Room Leads Canadian Screen Award Nominations

Room

Here's a first: there are ten Best Picture nominees at this year's Canadian Screen Awards and I've already seen all of them! Room leads the film side of the Canadian Screen Award nominations with eleven nods, including Best Actress frontrunner Brie Larson and actors Jacob Tremblay and Joan Allen. Canada's Oscar submission Felix and Meira finds lots of love this morning too. Ditto Anne Émond's wonderful Les êtres chers and festival hit Sleeping Giant. Also among the Best Picture nominees are Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's The Forbidden Room and Philippe Falardeau's My Internship in Canada, which missed some major nominations like Best Director, while Internship's Patrick Huard and Suzanne Clément both missed out on acting nods. (Huard should have won.) In fairness to the nominating committees, as mentioned in the CSA preview, The Forbidden Room isn't something for everyone, so it's Best Picture nomination is still pretty admirable. And a first for Maddin!


The huge snub of the morning (besides the flat-out crazy omission of The Forbidden Room for direction) is Patricia Rozema's Into the Forest. Arguably the director's strongest work in years and a powerful achievement in writing, acting, and directing, Into the Forest only got a nomination for sound. The screenplay snub comes in place of signficantly lesser films competing for the prize.

Doc categories are especially strong this year with The Amina Profile leading.

The film nominees for the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards:
*Winners will be announced Sunday, March 13.

Best Picture

Brooklyn
Corbo
The Demons 

Les êtres chers

Felix and Meira

The Forbidden Room

My Internship in Canada
Remember

Room

Sleeping Giant

Best Director:

Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Andrew Cividino, Sleeping Giant

Anne Émond, Les êtres chers
Maxime Giroux, Felix and Meira
Philippe Lesage, The Demons

Actor in a Leading Role:

Maxim Gaudette, Les êtres chers

Jasmin Geljo, Waiting Room

Christopher Plummer, Remember
Rossif Sutherland, River 

Jacob Tremblay, Room

Actress in a Leading Role:

Céline Bonnier, Passion of Augustine

Leah Goldstein, Diamond Tongues
Brie Larson, Room

Karelle Tremblay, Les êtres chers

Hadas Yaron, Felix and Meira

Actor in a Supporting Role

Wardis Aluwalia, Beeba Boys
Tony Nardi, Corbo
Irdens Exantus, My Internship in Canada

Nick Serrino, Sleeping Giant
Patrick Hivon, Ville-Marie

Actress in a Supporting Role:

Joan Allen, Room
Christine Beaulieu, Le Mirage
Cynthia Ashburger, Waiting Room
 Balinder Johal, Beeba Boys
Mylène Mackay, Endorphine 

Best Original Screenplay:

Endorphine
Les êtres chers

My Internship in Canada

Remember
Zoom

Adapted Screenplay:
Eadwearde

Room

The Saver

Achievement in Costumes:

Beeba Boys

Corbo
Forsaken
Hyena Road
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

Achievement in Cinematography:

Brooklyn
Felix and Meira

The Forbidden Room

Hyena Road

Room

Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design:
Felix and Meira

The Forbidden Room
Forsaken

Hyena Road

Room

Achievement in Film Editing:

Le garagiste
Les êtres chers

Hyena Road

Room
Sleeping Giant

Achievement in Make-up:
Anna 
Backcountry 

Hyena Road
Forsaken
Room

Achievement in Music – Original Score

Anna

Brooklyn

Passion of Augustine
Room
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

Achievement in Music – Original Song

88

Les êtres chers

People Hold On

Scratch: A Hip Hop Opera
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

Achievement in Overall Sound

Le garagiste

Endorphine

Hyena Road

Into the Forest
My Internship in Canada

Achievement in Sound Editing

Le garagiste

Endorphine
The Forbidden Room
Forsaken

Hyena Road

Achievement in Visual Effects:

Borealis
Endorphine

Hyena Road

Remember
Zoom

Ted Rogers Award for Best Documentary Feature:

The Amina Profile
Hadwin’s Judgement

How to Change the World

HURT
Last of the Elephant Men

Achievement in Cinematography – Documentary

Hadwin’s Judgement
The Last of the Elephant Men
The Messenger
Some Kind of Love

Welcome to FL

Achievement in Editing – Documentary

The Amina Profile
How to Change the World
The Last of the Elephant Men
The Price We Pay

Welcome to FL

Best Documentary Short
Bacon and God's Wrath
The Little Deputy
Quiet Zone
Rebel
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

Best Live Action Short
Blue Thunder
Mynarski Death Plummet
Overpass
Roberta
She Stoops to Conquer

Best Animated Short
Auto Portraits
Ballad of Immortal Joe
BAM
In Deep Waters 
The Sleepwalker      

Discovery Award
(Festival film with budget under $250 000)
Winner: Mina Walking