CTV’s Children Ruin Everything leads the nominees for the 28th Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) Screenwriting Awards.

The annual awards for Canadian screenwriters will take place on May 13 at Koerner Hall in Toronto, with comedian Jessica Holmes (Royal Canadian Air Farce) announced as host. The ceremony will also reveal the recipients of the Showrunner Award, the Alex Barris Mentorship Award, and the Sondra Kelly Award.

Children Ruin Everything (New Metric Media) garnered four nominations in the Comedy Series category. Nominees include Kurt Smeaton for the episode “Arguments”; Smeaton and Jessica Meya for “Therapy”; Kathleen Phillips for “Clothes”; and Anita Kapila for “Babysitters.”

Other nominees in the comedy category include Julian Doucet and Lori-Ann Russell for Prime Video’s The Lake (Amaze), Anthony Q. Farrell for CTV’s Shelved (Counterfeit Pictures), and Enuka Okuma for CBC’s Workin’ Moms (Wolf + Rabbit Entertainment).

The nominees in the Drama Series category are Sarah Dodd for Global’s Family Law (SEVEN24 Films, Lark Productions), Joseph Kay and Rachel Langer for CTV’s Transplant (Sphere Media), Tassie Cameron and Sherry White for CBC’s Pretty Hard Cases (Cameron Pictures), Sheri Elwood and Alexander Nunez for CBC’s Moonshine (Entertainment One, Six Eleven Media), Simon McNabb for CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury), and Zoe Hopkins for Crave and APTN lumi’s Little Bird (Rezolution Pictures, OP Little Bird).

The Feature Film nominees are Dan Gordon for Irena’s Vow (Darius Films, K&K Selekt), Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark for Suze (Wildling Pictures), Jonas Chernick and Diana Frances for The Burning Season (Banana-Moon Sky Films, Good Movies), and Heidi Foss (story and screenplay), Michael Solomon (story) and Lienne Sawatsky (screenplay) for Butterfly Tale (CarpeDiem Film & TV).

Sawatsky is also nominated in the Children’s category for the Pinecone & Pony (First Generation Films, Dreamworks Animation) episode “Hero Soup.” The Apple TV+ series garnered another two nominations in the same category, with Tally Yong Knoll up for “Once in a Violetmoon” and Corey Liu for “Pinecone and Horse.”

TVOKids’ Interstella Ella (Apartment 11 Productions) has two nods in the category, with Emer Connon up for “Big Little Problems” and Anne-Marie Perrotta for “A Star is Born.” J.J. Johnson rounds out the nominees for his work on the Apple TV+ series Jane (Sinking Ship Entertainment, Jane Goodall Institute).

The full list of nominees is available on the WGC website.

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