11th Canadian Screen Awards
The 11th Canadian Screen Awards are slated to take place on April 16, 2023 to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2022.[1] The television broadcast on April 16 will be a prerecorded special hosted by Samantha Bee, featuring the presentation of top categories; as in prior years, most awards will be presented in a series of Canadian Screen Week presentations over the week prior to the main ceremony, with some highlights included in the main broadcast.[2]
| 11th Canadian Screen Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | April 16, 2023 |
| Hosted by | Samantha Bee |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | CBC Television |
Nominees are expected to be announced on February 22, 2023.[1]
Special awards
Recipients of the Academy's special awards were announced on January 18, 2023.[3]
- Board of Directors Tribute - Paul Pope, Jennifer Podemski
- Academy Icon - Catherine O'Hara
- Changemaker Award - Tracy Moore
- Earle Grey Award - Peter MacNeill
- Gordon Sinclair Award - Lisa LaFlamme
- Humanitarian Award - Ryan Reynolds
- Lifetime Achievement Award - Pierre Bruneau
- Radius Award - Simu Liu
Category changes
In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.[4] Some of the other acting categories, notably those for guest performance, youth performance in children's programming, television films and web series performance were already gender-neutral.[5]
| Old category | New category |
|---|---|
| Best Actor | Best Lead Performance |
| Best Actress | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Performance |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Best Actor in a Comedy Series | Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series |
| Best Actress in a Comedy Series | |
| Best Actor in a Drama Series | Best Leading Performance in a Drama Series |
| Best Actress in a Drama Series | |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Best Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series |
| Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Program or Series | Best Supporting Performance in a Drama Program or Series |
| Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series |
Other changes will include the introduction of new categories for Best Original Score in a Documentary, Best Original Song in Television, Best Picture Editing - Children's or Youth and Best Writing - Pre-School, the splitting of television music and sound categories from a simple fiction/non-fiction distinction into several new categories for particular genres of fiction and non-fiction programming, and the introduction of a revised jury process for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award.
References
- "Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Hara to attend star-studded Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, January 18, 2023.
- Noel Ransome, "Comedian Samantha Bee to host Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, February 7, 2023.
- Etan Vlessing, "Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu, Catherine O’Hara to Receive Honorary Canadian Screen Awards". The Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2023.
- Joseph Pugh, "Canadian Screen Awards switching to gender-neutral performance categories". CBC News, August 25, 2022.
- "Canadian Screen Awards to make next year’s acting categories gender neutral". The Globe and Mail, August 25, 2022.