{"id":2976,"date":"2017-03-13T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/03\/13\/moving-moments-at-this-years-screenies\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:59:51","slug":"moving-moments-at-this-years-screenies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/03\/13\/moving-moments-at-this-years-screenies\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving moments at this year’s Screenies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norm Wilner \/ NOW Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

At two hours and 10 minutes, the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards gala telecast \u2013 Live! On CBC! \u2013 came in an hour and a half shorter than last month\u2019s excruciating Academy Awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n

Sure, they awarded best picture and best director to Xavier Dolan and his insufferable It\u2019s Only The End Of The World, but the fix for that was in months ago \u2013 if not when Dolan was named best director at Cannes, then when his film was named Canada\u2019s official submission for the foreign-language Oscar. If there\u2019s one thing the Screenies responds to, it\u2019s international recognition.<\/p>\n

But a lot of deserving people won prizes too. So that was nice.<\/p>\n

Daniel MacIvor won best original screenplay for Weirdos, and Molly Parker was named best supporting actress. The movie \u2013\u00a0which reunites them with director Bruce McDonald, with whom they made Trigger and Twitch City \u2013\u00a0opens in Toronto Friday.<\/p>\n

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And\u00a0Tatiana Maslany won two acting prizes \u2013 best actress (film) for her devastating turn in The Other Half, and performance by an actress in a continuing leading dramatic role (television) for her star turn in Orphan Black, which was also named best dramatic series. The show is shooting its final episode this week, so the acceptance speeches were fairly emotional; the show\u2019s co-creator Graeme Manson expressed as much while thanking his cast and crew, and even gave Maslany the show\u2019s award during his speech \u2013 which she awkwardly tried to decline, because as a Canadian she is of course uncomfortable with praise. The show took nine awards in all, including best direction in a dramatic series, best writing and best performance by an actor in a supporting role (Kevin Hanchard).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the TV section, Kim\u2019s Convenience star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee was named best actor in a comedy, and gave a moving speech in which he pointed out that a show on a national broadcast network that portrays a family of immigrants \u201cis so much more important now than ever before \u2026 and I\u2019ve never been more proud to be a Canadian than right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jared Keeso\u2019s eccentric comedy Letterkenny was named best comedy series, with Jacob Tierney winning best direction for comedy and Keeso and Tierney winning best writing. Keeso and Tierney seemed genuinely surprised by the win \u2013 I think they were expecting Kim\u2019s to take it, while everyone else was betting on Schitt\u2019s Creek \u2013 which made for a really nice moment.<\/p>\n

Schitt\u2019s didn\u2019t go home empty-handed, though: Catherine O\u2019Hara was named best supporting actress, and made the most of her second straight win in that category by accepting in character. The self-absorbed Moira Rose hogged every second of the spotlight, and it was delightful because O\u2019Hara is (a) a pro and (b) knew exactly how far to push it.<\/p>\n

Less clear on boundaries was the evening\u2019s host, Howie Mandel, whose arsenal of hacky crowd work and even hackier bits \u2013 like a cheesy rehash of Billy Crystal\u2019s old bit of inserting himself into Oscar clips, which amounted to Mandel green-screening himself into existing footage in a crappy Viking costume, or getting an audience member to switch seats with a trombonist in the orchestra \u2013 was just painful. I\u2019m sure this stuff kills at Casino Rama, but when you\u2019re supposed to be anchoring an awards show it just seems cheap and lazy.<\/p>\n

That said, all of Mandel\u2019s accumulated screen time was nowhere near as painful as Sean Cullen\u2019s obnoxious riffing while he was supposed to be presenting the Fan\u2019s Choice Award. Sure, it\u2019s a made-up prize intended to attract millennials \u2013 and the evening\u2019s winner, Camilla\u2019s Natasha Negovanlis, gave a fantastic speech about her gay vampire web series being the vehicle for empowerment she badly needed when she was a misfit teenager \u2013 but Cullen\u2019s pop-eyed, self-satisfied shtick was no way to set her up.<\/p>\n

Classy acceptance speeches were the signature of the evening. Christopher Plummer was self-deprecating and classy in receiving his lifetime achievement award (presented by Atom Egoyan, whose name Mandel managed to mispronounce), and Tantoo Cardinal was stirring and inspiring in her acceptance of the Earle Grey award for contributions to the industry. Stephan James, named best actor for Race, honoured the memory of Jesse Owens by thanking Owens\u2019s daughters for letting him get to know their father.<\/p>\n

And there was one speech that brought the room to silence. Accepting The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration\u2019s Screenie for best live entertainment special, Hip members Paul Langlois and Rob Baker looked considerably older and more haggard than they did on stage last summer, making the absence of frontman Gord Downie even more poignant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis past year has been a difficult and emotional one for all of us, but there\u2019s been some joy and inspiration in it as well \u2026 we felt your support, and we felt the connection,\u201d Langlois said.<\/p>\n

In that moment, it was possible to ignore the hacky jokes and pandering. And the Canadian Screen Awards were so much better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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