Dune: Half 2 director Denis Villeneuve is ready to obtain a particular trophy on the upcoming Canadian Display screen Awards.
The Montreal-based movie author, director and producer, additionally identified for films like Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and the 2021 Dune large display adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic novel, will obtain the Academy Icon Award, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Tv stated on Wednesday.
Villeneuve’s early French language films, together with Maelstrom, Incendies, Polytechnique and Enemy, his English Canadian movie debut that starred Jake Gyllenhaal in two roles, picked up a slew of Canadian Display screen Awards and the predecessor Genie Awards through the years.
Different particular award winners embody Blue Ant Media CEO Michael MacMillan, who is ready to obtain an Trade Management Award, and Quebec actor Patrick Huard, finest identified for roles in Les Boys and Bon Cop, Unhealthy Cop, chosen to obtain the Earle Gray Award.
Canada’s movie and TV awards, culminating in a Could 31 telecast, will embody tribute awards for late director Jeff Barnaby, actors Devery Jacobs and Lamar Johnson, producer John Brunton, Paul Workman, Tonya Williams and Marilyn Denis.
On March 6, the Canadian indigenous TV drama Little Fowl was handed a field-leading 19 nominations heading into the awards present.  And Canada’s nationwide cinema and TV awards for the second yr operating will likely be an invite-only occasion in Toronto with no reside broadcast or streaming for prize-giving.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Tv pushed the dates for the nation’s equal of the Oscars and Emmys mixed to Could 28-31 in Toronto, with Mae Martin set to host a TV particular to rejoice award winners