If you had access to the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, you could have seen the Canadian films with the most nominations at the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards.
Scarborough and Night Raiders led the way with 11 nominations. All My Puny Sorrows has 8 nominations but shut out in the major categories. Wildhood and Les oiseaux ivres had 6 nominations each.
Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres, the Canadian film nominated for Best International Feature Film, is up for Best Motion Picture. Night Raiders, Scarborough, and Wildhood are from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The surprise in the category is a film from the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival in Night of the Kings | La nuit des rois.
Female directors have an easier time getting nominated for a Canadian Screen Award than an Academy Award. Danis Goulet is up for her film Night Raiders while Shasha Nakhai co-directed Scarborough.
Unlike previous years, there are no obvious American actors up for a major award. Michelle Pfeiffer won the Canadian Screen Award last year for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for French Exit.
Julia Sarah Stone gets a well-deserved nomination for Come True. Good to see Mark O'Brien get an acting nomination for his film The Righteous. O'Brien wrote and directed his feature film debut.
Wish I had seen more of these performances. I have seen Night Raiders among the actors nominations.
Ste. Anne, winner of the Best Canadian Feature Film, didn't get any Canadian Screen Award nominations. The film could be eligible for next year's awards.
Best motion picture
Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres
Night of the Kings | La nuit des rois
Night Raiders
Scarborough
Wildhood
Best director
Anthony Scott Burns Come True
Danis Goulet Night Raiders
Philippe Grégoire The Noise of Engines | Le bruit des moteurs
Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson Scarborough
Bretten Hannam Wildhood
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Rogelio Balagtas Islands
Thomas Antony Olajide Learn to Swim
Liam Diaz Scarborough
Pavle Čemerikić The White Fortress | Tabija
Phillip Lewitski Wildhood
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Julia Sarah Stone Come True
Aviva Armour-Ostroff Lune
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Night Raiders
Alana Hawley Purvis Range Roads
Aliya Kanani Scarborough
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
David La Haye Confessions of a Hitman | Confessions
Claude Legault Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres
Esteban Comilang Islands
Mark O'Brien The Righteous
Joshua Odjick Wildhood
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Marine Johnson Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres
Gail Maurice Night Raiders
Tanja Björk The Noise of Engines | Le bruit des moteurs
Kate Corbett The Righteous
Cherish Violet Blood Scarborough
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Original Screenplay
Danis Goulet Night Raiders
Mark O'Brien The Righteous
Kaveh Nabatian Sin La Habana
Igor Drljaca The White Fortress | Tabija
Bretten Hannam Wildhood
Adapted Screenplay
David Bezmozgis, Erik Rutherford Charlotte
Sylvain Guy Confessions of a Hitman | Confessions
Catherine Hernandez Scarborough
Fred Pellerin The Time Thief | L'arracheuse de temps
Eric Tessier You Will Remember Me | Tu te souviendras de moi
Best Feature Length Documentary
Captive Mellissa Fung, Stuart Coxe
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, David Christensen, Lori Lozinski
My Tree Jason Sherman, Sonya Di Rienzo, Aeschylus Poulos, Matt Code
One of Ours Yasmine Mathurin, Laura Perlmutter, Jennifer Kawaja, Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith
Prayer for a Lost Mitten | Prière pour une mitaine perdue Jean-François Lesage
Best First Feature Film Award
Islands Martin Edralin
Night Raiders Danis Goulet
The Noise of Engines | Le bruit des moteurs Philippe Grégoire
Scarborough Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
Sin La Habana Kaveh Nabatian
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