The nominations for the Banff World Media Competition’s Rockie Awards have been introduced, with American and British TV producers once more set to dominate the worldwide TV competitors within the Canadian Rockies this yr.
American TV reveals earned 52 nominations, with FX Networks, Nationwide Geographic and Warner Bros. Discovery every nabbing 5 mentions for his or her collection. That was adopted intently by UK producers with 41 nominations and Canadian producers with 37 mentions.
Amongst broadcasters, the BBC netted a field-leading 21 nominations for its programming throughout a variety of classes. The Banff Rockies prize-giving shall be streamed stay on June 12 as a part of an in-person occasion deliberate by competition organizers in Banff, Alberta.
U.S. producers dominate the most effective English language drama competitors, with nominations for HBO’s Euphoria, Home of the Dragon and The White Lotus collection, which can vie towards the CBC/BET+ drama The Porter and the AMC and BBC drama This Is Going to Harm.
The English language scripted comedy class has nominations for the BBC’s Am I Being Unreasonable?, FX Productions’ Atlanta and What We Do within the Shadows collection, Charlie Brooker’s Netflix mockumentary Cunk out of the UK, and Type Of, the transgender comedy from CBC and HBO Max additionally within the combine.
Banff Rockie Award organizers additionally handed out nominations for finest function size film, with entrants for 2 German movies — Ramstein: The Pierced Coronary heart (Das Durchstobene Herz), and The Coronary heart of Cape City (Das Wunder von Kapstadt) – the UK movie Then Barbara Met Alan, Canada’s Three Tall Girls and Roku’s Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story.
And the most effective restricted TV collection competitors has nominations for ABC Signature’s Fleishman Is In Bother, FX Productions’ The Affected person and the BBC and Amazon drama The English.
The Banff Rockie Awards judges to decide on the Grand Jury Prize winner this yr contains EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu, Starz exec Alice Dickens-Koblin, Peter Gal of DreamWorks Animation Studios, Incendo’s Cynthia Kennedy, BBC Studios’ Mark Linsey, Jacqueline Sacerio of eOne and UCP and Common Worldwide Studios president Beatrice Springborn.
An entire listing of Banff Rockie Awards nominations will be discovered at Playback online.
