Heated Rivalry leads the Canadian Screen Awards for drama series with 18 nominations.
Last year’s Best Drama Series winner Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, time-travel drama Plan B, crime drama Saint-Pierre and Vancouver’s own cop & con drama Wild Cards are the other nominees in the category.
Heated Rivalry breakout stars Hudson Williams and François Arnaud are both nominated as Best Lead Performer, along with Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets) and Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova as Best Supporting Performer and Nadine Bhabha as Best Guest Performer.
Kathleen Munroe, one-half of Law & Order Toronto’s detective duo is nominated as Best Lead Performer, as is Allan Hawco, one-half of Saint-Pierre’s detective duo.
Plan B’s Carolina Bartczak is nominated as Best Lead Performer for her role as a mother who travels back in time to prevent her daughter.’s suicide.
Other Best Lead Performer nominees are Michelle Morgan from Heartland and Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) from Revival.
Missing from the Best Drama Series nominees is Surrey crime drama Allegiance but Supinder Wraich is back with a Best Lead Performer nomination — a category the actor won last year.
Other Vancouver nominees: Wild Cards’s Amy Goodmurphy as Best Supporting Performer for her role as a cop and Murder in a Small Town’s Noah Reid as Best Guest Performer for his role as a Gibsons art teacher and serial killer.
For more: Canadian Screen Awards Nominations
The Canadian Screen Awards Gala airs May 31st on the CBC.