2026 Award Nominees

2026 Award Nominees

Best Short Film Pilot

Rot Girl (Canada, BC)
Hockey Mom (Canada, ON)
County Blooms After Dark: Curses & Cures (Canada, ON)
Bunker Time! (Canada, ON)
The Nook (Canada, ON)

Best Comedy Series

The Witchy Girls (Australia)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Citron (Canada, QC)
Grimelle (Canada, QC)
Cows Come Home (Canada, ON)
Groupe de Soutien (Canada, QC)

Best Drama Series (Presented by Shaftesbury)

The Method. Foundation of Identity (Argentina)
ASTRID’S MANY FAILURES (Canada, MB)
Mukbang (Canada, QC)
Devenir Margot (Canada, QC)
peopleWatching III (Canada, ON)

Best Fiction Podcast

Table Read Podcast (USA)
The Chronicles of Wild Hollow: Highperion Day (Vol. 1) (UK)
DEVISER (Canada, ON)
The Reality Shaper: A Musical Podcast (USA)
Hearthbound (USA)

Best Unscripted Podcast

RPG for You and Me – Neon Heat (Canada, ON)
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast (USA)
The Defendants (Canada, ON)
The Heart is a Dungeon: The Way of the Hollow Star (USA)
The Crip Trip Disability Podcast (Canada, AB)

Best Children's/Youth Series

Bestest Day Ever with My Best Friend (Canada, ON)
Denis Danger 2 (Canada, QC)
Bumpadoo! (Canada, ON)

Best Documentary/Lifestyle Series (Presented by AMI)

Voetry S5 (Canada, ON)
Root Awakening (Canada, ON)
Straight and Loud (Russia)
The Fire Ghost of Caledonia Mills (Canada, NS)
Freedom Farm Sanctuary – Season 2 (Israel)
Fairy Trans Parent (Canada, ON)

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller Series

Phantom Line (Canada, ON)
Eternal Garden (Argentina)
Respire Fort (France)
Eyes in the Woods: Pilot (Canada, AB)
Antiutopia (Brazil)

Best Directing (Presented by the DGC)

Citron (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Devenir Margot (Canada, QC)
Grimelle (Canada, QC)

Best Writing (Presented by the Writer's Guild of Canada)

Devenir Margot (Canada, QC)
Citron (Canada, QC)
Anachroniks (France)
Respire Fort (France)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)

Best Editing

Respire Fort (France)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Group de Soutien (Canada, QC)
Citron (Canada, QC)
Dying Seconds (Canada, ON)

Best Actor in a Canadian Series (Presented by ACTRA Toronto)

U-hauling (Canada, QC) – Célia Gouin-Arsenault
Mukbang (Canada, QC) – Léanne Désilets
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC) – Henri Richer-Picard
Devenir Margot (Canada, QC) – Marika Lhoumeau
Grimelle (Canada, QC) – Arielle Mailloux

Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Series (Presented by ACTRA Toronto)

Cows Come Home (Canada, ON) – Allie Dunbar
Groupe de Soutien (Canada, QC) – Fabiola N. Aladin Asefi
Dying Seconds (Canada, ON) – Emma Hunter
Grimelle (Canada, QC) – Cindy Charles
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC) – Joe Scarpellino

Best Actor in an International Series

Respire Fort (France) – Dominique Bettenfeld
The Method: Foundation of Identity (Argentina) – Paola Barrientos
The Struggle for Existence (Denmark) – Jannik Dahl Pedersen
The Witchy Girls (Australia) – Zelda Moon (Kane Bonato)
Roots (Singapore) – Sora Ma

Best Supporting Actor in an International Series

Anachroniks (France) – Frédéric Radepont
The Struggle for Existence (Denmark) – Sofie Torp
Roots – Vertical Series (Singapore) – Jewel Kwek
The Witchy Girls (Australia) – Lazy Susan (Robbie Ten Eyck)
Te NGz 2 (New Zealand) – Quinton Hita

Best Ensemble Cast

Dying Seconds (Canada, ON)
The Struggle for Existence (Denmark)
Anachroniks (France)
peopleWatching III (Canada, ON)
Shipwrecked (Canada, QC)

