Two hundred and ninety two nominees.
Key facts
- The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) lists this year’s Rosie Awards as its 52nd annual edition, spanning more than 50 class and craft categories, with 292 nominees.
- The AMPIA page puts the ceremony on November 7, 2026 at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, with Andrew Phung hosting.
- Crip Trip, from Catapult Pictures in Edmonton, drew 15 nominations.
- Heartland took 11 nominations for its nineteenth season.
That is the number attached to this year’s Rosie Awards, spread across more than 50 class and craft categories, in the 52nd edition of the awards. The ceremony lands November 7 at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, with Andrew Phung hosting.
The individual stories out of this year’s list have been covered, including a Calgary filmmaker who landed nine nominations of her own. This is the other way to read the same announcement, which is to stand back far enough to see the whole board.
Who led
Crip Trip, from Edmonton’s Catapult Pictures, drew 15 nominations.
Heartland took 11 nominations for its nineteenth season. Best scripted series, two directing nods, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, costume design and multiple performance categories. A show shooting its twentieth season around High River is still competitive in craft categories against productions with a fraction of its mileage.
Heartland’s 11 belongs to one title. Company totals such as Sticks and Stones’ 12 can span several titles at once, which is a different measurement.
Edmonton companies led the count
The southern half of the province tends to absorb the coverage. This year the northern numbers are the more interesting ones.
Sticks and Stones drew 12 nominations, most of them for The Secret Longtree Society. Score G Productions took 10, largely on two documentaries, one on Bif Naked and one on Dane Cook. Northern Gateway Films took 8 across My Final Victim and The Speech. Omar Mouallem picked up two, one for a film and one for a podcast, which says something about how the categories have widened.
Add those four together and Edmonton companies alone account for a substantial share of the whole nominee list. There is a version of Alberta’s screen story where everything happens within sight of the Bow, and the nomination sheet does not support it.
What 292 nominees actually tells you
A nomination list is a census of who was working.
More than fifty categories means more than fifty crafts with enough entrants to be worth judging separately, which is not something a small industry can sustain. Costume design, editing, cinematography, sound, music video direction. These are not awards for having a good idea. They are awards for a specific trade, practised at a professional standard, by enough people in this province that a jury had to choose between them.
Alberta is often described as a landscape other people come to photograph. A list of 292 nominees in more than 50 craft categories is a rebuttal to that.
The Rosies are the one day the sector shows up together
Alberta has an industry association, a provincial production incentive and an awards program in its 52nd edition. The nominee list is the one day a year the whole sector shows up in one place.
A province that treats its screen sector as an economic file has to cover it like one. That means the crew calls, the funding deadlines, the studio openings and the awards, beyond the ceremony photos in November.
The ceremony is November 7 at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary.
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