M arie Clements’ residential school drama Bones of Crows was the big winner at the 2023 Leo Awards, taking home 10 trophies.

The winners were announced Saturday and Sunday (July 8 and 9) at a gala event in Vancouver. The awards are organised annually by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, and recognize achievements within the B.C. film and television industry.

Bones of Crows (Marie Clements Media, Screen Siren Pictures, Grana Productions) is written, directed and produced by Clements as both a feature film and five-part limited series, with the latter to premiere on CBC on Sept. 20.

The feature-length version won Best Motion Picture, and Best Direction and Best Screenwriting for Clements in the motion picture category. Actor Grace Dove also won Best Lead Performance Female. Its other wins were for cinematography, production design, sound, musical score, costume design, and casting.

Banchi Hanuse’s documentary Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun, which centres on the story of a young Siksika Nation woman as she trains for a dangerous horse relay race, won five awards overall, including Best Feature Length Documentary. Hanuse won Best Screenwriting in the feature documentary category along with co-writer Tanya Maryniak, with the doc also picking up awards for cinematography, picture editing and sound.

CBC Gem and Netflix’s Fakes (Reality Distortion Field), created by David Turko, won three awards, including Best Music, Comedy or Variety Program or Series. The series also won best performance in the category for Richard Harmon and Best Picture Editing for Jon Anctil.

CBC’s short doc Across and Down (Lake Tide Media), created for its The Passionate Eye strand, won two awards, including Best Short Documentary. Best Short Drama went to Latchkey by Nathalie Therriault, who also won in the short drama film category for Best Direction.

History’s Deadman’s Curse (Great Pacific Media, Corus Studios) won Best Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series. The series also won Best Direction in the category for Sean White and Tim Hardy and Best Screenwriting for Hardy and Todd Serotiuk.

Snoopy Presents: Lucy’s School, produced by WildBrain and Peanuts for Apple TV+, won Best animation Program, while fellow Apple TV+ Peanuts title, The Snoopy Show, won Best Animation Series. Circuit Breakers (Apple TV+) from Toronto’s Aircraft Pictures and Paris-based Cottonwood Media won Best Youth or Children’s Program or Series.

Among the winning U.S. projects are Netflix’s The Midnight Club for Best Dramatic Series and Rescued by Ruby, which won Best Television Movie.

The MGM+ original series Women Who Rock won Best Documentary Series. The series, which also streams on Crave, also took Best Cinematography for Shaun Lawless as well as Best Picture Editing for Georgia Milroy and Graham Kew.

The full list of winners is available on the Leo Awards website.