Banff World Media Festival
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Inaugurated1979 (1979) as the Banff World Television Festival[1]
Organised byBrunico Communications
Websitehttps://banffmediafestival.playbackonline.ca/

Founded in 1979, the Banff World Media Festival (formerly known as the Banff World Television Festival) is an international media event held in the Canadian Rockies at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The festival is dedicated to world television and digital content and its creation and development, and is owned and operated by Brunico Communications.[2]

As well as honouring excellence in international television, professionals from around the world participate in seminars, master classes, and pitching opportunities. Film directors, screenwriters, and producers from PBS, BBC, NHK, Arte, Channel 4, ABC, Sony Pictures, HBO, CBC, NFB, SBS, and many other broadcasters and production companies attend the annual event.[3]

The festival provides a global platform for industry members to discuss and debate, and explore current issues, challenges and trends.[4]


The Rockie Awards

The festival features an international program competition, the Banff Rockie Awards. Past winners include PBS for The Hobart Shakespeareans and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, ICP for Aaron Cohen's Debt, BBC and HBO for The Children of Beslan, NHK for Children Full of Life, BBC and WGBH for Bleak House, and Arte for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar.

The awards ceremony also bestows the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award. Past recipients of the award include John Cleese, Dame Edna, Bob Newhart, Martin Short, Tracey Ullman, Kelsey Grammer, Ricky Gervais, Craig Ferguson, Shane Smith, Brent Butt, and Suroosh Alvi. Jan Randall was music director and Composer for the awards from 1995 to 2007.

The Rockies Program Competition

The Rockie Awards is Banff’s flagship program celebrating excellence in television and digital content from around the world. Hundreds of television and digital programs compete for a coveted Rockie Award, presented at a ceremony each year at Banff. With participation from more than 40 countries annually, including an industry jury of more than 350 professionals working in entertainment and media around the world, the Rockie Awards is one of the world’s largest program competitions of its kind.

The Rockies Special Achievement Awards

Each year, prolific members of the media and entertainment industry are recognized for their accomplishments in the past year via the Special Achievement Awards, given out at the Rockie Awards Gala. These accolades are given out at the discretion of the Banff Foundation Board.

Past Special Achievement Award Winners

Company of Distinction

2013CBS
2014Lionsgate
2015A+E Networks
2016HBO
2017ABC Television Group
2018NBC Universal

The Impact Award presented by The Hollywood Reporter

2013Julia Louis-Dreyfus
2017Anthony Anderson for Black-ish
2018The Good Doctor
2019Justin Simien
2021ARRAY
2022Bela Bajaria
2023Fenton Bailey + Randy Barbato for World of Wonder


Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award

1992John Candy (Inaugural)
1993Winston Rekert & Danny Virtue
1994Eugene Levy
1995Tantoo Cardinal
1996Steve Smith
1997Barry Humphries
1998Bob Newhart
1999Martin Short
2000Tracey Ullman
2001Kelsey Grammer
2002John Cleese
2003Rick Mercer
2006Guy A. Lepage
2008Brent Butt
2009Mark McKinney
2010Ricky Gervais
2011James Burrows
2012Chuck Lorre
2013Craig Ferguson
2014Nathan Lane
2015Kathryn Hahn
2016Russell Peters
2018Sean Hayes
2019Bill Hader
2021Kenan Thompson
2022Ana Gasteyer
2023Craig Robinson

Award of Excellence in Digital Innovation

2011Netflix
2012Google
2013Vice Media
2014Electus
2015Amazon Studios

Lifetime Achievement Award

1988Jeremy Isaacs
1998John Mortimer
2001Rock Demers
2002Bernard Pivot
2003David Attenborough
2004James Burrows
2005Peter McGhee
2006Sheila Nevins
2009Trina McQueen
2010William Shatner
2011Ed Asner
2012Larry King
2013Christine Baranski
2014Dan Rather

Award of Excellence

1982Norman Campbell
1983Gregory Peck
1984Dinah Shore
1985Laurence Olivier
1986Lorne Green
1987Ed Asner
1988Peter Ustinov
1989David Suzuki
1990Bea Arthur
1991Walter Cronkite
1992Barbara Frum
1993Peter Jennings
1994William Shatner
1995Frédéric Back
1996Steven Bochco
1997Diane English
1998Don Hewitt
1999David E. Kelley
2000Dick Wolf
2001Norman Jewison
2002Gary David Goldberg
2003David Chase
2004Gordon Pinsent
2006David Shore
2007Carol Mendelsohn
2008Sofia Milos
2009Victor Garber
2010Nigel Lythgoe
2011Eugene Levy
2014Henry Winkler
2015Katheryn Winnick
2017Kenny Ortega
2018Jeremy Podeswa
2019Paul Feig
2023Sharon Horgan

Canadian Award of Distinction

2006Paul Haggis
2007Colm Feore
2008Kim Cattrall
2009Paul Gross
2010Eric McCormack
2011Howie Mandel
2012Jeanne Beker
2013Will Arnett
2014Alan Thicke
2015Gerry Dee
2016Jay Baruchel
2017Just For Laughs
2018Sheila Hockin
2019Kristin Kreuk
2020Baroness von Sketch Show
2021Simu Liu
2022Jean-Marc Vallee

Showrunner of the Year

2014Clyde Phillios
2015Jill Soloway
2016Damon Lindelof
2017John Ridley
2018Moira Walley-Beckett
2019Jed Mercurio
2022Jonathan Lisco, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson

Program of the Year

2013NCIS
2014Nashville
2016Making a Murderer
2017The Handmaid's Tale
2018This is Us
2019Surviving R. Kelly
2021It's a Sin
2022Sort Of
2023The Last of Us


Buffalo Rock Award

2023Star Trek

Creative Voice Award

2022Rose Matafeo
2023Jennifer Podemski

See also

References

  1. ↑ Barry Turner, ed. (2008). "Festivals". The Screenwriter's Handbook. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 267. ISBN 978-0312379544. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  2. ↑ "Popular TV shows trace origins back to Banff". Rocky Mountain Outlook, June 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ "CBC Executives at Banff" The Star
  4. ↑ ARTE Magazine, Issue 39, 23 November 2006, p. 30.



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