2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: TV drama ‘The Porter’ leads with 19 nods – National

This year’s major Canadian Screen Award nominees include a series about the 1920s North American Black Train Porter and a coming-of-age film set in Scarborough.

Black Led CBC and BET Plus Series porter There are 19 nominations for this year’s awards, including Best Drama Series, Best Dramatic Screenplay, and Best Costume Design.

Set in Montreal, Detroit, and Chicago, the hour-long series spotlighting the quest for liberation of railroad workers is largely black, including co-creator Arnold Pinnock and showrunners Marcia Greene and Anne-Marie Morais. We are proud of our Canadian creative team.

porter Actors Amr Amin, Ronnie Law Jr. and Mouna Traoré are all nominated for Best Performance in a Drama.

Meanwhile, a feature on Toronto filmmaker Clement Virgo BrotherBased on the novel by David Shaliandi, was nominated for 14 major film nods, including Best Film and Virgo Directorial Achievement.

The film, which explores the social challenges faced by Jamaican-Canadian siblings in 1990s Scarborough, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named to TIFF’s Top 10 list for 2022.

The film’s star, Lamar Johnson, will also play the lead role as a younger brother who lives in the shadow of a dynamic older sibling while caring for his mother. The film will be released in theaters on March 17th.

Other leading contenders for best film include Stéphane Lafleur’s sci-fi dystopian drama viking 13 Nods, David Cronenberg’s Body Horror crime of the future with 11, and Anthony Simm’s immigration dramathe rice boy sleeps at 6.

Two other top challengers on television include the CBC comedy Sorting, and kids series detention adventure, It has the second highest number of nominations with 15.

Sorting, Following her gender-fluid millennial navigating work and romantic relationships, the production has been nominated for Best Comedy Series and Bilal Baig’s Best Lead Performer for the second season of the show.

Vyig and co-star Amanda Cordner are best supporting performers in a comedy after the actor chose not to submit for the 2022 awards because of the gender binary classification system at the time.

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Since then, the Canadian Film and Television Academy has introduced gender-neutral categories for leading and supporting roles in film and television. This change for the first year changed the number of nominations per performance category from 5 to 8.

The annual bash will hand out trophies in 145 categories across film, television and digital media, with genres ranging from children’s shows to reality shows to news. Special honors and fan choice bring the total number of awards to 157.

For TV News, Global National News was named the best national newscast, with CBC’s The National, APTN National News, CTV National News competing with Lisa Laflam.

The nod was made after LaFlamme left CTV last August, in what Bell Media described as a “business decision” that LaFlamme put her “blind”. The expulsion caused public outcry and a review of workplaces at stations.

LaFlamme has also been nominated multiple times for best news anchor ever, and is set to win the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism.

Actors Ryan Reynolds, Shim Liu and Katherine O’Hara are also among the honorees.

In the digital media category, satirical shows black best friend’s revenge 1st place with 9 nominations.

Created, co-written, and co-produced by Amanda Parris, the series stars Ornicke Addery as a self-help guru who wants to end black stereotypes in the film and television industry.

The most nominated reality or competition programs are canadian drag racing With nine nods.

The awards will be handed out in person for the first time since the pandemic, but the Academy announced earlier this month that it will replace the traditional live broadcasts that present the best awards in film and television with a pre-recorded special hosted by Samantha Bee. .

Awards will be presented at seven filmed but non-television galas from April 11-14, where winners will receive hardware and the opportunity to speak among their peers.

Winners will be revealed throughout the week, followed by pre-recorded telecasts incorporating celebrity interviews and gala highlights. It will air on CBC and CBC Gem on April 16.

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For a complete list of nominees, visit the Canadian Film Awards official website..

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