{"id":3004,"date":"2017-05-01T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/05\/01\/thunderbird-awards-news\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T22:00:42","slug":"thunderbird-awards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/05\/01\/thunderbird-awards-news\/","title":{"rendered":"THUNDERBIRD AWARDS NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunderbird Group has been busy! Over the weekend, <em>Beat Bugs<\/em> won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program. The program received 5 nominations, including Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Main Title. Series creator Josh Wakely attended the event, along with some of the Atomic Cartoons team. Congratulations to everyone involved!<\/p>\n<p>The Leo Awards nominations were announced today, and the Thunderbird Group received 19 nominations. The Leo Awards recognize the best in the British Columbia film and television industry. We would like to congratulate all of the amazing teams involved. Details on the nominations below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAYTIME EMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Beat Bugs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Josh Wakely, Cleon Prineas &amp; Joshua Mapleston &#8211; <strong>Won<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Directing in a Preschool Animated Program<\/strong> &#8211; Josh Wakely<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Designer &#8211; <\/strong>Josh Wakely, Mark Appleby, Pablo De La Torre &amp; Jon Mead, Alexandru\u00a0Nagy, Fredrick Fasse<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Sound Mixing \u2013 Preschool Animated Program &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Brent Clark, Sam Hayward, Bob Mothersbaugh, Wes Swales<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Sound Editing \u2013 Preschool Animated Program &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Jared Dwyer, Sam Hayward, Blair Slater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLEO AWARDS NOMINATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kim&#8217;s Convenience<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Screenwriting in a Music, Comedy or Variety Program &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Sonja Bennett<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Performance in a Music, Comedy or Variety Program &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Andrea Bang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nBeat Bugs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Animated Series or Program<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Voice Performance in an Animated Program or Series &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Rebecca Husain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Voice Performance in an Animated Program or Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Lili Beaudoin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nSome Assembly Required<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Screenwriting in a\u00a0Youth or Children&#8217;s Program or Series &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Dan Signer, Howard Nemetz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Screenwriting in a Youth or Children&#8217;s Program or Series &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Nadiya Chettiar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Direction in a Youth or Children&#8217;s Program or Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Jon Rosenbaum<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Performance in a Youth or Children&#8217;s\u00a0Program or Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Ellie Harvie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nHighway Thru Hell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Screenwriting in a Documentary Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Neil Thomas, Nicole Tomlinson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Cinematography\u00a0in a Documentary Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Todd Craddock, Darren Dembicki<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nGame of Homes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Sound in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Chris McIntosh, Brayden McCluskey, Aaron Tchir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nThe Man In The High Castle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Kurt Evans<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Supporting Performance by a Female\u00a0in a Dramatic Series &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Chelah Horsdal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nChasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Feature Length Documentary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Direction in a\u00a0Feature Length Documentary &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Jesse James Miller<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Cinematography in a\u00a0Feature Length Documentary &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Ken Johns<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Musical Score in a\u00a0Feature Length Documentary &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Schaun Tozer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nI Am JFK Jr.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Sound in a Feature Length Documentary &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Chris McIntosh, Brayden McCluskey, Aaron Tchir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunderbird Group has been busy! Over the weekend, Beat Bugs won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program. The program received 5 nominations, including Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Main Title. Series creator Josh Wakely attended the event, along with some of the Atomic Cartoons team. Congratulations to everyone involved! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/05\/01\/thunderbird-awards-news\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THUNDERBIRD AWARDS NEWS - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/05\/01\/thunderbird-awards-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"THUNDERBIRD AWARDS NEWS - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Thunderbird Group has been busy! 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