Xavier Dolan continued his collection of trophies, Sunday afternoon, at the Opening Gala of the 38are Gemini price. His victory portends a prosperous evening for The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up.
After accepting the trophy for best editing (with Stéphane Lafleur) at the Industry Gala on Thursday, Xavier Dolan was crowned best director (drama series). Adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up marked his first foray into the small screen behind the lens. However, the winner was not present to collect his prize at Complexe Desjardins.
Elsewhere in fiction, directors Myriam Verreault (5e rank) and Danièle Méthot (STAT) have triumphed, on the side of the annual drama series for one, on the side of the dailies for the other. Author Julie Hivon won her first career Gémeaux for Alerts (best writing – annual drama series).
Doubles
More than 40 trophies were awarded during the ceremony. THE bye distinguished himself twice (best special program or comedy series, best direction), as did Revolution (best variety series, best direction), 100 geniuses (best game, best animation for Pierre-Yves Lord), I would like to be erased (best original series – digital media, best text) and Curious Begin (best service or lifestyle magazine, best animation for Christian Bégin).
Everybody talks about it was named best talk show, Featured best observational documentary series and Love is in the meadow best reality TV.
Investigation was named best public affairs program or series for its investigation into Robert Miller, the Quebec billionaire who paid teenage girls in exchange for sex. On the microphone, the editor-in-chief of the show, Luc Tremblay, notably thanked the women who had agreed to testify for “the extremely difficult things they had experienced when they were 15, 16 and 17 years old”.
In animation, the work of Anne-Marie Dussault (public affairs for Live from the world) and Marie-Louise Arsenault (cultural or social interest magazine for In the media) was praised.
Memory duties
The Academy Grand Prize was awarded to Mégantic And For you Flora, two fictions which respectively recounted real tragedies: the 2013 railway drama and the horror of residential schools. The host of the gala, Nicolas Ouellet, described these productions as “important duties of memory which should mark our television”.
On the youth side, Lou and Sophie won three golden statuettes: best program or series, best leading role (Jade Charbonneau) and best supporting role (Sophie Cadieux).
The Mammoth evening 2022broadcast on Télé-Québec, was voted best program – entertainment or magazine.
The message from Florence Longpré
On stage to accept the prize for the show having the most success abroad for Audrey came backwhich she wrote with Guillaume Lambert, Florence Longpré warned the audience, with her usual humor, that she was going to “do a Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge [d’elle-même], but for a much less confused cause”: that of Mères au front, a collective which wishes to break inaction in the face of climate change. On the microphone, the author and actress notably decried “the alarming situation in Rouyn-Noranda”, where the Horne Foundry operates, which is the subject of numerous controversies concerning its emissions of arsenic into the air.
“It is time to listen to the scientists and activate the political levers,” said Florence Longpré. Our elected officials must assume the most important of their responsibilities: protecting health. »