Clement Virgo's Brother, sci-fi comedy Viking among leading nominees for Canadian Screen Awards

Clement Virgo's Brother, a coming of age drama set in Scarborough, Ont., in the 1990s, leads all films with 14 nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards, followed by Stephane Lafleur's science-fiction comedy Viking, which picked up 13 nods on Wednesday when the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced its contenders for this year's awards. 

On the broadcast side, the CBC and BET+ series The Porter picked up 19 nominations, while last year's most nominated show, Sort Of, had another strong showing with 15, the same as the CBC Gem series Detention Adventure. 

Brother, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, is an adaptation of David Chariandy's novel of the same name, while Viking is about a B-team of volunteers tasked with simulating a manned mission to Mars, in order to work out the social issues that the real astronauts will face. 

David Cronenberg's science-fiction body horror Crimes Of The Future received 11 nominations. 

This is the first year that the awards will feature gender neutral performance categories, with eight nominees in each category, including Lamar Johnson (Brother), Steve Laplante (Viking) and Seung-Yoon Choi (Riceboy Sleeps). 

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/csa-nominees-brother-viking-1.6755641