A Star-Studded Affair At The Canadian Academy’s Board Tribute Dinner
On Saturday, June 1st, 2024, the Canadian Academy’s Canadian Screen Awards week ended with an unforgettable evening as they celebrated this year’s highly acclaimed Special Awards recipients at the annual Board Tribute Dinner.
Our CEO and Executive Producer, Neishaw Ali, who is also a valued member of the Academy Board, attended the dinner to honor the following winners:
- Jeff Barnaby – Academy Board Of Director’s Tribute Award
- John Brunton – Academy Board Of Director’s Tribute Award
- Marilyn Denis – Lifetime Achievement Award
- Patrick Huard – Earle Grey Award
- Devery Jacobs – Radius Award
- Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope by Science North – Sustainable Production Award
- Lamar Johnson – Radius Award
- Michael McMillan – Industry Leadership Award
- Denis Villeneuve – Academy Icon Award
- Paul Workman – Gordon Sinclair Award For Broadcast Journalism
- Tonya Williams – Changemaker Award
Gorgeous pictures taken by esteemed photographer, George Pimental, made the evening all the more memorable. Take a look at a few of them here:
(From screen left – American Actor, Oscar Isaac; Academy Award Winning Director, Guillermo del Toro; SpinVFX’s CEO and Executive Producer, Neishaw Ali; Canadian Filmmaker and Producer, Tanya Lapointe; Academy Icon Award Winner, Denis Villeneuve; Denis Villeneuve’s agent, Claude Girard; Cinespace Toronto’s Director of Industry & Community Relations, Magali Simard)
(From screen left: SpinVFX’s CEO and Executive Producer, Neishaw Ali; Canadian Media Fund’s C.M., S.O.M., President and CEO, Valerie Creighton; Canadian Film Centre’s Executive Director, Maxine Bailey; Ontario Creates’ President and CEO, Karen Thorne-Stone; CSA’s Changemaker Award Winner, Tonya Williams)
(from screen left: Cinespace Toronto’s Head Of Client Services and Studio Operations, Megan Guy; SpinVFX’s CEO and Executive Producer, Neishaw Ali; Cinespace Toronto’s Director of Industry & Community Relations, Magali Simard; Chameleon Customs’ Founder and Owner, Jonathan Burns; Canadian Producer and Director, J. Miles Dale & Sylvie Dale )
(from screen left: SpinVFX’s CEO and Executive Producer, Neishaw Ali; Owner of Dufferin Gates Studios, Peter Bajaj.)
Recap the Canadian Screen Award Week here:
Thank you to the Academy for an incredible week of celebrating delightful stories and having insightful conversations with our film and television community. We were honored to be a part of it yet again. Here’s to another year of collectively pushing creative boundaries!
See you next year!