Aubrey Nealon

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Aubrey Nealon (born 1971 in New Denver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer, [1] most noted as the creator and showrunner of the CTV drama series Cardinal . [2]

Nealon began his career as a teen actor, with a minor role as oddball Finnish exchange student "Olaf" on the YTV/Nickelodeon teen soap opera Hillside (aka Fifteen in the U.S.). A graduate of the Vancouver Film School, [3] Nealon directed the short films House Arrest, Abe's Manhood and In Memoriam before releasing his semi-autobiographical feature film debut A Simple Curve in 2005. [4] The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2005, [5] was a Leo Award nominee for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay in 2006, [6] and received a Directors Guild of Canada nomination for Best Feature Film in 2006. [7]

Following A Simple Curve he has worked predominantly in television, including writing and producing for Flashpoint , Rookie Blue , Saving Hope , Orphan Black , Frontier , Ten Days in the Valley and Snowpiercer . He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for the Flashpoint episode "Day Game", [8] and was a nominee in the same category at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 for the Orphan Black episode "The Stigmata of Progress". [9] At the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, he was a nominee for Best Writing in Drama Program or Limited Series for Cardinal. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "New showrunners talk TV: Aubrey Nealon". Playback , February 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Giles Blunt's John Cardinal mystery novels turned into CTV mini-series". CTV News, November 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Director scores on his debut". The Province , March 31, 1999.
  4. ↑ "Life throws curves at the child of a hippie couple". Vancouver Sun , September 30, 2005.
  5. ↑ "Veterans and newcomers alike make annual Top Ten Canadian film list". Whitehorse Star , December 19, 2005.
  6. ↑ "Cancelled Collector, Godiva's lead Leos pack". Playback , May 1, 2006.
  7. ↑ "Egoyan, Cronenberg among nominees for Directors Guild of Canada awards". Canadian Press, August 10, 2006.
  8. ↑ "CBC's Rick Mercer Report snags 3 Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, February 28, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Announcing the Nominations for the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards" Archived 2018-07-15 at the Wayback Machine . Canadian Film Centre, January 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ "CSA’s ’18: Anne, Kim’s Convenience, Cardinal lead TV noms". Playback , January 16, 2018.
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