2024 Canadian Screen Awards: watch the year's top shows and meet the nominees
There's so much content — Canadian content! — and you can find it here on CBC
This Friday, Mae Martin will host the Canadian Screen Awards Gala from the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto, and the hour-long special will be airing on CBC and CBC Gem that night at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. AT, 9:30 p.m. NT). But industry folks activate party mode way earlier than that. Canadian Screen Week is already officially underway, and between now and Friday's broadcast, there's a marathon of awards receptions — events that recognize talent in more than 150 categories across TV, film and digital media.
So much content — Canadian content! And if you want to play catch-up on the year's best programs, there's an impressive amount of CSA-nominated fare available to stream right now.
Watch CSA nominees on CBC Gem
CBC Gem has built a collection featuring the honourees, and there you'll find some of the top contenders, including Sort Of, which leads the comedy field with 18 nods.
The playlist also contains dozens of other titles, such as Swan Song, Best in Miniature and CBC Arts' interview series, Here & Queer.
You can also stream the BlackBerry series on CBC Gem, the must-watch story of the world's first smartphone, which is both a CBC limited series and the most-nominated feature in CSA history.
Check out interviews with CSA nominees
But if you're the kind of person who prefers to do a bit of research before committing to your next major binge, CBC Arts has covered a bunch of the nominees — including Sort Of and BlackBerry.
Among the highlights, we learned how the comedy Who's Yer Father? became a bona fide hit in P.E.I.
The stars of Shoresy revealed how they're making Sudbury, Ont., proud — and we got behind-the-scenes stories from the creators of Plan B and I Hate People, People Hate Me.
The latter is up against Vivek Shraya's How to Fail as a Popstar in the fictional web series category, and Shraya stopped by Here & Queer for an interview — as did Sort Of's Amanda Cordner and Solo's Félix Maritaud and Théodore Pellerin.
Solo is in the running for best motion picture, but if there were an award for the year's most bonkers film title, that would have to go to Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Back in August, we named its director, Ariane Louis-Seize, a CBC Arts Rising Star. Much more recently (like, a month ago) we interviewed Alexandra Billings about her CSA-nominated turn in Queet Tut.
And remember The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain? He hid it for years and even smuggled it to Canada — but the guy had his reasons.
The 2024 Canadian Screen Awards air Friday, May 31 on CBC and CBC Gem.
