The 11th Canadian Screen Awards are happening this coming Sunday! As with every year our great nation produces a ton of great movies, and this years crop of nominees is no different.
They can be hard to find though, so if you haven’t had a chance to catch up with this years nominees then look no further! Presented here in alphabetical order are all the nominees in all the major categories. That’s around 30 films in 19 categories!
There’s one big notable change this year: all of the acting categories have been replaced with gender neutral equivelents, with 8 nominees each instead of 5.
Without any further ado, here are your Canadian Screen Award Nominees and where you can buy, rent, or stream them.
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Alice, Darling
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
Nominations
- Best Art Direction/Production Design – Jennifer Morden
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Ashgrove
A pandemic has infected the world’s water supply, forcing people to strictly ration their water intake to balance the risk of dying of the disease against the risk of dying of dehydration; the film centres on a scientist researching the cure for the fungus who is rapidly burning out from the stress, and is forced to take a weekend retreat with her husband Jason to work on the problems in their relationship that are also contributing to her stress.
Nominations
- Best Original Score – Ian LeFeuvre
- Best Original Song – “The Weight”, Ian LeFeuvre
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Babysitter
After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Lead Performance – Monia Chokri
- Best Supporting Performance – Nadia Tereszkiewicz
- Best Adapted Screenplay – Catherine Léger
- Best Visual Effects – Marc Hall
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Bones of Crows
A psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch, Aline Spears, as she survives Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse. Bones of Crows unfolds over one hundred years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future
Nominations
- Best Original Screenplay – Marie Clements
- Best Original Song – “You Are My Bones”, Marie Clements, Wayne Lavallee and Jesse Zubot
- Best Makeup – Darci Jackson and Elizabeth McLeod
- Best Hair – Charlene Dunn
- Best Visual Effects – Eric Gambini, Sarah Krusch Flanagan, Louis Mackall, Virginie Strub, Andrew Joe, Gabriel Chiang and Linus Burghard
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Breathe (Respire)
ouad, a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant, and Max, a 27-year-old “old stock” Quebecer, both live frustrating lives. Their respective destinies lead them face to face, in a situation from which neither will emerge unscathed.
Nominations
- Best Supporting Performance – Mohammed Marouazi
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Brother
Two brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race and identity.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Director – Clement Virgo
- Best Lead Performance – Lamar Johnson
- Best Supporting Performance – Marsha Stephanie Blake
- Best Supporting Performance – Aaron Pierre
- Best Adapted Screenplay – Clement Virgo
- Best Art Direction/Production Design – Jason Clarke, John Kim, and Richard Racicot
- Best Costume Design – Hanna Puley
- Best Sound Editing – Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Paul Germann, Krystin Hunter, and Kevin Banks
- Best Sound Mixing – Richard Penn, Joe Morrow, and James Bastable
- Best Original Score – Todor Kobakov
- Best Makeup – Joan Chell
- Best Hair – Tremaine Thomas
- Best Casting – Deirdre Bowen
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Crimes of the Future
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission — to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Nominations
- Best Director – David Cronenberg
- Best Cinematography – Douglas Koch
- Best Editing – Christopher Donaldson
- Best Art Direction/Production Design – Carol Spier
- Best Costume Design – Mayou Trikerioti
- Best Sound Editing – Robert Bertola, Tom Bjelic, and Jill Purdy
- Best Sound Mixing – Ron Mellegers, Justin Helle, Christian Cooke, and Mark Zsifkovits
- Best Original Score – Howard Shore
- Best Makeup – Alexandra Anger and Monica Pavez
- Best Visual Effects – Peter MacAuley, Kayden Anderson, Tom Turnbull and Caitlin Foster
- Best Casting – Deirdre Bowen
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Cult Hero
Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a “wellness center” with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.
Nominations
- Best Art Direction/Production Design – Dan Herrick and Zoë Woodrow
- Best Costume Design – Carrie Cathrae-Keeling
- Best Original Score – Adrian Ellis
- Best Original Song – “The Ascension Song”, Chuck Baker and Tony Burgess
- Best Makeup – Katie Ballantyne and Jonathan Craig
- Best Visual Effects – James Anthony Young
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Dawn, Her Dad, and the Tractor
After the death of her mother, a young trans woman returns to the family farm where she sees her father and sister for the first time since her transition.
Nominations
- Best Sound Editing – Martin Gwynn Jones
- Best Original Song – “Get Home”, Rose Cousins and Breagh Isabel
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The End of Sex
A couple feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to winter camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
Nominations
- Best Original Score – Ari Posner
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Falcon Lake
A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Director – Charlotte Le Bon
- Best Lead Performance – Joseph Engel
- Best Supporting Performance – Sara Montpetit
- Best Adapted Screenplay – Charlotte Le Bon
- John Dunning Best First Feature – Charlotte Le Bon
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I Like Movies
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Nominations
- Best Editing – Simone Smith
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The Inhuman (L’Inhumain)
Mathieu is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose perfect life is falling apart. Impending divorce, job loss, substance abuse, and a mid-life crisis are all factors that can cause him to go off the rails.
Nominations
- Best Sound Mixing – Martin M. Messier
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Lines of Escape (Lignes de fruite)
A dramatic comedy that invites us to an eventful reunion between three high school friends. As the evening progresses, the young thirtysomethings form an increasingly discordant trio.
