FauxPop's Curtis Lobb wins Canadian Screen Award for 'Blackberry' editing

BY SCOTT STEPHENSON

This year’s 2024 Canadian Screen Awards honoured Matt Johnson’s film BlackBerry with nominations in a number of categories, and it ended up taking home the prize in 14 of them, including Best Picture. The impressive tally makes  it the most awarded film or series in the awards’ history. 

 

The technological cautionary tale, set and shot in Waterloo, also netted Johnson the award for Achievement in Direction, and both star Jay Baruchel and supporting actor Glenn Howerton won for their performances in the film. Other prizes were awarded to this humorous retelling of a recent chapter in Canadian history for its casting, cinematography, art direction, costuming, score, sound and screenplay - which is a real testament to the strength of the team that brought this story to the big screen.

 

Huron County’s own Curt Lobb was one of BlackBerry’s big winners at the gala award ceremony on Friday, May 31 - he was given the award for Achievement in Editing for the work he did on the film, which was done entirely at Faux Pop Studio in Goderich. Lobb accepted the award on stage with humour and grace, thanking, among other people, his wife, his editing team, Central Huron Secondary School teacher Stephen Oliver, who fostered Lobb’s love of editing at a young age, and his cousin Randall Lobb, one of Faux Pop’s founders. 

 

The overall success of BlackBerry has been a real win for Canadian cinema, and the work done by Johnson and Lobb in Goderich is proof that filmmakers don’t need to limit their search to cities when seeking out award-worthy editing work.