2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: TV drama ‘The Porter’ leads with 19 nods – National | 24CA News

This 12 months’s main Canadian Screen Awards nominees embody a sequence about North America’s Black practice porters within the Nineteen Twenties and a coming-of-age movie set in Scarborough.

The Black-led CBC and BET Plus sequence The Porter is the main nominee with 19 nods heading into this 12 months’s awards, together with finest drama sequence, finest writing in a drama and finest costume design.

Set in Montreal, Detroit and Chicago, the hour-long sequence that spotlights the railway staff’ pursuit of liberation boasts a largely Black Canadian artistic workforce, together with co-creator Arnold Pinnock and showrunners Marsha Greene and Annmarie Morais.

The Porter actors Aml Ameen, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Mouna Traoré are all nominated for finest efficiency in a drama.

Meanwhile, Toronto filmmaker Clement Virgo’s characteristic Brother, which relies on the novel by David Chariandy, is the main movie nominee with 14 nods, together with finest movement image and achievement in course for Virgo.

The adaptation, which dives into societal challenges going through Jamaican-Canadian brothers in Nineteen Nineties Scarborough, debuted on the Toronto International Film Festival and made TIFF’s Top Ten checklist for 2022.

The movie’s star Lamar Johnson can be up for efficiency in a number one position for his flip as a youthful brother residing within the shadow of a dynamic older sibling whereas taking good care of his mom. The characteristic is about for a theatrical launch on March 17.

Other main contenders for finest movement image embody Stéphane Lafleur’s sci-fi dystopian drama Viking with 13 nods, David Cronenberg’s physique horror Crimes of the Future with 11, and Anthony Shim’s immigrant drama, Riceboy Sleeps with six.

Two different prime challengers in tv embody the CBC comedy Sort Of, and the youngsters’ sequence Detention Adventure, that are tied for the second-highest variety of nominations at 15.

Sort Of, which follows a gender-fluid millennial navigating work and romantic relationships, is up for finest comedy sequence and finest lead performer for Bilal Baig for the present’s second season.

Performance nods for Baig and co-star Amanda Cordner, who’s up for finest supporting performer in a comedy, come after the actors selected to not submit for the 2022 awards as a result of gender-binary classification system on the time.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television has since applied gender-neutral classes for lead and supporting movie and TV roles. In this inaugural 12 months, the change has shifted the variety of nominations per efficiency class from 5 to eight.

The annual bash will hand out trophies in 145 classes for movie, tv and digital media, in genres starting from children programming to actuality sequence to news. Special honours and fan selection carry the awards tally to 157.

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On the TV news entrance, Global National News is up for finest nationwide newscast, competing with CBC’s The National, APTN National News and CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme.

The nod comes following LaFlamme’s departure from CTV final August attributable to what Bell Media described as a “business decision” and which LaFlamme mentioned left her “blindsided.” The ouster sparked a public outcry and a office evaluation on the station.

LaFlamme can be nominated for finest news anchor, an award she has gained a number of occasions earlier than, and she or he’s set to obtain the Gordon Sinclair Award for broadcast journalism.

Actors Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu and Catherine O’Hara are additionally among the many particular honourees.

In the digital media classes, the satirical present Revenge of the Black Best Friend is on prime with 9 nominations.

Created, co-written and co-produced by Amanda Parris, the sequence stars Olunike Adeliyi as a self-help guru who needs to finish Black stereotypes within the movie and tv business.

The most-nominated actuality or competitors program is Canada’s Drag Race with 9 nods.

While awards shall be handed out in particular person for the primary time because the pandemic, the Academy introduced earlier this month that the normal dwell broadcast, which honours the very best in movie and tv, shall be changed with a pre-taped particular hosted by Samantha Bee.

The awards shall be handed out at seven filmed however un-televised galas between April 11 and 14 with alternatives for winners to just accept {hardware} and provides speeches amongst their friends.

Winners shall be made public all through the week, main as much as the pre-taped telecast that can incorporate superstar interviews and highlights from the galas. It will air April 16 on CBC and CBC Gem.

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For a whole checklist of nominees, go to the official Canadian Screen Awards web site.

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