UBCP/ACTRA Announces 2018 Nominees

To help celebrate BC performers' remarkable achievements, the 7th annual UBCP/ACTRA Awards Gala will honour five of its members on December 8th, 2018 for work done this past year. This peer-adjudicated awards show shines the spotlight on the talented performers in BC, and provides an opportunity for industry professionals to share in the celebration with the nominees, winners and fellow community members.

"The UBCP/ACTRA Awards will honour our best and brightest performers from a field of world class nominees," said Keith Martin Gordey, UBCP/ACTRA President and ACTRA Vice President. "This is a special year as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of UBCP/ACTRA and ACTRA National. And thanks to our superlative performers, crews and locations, we've grown to be the third largest film production center in North America."

The 2018 nominees are:

BEST ACTOR

Bob Frazer, The Cannon

Patrick Gilmore, Travelers - Jacob

Brandon Jay McLaren, UNREAL - Commitment

Andrew McNee, Adventures in Public School

Michael Patric, Frontier - Cannonball

Dylan Schmid, 1922

BEST ACTRESS

Sonja Bennett, Kayak to Klemtu

Sara Canning, Prodigals

Keegan Connor Tracy, THE MAGICIANS - Season 3 - Heroes and Morons

Alexia Fast, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Season 2 - Trouble is Bad

Karin Konoval, THE X-FILES - Season 11 - Plus One

Elyse Levesque, ORPHAN BLACK - Season 5 - The Few Who Dare

Kerry Sandomirsky, THE GOOD DOCTOR - Season 1 - Islands: Part 2

BEST EMERGING PERFORMER

Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Kayak to Klemtu

Daniel Davis Yang, Crawford - Season 1 - Manny's Oath of Secrecy

Daniel Doheny, Adventures in Public School

Taylor Hastings, THE RIDE Home

Ricky He, Christmas Solo

Chance Hurstfield, GHOST WARS - Season 1 - The Exorcism of Marcus Moon

Gabriel LaBelle, Dead Shack

BEST VOICE

Michael Daingerfield, Marvel Superhero Adventures - The Toys Are Back In Town - Role: The Tinkerer

Andrea Libman, My Little Pony: The Movie - Role: Pinkie Pie

Erin Mathews, Super Monsters - Borrowed Trouble - Role: Frankie

Sabrina Pitre, Chuck's Choice - Back Off Borkle - Role: Chuck

Vincent Tong, MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC - Marks and Recreation - Role: Rumble

BEST STUNT

Curtis Braconnier and Eli Zagoudakis, ARROW - Life Sentence

Brett Chan and Jeff Sanca, Darc

Brett Chan, Gerald Paetz, Andrew Chin and Mark Chin, Darc

Jon Kralt, Trevor Addie, Chad Bellamy, Adam Chase, Mark Chin, Ken Do, Lucius Fairburn, Kevin Fortin, Kevin Haaland, Zen Humpage, Cody Laudan, Brian Lydiatt, James Mowatt, Ryan Moss, Jesse Pierce, Matt Reimer, Shawn Robidoux, Chris Webb, Mike Wu, THE FLASH - Think Fast

Eli Zagoudakis, and JJ Makaro, ARROW - Shifting Allegiances     

Eli Zagoudakis, Curtis Braconnier and Will Erichson, ARROW - Brothers in Arms

For images and quotes from the Nominees please click here.

The UBCP/ACTRA Awards will be held on Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at the Vancouver Playhouse with over 600 industry professionals including UBCP/ACTRA members, press and politicians in attendance.

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. UBCP/ACTRA's almost 6,500 Members are an integral part of the approximately 25,000 Performers who have come together to build ACTRA, the strongest Union of cultural workers in Canada.

 

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