Toronto International Film Festival’s Rising Stars for his role in the Fox film The Hate U Give.

Workman will be receiving the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism, which recognizes a Canadian broadcast journalist for their body of work. Workman spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent for CBC and CTV News, covering major world events such as the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Science North’s large format documentary Jane Goodall: Reasons For Hope by Science Northwill receive the inaugural Sustainable Production Award, presented by CBC.

The award is given to a production that has “had a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and/or innovations in circularity and that has also contributed positively to the Canadian media landscape and local communities,” said a news release. The creation of the award was first announced last April.

The documentary was produced by Science North, in association with the Jane Goodall Institute. Sudbury, Ont. filmmaker David Lickley wrote, directed and produced the film.

The honourees join the previously announced Special Award recipients Jeff Barnaby and John Brunton, who will receive the Academy Board of Directors’ Tribute Award, Tonya Williams, receiving the Changemaker Award, and Marilyn Denis, being honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The awards will be presented during Canadian Screen Week, which runs from May 26 to June 1.

Pictured (L-R) Devery Jacobs (photo by Ryan Pfluger), Lamar Johnson (photo by Natalie Moeller), Paul Workman (photo by Matt Cowan)