Banff Rockie Awards 2023: nominees

Nominees have been announced in the prestigious Rockie Awards to be held at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada.

Australian titles nominated include, Stuff the British Stole, First Day for ABC, Life on the Outside and
Inconceivable: The Secret Business of Breeding Humans for SBS, The Mole for Netflix, Crikey! It’s the Irwins for Foxtel.

Winners will be announced on June 12th.

Scripted

Comedy Series: English Language

Am I Being Unreasonable?
Boffola Pictures, Lookout Point, BBC
UK

Atlanta
FX Productions
USA

Cunk on Earth
Broke and Bones
UK

Sort Of
CBC, HBO Max, Sphere Media
CANADA, USA

What We Do in the Shadows
FX Productions
USA

Drama Series: English Language

Euphoria
HBO, ADD Content Agency, | HOT | TCDY Productions, Dreamcrew, Little Lamb Productions, A24, The Reasonable Bunch
USA

House of the Dragon
HBO, 1:26 Pictures, Bastard Sword, GRRM Productions
USA

The Porter
Sphere Media, Inferno Pictures
CANADA, USA

The White Lotus
HBO, Rip Cord, The District
USA

This is Going to Hurt
SISTER, Terrible Productions
UK, USA

Limited Series

Alice
Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion, rbb, WDR, Degeto Film, ORF, Bavaria Media; Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
AUSTRIA, GERMANY

Almost Fly
Wiedemann & Berg Television GmbH, Turner Broadcasting Systems Deutschland GmbH (Warner TV Serie)
GERMANY

Exterior Night (Esterno notte)
The Apartment Pictures, RAI
ITALY

Fleishman Is In Trouble
ABC Signature
USA

The English
Drama Republic Limited, Eight Rooks Limited, Amazon, BBC2, all3media Limited
SPAIN, UK, USA

The Patient
FX Productions
USA

Feature Length Film

Ramstein: The Pierced Heart (Das durchstoßene Herz)
Südwestrundfunk, ffp New Media, Köln, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance
BELGIUM, GERMANY

The Heart of Cape Town (Das Wunder von Kapstadt)
Producers at Work Film GmbH, Mia Film s.r.o., DO Productions, ARD Degeto, ORF, Czech Film Fund
CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, SOUTH AFRICA

Then Barbara Met Alan
Dragonfly Film and Television, One Shoe Films
UK

Three Tall Women
Melbar Entertainment Group, Stratford Festival
CANADA

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
The Roku Channel, Funny or Die, Tango Entertainment
USA

Arts & Entertainment

Comedy & Variety

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, Warner Horizon, Casey Patterson Entertainment, Pulse Films
USA

Lido TV
Visitor Media
CANADA

Rob & Romesh Vs
CPL Productions
UK

Tabu
SIC, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação, SA
PORTUGAL

Taskmaster
Avalon Television Ltd
UK

The Graham Norton Show
So Television
UK

Competition Series & Game Shows

The Devil’s Lot: So Help Me Cod! (Le lot du diable: la conquête de la mer)
Zone3, Historia
CANADA

The Great British Bake Off
Love Productions
UK

The Mole
Eureka Productions
AUSTRALIA, USA

The Traitors UK
Studio Lambert, BBC
UK

The Wheel
Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, Warner Horizon, Apploff Entertainment, Hungry McBear
USA

Docuseries

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
South Shore, BBC
UK

Hi I’m
Magnolia Network, Walnut and Rose
USA

Life on the Outside
ITV Studios Australia
AUSTRALIA

Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne
Naked Television, Milkshake Productions
UK, UAE

Welcome to Wrexham
Boardwalk Pictures
USA

Lifestyle

Hip Hop My House
Anaid Productions, MTV
CANADA, USA

Pamela’s Garden of Eden
Fireworks Media Group, HGTV, Hulu
CANADA, USA

The Big Sex Talk
Noble Television Inc., CBC Gem
CANADA

The Repair Shop:
A Royal Visit
Ricochet
UK

Trixie Motel
Scott Brothers Entertainment
CANADA

True Dating Stories
LaRue Entertainment, CBC, Fuse
CANADA, USA

Reality Series

Crikey! It’s the Irwins
Eureka Productions
AUSTRALIA, USA

Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof
Hungry Bear Media, BBC One
UK

Idris Elba’s Fight School
Workerbee, Green Door, BBC
UK

Naked and Afraid Brazil
Warner Bros. Discovery, Nippur Media
BRAZIL

Troop One
Seefood TV, TV 2
NORWAY

Children & Youth

Animation: Children

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
TG Entertainment, Wild Child Animation, Black Camel Pictures
UK

The Loud House
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
USA

The Postman From Space
La Pastèque, URBANIA, Radio-Canada
CANADA

The Smeds and The Smoos
Magic Light Pictures
UK

The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti
Zodiak Kids & Family, Gigglebug
CANADA, FINLAND, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM

