Canadian Screen Awards
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) ...
were held on April 10, 2022, to honour achievements in
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'', January 18, 2022. Nominations were announced on February 15.
Due to the ongoing
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, the main presentation of top award categories on April 10 were again staged as a pre-taped virtual special rather than at a live theatrical gala; however, unlike the 2020 and 2021 presentations, which were streamed solely on the Academy's social media accounts, the 2022 presentation was broadcast on
CBC Television
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and
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.Barry Hertz "2022 Canadian Screen Awards go virtual again, but with CBC back onboard" '' The Globe and Mail'', February 7, 2022. Awards in the categories not highlighted on the April 10 broadcast were presented in a series of Canadian Screen Week livestreams over the week before the main ceremony: broadcast news and documentary and factual awards on April 4; sports programming and digital categories on April 5; children's, animation, lifestyle and reality on April 6; television craft and performance on April 7; and cinematic arts on April 8.Greg David "Nominations announced for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards" ''TV, eh?'', February 15, 2022.
In film, the top nominees were '' Scarborough'' and '' Night Raiders'', with 11 nods apiece, while in television the series '' Sort Of'' was the leader with 13 nominations.
Reviewing the film nominations, Barry Hertz of '' The Globe and Mail'' characterized them as "the perfect slate", on the grounds that they had struck an excellent balance between the traditional tensions around whether an award nomination slate should celebrate films that are already relatively well-known or highlight underrated work that merits further attention.
Catherine O'Hara
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Tatiana Maslany
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,
Sidney Crosby
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also appeared in sketches with TallBoyz.
The advance Canadian Screen Week presentations were hosted by
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Sangita Patel
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Patel completed her university degree in el ...
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Jennifer Hedger
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Supinder Wraich
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, Deepa Prashad,
Mary Berg
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Ennis Esmer
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Laurence Leboeuf
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Special awards
Recipients of the Academy's special awards were announced on January 18.
*Board of Directors Tribute Award:
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ET Canada
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'', February 1, 2022. Although normally individual actors or personalities are nominated in the category, in 2022 the Academy chose to honour shows.
The audience choice award was actually won by a show that had not been officially listed as one of the ten nominees; the process for this category does permit "
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