BlackBerry is having a good week. Fresh off the win for the Rogers Best Canadian Film award, the Canadian film picked up 17 Canadian Screen Award nominations. This sets a new Canadian Screen Awards record for most nominations. Brother, from last year's awards, had 14 nominations and won 12 awards.
Matt Johnson is up for best director and Performance in a Supporting Role, Comedy. The film acting awards this year are separated into drama and comedy, giving recognition to more actors.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant has 12 nominations. The Ariane Louis-Seize film is up for Best Picture and Best First Feature Film Award.
Sara Montpetit and Steve Laplante are among the nominees for this film. Both Quebec actors were nominated last year (Falcon Lake and Viking, respectively).
Monia Chokri, who just won the César award for Best Foreign Film for The Nature of Love | Simple comme Sylvain, got an Original Screenplay nomination and an acting nomination for Magalie Lépine-Blondeau for lead role in a comedy.
Swan Song won the Rogers Best Canadian Documentary and isn't in the documentary category for the Canadian Screen Awards. Someone Lives Here is in the category; the film was a finalist for the other award.
We have more nominations than last year: 12 screenplay nominations instead of 8 from 2023. Sophie Dupuis (Solo) is up for best director, one of 2 women along with Ariane Louis-Seize, though Dupuis didn't make the screenplay cut.
Richelieu wins the unofficial award for a Canadian film nominated for best picture for a Canadian Screen Award that I had to look up on the day of the nominations. Couldn't be as bad as Summer with Hope from last year. That film and Until Branches Bend had screenplay nominations from last year with terrible scripts.
Who's Yer Father? got a couple of acting nominations for Susan Kent and Chris Locke. Not a highbrow film but very enjoyable.
A couple of films we saw at the 2022 Windsor International Film Festival are in this year's nominations. Alexandra Weir got an Adapted Screenplay nomination for the amazing North of Normal. Something You Said Last Night is up for Best First Feature Film Award.
We saw Someone Lives Here and Twice Colonized, up for Best Feature Length Documentary, at the 2023 Windsor International Film Festival. Both were very good documentaries and highly informative.
Best Motion Picture
BlackBerry
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Infinity Pool
Red Rooms | Les chambres rouges
Richelieu
Solo
Best Director
Matt Johnson BlackBerry
Ariane Louis-Seize Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Brandon Cronenberg Infinity Pool
Henri Pardo Kanaval
Pascal Plante Red Rooms | Les chambres rouges
Sophie Dupuis Solo
Performance in a Leading Role, Drama
Mia Goth Infinity Pool
Alexander Skarsgård Infinity Pool
Rayan Dieudonné Kanaval
Oyin Oladejo Orah
Amrit Kaur The Queen Of My Dreams
Juliette Gariépy Red Rooms | Les chambres rouges
Ariane Castellanos Richelieu
Théodore Pellerin Solo
Performance in a Leading Role, Comedy
Jay Baruchel BlackBerry
Cody Lightning Hey, Viktor!
Félix-Antoine Bénard Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Sara Montpetit Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau The Nature of Love | Simple comme Sylvain
Alexandra Billings Queen Tut
Susan Kent Who's Yer Father?
Chris Locke Who's Yer Father?
Performance in a Supporting Role, Drama
Charles-Aubey Houde The Dishwasher | Le plongeur
Martin Dubreuil Kanaval
Frances Fisher The King Tide
Aden Young The King Tide
Laurie Babin Red Rooms | Les chambres rouges
Nelson Coronado Richelieu
Chantal Thuy Ru
Alexis Vincent-Wolfe Slash/Back
Performance in a Supporting Role, Comedy
Glenn Howerton BlackBerry
Matt Johnson BlackBerry
Hannah Cheesman Hey, Viktor!
Steve Laplante Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Noémie O'Farrell Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Marc-André Leclair One Summer | Le temps d'un été
Guy Nadon One Summer | Le temps d'un été
Charlie Gillespie Suze
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Original Screenplay
Cody Lightning, Samuel Miller Hey, Viktor!
Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Brandon Cronenberg Infinity Pool
Monia Chokri The Nature of Love | Simple comme Sylvain
Pascal Plante Red Rooms | Les chambres rouges
Delphine Girard Through the Night | Quitter la nuit
Adapted Screenplay
Sarah-Maude Beauchesne Billie Blue | Coeur de slush
Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller BlackBerry
Eric K. Boulianne, Francis Leclerc The Dishwasher | Le plongeur
Alexandra Weir North of Normal
Fawzia Mirza The Queen Of My Dreams
Jacques Davidts Ru
Best Feature Length Documentary
Beyond Paper | Au-delà du papier
Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones
The Longest Goodbye
Someone Lives Here
Twice Colonized
Best First Feature Film Award
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
In Flames
Kanaval
Richelieu
Something You Said Last Night
Through the Night | Quitter la nuit
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CBC will carry the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards on May 31 at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto. The telecast concludes a week of awards presentations.
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