Check out all of the recent accolades for our DGC Ontario Members. Congratulations to all DGC Ontario Members and Productions who have won, nominated or honoured, and stay tuned to this page for more nominations and wins for our talented Members!
95th Academy Awards
Best Picture
Women Talking
Best Adapted Screenplay
Director/Writer Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Directors Guild of America TV Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series
- Director Deborah Chow – Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Director Jeremy Podeswa and 1st Assistant Director Andrew Shea – Station Eleven, Unbroken Circle
- Director Helen Shaver – Station Eleven, Who’s There
Read our interview with Jeremy, Andrew, and Helen on the making of Station Eleven and why it means so much to storytellers and artists.
Art Directors Guild Awards
Television Movie or Limited Series
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- Production Designer Tamara Deverell
- Supervising Art Director Brandt Gordon
- Art Directors Colin Woods, Henry Salonen
- Assistant Art Directors Jon Chan, Thomas Inwood, and April Fox
- 1st Assistant Art Directors Chris Penna, Etienne Gravrand, Jane Stoiacico, Shirin Rashid, Sorin Popescu, Andy Tsang, Daniela Blumenthal, and Jason Graham
Watch our Creative Spotlight video with Cabinet of Curiosities Director Vincenzo Natali and how he worked with Tamara on this visually complex production to build a terrifying rat maze.
Station Eleven
- Production Designer Ruth Ammon (permittee)
- Art Director Alistair Edwardson
- 1st Assistant Art Directors Vladislav Fedorov, Sylvain Bombardier, Jason McQuarrie, Jeff Smith, Hamish Buchanan, Cav Yip
Half-Hour Single-Camera Series
What We Do In The Shadows
- Production Designer Shayne Fox
- Art Directors Aaron Noel, Andrea Raymond
- 1st Assistant Art Directors Aleks Cameron, Diette Macdonald, Bruce Wrighte, Stephen Crowhurst, Poe Gour, Rebecca Daly, Nicholas Augustyn,
- 2nd Assistant Art Director Jenn Luckas
Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Dialogue / ADR
Sound Editor Jill Purdy – Stranger Things: Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab
Toronto Film Critics Awards
Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award Nominees
- Brother – Director Clement Virgo
- Crimes of the Future – Director David Cronenberg
Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted
WINNER: Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Best Picture Runner-Up
Women Talking
Best Director Runner-Up
Director Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Read our TIFF roundup with Women Talking Picture Editor Chris Donaldson and Production Designer Steve Cosco about working with Sarah on this powerful film.
Golden Globes
Screenplay of a Motion Picture
Director Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Musical or Comedy TV Series
Wednesday
Read our interview with the DGC Ontario Post Production Members who helped transform the iconic Wednesday Addams for a new generation.
GLAAD Media Awards
Outstanding Comedy Series
- Sort Of
- What We Do In The Shadows
Check out our podcast episodes with some of the creative minds behind Sort Of and What We Do in the Shadows: Sort Of co-creators Bilal Baig and Fab Fillipo, and What We Do in the Shadows’ Stunt Coordinator-Turned Director Tig Fong.
Outstanding Drama Series
- Umbrella Academy
- Star Trek: Discovery
- Chucky
Read our interview with Chucky Director Samir Rehem on working with the legendary Don Mancini and exploring new avenues for everyone’s favourite homicidal doll.
Outstanding New TV Series
High School
Visual Effects Society Awards
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
VFX Supervisor/2nd Unit Director Matt Whelan – Five Days at Memorial “Day Two”
NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding International Motion Picture
Learn To Swim
Read our interview with Learn to Swim Director Thyrone Tommy on the making of this Toronto-centric jazz love story.
Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards
Director of the Year
Director Sarah Polley
AFI Movies of the Year
Women Talking
Film Critics Choice Awards
Best Picture
Women Talking
Best Director
Director Sarah Polley
Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: Sarah Polley – Women Talking
TV Critics Choice Awards
Best Limited Series
Station Eleven
Film and TV Independent Spirit Awards
Robert Altman Award
Director Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Best Feature
Women Talking
Best Director
Director Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Best Screenplay
Director Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Best New Scripted Series
- Station Eleven
- The Porter
Read our interviews with two creative minds behind The Porter and how they brought Black Canadian history to life: Directors R.T. Thorne and Charles Officer.
Gotham Awards
Best Screenplay
Director Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Breakthrough Series – Long Format
Director/EP Jeremy Podeswa, Station Eleven
TIFF Canada’s Top Ten
Brother – Clement Virgo
Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg
I Like Movies – Chandler Levack (Sound Edited by DGC Ontario’s Scott Hitchon and Bret Killoran, Picture Edited by DGC Ontario’s Simone Smith)
Rosie – Gail Maurice
To Kill a Tiger — Nisha Pahuja (Picture Edited by DGC Ontario’s Mike Munn)
