STILL BURIED, but I thought I'd stick my head up and post some awards info. Yes, I know, I know, the Oscars, blah blah...didn't even post the screenwriting winners but I didn't watch this year and so am exercising my full prerogative not to care.
But I do care about the fact that a very fine young actor I had the pleasure to work with on the Ex-show has been nominated for a Young Artist Award for his guest starring role. The awards, presented to actors under the age of 18, celebrate their 30th year this year, and will be given out in March. Congrats once again to Isaiah Grant for his excellent work in that episode (for which he was also nominated for a Gemini!) (And thanks, as always, to TV-Eh? for the tip.)
Next, nominations are out for the Canadian Screenwriting Awards, which will be presented in Toronto April 20 (hosted by the vivacious Geri Hall from 22 Minutes)
Word of caution, though. Pump some iron. The award itself is actually surprisingly dense and heavy. And people have been known to steal them. Sneaky people.
For more information on the Awards, including tickets, check out the WGC site.
ANIMATION
6Teen “Date and Switch”
Written by Robin J. Stein and Alice Prodanou
6Teen “Whoa Baby!”
Written by Alice Prodanou
Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy “The Perfect Family”
Written by Shane Simmons
CHILDREN OR PRESCHOOL
Captain Flamingo “Comic Slip”
Written by Christin Simms
Captain Flamingo “The Gobbler Robbler”
Written by Suzanne Bolch & John May
Future is Wild “Monkey Brains”
Written by Jeremy Winkels
DOCUMENTARY
FLicKeR
Written by Nik Sheehan
Passage
Documentary Script Written by John Walker
The Strangest Dream
Written by Barry Cowling & Eric Bednarski
EPISODIC ½ hour
Corner Gas “Bed & Brake Fast”
Written by Kevin White
Corner Gas “Bend It Like Brent”
Written by Andrew Carr
Corner Gas “Full Load”
Written by Brent Butt
Rent-a-Goalie “Eva Has a Dot Dot Dot”
Written by Josh Gal
EPISODIC 1 hour
Flashpoint “Attention Shoppers”
Written by Tracey Forbes
Flashpoint “Who’s George?”
Written by Adam Barken
Murdoch Mysteries “Elementary, My Dear Murdoch”
Written by Jason Sherman
ReGenesis “The Truth”
Written by Tom Chehak
FEATURE FILM
Blindness
Screenplay by Don McKellar
One Week
Written by Michael McGowan
Passchendaele
Written by Paul Gross
MOW or MINISERIES
Everest
Written by Keith Ross Leckie
Mayerthorpe
Written by Andrew Wreggitt
Would be Kings
Written by Tassie Cameron & Esta Spalding
RADIO DRAMA
Afghanada “Over the Ridge, Far Away - Parts 1 to 3”
Written by Jason Sherman
Afghanada “Special Forces”
Written by Greg Nelson and Adam Pettle
Afghanada “Man of Iron - Parts 1 to 3”
Written by Emil Sher
Afghanada “The Lotus Eater - Part 1 of 3”
Written by Greg Spottiswood
SHORT FILM
Awkward
Written by Kellie Ann Benz
How Are You
Written by Martha Burns & Susan Coyne
Spoiled
Written by Sherry White
VARIETY
History Bites “Celine Dion”
Written by Rick Green, Duncan McKenzie
This Hour Has 22 Minutes XVI “Episode 1”
Head Writer: Jennifer Whalen / Written by Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford, Kyle Tingley, Jennifer Whalen, Albert Howell, Tim McAuliffe, Dean Jenkinson, Geri Hall, Nathan Fielder
This Hour Has 22 Minutes XVI “Episode 2”
Head Writer: Jennifer Whalen / Written by Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford, Kyle Tingley, Jennifer Whalen, Albert Howell, Tim McAuliffe, Dean Jenkinson, Geri Hall
This Hour Has 22 Minutes XVI “Episode 8”
Head Writer: Jennifer Whalen / Written by Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford, Kyle Tingley, Jennifer Whalen, Albert Howell, Tim McAuliffe, Dean Jenkinson, Nathan Fielder, Joanne O’Sullivan, Peter White
YOUTH
Life With Derek “Two Kisses, One Party”
Written by Daphne Ballon
The Latest Buzz “The Gala Issue”
Written by Brent Piaskoski
The Latest Buzz “The Showdown Issue”
Written by Darrin Rose and Fraser Young
5 comments:
The tv nominations are great, especially Everest and Mayerthorpe, but the film ones? Please, what a joke. Both Passchendale and Blindess had mixed reviews as films, most of them highlighting the weak scripts. As for "One Week", who knows, it hasn't even been released yet, which answers the question ' can you really nominate a film that hasn't been released'?
Hey Chris,
Well, first of all, you're talking about a subjective reaction to the work. You may disagree with the choices of the WGC readers who nominated those scripts, but it's not as if they didn't read them and score them.
Secondly, the nice thing about the WGC Awards is that they're fully based on the script. Not necessarily the finished piece of work. That can be an important distinction.
On the TV side, sometimes you'll see a production draft submitted with all the changes, etc. But the writer is encouraged to submit what they feel was their best work. So sometimes the draft put into the awards can be quite different.
Now, in my case, I could have submitted for a couple shows, comedy scripts. But because what got shot was very different than my drafts, I held back. That was a personal choice. But I could have submitted a writers draft and if that had been chosen it would have been on my work.
in the case of the show I won for last year, Across The River To Motor City, it's my personal opinion that the script was better than the final executed cut of the show...so the ability to be judged on the words alone was great.
Finally, I understand your confusion about the eligibility/release question. But the situation with One Week is hardly unusual. WGC rules, and Genie rules too, I think, count eligibility from date of first theatrical showing in an accredited film festival.
Often, films don't find distributors, or open months later -- and this is so much part of the struggle in the Canadian film industry to get a percentage of screens and distribution, that your point in the strictest sense is moot. Yes. You can.
Now if you're stretching for a "is that a good idea?" that's a different question. But it's a question that is not only the province of the WGC Awards.
The confusion does sometimes snare casualties. Young People Fucking was ineligible this year, for example, because its first date of exhibition was outside the eligibility period. Which means technically it should have been submitted last year. Which is a goddamn shame because it's a funny film and a good script.
In conclusion, then, I take your points, but the issues and answers raised aren't as simple as you seem to think.
I agree with you on YPF.
Ha ha!
Mighty flex of you there, Chris.
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