Nominees announced for 2019 UBCP/ACTRA Awards
On November 23, local film and television performers will celebrate their own at the 2019 UBCP/ACTRA Awards, the nominees for which were announced on Tuesday.
Awards will be handed out in five categories – Best Actor; Best Actress; Best Emerging Performer; Best Voice; and Best Stunt – to members of the Union of British Columbia Performers for work completed in the last year.
“It is our honour and privilege to acknowledge and recognize our world class performers at the 8th Annual "UBCP/ACTRA Awards this November,” says Keith Martin Gordey, UBCP/ACTRA president and ACTRA vice president, in a recent press release. “Our extraordinarily accomplished members are a significant reason that Vancouver is the third largest production centre in North America and we are very proud of this year’s nominees.”
The nominees are:
BEST ACTOR
Ben Cotton - Crown and Anchor
Louis Ferreira - Bad Blood – “What about Valentina?”
Richard Harmon - Woodland
Nicholas Holmes - Cold Pursuit
David Lewis - Unspeakable – “Heat-Treatment”
Ryan Robbins - PURE – “Excommunication”
BEST ACTRESS
Sara Canning - Hatch
Jennifer Spence - Travelers – “Trevor”
Camille Sullivan - Kingsway
Camille Sullivan - Unspeakable – “Unsafe”
BEST EMERGING PERFORMER
Grace Dove - How It Ends
Jack Gillett - Deadly Class – “The Clampdown”
Nicholas Holmes - Bletchley Circle: San Francisco – “Presidio”
Christine Lee - Black Summer – “The Tunnel”
Steven Roberts - In God I Trust
BEST VOICE
Rebecca Husain - Go Away Unicorn! – “Move Out Unicorn!”
Erin Mathews - Super Monsters: Furever Friends
Giles Panton - Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies
Vincent Tong - 16 Hudson – “Chinese School of Rock”
Sunni Westbrook - My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – “Frenemies”
BEST STUNT
Simon Burnett, Nilo Ghajar and Jennifer Clark - Supergirl – “Menagerie”
Marny Eng and James Mowat - The Predator
Jon Kralt and Adrian Hein - The Flash – “Legacy”
Eli Zagoudakis, Nathan Shuker and Marshall Bingham - Arrow - The Slabside Redemption
Eli Zagoudakis and Adrian Hein - Arrow – Inmate
The UBCP/ACTRA Awards will be handed out in a gala ceremony at the Vancouver Playhouse on November 23. Follow the festivities on Twitter at #ubcpactraawards or @YVRScreenScene for real-time results and exclusive photos from the red carpet.
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. http://www.ubcp.com.
Top image: Louis Ferreira
