Feb 11, 2019

Canadian Screen Awards 2019 Announces Nominees for Film, Television and New Media

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced the nominations for the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards, which honor the most accomplished Canadian films and artists of the previous year on screens large and small.

In the feature film category, there are still no awards for animated feature films, but Benoît Godbout's Racetime (La course des tuques) won in two categories alongside live action: best adapted screenplay (Paul Risacher, Claude Landry, Racetime was produced by Carpe Diem Film & Television.

Meanwhile, Alison Snowden and David Fine's Animal Behaviour was nominated for an Academy Award and was in the running for Best Animated Short Film. Three of the five nominees in the category, including "Animal Behaviour," are from the National Film Board of Canada.

In addition to the animation category, a number of animated films were nominated in other categories. For example, in the Best Documentary Feature category, Leon Lee's "Letter from Masanjia," about prisoners in a Chinese labor camp, included an animated sequence by Montreal-based El Toro Studios. Also nominated for Best Documentary Short, Charlie Tyrell's mixed-media film "My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes" combines stop-motion, archival footage and 2D animation. Tyrell's short was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Documentary category, but did not make the final five nominees.

The VRV series "Gary and His Demons" also received two nominations, for Best Web Program or Series (Fiction) and Best Screenplay (Web Program or Series).

The awards will be presented over six days during Canadian Screen Week in Toronto, Canada (March 25-31, 2019). This is the seventh annual Canadian Screen Awards, but the honor dates back to 1949 and was previously known as the Canadian Film Awards or the Genie Awards.

The following are the nominees in the animation category:

(pictured top row, left to right: "My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes," "Animal Behaviour," and "Racetime") [15