The seventh annual

Canadian Screen Awards The Canadian Screen Awards () 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) productions. Given annually by the Academy ...

were held on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018."Award Season is Upon Us"
''Northern Stars'', December 31, 2018. Nominations were announced by the

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on February 7, 2019. Early coverage of the nominations highlighted the fact that the Best Picture category consisted entirely of French-language films from

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, with not a single English-language film named in the category. This was also the first year that the ceremony did not have a host.

Ceremony

The awards in many of the technical and craft categories were presented in a series of advance Canadian Screen Week galas in the week before the main ceremony. The gala for non-fiction programming was held on March 26, the gala for creative fiction storytelling was held on March 27, the gala for digital production was held on March 28, and the gala for film craft categories was held in the afternoon of March 31. The broadcast ceremony had no overall host, with the academy clarifying that the decision was made before the

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made the same announcement."Canadian Screen Awards trying 'different style of awards show' with no host"

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, January 30, 2019. The ceremony did, however, included pretaped comedy segments from performers such as the casts of '' Baroness von Sketch Show'' and ''

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'', as well as a short welcome introduction by actor Andrew Phung and drag queen

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. In film, '' The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)'' was the year's big winner with five awards, although the Best Picture award went to '' A Colony (Une colonie)''."Anne with an E, Cardinal lead Canadian Screen Awards with seven wins apiece"
''

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'', March 31, 2019. In television, the drama series ''

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'' and ''

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'' tied for the most wins, with seven awards each.

Special awards

The first recipients of the academy's special awards were announced on January 15."Canadian Screen Awards announce special honorees"
News 1130 CKWX, January 15, 2019. *Board of Directors Award:

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, Elizabeth Klinck, Carole Vivier, Roman Bittman * Margaret Collier Award:

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*Industry Leadership Award:

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*Lifetime Achievement Award:

Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta, (; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2 ...

*Radius Award: Stephan James *

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: Mary Walsh *Academy Icon Award: The Kids in the Hall

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