The 12th Canadian Screen Awards is an upcoming ceremony, presented by the

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, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2023. They are scheduled to be held at the

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in Toronto from 28–31 May 2024, as part of Canadian Screen Week, with highlights of the final gala ceremony to be broadcast in a

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special on 31 May 2024.Etan Vlessing
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'', February 8, 2024. Nominations were announced on March 6. The film ''BlackBerry'', which documented the rise and fall of the BlackBerry phone, broke the record for the most nominations for a film in the history of the Canadian Screen Awards, with 17 nominations.

Ceremony information

Due to venue availability issues in Toronto, the ceremony was delayed from a provisional April scheduling to May 2024. In addition, the ceremonies will be held at the

rather than Meridian Hall as in past years. To streamline the event, the ceremony for children's and animated programming was discontinued, with its awards dispersed into the six remaining ceremonies. In response to criticism over the format of

's presentation of the 11th Canadian Screen Awards, the Academy announced that a television special focusing upon the final gala would air May 31 following the in-person ceremony. As with the previous year's ceremony, the special will remain tape delayed and condensed into a one-hour format. Academy CEO Tammy Frick stated that broadcasting the special on the same day as the final gala (as opposed to the Sunday afterward) would help preserve its "energy" and immediacy, while still allowing time to edit out "industry-heavy elements" that may not be interesting to television audiences.

Category changes

Film

The Best Lead Performance in a Film and Best Supporting Performance in a Film categories were split into separate categories for comedy and drama films. They are also accompanied by a new award for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama. The number of nominees in each acting category will remain at eight."Rules and Regulation Change Highlights"

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, August 2023. The categories for best director, best original and adapted screenplay and the John Dunning Award for best first film will now be allowed to name six nominees instead of five if the number of eligible submissions reaches or exceeds nine. A new category will also be introduced for Best Sound Design in a Documentary.

Television

The award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series were split into separate new lead and supporting awards, and new awards were introduced for best ensemble performance in comedy and drama. The former category for Best Talk Program or Series, which considered talk and interview programming regardless of its topic and format, will be split into distinct new categories: Best Talk Series for entertainment and cultural talk series, and Best Political News Program or Series for news-oriented shows. One-off entertainment talk specials which may formerly have been considered under the old category are now restricted to Best Entertainment News Program or Series. The former category for Best News Special will also be split into two separate categories, distinguishing planned news specials about prescheduled events, such as election coverage, from breaking news specials about unforeseen news events. A new category for Best Comedy Special has been introduced, therefore stand-up comedy specials are no longer eligible for Best Variety or Entertainment Special and Best Performing Arts Program.

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productions will now be eligible for submission to Best Comedy Series. A new category is being introduced for Best Picture Editing in Animation.

Digital media

The awards for Best Virtual Reality Game and Best Children's Video Game, which existed as distinct submission categories but had not consistently been presented in recent years due to high variability in the number of eligible submissions, will be discontinued. All games in those categories will remain eligible for the main Best Video Game category. A new category was introduced for Best Picture Editing in a Web Program or Series.

Special awards

The first special award recipients were announced in March 2024:Connie Thiessen
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''Broadcast Dialogue'', March 19, 2024. *Lifetime Achievement:

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*Board of Directors Tribute: John Brunton,

Jeff Barnaby Jeff Barnaby (1976 – 13 October 2022) was a Canadian film director, writer, composer, and film editor. He is known for his horror films '' Rhymes for Young Ghouls'' and ''Blood Quantum''. Early life Barnaby was born on a Mi'kmaq reserve in L ...

*Changemaker Award:

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Film

Television

Programs

Actors

News and information

Sports

Craft awards

Photography

Editing

Sound

Directing

Music

Writing

All-platform awards

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

Digital media

References

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