The 10th

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were held on April 10, 2022, to honour achievements in

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film, television and digital media production in 2021.Etan Vlessing
"Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Receive Canadian Screen Awards Special Honor"
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'', January 18, 2022. Nominations were announced on February 15. Due to the ongoing

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, the main presentation of top award categories on April 10 were again staged as a pre-taped virtual special rather than at a live theatrical gala; however, unlike the 2020 and 2021 presentations, which were streamed solely on the Academy's social media accounts, the 2022 presentation was broadcast on

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and

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.Barry Hertz
"2022 Canadian Screen Awards go virtual again, but with CBC back onboard"
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'', February 7, 2022. Awards in the categories not highlighted on the April 10 broadcast were presented in a series of Canadian Screen Week livestreams over the week before the main ceremony: broadcast news and documentary and factual awards on April 4; sports programming and digital categories on April 5; children's, animation, lifestyle and reality on April 6; television craft and performance on April 7; and cinematic arts on April 8.Greg David
"Nominations announced for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards"
''TV, eh?'', February 15, 2022. In film, the top nominees were ''

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'' and '' Night Raiders'', with 11 nods apiece, while in television the series ''

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'' was the leader with 13 nominations. Reviewing the film nominations, Barry Hertz of ''

'' characterized them as "the perfect slate", on the grounds that they had struck an excellent balance between the traditional tensions around whether an award nomination slate should celebrate films that are already relatively well-known or highlight underrated work that merits further attention.

Hosts and presenters

The April 10 broadcast was hosted by the sketch comedy troupe

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."Prix Écrans canadiens : Laurence Leboeuf animera la remise de prix des Arts cinématographiques"
''CTVM'', March 15, 2022. Category presenters included

Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her comedy work on ''Second City Television'' (1976–84) and ''Schitt's Creek'' (2015–2020) and in films such as '' After Hours'' (1985), ''Beetleju ...

Tatiana Maslany Tatiana Gabriele Maslany ( ; born September 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science fiction thriller television series ''Orphan Black'' (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy ...

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, Ron MacLean, Jonathan and

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and

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."Catherine O’Hara, Tatiana Maslany among stars to appear at Canadian Screen Awards"
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'', March 25, 2022. Actor

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also appeared in sketches with TallBoyz. The advance Canadian Screen Week presentations were hosted by Brandon Gonez,

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, Jennifer Hedger, Supinder Wraich, Deepa Prashad, Mary Berg,

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and

Laurence Leboeuf Laurence Charlotte Leboeuf (born December 13, 1985) is a Canadian actress. Biography Leboeuf was born on December 13, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec. She went to École Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for elementary and later on, she went to Villa Maria for hig ...

Special awards

Recipients of the Academy's special awards were announced on January 18. *Board of Directors Tribute Award: Vince Commisso, John Galway *

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*Radius Award:

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ( ; born 28 December 2001) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her leading role as Devi Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series ''Never Have I Ever'' (2020–present) and as Priya Mangal in the Pixar film ''Turni ...

*Changemaker Award:

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*Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Cole

Film

Television

Programs

Actors

News and information

Sports

Craft awards

Directing

Music

Writing

All-platform awards

One major category is currently presented without regard to the distinction between film, television or web media content.

Audience awards

Nominees for the fan-voted Audience Choice award were announced on February 1.Jamie Samhan
"The 2022 Canadian Screen Awards’ Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award Nominees Announced"
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'', February 1, 2022. Although normally individual actors or personalities are nominated in the category, in 2022 the Academy chose to honour shows. The audience choice award was actually won by a show that had not been officially listed as one of the ten nominees; the process for this category does permit "

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" campaigns.

Digital media

References

External links

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