The tip of the ultimate full day of the 2022 Banff World Media Competition noticed the Canadian confab reward barrier-breaking tasks and honor a departed genius.
Tonight’s Rockie Awards Gala handed out the Program of the 12 months Award and the Grand Jury Prize to CBC sitcom Kind Of and Channel 4’s Jodie Comer-Stephen Graham pandemic TV film Assist, respectively. As was beforehand introduced, the Jully Black-hosted Banff ceremony additionally posthumously awarded the Canadian Award of Distinction to Jean-Marc Vallée. The Montreal-born Dallas Patrons Membership, Wild and Massive Little Lies director died late final yr.
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Again for an in-person competition up within the gorgeous Alberta mountains for the primary time since 2019, Banff honored Netflix International TV boss Bela Bajaria with the Rockies’ Influence Award and Vivica A. Fox with the 2022 Inclusion Award. See the total record of awards given out on Tuesday and their class definitions beneath.
Set and filmed in Comer and Graham’s hometown of Liverpool, Assist sees the Killing Eve alum enjoying Sarah, a not too long ago licensed employee in a care dwelling. The Marc Munden-directed movie finds her starting to work with and develop a powerful reference to Tony (Graham), a middle-aged man with early-onset Alzheimer’s illness. In opposition to the backdrop of the pandemic’s devastating early months, Sarah is left nearly alone to help Tony and the opposite sufferers within the dwelling.
The Jack Thorne-penned Help debuted on the UK’s Channel 4 in September. In late Might, Comer gained her second British Academy Award for her efficiency. Graham was nominated for Lead Actor, and the movie itself was nominated for Finest Single Drama.
Created by showrunners Bilal Baig (Acha Bacha), who additionally stars, and Fab Filippo, Kind Of is a Toronto-based coming-of-age story that follows the journey of Sabi Mehboob (Baig). Sabi is gender-fluid first-generation Pakistani-Canadian millennial who straddles varied identities from attractive bartender at an LGBTQ bookstore/bar to the youngest little one in a big and typically overwhelming household to the de facto father or mother of a downtown T.O. hipsters.
Kind Of debuted on CBC in October and premiered on HBO Max a month later. An official collection of the 2021 Toronto Movie Competition, the sequence was renewed for a second season on each shops on February 25 this yr.
Having kicked off on June 12, the jam packed 2022 Banff World Media Competition concludes tomorrow.
See the total record of the 2022 Rockie Awards Gala winners beneath:
PROGRAM OF THE YEAR: Kind Of
The Program of the 12 months award is offered to an excellent, critically acclaimed, ground-breaking, and/or extremely rated program from throughout the final calendar yr. Previous recipients embrace: It’s a Sin, That is Us, Handmaid’s Story, Making a Assassin and Surviving R. Kelly.
THE GRAND JURY PRIZE: Assist
The Grand Jury Prize is awarded to the best scoring challenge within the Rockies Program Competitors by the competition’s specifically appointed Grand Jury of business executives. Previous recipients embrace: I Might Destroy You, Fleabag, Massive Little Lies, Planet Earth II and Sharp Objects.
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IMPACT AWARD: Bela Bajaria (Head of International TV, Netflix)
Introduced by The Hollywood Reporter, this award is bestowed yearly to a person or group that has made a major and impactful contribution to screen-based leisure. Previous honorees embrace: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Shore, accepting on behalf of The Good Physician; Anthony Anderson, accepting on behalf of black-ish; and Justin Simien accepting on behalf of Pricey White Individuals.
SIR PETER USTINOV COMEDY AWARD: Ana Gasteyer (American Auto, Saturday Evening Stay)
The award acknowledges a artistic expertise who has made an excellent comedic contribution to the media business. Previous honorees embrace: Kenan Thompson, Sean Hayes, John Cleese, Tracey Ullman, Bob Newhart, Tantoo Cardinal, John Sweet and Invoice Hader.
INCLUSION AWARD: Vivica A. Fox (Kill Invoice: Vol. 1 & 2, Empire)
Introduced by A+E, the Inclusion Award acknowledges a person whose efforts and imaginative and prescient in media champion and mirror the range of the world through which we dwell. Previous Honorees embrace: Danielle Brooks, LeVar Burton, Jonathan Murray and Elizabeth Vargas.
Jean-Marc Vallée will probably be posthumously awarded the CANADIAN AWARD OF DISTINCTION
Introduced by the Canada Media Fund (CMF/FMC) and MadeNous, the award is given to a Canadian whose physique of labor exemplifies excellent achievement within the leisure business. Previous Honorees embrace: Simu Liu, Eric McCormack, Kim Cattrall and Sheila Hockin.
INNOVATIVE PRODUCER AWARD: Eagle Imaginative and prescient
Introduced by Lionsgate, the Modern Producer Award acknowledges the entrepreneurial excellence and achievements of an impartial producer in TV/digital media. Previous honorees embrace: Sinking Ship Leisure, Wattpad Studios, Scott Brothers Leisure, New Metric Media, Wolf + Rabbit, Don Carmody and marblemedia.
CREATIVE VOICE AWARD: Rose Matafeo (Starstruck, Humorous Ladies)
The artistic voice award is bestowed on an govt or artistic expertise that has created excellent work that breaks by way of, inspiring and connecting world audiences.
SHOWRUNNER OF THE YEAR: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson and Jonathan Lisco (Yellowjackets)
Introduced by Selection, Showrunner of the 12 months acknowledges distinctive achievement of a showrunner or author/producer for his or her artistic imaginative and prescient, overseeing from growth, by way of pre- to post-production, and because the driving pressure of a sequence. Previous honorees embrace: Jed Mercurio, Moira Walley-Beckett, John Ridley, Damon Lindelof, Joey Soloway and Clyde Phillips.
