It’s a year of several firsts for the Canadian Screen Awards, with a record for the most-nominated film, changes to performance and music categories, and a streaming series in the running for Best Comedy.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the 2023 nominees for homegrown film, television, and digital media on Wednesday (Feb. 22).

The winners will be honoured in a series of in-person awards ceremonies during Canadian Screen Week in Toronto from April 11 to 16, culminating in a pre-recorded CBC broadcast show hosted by Toronto-raised comedy star Samantha Bee.

Here’s a look at facts, figures and milestones behind the crop of contenders for the 11th annual awards:

• Brother is the most nominated film in Canadian Screen Awards history with 14 nods.
• This is the first year a CBC Gem original (Fakes; pictured) has been nominated for Best Comedy Series.
• Productions in all three film, television, and digital media streams are nominated in a first for Best Stunt Coordination since the platform-agnostic category was introduced in 2021.
• This is the inaugural year of gender-neutral performance categories for lead and supporting performers in the film and television streams, which also saw the number of nominations per category increase from five to eight.
• This year has new, original music categories added for film and television, respectively: Best Original Music in a Feature Length Documentary and Best Original Music – Original Song.
• The 2023 awards have also expanded the Original Music and Sound categories in the television stream to recognize the diversity of each genre.
• New craft categories focusing on children’s programming were also added this year: Best Picture Editing, Children’s or Youth; and Best Writing, Pre-School.
• This year’s award ceremonies are being held in-person for the first time in four years, after pandemic-spurred virtual instalments.

By the numbers:

• Motion pictures with the highest number of nominations: Brother (14); Viking (13); Crimes of the Future (11)
• Television series with the highest number of nominations: The Porter (19); Detention Adventure (15); Sort Of (15); Pretty Hard Cases (11)
• Digital media series with the highest number of nominations: Revenge of the Black Best Friend (9); Avocado Toast the Series (7); Tokens (4)
• Children’s or pre-school series with the highest number of nominations: Detention Adventure (15); Odd Squad Mobile Unit (5); The Snoopy Show (5); The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy (4); The Hardy Boys (4); Holly Hobbie (4)
• Most nominated reality/competition program or series: Canada’s Drag Race (9)
• Most nominated lifestyle program/series: Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (3); Mary Makes It Easy (3)
• Most nominated animated series: The Snoopy Show (5)
• Most nominated documentary series: BLK: An Origin Story (5)
• Most nominated broadcaster: CBC/Radio-Canada (360), Bell Media (183), and Corus Entertainment (74)
• Total number of films entered for nomination consideration: 235 (74 feature film, 43 feature documentary, 118 short film)
• Total number of television and digital media titles entered for nomination consideration: 421 (322 television titles, 99 digital media titles)
• Total number of 2023 Canadian Screen Awards presented: 157 (including Special Awards and Fan Choice); 145 (not including Special Awards or Fan Choice)
• Number of 2023 Canadian Screen Award categories: film categories – 26; TV categories – 108; digital media categories – 11
• Canadian province generating the most nominated television and digital media titles: Ontario (163 television, 24 digital media)
• Canadian province generating the most nominated film titles: Quebec (32)
• Number of days members have to vote for 2023 Canadian Screen Awards winners: 17 (Feb. 22 to March 10, 2023)
• Number of Academy members who vote for the Canadian Screen Awards: 3,070
• Total number of individual nominees for the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards: 1,611 nominated individuals overall across 145 categories