Nominations
- Best Visual Effects – Jean-François (Jafaz) Ferland, Marie-Claude Lafontaine and Charles Lamoureux
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The Maiden
Best friends Colton and Kyle float the river and spray-paint in the local ravine. Like the boys, Whitney explores the ravine, seeking solace by writing and drawing in her diary. But when her friend abandons her, Whitney disappears.
Nominations
- John Dunning Best First Feature – Graham Foy
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Noemie Says Yes (Noémie dit oui)
After running away from a youth center, 15-year-old Noémie befriends a group of delinquents and falls in love with a pimp. After some convincing, she finds herself thrust into life as an escort.
Nominations
- Best Lead Performance – Kelly Depeault
- John Dunning Best First Feature – Geneviève Albert
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Nouveau Québec
Sophie and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties, go to Schefferville to settle the estate of Sophie’s father’s cottage, a former miner in this almost ghost town. There, Sophie meets up with Réjean, her uncle, also a former miner. But when a tragic incident involving Réjean occurs on the spot, with Mathieu as the only witness, the trip takes an unexpected turn. Forced to stay longer than expected while the police investigation gets underway, the couple finds itself isolated from the rest of the world, singled out, in contact for a rare time with the complex reality of the Aboriginal people. Sophie and Mathieu see their relationship in jeopardy, each taking an opposite path in their reaction to this oppressive situation, in this closed-door setting in the great outdoors.
Nominations
- Best Supporting Performance – Jean-Luc Kanapé
- Best Cinematography – Vincent Gonneville
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Queens of the Qing Dynasty
A suicidal teen develops a rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in the hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages, and possessions expands the boundaries of the relationship and alters inner chemistry.
Nominations
- Best Costume Design – Sig Burwash and Kathleen Darling
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Riceboy Sleeps
Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Director – Anthony Shim
- Best Lead Performance – Choi Seung-yoon
- Best Original Screenplay – Anthony Shim
- Best Cinematography – Christopher Lew
- Best Editing – Anthony Shim
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Stampede (Rodéo)
A road movie and a truck ride, harsh and poetic, that delves into the mystery of a damaged relationship between a father and his 9-year-old daughter.
Nominations
- Best Lead Performance – Maxime Le Flaguais
- John Dunning Best First Feature – Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
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Rosie
An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone aunty and her two gender-bending best friends in 80’s Montreal.
- Best Casting – John Buchan, Jason Knight, and Mélanie Bray
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Stay the Night
A failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he’s an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.
Nominations
- Best Sound Editing – Elma Bello
- Best Sound Mixing – Matthew Chan
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Summer with Hope
A prestigious competition sets the stage for a conspiracy of collusion between two young swimmers, family members, and their communities.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Supporting Performance – Leili Rashidi
- Best Original Screenplay – Sadaf Jarvis
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The Swearing Jar
“It is a rare and miraculous thing to find your one true soul mate.” Carey soon learns that finding two of them can pose an even greater problem.
Nominations
- Best Original Song – “The Swearing Song”, Kate Hewlett
- Best Hair – Mykola Korolyov
- Best Casting – Nicole Hilliard-Forde and Matthew Lessall
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Tehranto
In Toronto, lively music, intricate textiles and vibrant colours paint an unlikely story of love and family when, Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Persian community, accidentally fall in love.
Nominations
- Best Cinematography – Keenan Lynch
- Best Editing – Faran Moradi
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Tenzin
Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother who self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation.
Nominations
- Best Costume Design – Mara Zigler
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That Kind of Summer (Un été comme ça)
In a countryside house where they are meant to explore the troubles in their sexuality, three women spend days and nights apprehending their inner demons. A serene German therapist and a kind-hearted social worker supervise them, help them and try to maintain the fragile balance of the group. During 26 days, in the midst of summer, Geisha, Léonie and Eugénie will have to refrain from breaking down, tame the whispers from present times and consider the future.
Nominations:
- Best Lead Performance – Larissa Corriveau
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Until Branches Bend
A pregnant cannery worker, after discovering what she believes to be an invasive insect in a peach, must convince her community that the danger it poses is very real.
Nominations
- Best Original Screenplay – Sophie Jarvis
- Best Visual Effects – Landon Bootsma, Dexter Davey, Ashley Hampton, Milton Muller, and Dmitry Vinnik
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Viking
A behavioral research team observes and attempts to replicate the experiences of the first manned mission to Mars.
Nominations
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Director – Stéphane Lafleur
- Best Lead Performance – Steve Laplante
- Best Original Screenplay – Stéphane Lafleur & Éric k. Boulianne
- Best Cinematography – Sara Mishara
- Best Editing – Sophie Leblond
- Best Costume Design – Sophie Lefebvre
- Best Art Direction/Production Design – André-Line Beauparlant
- Best Sound Editing – Sylvain Bellemare, Simon Meilleur, Frédéric Lavigne, Francis Gauthier and Claire Pochon
- Best Sound Mixing – Pierre Bertrand and Bernard Gariépy Strobl
- Best Makeup – Marie-Josée Galibert
- Best Hair – Vincent Dufault
- Best Casting – Lucie Robitaille
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White Dog (Chien blanc)
- Best Supporting Performance – K.C. Collins
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Wolves
When a young social recluse stumbles onto a series of unsolved cold cases he finds himself pulled deeper into society’s dark underside and must face his own demons to learn the truth.
Nominations
- John Dunning Best First Feature – Danny Dunlop
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