Lark Productions and Cameron Pictures’ Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent leads the television nominations at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) in both the television categories and overall with 20 nods.

The Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the CSA nominees across 110 television categories and nine digital media categories today (March 26).

The police procedural’s recognitions include nominations for Best Drama Series; two nominations for Best Direction, Drama Series for Sharon Lewis and Holly Dale; two for Best Picture Editing, Drama Series; a writing nod for showrunner Tassie Cameron; two lead performer nominations in the drama category for Kathleen Munroe and Aden Young; a best supporting nod for Karen Robinson; and three guest performer nominations for Blessing Adedijo, Amanda Brugel and Sydney Ozerov-Myer.

The series has notched the third-most CSA nominations ever, behind only Schitt’s Creek‘s 26 nominations in 2020 and 21 the following year.

The other Best Drama nominations are Hollywood Suite’s Potluck Ladies (LifeSketch Media), CTV series Sight Unseen (Blink49 Studios) as well as the four-part CBC series Bones of Crows (Ayasew Ooskana Pictures, Marie Clements Media, Screen Siren Pictures and Grana Productions) and Allegiance (Lark Productions).

Aside from Cameron, the writing nominations for drama series are Anar Ali and Sarah Dodd for Allegiance, Clements for Bones of Crows, Ken Cuperus for Hallmark and the W Network’s Mistletoe Murders (Headspinner Productions) and Shazia Javed for Potluck Ladies.

In the lead performer, drama category, Supinder Wraich is nominated for Allegiance, Grace Dove for Bones of Crows, Michelle Morgan for CBC’s Heartland (SEVEN24 Films), Makyo Nguyen for Citytv’s Hudson & Rex (Shaftesbury), Hélène Joy for CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury) and Vinessa Antoine for CBC Gem’s Plan B (KOTV).

Best supporting role for drama nominees are Enrico Colantoni in Allegiance; Kevin Hanchard in Hudson & Rex; Sarah Booth in Plan B, Karen Knox in Tubi’s Wynonna Earp: Vengeance (SEVEN24 Films); and Jonny Harris, Clare McConnell and Daniel Maslany in Murdoch Mysteries.

The Best Comedy Series contenders are CTV’s recently concluded Children Ruin Everything (New Metric Media), CBC’s One More Time (AMI), Crave and APTN’s Don’t Even (Pier 21 Films, Frantic Films, Sekowan Media) as well as the Crave series Late Bloomer (Pier 21 Films) and The Office Movers (Counterfeit Entertainment).

Kathleen Phillips and Andrew de Angelis each received a nomination for two episodes of Children Ruin Everything in the comedy writing category. The other nominees are Jasmeet Raina for Late Bloomer, Jessie Gabe for One More Time and Jennica Harper for CBC’s Run the Burbs (Pier 21 Films).

The best comedy ensemble nominees are Children Ruin Everything, One More Time, Run the Burbs and Crave’s Letterkenny (New Metric Media) and The Trades (Kontent House Productions).

Children Ruin Everything, Bones of Crows and Run the Burbs have all been recognized with 12 nominations each. The most nominated TV movie is Wynonna Earp: Vengeance with nine, while Treehouse TV’s Rubble & Crew (Spin Master Entertainment) is the most nominated animated series with five.

On the children’s series side, Hulu and Prime Video’s Davey and Jonesie’s Locker (marblemedia) is the most recognized children’s series with 10 nominations followed by Family Channel’s Beyond Black Beauty (Sinking Ship Entertainment, Leif Films, Saga Films) with seven.

CBC’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics received 11 nominations and The National was the most nominated news program with seven. Overall, CBC drama and comedy series earned 83 nominations while its unscripted, arts and documentary programming received 76 nominations.

With seven nominations, Playback‘s 2024 Doc of the Year The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal was the most nominated documentary series. Meanwhile, Crave’s Canada’s Drag Race (Blue Ant Studios) is the most nominated reality series with nine, one more than in 2024.

CTV Life Channel’s Mary Makes It Easy (Proper Television) has the most nominations of any lifestyle series with six.

Crave’s My Dead Mom earned the most digital media nominations with eight, including Best Web Program or Series, Fiction; followed by KindaTV’s Stories from my Gay Grandparents with six and Bell Fibe TV1’s Everybody’s Meg with four.

Voiceover work in live-action and animation is being recognized in the expanded Best Voice Performance category. Technical production teams are being honoured under Best Live Sports Event, Technical Production and morning shows are being recognized under the Best Talk or Entertainment News Series category.

The 13th annual CSAs will be handed out in five ceremonies from May 30 to June 1. May 30 will see the News, Entertainment and Sports Awards as well as the Documentary, Factual, Lifestyle and Reality Awards broadcast live on the Canadian Academy’s website. This will be followed by the Cinematic Art Awards and the Scripted Television Awards on May 31, culminating in a 90-minute broadcast hosted by Edmonton-born Lisa Gilroy on CBC Gem.

The full list of television nominees can be found here.

Photo by Steve Wilkie, courtesy of Citytv