The 2026 Canadian Screen Awards nominees have been announced, recognizing outstanding Production Design and Art Direction across Canadian film, fiction and non-fiction television.
The nominees for the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards have been announced, celebrating achievement across Canadian film, television and digital media. This year’s awards span 146 categories, with Canadian Screen Week taking place May 27–31 in Toronto. Production Design winners will be announced across the Cinematic Arts Awards on May 28, the Unscripted Television Awards on May 29 and the Scripted Television Awards on May 30, ahead of the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast on May 31.
Presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Canadian Screen Awards recognize the artists and craftspeople shaping work made across the country. Production Design is represented across three categories this year: Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design for film, Best Production Design or Art Direction, Fiction, and Best Production Design or Art Direction, Non-Fiction.
The nominees encompass an especially broad range of production design work, from the post-apocalyptic landscape of 40 Acres and the heightened medieval world of Deathstalker to the Arctic community of North of North, the period environments of Murdoch Mysteries, contemporary scripted series including Heated Rivalry and Small Achievable Goals, and large-scale reality and factual productions like Top Chef Canada and Canada's Drag Race.
Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design — Film
Peter Cosco — 40 Acres
Joshua Turpin, Chloé Olson — Deathstalker
Joshua Turpin — Honey Bunch
Kerry Noonan, Malcolm McKenzie — Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Antonin Sorel — The Train | Le train
Best Production Design or Art Direction — Fiction
Aidan Leroux, Alder Dunlap, James McCrindle — Heated Rivalry
Bob Sher — Murdoch Mysteries
Andrew Berry — North of North
Ingrid Jurek, M-A Orenstein, Jenn Luckas — Small Achievable Goals
Mark Steel, Rosalie Mackintosh — Son of a Critch
Best Production Design or Art Direction — Non-Fiction
Monika Geresz, Alesa J. Fazio, Conor Pike — The Amazing Race Canada
Andrew Kinsella, Tara Smith — Canada’s Drag Race
Crystal Westland, Andy Roskaft — Drag Brunch Saved My Life
Vincent Perri, Michelle Tracey — Pharaohs: Rise & Fall
Pete Faragher, Kevin Halliday, Braden Labonte — Top Chef Canada
The Canadian Production Design Association congratulates all of the 2026 nominees and celebrates the range of production design and art direction being recognized across Canadian film and television this year.
View the full list of 2026 Canadian Screen Awards nominees on the official Canadian Academy website.
