Adriana Maggs is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. She is best known for writing and directing the award winning films, Goalie, starring Mark O'Brien, and Grown Up Movie Star,"She knows no boundaries". The Globe and Mail, January 24, 2010. starring Tatiana Maslany, which was nominated for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival.
Maggs co-directed Hey Lady! alongside Sarah Polley, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and directed season two of the popular web series How to Buy a Baby. She has worked as both a writer and producer on Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Pretty Hard Cases, and Coroner, for which she was nominated in Best Writing, Drama Series at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards, among others.
In 2021, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, Web Program or Series for Hey Lady!, and was a nominee in the same category the previous year for How to Buy a Baby. She was a Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011 for Grown Up Movie Star,"Genie Awards go from 'huh' to 'wow'". National Post, February 3, 2011. and was a co-winner of the Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009 for Three Chords from the Truth."Local actor wins Gemini as part of show she wrote". The Western Star, November 19, 2009.
Awards +WorkAwardCategoryResultYearRef.I Dare Not GoAtlantic Film Festival; Atlantic Canadian AwardOutstanding Writers AwardWinner2003Skin Cream for Mermaid Leg ScarsArts and Letters Awards ProgramSenior Division Short FictionWinner2004Three Chords From The TruthGemini AwardsBest Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or SeriesWinner2009Gemini AwardsBest Comedy SeriesNominee2009Grown Up Movie StarBird's Eye Film FestivalBest Debut FeatureWinner2010Sundance Film FestivalGrand Jury Prize - World Cinema, DramaticNominee2010Sundance Film FestivalSpecial Jury Prize - Breakout Performance for Tatiana Maslany, World Cinema DramaticWinner2010Genie AwardsBest Screenplay, OriginalNominee2011Writer's Guild of Canada; WGC Screenwriting AwardBest Writing in a Feature FilmNominee2011How To Buy A BabyNew Media Film FestivalFestival AwardNominee2020Canadian Screen AwardBest Direction, Web Program or SeriesNominee2020GoalieWriter's Guild of Canada; WGC AwardFeature FilmNominee2020Hey Lady!Director's Guild of CanadaOutstanding Directorial Achievement - Comedy SeriesNominee2020Canadian Screen AwardBest Direction, Web Program or SeriesWinner2021CoronerCanadian Screen AwardsBest Writing, Drama SeriesNominee2023
See also List of female film and television directors List of LGBT-related films directed by women
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