Ben Houtman Memorial Award for Best Cinematography (Presented by SESLER)

AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)
Groupe de Soutien (Canada, QC)
Phantom Line (Canada, ON)
Eyes in the Woods (Canada, AB)

Best Original Score (Presented by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada)

AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Grimelle (Canada, QC)
Citron (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)
U-Hauling (Canada, QC)

Best Production Design

Ren: The Girl with the Mark (UK)
The Witchy Girls (Australia)
Respire Fort (France)
Phantom Line (Canada, ON)
Anachroniks (France)

Best Visual Effects

The Fire Ghost of Caledonia (Canada, NS)
Phantom Line (Canada, ON)
The Method: Foundation of Identity (Argentina)
Respire Fort (France)
The Witchy Girls (Australia)

Best Sound Design

Cows Come Home (Canada, ON)
Grimelle (Canada, QC)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Citron (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)

Best Costume Design

The Witchy Girls (Australia)
Ren: The Girl with the Mark (UK)
Shipwrecked (Canada, QC)
Anachroniks (France)
U-Hauling (Canada, QC)

Best Hair & Makeup

Anachroniks (France)
The Witchy Girls (Australia)
U-Hauling (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)
Dying Seconds (Canada, ON)

Best Writing - Podcast

RPG for You and Me – Neon Heat (USA)
The Heart is a Dungeon: The Way of the Hollow Star (USA)
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast (USA)
Table Read Podcast (USA)
The Defendants (Canada, ON)

Best Sound Design - Podcast

RPG for You and Me – Neon Heat (USA)
The Crip Trip Disability Podcast (Canada, AB)
The Defendants (Canada, ON)
Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs (USA)
Table Read Podcast (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast - Podcast

REDACTED (USA)
Table Read Podcast (USA)
Drimbus: City of Jerry (USA)
The Heart is a Dungeon: The Way of the Hollow Star (USA)
Dark Dice (Germany / Iceland)

Best LGBTQIA+ Series (Presented by OUTtv)

Wine Boys (Canada, ON)
The Witchy Girls (Australia)
Eyes in the Woods (Canada, AB)
Fairy Trans Parent (Canada, ON)
U-Hauling (Canada, QC)

Triple-Threat Auteur Award

The Witchy Girls (Australia) – Robbie Sinclair-Ten Eyck (a.k.a Lazy Susan)
Voetry, S5 (Canada, ON) – Affrica Spence
I’m Also Here (Canada, ON) – Naomi Snieckus
Phantom Line (Canada, ON) – Piotr Skowronski
peopleWatching III (Canada, ON) – Winston Rowntree

Suzette Laqua Best of BC Award (Presented by Creative BC)

Feminist Fairytales (Canada, BC)
REJECTION (Canada, BC)
Rot Girl (Canada, BC)

Best Toronto Series (Presented by the City of Toronto)

Bumpadoo! (Canada, ON)
peopleWatching III (Canada, ON)
Bestest Day Ever with My Best Friend (Canada, ON)
Voetry (Canada, ON)
Fairy Trans Parent (Canada, ON)

Best International Series

The Witchy Girls (Australia)
Respire Fort (France)
Freedom Farm Sanctuary – Season 2 (Israel)
Straight and loud (Russia)
The Method. Foundation of Identity (Argentina)

Best French Canadian Series

Citron (Canada, QC)
GROUPE DE SOUTIEN (Canada, QC)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Devenir Margot (Canada, QC)
Grimelle (Canada, QC)

Best English Canadian Series (Presented by Post City Picture & Sound)

18 to 35 (Canada, ON)
Bumpadoo! (Canada, ON)
Cows Come Home (Canada, ON)
Root Awakening (Canada, ON)
Phantom Line (Canada, ON)

Best Series - Grand Prize (Presented by the Rights Company)

Devenir Margot (Canada, QC)
AYER’S CLIFF (Canada, QC)
Respire Fort (France)
Cows Come Home (Canada, ON)
The Fire Ghost of Caledonia Mills (Canada, NS)

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