Xavier Dolan continued his trophy hunt Sunday afternoon at the opening gala of the 38th Gémeaux Awards. His victory means a successful evening for the night Laurier Gaudreault woke up.
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After accepting the trophy for best editing (with Stéphane Lafleur) at the Industry Gala on Thursday, Xavier Dolan was named best director (drama series). Adapted from a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, The Night Laurier Gaudreault Awoke marked his first foray onto the small screen behind the lens. However, the winner was not present to collect his prize at Complexe Desjardins.
In other areas of fiction, the directors Myriam Verreault (5th place) and Danièle Méthot (STAT) triumphed, on the one hand on the annual drama series side and on the other hand on the daily newspaper side. Author Julie Hivon won her first career Gémeaux for Alertes (Best Writing – Annual Drama Series).
Double
More than 40 trophies were awarded during the ceremony. Bye Bye won twice (best comedy special or series, best director), as did Révolution (best variety series, best director), 100 Genies (best play, best animation for Pierre-Yves Lord), I want, that someone erases me (best original series – digital media, best text) and Curieux Bégin (best service or lifestyle magazine, best animation for Christian Bégin).
“Tout le monde en talk” won best talk show, best observational documentary series and “L’amour est dans le pré” won best reality TV.
Enquête was named best public affairs program or series for its investigation of Robert Miller, the Quebec billionaire who paid teenage girls in return for sex. At the microphone, the show’s editor-in-chief, Luc Tremblay, particularly thanked the women who agreed to testify for “the extremely difficult things they had experienced when they were 15, 16 and 17 years old.”
In the field of animation, the work of Anne-Marie Dussault (public affairs for En direct du monde) and Marie-Louise Arsenault (magazine of cultural or social interests for In the media) was praised.
Memory tasks
The Grand Prix de l’Académie was awarded to Mégantic and Pour toi Flora, two novels that respectively tell real-life tragedies: the 2013 railway drama and the horror of boarding schools. The gala presenter, Nicolas Ouellet, described these productions as “important commemorative duties that should shape our television.”
In the youth sector, Lou et Sophie won three golden statuettes: best program or series, best leading role (Jade Charbonneau) and best supporting role (Sophie Cadieux).
The mammoth evening of 2022, broadcast on Télé-Québec, was voted best program – entertainment or magazine.
The message of Florence Longpré
When Florence Longpré was on stage accepting the award for the most successful show abroad, which she had written with Guillaume Lambert, Florence Longpré warned the audience with her usual humor that she was “doing a Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge”. [d’elle-même], but for a much less confusing cause”: that of Mères au front, a collective that wants to break inaction in the face of climate change. On the microphone, the author and actress particularly lamented “the alarming situation in Rouyn-Noranda”, where the Horne Foundry operates, which is the subject of numerous controversies due to its arsenic emissions into the air.
“It is time to listen to the scientists and pull the political levers,” said Florence Longpré. Our elected officials must carry out the most important of their duties: protecting health. »