Hell Jumper, a BBC documentary movie a couple of younger British support employee, Chris Parry, killed throughout a battle in Ukraine, earned the Grand Jury Prize on the Banff World Media Competition’s Rockie Awards on Monday evening.
Hell Jumper, directed by Paddy Wivell, additionally picked up the perfect social points and present affairs program. “All of us reside in a world the place all of us battle with our sense of impotence over seemingly inconceivable world forces. However Chris’s story tells us the worth and potential of a single life, and I’d actually prefer to dedicate this award to him and his household,” Wivell stated on stage when accepting his awards.
Wivell additionally devoted the Grand Jury Prize to Ukrainians who have been pressured to flee the struggle zone within the coronary heart of Europe after the invasion of their nation by Russia.
Additionally on the Rockie Awards, Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal was named finest English-language drama, whereas the BBC’s The Graham Norton Present, for the second 12 months in a row, obtained the perfect comedy and selection sequence. The BBC additionally prevailed with The Traitors UK profitable for finest competitors sequence, and The Journey Present – Vietnam: Return to Banana Backyard Market took dwelling the honors for finest life-style sequence.
Elsewhere, the perfect docuseries crown went to Hulu’s three-parter Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past from Onyx Collective. An emotional excessive level for the night got here when John Wick 4 actor Shamier Anderson launched his youthful brother, Stephan James, to obtain the Canadian Award of Distinction.
James, star of If Beale Avenue Might Speak, Homecoming and Selma, when accepting the trophy, gave a shout-out to Canada as a local son. “The tradition, the angle, and this nation has at all times had a quiet magic, this mixture of humility and energy. We don’t at all times shout our greatness to the rooftops, however belief me, the world is watching this, they usually’re watching what we’re constructing,” James stated on stage on the Banff Springs Lodge ballroom.
This 12 months noticed Banff merge the Rockie Awards and the Banff Gala Awards, which noticed U.S. sequence compete in opposition to the perfect of the world, together with perennial rivals, UK producers. The host of the night was Mark Suknanan, also referred to as drag queen Priyanka, winner of Canada’s Drag Race competitors sequence.
Priyanka advised the Rockie Awards viewers that she took the internet hosting gig when her Los Angeles supervisor requested if the TV character needed to go away America. “Sure, I need to depart America. Please get my scrawny, brown Canadian ass away from ICE and into the Rockies, the place there’s actually ice, ideally topped with vodka and a squeeze of lemon,” she stated.
Australian TV producers fared properly this 12 months as the perfect actuality sequence trophy went to The Jury: Dying on the Staircase. That true crime occasion, based mostly on the Channel 4 format, reenacted an actual manslaughter case, word-for-word by actors, earlier than a brand new jury of 12 abnormal Australians.
Additionally within the crime realm, the perfect investigative sequence went to Sugarcane, a Canada-USA documentary about horrifying tales from Canada’s controversial Indigenous residential faculties. One other award winner in Banff was Phil Rosenthal, finest recognized for his TV exhibits Everyone Loves Raymond and Anyone Feed Phil.
The award was given to Rosenthal by Lori O’Connor, govt vp and writer of The Hollywood Reporter, and Mikey O’Connell, a author and editor at The Hollywood Reporter. “I simply need to say you all appear very good. You’re precisely the kind of individuals who ought to be travelling, as a result of we have to export good, particularly right now,” Rosenthal stated.
The night struck one other emotional notice when the late Carrie Hunter, the founding director of the Banff World Media Competition, was honored by her daughter, Kendall Hunter, and a grandson. The Carrie Hunter Rising Expertise Prize went to Marushka Almeida, Nisha Khan and Rabiya Mansoor for Get Up, Aisha.
“We dedicate this award to everybody who has felt the necessity to disguise their struggles,” Almeida stated when selecting up the trophy for the TV drama about Aisha, a Pakistani-Canadian scholar on a psychological well being journey to battle her compulsive want for management.
And readily available to simply accept the Nation of Honor trophy on behalf of South Korea was Korean Inventive Content material Company president Hyun Suk Yoo, as he mirrored on Okay-content more and more feeding a rising world viewers. Different prize-giving included The Simpsons profitable in opposition to in Banff for finest animated sequence, and the perfect English language comedy sequence trophy going to We Are Girl Elements, from the UK and the U.S.
On the appearing entrance, the perfect comedy efficiency honor went to David Mitchell for his position within the BBC’s Ludwig. And the perfect drama efficiency crown went to Marisa Abela for her star flip in Business, from HBO and the BBC, whereas the perfect science and know-how sequence honor went to Canadian producer White Pine Footage’ Plastic Individuals: The Hidden Disaster of Microplastics.
On the film facet, the perfect function movie prize went to Out of My Thoughts, the Disney+ coming-of-age drama. Additionally on Monday evening, legendary composer Hans Zimmer obtained the Profession Achievement Award, after creating scores for Dune: Half One, Prime Gun: Maverick, No Time to Die, Gladiator, The Darkish Knight Trilogy and Inception.
Zimmer, unable to attend Banff in individual, had his Bleeding Fingers enterprise companion, Russell Emanuel, learn out his acceptance speech. “To the storytellers, the administrators and producers who’ve trusted us with their imaginative and prescient, thanks for letting us be a part of one thing greater than ourselves. Each mission teaches you one thing, and each collaboration makes you higher. Thanks for this recognition and the honour,” Zimmer acknowledged.
The complete listing of Rockie Awards Worldwide Program Competitors winners is available here.