Award Winners

Humanitarian Award

The Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual or group who actively engages in promoting the welfare and social advancement of the community and its youth.

Humanitarian Award

Barry & Laurie Green (Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust)

The Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual or group who actively engages in promoting the welfare and social advancement of the community and its youth.

Culture Enrichment Award

The Culture Enrichment Award recognizes a person that enriches ones view of cultural differences with an eye toward replacing bad ideas about others culture with well-informed ones and enhances awareness for the world to see.

Award of Excellence

The Award of Excellence recognizes an individual who distinguished themselves as leaders or outstanding advocates by inspiring or instilling a culture of excellence in promoting Indigenous arts.

Joshua Mark Yesno Tribute Award

The Joshua Mark Yesno Tribute Award is an award that honours an individual who overcame adversity, and has achieved great strides in the advancement of youth by providing opportunities to those whose voice is stifled in mainstream media.

Clearing the Path Award

The Clearing the Path Award is presented to an individual who has taken bold steps to improve diversity and inclusion through an innovative approach that promotes and provides stifled youth voices in mainstream media.

Special Recognition Builders Award

Our Special Recognition Builders Award goes to an individual who builds on our Indigenous community; and who has supported youth in more ways than one.

Spirit Award

Our Special Recognition Spirit Award is to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of a person who is successful in the arts and for their many years of devoting their life to the community.

Legendary Award

The Legendary Award goes to a person whose epic career is in its twilight. A person who has given dignity to their community. This person is more original and influential than just about anyone in their time.

Icon Award

Our Icon Award is presented to an individual who has been instrumental in bringing music and arts to a wide audience.

Youth of Distinction Award

Our Youth of Distinction Award recognizes an individual for their successful achievements.

Blake Debassige Emerging Artist Award

Blake Debassige made it his priority to promote the arts especially to our young people because he believed that arts are reflective of our national soul. It is central to who we are as Anishnawbe, he would say. The Blake Debassige Emerging Artist Award is given to an emerging artist to carry on the Anishnawbe voice for the next generation in the arts.

The Merit Award

The Merit Special Recognition goes to a person whose work performance is outstanding and has shown successful achievements with their film business.