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The people have spoken: Rookie Blue is Canada's favourite TV series and The Amazing Race is the country's most popular TV reality show.
Both programs won Golden Screen Awards, new prizes based on audience voting and given for the first time this year as part of Sunday night's gala Canadian Screen Awards. A third new special prize, the Fan's Choice Award, was given to Anna Silk of the hit series Lost Girls.
The Canadian Screen Awards honour excellence in the country's film, TV and digital media programming, replacing (and combining) the Gemini Awards for television and Genie Awards for film.
On the film front, Wunderkind Xavier Dolan and his film Mommy completely dominated Sunday's third annual Canadian Screen Awards with nine wins.
The movie had 13 nominations.
Mommy won Best Picture and Dolan was awarded Best Director, with a Best Actor win for Antoine Olivier Pilon, Best Actress for Anne Dorval and Best Supporting Actress for Suzanne Clement. Mommy also won Achievement in Cinematography, Editing and Makeup and Best Original Screenplay.
The film, which concerns a single mother raising her sometimes-violent son, has been making waves — in a good way — since it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year; at Cannes, Dolan was also nominated for the Palme d'Or.
(The only acting prize Mommy didn't win was Best Supporting Actor, which John Cusack took for his performance in Maps to the Stars. That David Cronenberg movie also won a CSA for Achievement in Music — Original Score.)
The star-studded awards night was held at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto and was hosted by beloved Canadian comic Andrea Martin. Presenters during the evening included recent Oscar winner Julianne Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, Tatiana Maslany, Kevin Durand, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Gadon, Bruce Greenwood, Eugene Levy, Megan Follows and Bruce McCulloch, among others.
The big winner after Mommy was the film Pompeii, which took five awards, winning every category in which it was nominated: Achievement in Art Direction, Costume Design, Overall Sound and Sound Editing and Visual Effects. The 3D epic disaster film, set in ancient times during the volcanic destruction of the city of Pompeii, stars Game of Thrones' Kit Harington, Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland and is directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (the man behind the Resident Evil films).
Pompeii also won the Cineplex Golden Screen Award for being the Canadian movie that earned the highest domestic box office of the year; this is the ninth such win for producer Don Carmody.
Super Duper Alice Cooper was named Best Feature Documentary, and also took the Documentary Best Editing prize.
Other prizes went to the films Dr. Cabbie, Elephant Song, Jutra, Hole, Everything Will Be and Me and My Mouton.
The TV side of the awards ceremony was likewise dominated by one show: Orphan Black, which won 10 prizes. The show had 13 nominations.
On Sunday night, the coveted Best Actress Award, Drama, was given to Tatiana Maslany (who won last year as well), while Orphan Black, already the recipient of 8 awards given out Wed. Feb. 25, also won Best Dramatic Series.
The Canadian TV movie Our Man In Tehran took five awards — winning in every category where it was nominated: Best Documentary Program, Best Direction, Documentary (Drew Taylor, Larry Weinstein), Best Photography, Best Editing, Best Sound.
Call Me Fitz was named Best Comedy Series, Bomb Girls took the award for Best Dramatic Mini-Series or TV Movie and Vikings was named Best International Drama.
Complete nominee and winner results are available at www.academy.ca.
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