Canadian Screen Awards Toast ‘Corner Gas,’ ‘PAW Patrol’

The winners of this year’s Canadian Screen Awards for Children’s & Youth Programming were presented in a virtual ceremony May 26, with workplace sitcom revival Corner Gas Animated and preschool super hit PAW Patrol sweeping the animation categories.

Hybrid series Dino Dana (Sinking Ship Ent.) was also well represented, winning for Best Performance (Saara Chaudry) and Writing (Christin Simms, Amish Patel & J.J. Johnson).

Presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, in partnership with CBC and CTV and with the support of Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund, the Canadian Screen Awards are held annually as part of Canadian Screen Week, celebrating the best of the nation’s production output in film, TV and digital media. The Academy is the largest non-profit professional arts organization in Canada, with more than 4,500 members. 

The animation prizes were awarded as follows:

Best Performance, Animation

Corner Gas Animated | The Comedy Network (Bell Media) (Moving Mountoons II Inc.) Brent Butt

Best Direction, Animation

PAW Patrol – Mighty Pups Super Paws: When Super Kitties Attack | TVOKids (TVO) (Spin Master Paw Productions 6 Inc.) Charles E. Bastien

Best Writing, Animation

Corner Gas Animated – Hedge Your Debts | The Comedy Network (Bell Media) (Moving Mountoons II Inc.) Diana Frances

Best Sound, Animation

PAW Patrol – Mighty Pups Super Paws: When Super Kitties Attack | TVOKids (TVO) (Spin Master Paw Productions 6 Inc.) Richard Spence-Thomas, Kyle Peters, Patton Rodrigues, Ryan Ongaro, Tim Muirhead, Mitch Connors, Luke Dante

Best Original Music, Animation

PAW Patrol – Mighty Pups Super Paws: When Super Kitties Attack | TVOKids (TVO) (Spin Master Paw Productions 6 Inc.) Brian Pickett, Graeme Cornies, James Chapple, David Kelly

Best Animated Program or Series

Corner Gas Animated | The Comedy Network (Bell Media) (Moving Mountoons II Inc.) Brent Butt, David Storey, Virginia Thompson, Leslie Thomas, Jonas Diamond

Best Pre-School Program or Series

PAW Patrol | TVOKids (TVO) (Spin Master Paw Productions 6 Inc.) Jennifer Dodge, Ronnen Harary, Keith Chapman, Ursula Ziegler-Sullivan, Laura Clunie, Toni Stevens, Jonah Stroh, Matt Beatty, David Sharples, Damian Temporale, Sarah Williams