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Project Awards

Year
Organization
Award
Film
Outcome
2021
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Nominated
2021
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust
Won
2019
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
You Are Here: A Come From Away Story
Nominated
2019
FOCAL
International Award
You Are Here: A Come From Away Story
Nominated
2018
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Quebec My Country Mon Pays
Nominated
2018
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
The Devil’s Horn
Nominated
2017
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Nominated
2017
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Nominated
2017
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
How to Change the World
Won
2017
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in the Natural World
Into the Inferno
Nominated
2017
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Won
2017
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Nominated
2015
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Apocalypse World War One
Won
2015
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Secret Disco Revolution
Nominated
2015
Gémeaux
Gémeaux for Best Research
Apocalypse World War One
Won
2014
Canadian Screen Awards
Barbara Sears CSA Award for Best Visual Research
Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story
Won
2014
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production
Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story
Nominated
2014
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production
Arctic Defenders
Nominated
2013
FOCAL
Best Use of Sports Footage
9.79*
Nominated
2011
FOCAL
International Award
Reel Injun
Won
2011
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production
Reel Injun
Nominated
2011
FOCAL
Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year
Reel Injun
Nominated
2010
Gemini
Best Visual Research
Reel Injun
Won
2006
Emmy
Best Research
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Nominated
2005
FOCAL
Footage Researcher of the Year
Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin
Nominated
2004
FOCAL
Best Use of Footage
The Last Round: Chuvalo vs Ali 
Nominated
2002
Gemini
Best Biographical Documentary Program
Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the Twentieth Century
Nominated

Honorary Awards

Year
Organization
Award
2008
FOCAL
Lifetime Achievement Award
2008
Yorkton Film Festival
Best Research
2013
FOCAL
Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year
2014
Documentary Organization of Canada
Star Award
2014
FOCAL
Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year
2019
Academy of Canadian Cinema
Board of Director's Tribute Award
2023
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