CSA Nominees

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced its nominees for the fledgling Canadian Screen Awards on Monday. The awards are a result of consolidating the Gemini and Genie awards and recognize achievements in television and film.

Leading the film categories with 10  nominations is the psychological thriller Enemy, which reunited actor Jake Gyllenhaal with his Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve. Both men earned nominations: Villeneuve for Best Director and Gyllenhaal for Best Actor who plays both leads, a man obsessed with tracking down his own doppleganger, and the doppleganger himself. Enemy’s other nominations include Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Sarah Gadon), and Adapted Screenplay (Javier Gullon).

Among the submitted French-language films, Xavier Dolan’s passion project Tom at the Farm has 7 nominations including Best Picture, Director (Xavier Dolan), Supporting Actor (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) and Supporting Actress (Evelyne Brochu). In addition to directing, Dolan also wrote, produced, edited and starred in the thriller about a man who attends a funeral only to discover that nobody there knows who he is or how he’s related to the deceased.

Gabrielle, Canada’s submission for the Best Foreign Language category at this year’s Oscars, earned 6 nominations, including Best Picture. The film has a strong chance at winning the top prize as Canada’s submission to the Academy Awards has won the Canadian Best Picture award for the last three years. The coming-of-age tale of a  spirited woman with William’s syndrome also earned nominations for Best Actress (Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) and Best Supporting Actor (Alexandre Landry). You can see a clip of our interview with the director of Gabrielle, Louise Archambault, here.

You can see selected film categories and nominees below, and can find a list of all of the CSA nominees on the Academy’s website.

• Best film: Le Démantèlement (The Dismantlement); Empire of Dirt; Enemy; The F-Word; Gabrielle; The Grand Seduction; Maïna; Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm).

• Direction: Sébastien Pilote, Le Démantèlement; Denis Villeneuve, Enemy; Michael Dowse, The F-Word; Xavier Dolan, Tom à la ferme; Pedro Pires and Robert Lepage, Triptyque.

• Feature-length documentary: Hi-Ho Mistahey; My Prairie Home; People of a Feather; Vanishing Point; Watermark.

• Lead actor: Gabriel Arcand, Le Démantèlement; Jake Gyllenhaal, Enemy; Daniel Radcliffe, The F-Word; Brendan Gleeson, The Grand Seduction; Rajesh Tailang, Siddharth.

• Lead actress: Tatiana Maslany, Cas & Dylan; Cara Gee, Empire of Dirt; Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Gabrielle; Kawennahere Devery Jacobs, Rhymes for Young Ghouls; Isabelle Guérard, Rouge Sang.

• Supporting actress: Florence Blain, L’autre maison; Jennifer Podemski, Empire of Dirt; Sarah Gadon, Enemy; Mackenzie Davis,The F-Word; Evelyne Brochu, Tom à la ferme.

• Supporting actor: Jay Baruchel, The Art of the Steal; Alexandre Landry, Gabrielle; Gordon Pinsent, The Grand Seduction; Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Tom à la ferme, Marc Labrèche, Whitewash.
•  Original Screenplay: Jonathan Sobel, The Art of the Steal; Sébastien Pilote, Le Démantèlement; Shannon Masters, Empire of Dirt; Richie Mehta, Siddharth; Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Marc Tulin, Whitewash.

The Canadian Screen Awards, hosted by Martin Short, will be handed out on March 9 live on CBC Television.

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