\n\tA tearful Canadian comedian and Hollywood star Mike Myers on Sunday night paid tribute to his native Canada for opening the way to his classic roles like Wayne Campbell, Austin Powers, Dr. Evil and Shrek.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI just want to say, Canada, I don\u2019t know what to say, dude. I\u2019d just really be nothing without you,\u201d an emotional Myers, who last year led Canada\u2019s \u201celbows up\u201d moment after U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to annex Canada, said when accepting the Icon Award at the Canadian Screen Awards<\/a> in Toronto.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI had a whole speech written about how much I love Canada, but I suspect some of you might be sick of hearing that at this point,\u201d Myers added, before getting emotional when thanking his parents \u201cfor moving to Canada and stressing the importance of being silly.\u201d Also Sunday night, Heated Rivalry<\/a>, the gay hockey soap opera dominated the TV series competition. <\/p>\n \n\tThe popular Crave and HBO Max<\/a> drama took home trophies for best drama series, best lead TV drama performer for Hudson Williams<\/a>, the audience award voted on by ordinary Canadians, while Sophie Nelisse, who plays Williams\u2019 girlfriend on Heated Rivalry, picked up the Radius Award.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf I could cut this award down the middle, I would, because if these gay yearning little bottom eyes didn\u2019t have a big sexy Russian to feast upon, my performance wouldn\u2019t be as good. So to the honorary Canadian Connor Storrie, I share this award with you,\u201d Williams said when accepting his trophy. Heated Rivalry co-star Storrie because he is American was ineligible to compete in the best TV drama category alongside Williams as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television only allows Canadian citizens like Williams or permanent residents to contend in the country\u2019s film and TV awards.<\/p>\n \n\tHeated Rivalry\u00a0, based on Rachel Reid\u2019s\u00a0Game Changer\u00a0book series, follows the steamy romance between Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, hockey players played in the\u00a0Canadian TV drama\u00a0by Williams and Storrie, respectively.\u00a0\u201cWe cannot believe the way that audiences have reacted to this show. We\u2019re so grateful,\u201d Heated Rivalry TV series creator Jacob Tierney\u00a0said when accepting the audience award at the Toronto gala. <\/p>\n \n\tThe best TV comedy prize went to North of North, the indigenous comedy now headed to season two on the CBC and Netflix. \u201cThis show is incredibly personal to us. It reflects our community, our families, our lives in the Arctic,\u201d Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, co-creator of the Inuk comedy along with Stacey Aglok MacDonald, said when accepting the CSA trophy. And the best lead performer in a TV comedy went to Anna Lambe for her star turn in North of North.<\/p>\n \n\tLambe, when accepting the honor, paid tribute to the creators of the Inuk comedy, Aglok MacDonald and Arnaquq-Baril, for \u201cthe way you represent our communities, the way that you have shown that Inuit do not just exist within a historical context, that we are real, that we are here, that we are thriving, beautiful communities.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn the movie front, the best motion picture prize went to the mockumentary Nirvana The Band the Show the Movie, director Matt Johnson\u2019s film about two Toronto musicians go to extreme lengths to score a gig at a local club. The feature also earned Jay McCarrol the best performer award for a leading movie comedy role.<\/p>\n \n\tDirector Johnson when accepting the best movie prize appeared to criticize French-speaking directors in Quebec for traditionally dominating the film categories at the CSAs with a Montreal block vote: \u201cI\u2019ll start with a piece of advice to the Quebecers. You guys got to stop nominating so many people in these categories, you\u2019re going to get destroyed ever year if you keep doing it. You got to send one, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tR.T. Thorne\u2019s 40 Acres, a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler, lost out in the best movie competition to Johnson\u2019s mockumentary after dominating pre-telecast prize giving in the film categories with nine trophies. And Grace Glowicki earned the best movie drama leading role trophy for her performance in the gothic horror thriller Honey Bunch, from directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli.<\/p>\n \n\tIn other prize giving, Filipino-Canadian sportscaster Hazel Mae picked up the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism. Also Sunday night, Eugene Levy offered a tribute to the late Catherine O\u2019Hara, who co-starred with him as part of the SCTV ensemble and more recently in the Schitt\u2019s Creek sitcom and Seth Rogen\u2019s The Studio comedy take on Hollywood. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFor me, she was the one person I spent the most time working with over our 50-year careers, and that is something I take great pride in being able to say,\u201d Levy said of the two-time Emmy Award winner and fellow Canadian comedy legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tearful Canadian comedian and Hollywood star Mike Myers on Sunday night paid tribute to his native Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,257093,361,75,5863,140293,140290],"class_list":["post-707344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-screen-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-hudson-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}