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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