Sort Of, Night Raiders, Scarborough lead 10th Canadian Screen Award nominations
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After just one season on air, CBC/HBO dramedy Sort Of has dominated the Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13 nods — the most of any individual nominee.
The acclaimed series follows gender-fluid millennial Sabi (Bilal Baig, who is also co-creator) — bartender at an LGBTQ cafe and bookstore, babysitter to a young family, and the youngest child of a large Pakistani family — as they try to balance their identities.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced nominees for the 10th annual Canadian Screen Awards on Tuesday, with CBC's Pretty Hard Cases and CTV's Wynonna Earp nabbing 11 nominations each in the TV categories, and Night Raiders and Scarborough tied for 11 each in the film categories.
Other notable contenders include CBC shows Coroner and Kim's Convenience, as well as the films All My Puny Sorrows, Wildhood and Drunken Birds.
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Best Drama Series
Best Comedy Series
In the Best Drama series category, CBC shows Coroner and Moonshine received nominations, alongside Super Channel miniseries The North Water, CTV's Transplant and History's Vikings. Newcomer Moonshine follows a Nova Scotia couple whose adult children are vying for control of the family's seashore summer resort business.
Jann, Letterkenny and Kim's Convenience are no strangers to the Best Comedy Series category. Kim's Convenience received its fourth and third-consecutive nomination for Best Comedy, with each of its lead performers nabbing acting nominations, to boot. Although the beloved show wrapped its final season in 2021, its star Nicole Power plays the lead role in fellow nominee Strays, about a woman who embarks on a new career as the executive director of an animal shelter.
Best Motion Picture
Achievement in Direction
In the film categories, both Night Raiders and Scarborough scored nominations for Best Motion Picture after making waves at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Night Raiders, a future-set science fiction thriller, confronts Canada's dark residential school past with a genre-bending twist. Scarborough follows three kids in the titular Toronto community who befriend each other in their struggle against systemic poverty.
The first film has received a nomination for original screenplay, and the latter film, which is based on Catherine Hernandez's 2017 novel, will compete for adapted screenplay. Both received nods for achievement in direction, with their respective directors — Danis Goulet for Night Raiders, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson for Scarborough — also tapped for the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award.
Original Screenplay
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