4th Canadian Screen Awards


The 4th Canadian Screen Awards was held on March 13, 2016, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2015.
Nominations were announced on January 19, 2016. Throughout the week before the main ceremony, awards in many technical categories were presented in a series of galas.
During the ceremony, host Norm Macdonald suggested the award be called the Candy in honour of late Canadian actor John Candy, comparable to the Academy Awards long being known as Oscars. The nickname has still not been officially adopted by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, although academy chair Martin Katz personally endorsed it in a follow-up interview with the Toronto Star.

Pre-show

Leading into the March 13 ceremony, comedian Steve Patterson hosted a special called The Great Canadian Screen Test, quizzing people in the streets of Toronto about the nominated films and who they thought should win the awards in various categories.

Multiple nominations and awards

NominationsShow
11Room
8Hyena Road
7Our Loved Ones
5Endorphine
5Felix and Meira
5Forsaken
3Brooklyn

AwardsFilm
9Room
3Hyena Road
2Brooklyn

NominationsShow
15Schitt's Creek
13Orphan Black
1219-2
12The Book of Negroes
12Mr. D
9Motive
8CBC News: The National
8X Company
72015 Pan Am Games
7the fifth estate
7Young Drunk Punk
62015 IIHF World Junior Gold Medal Game
6The Second City Project
6This Hour Has 22 Minutes
6Vikings
6W5
5The Amazing Race Canada
5Kept Woman
5Marketplace
5Numb Chucks
5Odd Squad
5Sol
5Strange Empire
5Sunnyside

AwardsShow
11The Book of Negroes
9Schitt's Creek
7Orphan Black
6The Amazing Race Canada
4Degrassi
319-2
32015 FIFA Women's World Cup
32015 IIHF World Junior Gold Medal Game
3Rick Mercer Report
3Songs of Freedom

Special awards

Several special awards were given: