The series is in French Empathy Screenwriter Lawrence Longbury took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Banff World Media Festival’s Rocky Awards on Tuesday night.
The Canadian series from Trio Orange, which also won Best Non-English Language Drama, the Prix Francophone and the Excellence in Canadian Content Award, sees Longpre play a criminologist turned psychiatrist at a Montreal hospital where she meets an eclectic group of patients. “I want to thank the whole team for this Rocky Award,” Longbury said in a pre-recorded video accepting the grand jury award at the Rocky Awards.
And in the category of best English-language drama, HBO the house He took top honors, beating Canada Hot competition and Plan B Series, another American series in The Handmaid’s Tale And British drama reckless. R. said. “As a Canadian boy, it’s very good to be home, I have to say,” Scott Gemmell, the Canadian-born series creator, writer and producer, said on accepting the honor at a ceremony in the Canadian Rockies.
Elsewhere, the award for best English-language comedy went to HBO chair company, Malin Akerman won Best Drama Performance for her role in the Netflix series Hunting wives. “This role is one of my favorite roles I’ve ever gotten to play. She’s a hot girl,” Ackerman said of her performance as Margot Banks as she came on stage at the Banff Springs Hotel Convention Center to accept her award.
Best Feature Film Award, presented by Laurie O’Connor, Executive Vice President and Publisher, and Mickey O’Connell, Senior Entertainment Editor at hollywood Reporter, went to The top of the mountain, the caliphate The first directorial film by the creator Jesse Armstrong.
“It’s really moving to see British television – I’m coming from the UK – and American television, but we can sometimes look very inward. And to be reminded of some of the amazing work that’s been produced around the world and to be counted among them and receive an award, I feel really very proud to be among them all,” Armstrong said when accepting his award.
stray Creator and comedian Mae Martin, who received the Creative Voice award, told the Rockies Awards audience that she’s been able to overcome her usual Canadian modesty about professional success. “Now I admit that I am very ambitious, and I really love the process of making things and collaborating with other artists,” she said on stage.
In other special awards, indigenous Canadian actor Tanto Cardinal won (Moonflower killers dance with wolves) He received the Career Achievement Award. “The first time I came here, I flew here, and they didn’t kick me out,” Cardinal said of his first-time attendance at the Banff World Media Festival. “We were not First Nations at that time,” Cardinal said of growing up in oppressed Indigenous Canada. “We were medicated with coma drugs to hide the power of the treaties and then to hide the reality of how unfair and humane there was to us in this great society.”
But that changed when she and other First Nations creatives began telling Indigenous stories in Canada and elsewhere. “A lot of work has gone into this strong tapestry of the power of beauty,” Cardinal added of her professional legacy and that of other Indigenous artists.
Rocky Awards were also honored community Star Ken Jeong with the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award. “I’m not standing here because of me. I’m standing here because of me.” community, “Because of the people who gave me opportunities when I was just a doctor at Kaiser Permanente in Woodland Hills,” Jeong told the Banff audience as he paid tribute to Dan Harmon’s popular comedy and other early career opportunities.
and beverly Hills, 90210 Actor Jason Priestley was in Banff to receive a Canadian Award of Excellence after recently starring in the local procedural Private eyes. “I owe my career and a large part of my life to the Canadian film and television industry. Thank you for this important recognition,” Priestley, who began his career as a local film and television actor as a child before becoming a star in Hollywood, said on stage.
Also on Tuesday night, the animated series won the Best Animated Series competition The Simpsons On Fox, the award for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series went to Amy Lou Wood for the British comedy series Cinema club. BBC The Graham Norton Show It won Best Comedy and Variety Series and was hosted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan Destination X It won Best Competition and Game Show Series.
Going to this year’s annual Rocky Awards, hosted by Alana Harkin (Full frontal with Samantha Bee), American television shows received 55 nominations, followed by British series, which received 39 mentions.
