Canadian Cinema Editors celebrated the organization’s 15th annual gala on Thursday (May 29).

The awards, presented at the Delta Hotel in Toronto by critic Richard Crouse, saw Vancouver-based Justin Li receive the award for Best Editing in a Feature Film for Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ Heretic (Beck/Woods, Shiny Penny, Catchlight Studios). Montreal’s Ryan Mullins was also presented the documentary feature equivalent for Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano’s Yintah (Yintah Film).

Stein Myhrstad received the Best Editing in TV Comedy award for his work on CBC’s Wild Cards (Blink49 Studios, Piller/Segan, Front Street Pictures) while Isabelle Desmarais was celebrated for her work on Crave’s In Memoriam (Passez-Go, Bell Media) with the award for Best Editing in TV Drama / Mini Series.

For Best Editing in Competition/Reality, Jeff Perry was awarded for Netflix’s Blown Away (Blue Ant Studios) and Peter Denes was recognized with the Docu-series/Docu-drama counterpart for Prime Video’s The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal (Fully and Complete Productions).

Best Editing in Lifestyle went to Lindsay Ragone for Max’s Trixie Motel (Scott Brothers Entertainment) while the animation recognition was presented to Vanessa Seecharran and Jeff Seibenick for Prime Video’s Sausage Party: Foodtopia (Annapurna Television, Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios).

Paul Hunter and Katie Tomchishen were awarded Best Editing in an Animated Pre-School Series due to their work on PBS Kids’ Nature Cat’s Nature Movie Special Extraordinaire (Spiffy Pictures).

For short-form documentary editing, David Valiquette won for Radio-Canada’s Six mois pour apprendre le français. Lindsay Ragone won for TVOKids’ All-Round Champion (Blue Ant Studios) in the live-action series or MOWs for children and youth category.

Rounding out the winners is Gloria Tong, taking the award for MOW editing with Friday Night Sext Scandal (Neshama Entertainment); Brendan Mills in short film editing for Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? (Kingdom of Swoon, OPC); and Zoé Guèvremont for editing in a web series or digital content with ICI Tou.tv Extra’s Discrètes (Avanti-Toast).

The ceremony also saw the presentation of the previously announced Lifetime Achievement and Career Achievement Awards. The former went to Jeff Warren and editor Yves Langlois, who died in 2024, and the latter went to Gregor Hutchison, who died in 2020.

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