It’s that time of year again! It’s a special time when members of the British Columbia film and television industry cross their collective fingers in the hopes that they may soon be receiving one of the province’s most distinguished entertainment recognitions: a Leo Award.
The Leo Awards, first established in 1999, were created as a way to provide support and recognition to all members of the British Columbia entertainment industry. Awards are given to actors, directors, producers, writers and other key areas that showcase the best the province has to offer — and once again, the Stargate franchise is leading the charge.
Stargate Universe, now in full-swing production on its second season, closely follows Sanctuary with an outstanding 16 nominations this year. (Sanctuary earned 17.) The series itself is nominated in the “Best Dramatic Series” category.
Actor Patrick Gilmore (“Dale Volker”) received a “Best Supporting Male Performance” nomination for his work on “Pain,” which premiers in the U.S. and Canada this Friday. Julia Benson‘s (“Vanessa James”) performance in “Pain” was also nominated in the “Best Supporting Female” category, as was Jennifer Spence (“Lisa Park”) for her turn in the November episode “Life.”
The bulk of the nominations go to those working behind the camera.
Robert Cooper and Peter Deluise both received nominations for “Best Direction” for their visions in the episodes “Human” and “Light,” respectively. “Light” also earned a screenwriting nomination for series co-creator Brad Wright.
Two cinematography nominations were handed out: Jim Menard for “Light,” and Michael Blundell for “Human.” Editors Brad Rines, Mike Banas, and Rick Martin were presented with nominations for their work on various episodes. The visual effects teams for the episodes “Air” and “Space” were both recognized for their contributions with nominations, as was James Robbins for his production design on the series pilot.
Finally, James Bamford received a nomination for “Best Stunt Coordination” for his work on “Air.”
Sanctuary leads all programs this year with 17 nominations for its second season, including Best Program, plus nominations for direction (two), screenwriting (Alan McCullough and Damian Kindler, both former Stargate writers), editing, make-up, production and costume design, and visual effects. The show’s actors were nominated in the categories of Guest Performance by a Male (SG-1‘s Michael Shanks, for his role in the episode “Penance”), Supporting Performance by a Male (Atlantis veterans Christopher Heyerdahl and Ryan Robbins), Lead Performance by a Male (Robin Dunne), and Lead Performance by a Female (Amanda Tapping).
The Web-based series Riese, which co-stars several Stargate veterans, was also nominated for Best Web Series.
Congratulations to the entire Stargate Universe team are in order, as the number of nominations is impressive for a freshman series. In contrast, Smallville received just six nominations this year, while fellow freshman series V garnered just two. Congrats are also in order to Sanctuary for their outstanding work.
The Leo Awards presentations will be held the first week of June in Vancouver, at the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
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I know this is a nitpicky kind of thing, but Sanctuary actually got 17 nominations. SGU got 16.
http://www.leoawards.com/nominees_by_program_2010.html
Congratulations to the nominees for both shows and all the other Stargate alumni who are nominated as well.
I apologize. You have the accurate info about the nominations in this article. However, the tag line to the story link on the GW front page is wrong in saying that both shows are tied in the number of nominations. That’s why I was confused.
I thought SGU was nominated for 17 aswell, was there a last minute change?
Its interesting to note that V only got 2 nominations and there is a good chance that it & SGU will be competing with each other in the Tuesday timeslot (If V gets renewed of course).
Sorry for the confusion — SGU was originally listed at 17, but one of the cinematography noms has dropped off the list. The story above was accurate, but the tagline on the home page did have the old info. All updated now.
seriously? NO Best Lead Male for Robert Carlyle? He OWNS the screen.
@ Ascended Tauri; True dat!
HOW DID BOBBY CARLYLE NOT GET NOMINATED FOR BEST MALE LEAD?!? What the frak?
Congratulations to all the nominees for both shows. sanctuary and SGU are getting the recognition they deserve. All that hard work is paying off. I hope they all win. :-)
@Ascended Tauri
Only actors who live in British Columbia can be nominated for this award.
@EvilSpaceAlien
That makes sense. Thanks for the info. It would be a true disappointment if it was for everyone and Robert Carlyle was not nominated.
Bravo to Sanctuary ;) I hope it gets all 17 of them =)