The Writers Guild of Canada has announced the nominees for its 19th annual Screenwriting Awards, including a nod for Orphan Black, last year’s WGC TV drama award winner and 2015’s big winner at the Canadian Screens Awards.
The Orphan Black episode “Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est,” written by Tony Elliot, is up for a prize in the TV drama category. Bruce M. Smith is also nominated in the category for his 19-2 episode “Partner,” along with Michael Grassi for the Lost Girl episode “La Fae Époque,” John Krizanc for the Saving Hope season three episode “The Way We Were” and Jackie May for the Strange Empire episode “The Oath.”
In the TV comedy category, Andrew De Angelis was nominated for his work on Mr. D, Bob Martin picked up a nomination for Sensitive Skin and Mike Smith, JP Tremblay and Robb Wells were nominated for a season eight episode of Trailer Park Boys. Also nominated was the writing crew behind an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, including Mark Critch, Shaun Majumder, Mike Allison, Bob Kerr, Susan Kent, Greg Thomey, Jon Blair, Sonya Bell, Abdul Butt, Tim Polley, Heidi Brander, Adam Christie, Kevin Shustack, Jeremy Woodcock and contributing writers Dean Jenkins and Ron Sparks.
In the shorts and web series category, Darknet‘s Doug Taylor and Randall Cole were nominated for two separate episodes of the series. Also nominated were Mark De Angelis for Bill & Sons Towing and Jason Leaver for Out With Dad.
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour writers took two of the nominations in the children and youth category, with Billy Brown and Dan Angel getting a nod for “Goodwill Toward Men” and Melody Fox receiving a nomination for season four’s “Mrs. Worthington.” Also nominated were Cole Bastedo and Jenny Siddle for Some Assembly Required, J.J. Johnson for Annedroids and Katherine Sandford for her work on You and Me.
The animation category saw Craig Martin nominated for The Day My Butt Went Psycho, Simon Racioppa and Richard Elliott for Fangbone, Sean Jara for Johnny Test and Greg Sullivan for Nerds and Monsters.
For the documentary category, this year’s three nominees are Michael McNamara for The Cholesterol Question, Donald McWilliams for Norm McLaren: Animated Musician and Robert Lower for Shameless Propaganda.
In the movies and miniseries category, Jason Sherman and Susan Coyne were nominated for The Best Laid Plans episode “You Had an Option, Sir.” Nicholas Billon is up for a prize for his work in Elephant Song and Thom Fitzgerald is nominated for the Sex and Violence season one episode “Surface Scars.”
This year’s winners are to be announced at the WGC Screenwriting Awards on April 27 in Toronto, which will be hosted once again by Ryan Belleville and written by comedian Jeremy Woodcock along with Belleville. The awards gala will be held at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning’s Koerner Hall in Toronto.