NEWS PROVIDED BY
Directors Guild of Canada, National Office 
22 Oct, 2023, 00:30 ET
TORONTO, Oct. 22, 2023 /CNW/ – The DGC is delighted to announce the winners of the 22nd Annual DGC Awards. The Awards were presented at the annual event on Saturday, October 21, 2023 and returned to the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto for the first time since 2019.

DGC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Denys Arcand

DGC HONOURARY LIFE MEMBER AWARD
Patricia Gallivan

DGC IMPACT AWARD
Marie Clements

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM
Sarah Polley & Team – Women Talking

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY
Nisha Pahuja – To Kill a Tiger

JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD SHORT LIST
Ariane Louis-Seize – Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person)

BEST SHORT FILM
Lisa Robertson – smokeBreak

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
Peter Cosco – Women Talking

BEST PICTURE EDITING – FEATURE FILM
Christopher Donaldson & Roslyn Kalloo – Women Talking

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DOCUMENTARY
Mike Munn (With Dave Kazala) – To Kill a Tiger

BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM
David McCallum, Jane Tattersall, Alex Bullick, Krystin Hunter, Christopher Alan King – Women Talking

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Team – Little Bird, Love is all Around

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES
Fabrizio Filippo & Team – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY SERIES (TIE)
Jonathan Rosenbaum & Team – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights
Lisa Rose Snow & Team – Odd Squad, Why Did The Chick Cross The Dimension? / Off The Clock

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Aisling Chin-Yee & Team – Plan B, Episode 5 
                  
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – DRAMATIC SERIES
Tamara Deverell – Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Autopsy

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Brian Kane – Essex County, Episode 3
               
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
Ingrid Jurek – Sort Of, Sort of Janazah

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES
Wendy Hallam Martin – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe

BEST PICTURE EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND MINI-SERIES
Chris Mutton, Sandy Pereira & Dev Singh – Essex County, Episode 3          

BEST PICTURE EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
Sam Thomson – Sort Of, Sort of I Love You

BEST SOUND EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES
Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Brennan Mercer, David Caporale, Dustin Harris, Krystin Hunter, Stefana Fratila, Christopher Alan King, Yuri Gorbachow – The Handmaid’s Tale, Safe

BEST SOUND EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES
Jane Tattersall, Ed Douglas, David Caporale, Alex Bullick, David Evans, Susan Conley, Kathy Choi, Rob Hutchins, Kevin Banks, Nadya Hanlon, Jean Bot – Thai Cave Rescue, To Not Offend the Gods  
          
BEST SOUND EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES
John Douglas Smith, Kayla Stewart, Kevin Banks, Paul Talbott, Kelly McGahey, Taylor Brockelsby – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Night of the Lights

Media:
Ian Gillespie – Director of Communications, 416-459-5932, igillespie@dgc.ca
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The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) is a national labour organization that represents over 4,800 key creative and logistical personnel in the screen-based industry covering all areas of direction, design, production and editing. The DGC negotiates and administers collective agreements and lobbies extensively on issues of concern for members including Canadian content conditions, CRTC regulations and ensuring that funding is maintained for Canadian screen-based programming.

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