2024 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: ‘BlackBerry,’ ‘Little Bird’ lead pack
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'BlackBerry,' helmed by Toronto director Matt Johnson, leads the film categories with 17 nods — including for best picture and achievement in direction.
A limited series about an Indigenous woman’s search for her birth family and a comedy movie chronicling the creation of a game-changing smartphone dominate this year’s Canadian Screen Award nominations.
The Crave/APTN original series Little Bird leads the TV series categories with 19 nominations, including for best drama series, best drama performance for stars Darla Contois and Ellyn Jade and best drama direction for Zoe Leigh Hopkins and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
About a ’60s Scoop survivor fostered into a Jewish family in Montreal, the six-part series features a largely Indigenous cast and creative team and was co-created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch.
It’s up against CBC’s Essex County and Plan B, Hollywood Suite’s Slasher: Ripper and CTV’s Transplant for best drama series.
BlackBerry, helmed by Toronto director Matt Johnson, leads the film categories with 17 nods — including for best picture and achievement in direction — becoming the most nominated movie in the history of the 11-year-old Canadian Screen Awards, according to organizers.
Set in Waterloo, Ont. in the ’90s, the film follows the dramatic rise and fall of the BlackBerry mobile device and its inventors. Jay Baruchel has been nominated for best performance in a leading role in a comedy for his turn as company co-founder Mike Lazaridis, while Glenn Howerton, who plays co-CEO Jim Balsillie, and Johnson, who plays co-founder Doug Fregin, are both up for best supporting role in a comedy.
The film won the $50,000 best Canadian feature prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association earlier this week and made TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten list for 2023.
It’s competing with Solo, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Infinity Pool, Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) and Richelieu for best motion picture.
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