Animation: Preschool

Colourblocks
Alphablocks Ltd, BBC
UK

Dino Ranch
Boat Rocker, Industrial Brothers, Jam Filled, CBC, Disney Jr
CANADA

Gabby’s Dollhouse
DreamWorks Animation, Netflix
USA

Kiri and Lou
Stretchy Television New Zealand, CBeebies, BBC, New Zealand On Air
NEW ZEALAND

ODO
Sixteen South, Letko
POLAND, UK

Live Action: Children

Clutter in the Courtyard
Lemming Film, KRO-NCRV
THE NETHERLANDS

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
The Jim Henson Company
USA

Odd Squad
Sinking Ship Entertainment, Fred Rogers Productions
CANADA, USA

Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop
USA

The World According to Grandpa
Saffron Cherry Productions, Channel 5 Milkshake! BFI YACF, S4C
UK

Live Action: Youth

Dodger
Universal International Studios, Universal Studio Group
UK

First Day
Epic Films, KOJO Studios
AUSTRALIA, USA

Ghostwriter
Sinking Ship Entertainment, Sesame Workshop
CANADA, US

Malory Towers
King Bert Productions, WildBrain, BBC
UK

Memory Forest
Ttv Production
ISRAEL

Documentary & Factual

Arts & Culture

If These Walls Could Sing
National Geographic, Disney Branded Television
USA

Louis Theroux Interviews…
Mindhouse Productions
UK

My Life as a Rolling Stone
Mercury Studios, BBC
UK

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes
Partisan Pictures
USA

Stuff The British Stole
Wooden Horse, Wildbear Entertainment, Cream Productions
AUSTRALIA, CANADA

Crime & Investigative

Catching The Pirate King (De kaping van de Pompei)
Diplodokus, VRT, Beside Productions, Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Screen Brussels, Federation Studios
BELGIUM

Evil By Design: Exposing Peter Nygard
Blue Ant Studios, Blue Ant International Limited, STARZ, CBC
CANADA

The Murder of Meredith
Woodcut Media, Amazon UK, Abacus Media Rights, Great Point Media
UK

The Talented Mr. Rosenberg
Melbar Entertainment Group
CANADA

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Muck Media, National Geographic
USA

Environmental & Wildlife

Dynasties II
BBC Studios Natural History Unit
UK

Guardians of Tundra
SBS
SOUTH KOREA

Prehistoric Planet
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, Apple TV+, Golem Creations
UK, USA

The Letter: A Message for our Earth
Off the Fence, Laudato Si’ Movement Production, YouTube Originals, EarthX, PBS
UK

The Territory
National Geographic Documentary Films, Documist, Associação Jupaú Film, TIME Studios, XTR, Doc Society
USA

History & Biography

Abraham Lincoln
RadicalMedia, History
USA

Aids: The Unheard Tapes
Wall to Wall Media, BBC, BBC iPlayer, Open University
UK

The Black West: A Counter History of the Wild West (Black Far West: Une contre-histoire de l’Ouest)
CAPA Presse, ARTE France, Blue Ant International, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, Procirep-Angoa
CANADA, FRANCE, UK

Theodore Roosevelt
RadicalMedia, History
USA

True Story
Eagle Vision, Corus, History Channel
CANADA

Science & Technology

Click To Ransom
Peddling Pictures, CNA
SINGAPORE

Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
BBC Studios Science Unit, NOVA, GBH Boston, BBC, PBS, France Télévisions
FRANCE, UK, USA

Fire of Love
National Geographic Documentary Films, Sandbox Films, Intuitive Pictures, Cottage M
USA

Inconceivable: The Secret Business of Breeding Humans
SAM Content, SBS Australia, Screen Australia, Screen NSW
AUSTRALIA

The Secret Genius of Modern Life
BBC Studios Science Unit
UK

The Travel Show: Take Me To Titanic
BBC
UK

Social Issues & Current Affairs

Escape from Kabul
Amos Pictures Ltd, HBO, BBC, ARTE
FRANCE, UK, USA

Eternal Spring
Lofty Sky Pictures Inc.
CANADA

On the Frontline. Fleeing Irpin and the Defenders of Kharkiv
TVN, Warner Bros. Discovery
POLAND

Retrograde
National Geographic Documentary Films, Our Time Projects
USA

The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN
BBC Current Affairs
UK

Sports Documentary

After Jackie
UNINTERRUPTED, Firelight Films, MLB, The Jackie Robinson Foundation, History
USA

Azzurro Shocking: How Women Took Back Football (Come le donne si sono riprese il calcio)
RAI
ITALY

Ice-Breaker: The ’72 Summit Series
Adobe Productions, White Pine Pictures
CANADA

Legacy: In the Shadow of Greatness
NEO Studios
USA

The Grizzlie Truth
Crossover Films, Five One Films, Grand Scheme, Christie Street Creative, UNINTERRUPTED Canada
CANADA

Ful nominees are here.