Mike Myers will be honored with the Academy Icon Award at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards, putting one of Canada’s best-known entertainers at the center of this year’s ceremony. The award recognizes a Canadian individual for an exceptional, ongoing contribution to the media industry at home or abroad.
The timing gives the announcement extra weight: the 14th annual Canadian Screen Awards take place this Sunday, May 31, in Toronto, with the television portion airing the same night. Andrew Phung is hosting that broadcast, while the full event will unfold over four days during Canadian Screen Week 2026.
That makes Myers one of the event’s clearest draws before a single trophy is handed out. He is being singled out for the Academy Icon Award, but the specific work behind the honor has not been detailed, leaving the tribute to stand on the breadth of his career rather than one project or role. For viewers, the ceremony also arrives at a moment when the awards are meant to spotlight the year in film, television and digital media.
There is one catch for people who want to watch live. The ceremony will stream free online through CBC’s YouTube channel, but live video is limited to viewers in Canada unless they use a VPN. That means the show is easy to find and not equally easy to watch, depending on where you are.
Myers’s award also lands in a year shaped by strong competition elsewhere in the field. Heated Rivalry has 18 nominations, North of North leads all nominees with 20 nods, and RT Thorne’s 40 Acres tops the film category with 10 nominations. Against that field, the Academy Icon Award is the night’s most personal honor, aimed at a single career rather than a single title. The unanswered part is the most interesting one: the industry is ready to salute Myers, even if it has not yet spelled out which chapter of his work prompted the nod. What happens on Sunday will fill in the rest.
