Clement Virgo’s Brother, sci-fi comedy Viking between major nominees for Canadian Display Awards

Clement Virgo’s Brother, a coming of age drama set in Scarborough, Ont., in the 1990s, prospects all films with 14 nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards, followed by Stephane Lafleur’s science-fiction comedy Viking, which picked up 13 nods on Wednesday when the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Tv introduced its contenders for this year’s awards. 

On the broadcast aspect, the CBC and Wager+ collection The Porter picked up 19 nominations, although final year’s most nominated present, Sort Of, had yet another strong exhibiting with 15, the identical as the CBC Gem series Detention Experience. 

Brother, which premiered at the Toronto Intercontinental Movie Pageant previous September, is an adaptation of David Chariandy’s novel of the identical title, whilst Viking is about a B-team of volunteers tasked with simulating a manned mission to Mars, in get to get the job done out the social difficulties that the serious astronauts will encounter. 

David Cronenberg’s science-fiction entire body horror Crimes Of The Potential received 11 nominations. 

This is the first year that the awards will element gender neutral functionality classes, with eight nominees in each group, which include Lamar Johnson (Brother), Steve Laplante (Viking) and Seung-Yoon Choi (Riceboy Sleeps). 

The CTV collection Transplant, final year’s winner for best drama sequence, is again nominated in that class, along with CBC’s The Porter, Moonshine and SkyMed. Global’s Departure rounds out the nominees. 

The finest comedy collection classification also sees a returning winner amongst its nominees in CBC’s Form Of. Also nominated are Crave’s Letterkenny, CTV-Sci-Fi’s Astrid & Lilly Preserve the Planet, CBC Gem’s Fakes and CTV’s Kids Wreck Almost everything.

This will be the 11th version of the awards, which rejoice accomplishment in Canadian broadcasting and movie. They will be broadcast on Sunday, April 16 on CBC and CBC Gem, in a pre-taped format that some actors have expressed fears about. This year’s nominees include:

Very best Movement Photograph

• Babysitter.

• Brother.

• Falcon Lake. 

• Riceboy Sleeps. 

• Summer with Hope. 

• Viking. 

Achievement in Direction 

• Clement Virgo – Brother.

• David Cronenberg – Crimes of the Upcoming.

• Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake.

• Anthony Shim – Riceboy Sleeps.

• Stéphane Lafleur – Viking.

Overall performance in a Major Role 

• Monia Chokri – Babysitter.

• Lamar Johnson – Brother.

• Joseph Engel – Falcon Lake.

• Kelly Depeault – Noémie dit oui.

• Seung-Yoon Choi – Riceboy Sleeps.

• Maxime Le Flaguais – Rodéo.

• Larissa Corriveau – That Sort of Summertime | Un été comme ça.

• Steve Laplante – Viking.

Ted Rogers Best Aspect Size Documentary 

Very best Drama Sequence

• Departure.

• Moonshine.

• The Porter.

• SkyMed.

• Transplant.

Best Comedy Series

Most effective Lead Performer, Drama Series

• Mayko Nguyen – Hudson & Rex.

• John Reardon – Hudson & Rex.

• Jennifer Finnigan – Moonshine.

• Aml Ameen – The Porter.

• Ronnie Rowe Jr. – The Porter.

• Mouna Traoré – The Porter.

• Hamza Haq –Transplant.

• Laurence Leboeuf –Transplant.

Ideal Lead Performer, Comedy

• Meaghan Rath – Kids Ruin Anything.

• Meredith MacNeill – Quite Challenging Circumstances.

• Adrienne C. Moore – Really Challenging Scenarios.

• Rakhee Morzaria – Operate the Burbs.

• Andrew Phung – Operate the Burbs.

• Bilal Baig – Kind Of.

• Dani Kind – Workin’ Mothers.

• Catherine Reitman – Workin’ Moms.