Leo Awards 2010 final winners: Alice, Sanctuary, Excited on top

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      As the second evening of Leo Awards concluded tonight at the Westin Bayshore, the TV miniseries Alice, a new take on the Alice in Wonderland story, led the winners of the Leo Awards, picking up a total of eight awards in a range of technical categories.

      The sci-fi series Sanctuary, which headed into the awards with 17 nominations, followed with seven awards, including best male lead performance for Robin Dunne, best supporting male performance for Christopher Heyerdahl, and best guest performance for Christopher Gauthier.

      The short film “The Gray Matter” also garnered seven awards, including best short program.

      Bruce Sweeney’s Excited won the best feature-length drama, and collected a total of four awards, including best feature-length director for Sweeney, best female lead for Laara Sadiq, and best supporting female for Gabrielle Rose.

      Best supporting male performance in a feature-length drama went to Cole’s Chad Willett while Keep Your Head Up: The Don Cherry Story’s Jared Kesso won the best lead male performance in a feature-length drama.

      Stargate Universe, which had 17 nominations, ended up with six awards, including best dramatic series. Wolf Canyon, a comedy series about a TV cast and crew shooting on a Native reserve, won five awards, including best music, comedy or variety series or program.

      Erin Karpluk of the hit CBC TV series Being Erica won the best female lead performance in a dramatic series. The series was recently renewed by the CBC for a third season.

      Facing Ali won four awards, including best feature-length documentary.

      In a new category, Best Web Series, The Vetala beat Riese, which garnered a lot of media attention this past year. Walter Daroshin had explained to the Straight that the category had been introduced the previous year, but that there hadn’t been enough eligible submissions for the award to run until this year.

      Another new category this year was stunt coordination, which Marshall Virtue of Alice won.

      Here is a full list of winners from the Gala Awards Celebration.

      FEATURE LENGTH DRAMA

      Best Program
      Excited, Bruce Sweeney, Catherine Middleton (producers)

      Best Cinematography
      Jon Joffin, Alice

      Best Musical Score
      Ben Mink, Alice

      Best Stunt Coordination
      Marshall Virtue, Alice

      Best Supporting Performance, Male
      Chad Willett, Cole

      Best Supporting Performance, Female
      Gabrielle Rose, Excited

      Best Lead Performance, Male
      Jared Kesso, Keep Your Head Up: The Don Cherry Story

      Best Lead Performance, Female
      Laara Sadiq, Excited

      DRAMATIC SERIES

      Best Program
      Stargate Universe, Brad Wright, Robert Cooper, Carl Binder, Joseph Mallozi, Paul Mulle, John G. Lenic, N. John Smith (producers)

      Best Cinematography
      Michael Blundell, Stargate Universe, “Human”

      Best Stunt Coordination
      Jacob Rupp, Smallville, “Rapid”

      Best Guest Performance, Male
      Christopher Gauthier, Sanctuary, “Hero”

      Best Supporting Performance, Male
      Christopher Heyerdahl, Sanctuary, “Haunted”

      Best Supporting Performance, female
      Julia Benson, Stargate Universe, “Pain”

      Best Lead Performance, Male
      Robin Dunne, Sanctuary, “Pavor Nocturnus”

      Best Lead Performance, Female
      Erin Karpluk, Being Erica, “Being Dr. Tom”

      SHORT DRAMA

      Best Program
      “The Gray Matter”, Tovah Paglaro, Samantha Jo Simmonds (producer)

      Best Cinematography
      James Liston, “The Gray Matter”

      Best Musical Score
      Matthew Rogers, “The Gray Matter”

      Best Performance by a Male
      David Richmond-Peck, “Instant”

      Best Performance by a Female
      Skeena Reece, “Savage”

      DOCUMENTARY

      Best Feature-Length Program
      Facing Ali, Derik Murray, Paul Gertz (producers)

      Best Short Program
      “This Land”, Selwyn Jacob (producer)

      Best Series
      Ice Pilots NWT, David Gullason, Gabriela Schonbach, Michael Chechik (producers)

      INFORMATION OR LIFESTYLE SERIES

      Best Program
      The Nature of Things, Michael Allder (producer)

      Best Host(s)
      Anna Wallner, Kristina Matisic, Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag, “Cowboy in the Kitchen”

      MUSIC, COMEDY, OR VARIETY PROGRAM OR SERIES

      Best Program
      Wolf Canyon, Cynde Harmon, Allan Harmon (producers)

      Best Performance or Hosts(s)
      Jessica Harmon, Wolf Canyon, “Hairy Lawman”

      ANIMATION PROGRAM OR SERIES

      Best Program
      League of Super Evil, Asaph Fipke, Ken Faier, Chuck Johnson (producers)

      STUDENT PRODUCTION

      Best Program
      “Trolls”, Brianne Nord-Stewart (producer)

      YOUTH OR CHILDREN’S PROGRAM OR SERIES

      Best Program
      Stormworld, Shawn Williamson, Ian Hogg, Paul Barron, Stephen Hegyes (producers)

      Best Performance
      Calum Worthy, Stormworld, “Three Day Sun”

      MUSIC VIDEO

      Best Program
      “Road Regrets”, Dan Mangan, Jon Busby, Jesse Davidge, Marc Demers (producers)

      WEB SERIES

      The Vetala, Damon Vignale, Jon Funk, Peter Scarth (producers)

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