VANCOUVER — Dragon Boys and Robson Arms lead the pack going into this year’s Leo Awards, having picked up 12 nominations each, including best dramatic series and best screenwriting — with Robson‘s Jesse McKeown and Susin Nielsen both nom’d — when the annual gala announced its picks late Wednesday.

The CBC mini about Vancouver gangsters and the CTV comedy-drama series will go up against CW’s Smallville but not, surprisingly, the B.C.-shot Whistler. The CTV ski slope drama landed eight nominations, mostly in performance categories, but wasn’t tagged as a contender for best drama. Smallville also has eight nominations, including best direction for James Marshall.

Among movies, Andrew Currie’s Fido and Carl Bessai’s Unnatural & Accidental lead with 10 noms each, including best feature-length drama, followed by Douglas Coupland’s Everything’s Gone Green and Kimberley Wakefield’s NIMBY drama Mount Pleasant with eight. Vic Sarin’s Partition scored seven nods, including best feature and best direction.

Rising star Steph Song is up for two awards — best female lead in a feature for Everything’s Gone Green, and the corresponding prize for a dramatic series for her turn in Dragon Boys.

Corner Gas has seven nominations, and will face off against the most recent Gemini Awards — which for first the time was not produced in Toronto — for best music, comedy or variety program. Also nominated in the same category are Road Hockey Rumble and Beyond Words.

The annual awards — which go to film and TV projects produced or shot in B.C. — will hand out 76 awards at the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina in Vancouver on June 1 and 2, hosted by Ellie Harvey and Gary Jones, respectively.

‘We sell out ever year, because there is no other event in the calendar year that really celebrates the artistic community,’ says Walter Daroshin, Leo Awards president. ‘It’s an opportunity for us to come together as a community. It’s a black-tie event where a cinematographer can be sitting next to a production assistant.’