UBCP/ACTRA members will honour their own at the 2016 UBCP/ACTRA Awards, the nominees for which were announced this morning.
With a self-stated mission to “build the BC star system,” the organization annually honours five members for work done in the past year. This awards show is the only peer-adjudicated performer awards show in BC, lending what UBCP/ACTRA calls in its press release “a strong sense of professional pride to the nominees and winners.”
Among the nominees this year – in categories covering acting, voice, and stunts – are Jacob Tremblay (Room), Juan Riedinger (The Romeo Section), Camille Sullivan (The Birdwatcher), Leif Havdale (Arrow), and Andrea Libman (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).
The awards will be handed out at the Vancouver Playhouse on Nov. 12.
(Drumroll, please): The nominees for the 2016 UBCP/ACTRA Awards are:
BEST ACTOR
Steven Cree Molison: Blackstone (Retribution)
Eli Goree: Race
Brandon Jay McLaren: Slasher (In the Pride of His Face)
Ty Olsson: UnREAL (Savior)
Aleks Paunovic: Numb
Juan Riedinger: The Romeo Section (Mandate of Heaven)
BEST ACTRESS
Priscilla Faia: You Me Her (Cigarettes and Funions and Crap)
Crystal Lowe: Signed Sealed Delivered (From Paris with Love)
Carmen Moore: Blackstone (Flat Line)
Christina Sicoli: Paranormal Solutions Inc. (Happy Endings and New Beginnings)
Camille Sullivan: The Birdwatcher
BEST EMERGING PERFORMER
Emily Haine: Fargo (The Gift of the Magi)
Dejan Loyola: Saving Hope (Goodbye Girl)
Julie Lynn Mortensen: Drawing Home
Jacob Tremblay: Room
Jonathan Whitesell: The 100 (Terms and Conditions)
Mayumi Yoshida: The Man in the High Castle (The Illustrated Woman)
BEST VOICE
Peter Kelamis: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (The Hooffields and McColts: Big Daddy McColt)
Andrea Libman: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic (The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows Pinkie Pie & Fluttershy)
Peter New: Littlest Pet Shop (Petnapped!; Sunil)
Lee Tockar: Slugterra (Get Pronto!; Pronto)
Vincent Tong: Nerds and Monsters (Tickle Stick/Monstarrrghs!; Irwin)
BEST STUNT
Leif Havdale: Arrow (Code of Silence)
Leif Havdale: The Flash (Legends of Today)
Adrian Hein: Arrow (Schism)
Stunt Ensemble (Rhys Williams, Leif Havdale): The Candidate
Stunt Ensemble (Mike Mitchell, Lauro Chartrand, Dean Choe, Scott Nicholson, Crystal Dalman): X Files (Babylon)
In addition to the five performance awards, two UBCP/ACTRA industry awards will be presented: the Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award and the John Juliani Award of Excellence.
The Union of British Columbia Performers (UBCP/ACTRA) is an autonomous branch of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), the national organization of professional performers working in the English-language recorded media in Canada. ACTRA represents the interests of 22,000 members across Canada - the foundation of Canada's highly acclaimed professional performing community.
