The nominees for the LIW Awards went up about a week ago, so I thought I’d you a run down of who was nominated along with my thoughts on the subject. Click here for the nomination videos to get a better idea of who/what I’m talking about.
How cool is it that they made videos? It’s like a real awards show.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated: Holly Truslove as Frankie Price in From Mansfield With Love. She got the nomination, so I will definitely be voting for her.
Other Nominees: Bonnie Simmons as Freddie Kingston in Lovely Little Losers, Laura Eklund Nhaga as Anne Shirley in Project Green Gables, Sophie Giberson as Mary Lennox in The Misselthwaite Archives, and Mandy Harmon as Anne Shirley in Green Gables Fables.
Thoughts: I defy the idea that Freddie was a main character. She was the flatmate with the least screen time, and we didn’t really get to see her development. I think it’s a little early to judge Laura’s Anne, as the show is still relatively new, and while Mandy’s Anne is wonderful, the stand out episodes have been in 2014 and 2016, not 2015. Thus, my second choice is Sophie as Mary, because she was awesome. I heard that a lot of my favorite lines from this show were her improvising.
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated: Jeremy Stewart as Henry Tinley in Northbound, who did not get the nomination. I didn’t really come up with any backups.
Nominees: Jake McGregor as Benedick Hobbes in Lovely Little Losers, Caleb Wells as Peter Donaldson in Lovely Little Losers, Tanner Gillman as Gilbert Blythe in Green Gables Fables, Bryce Earhart as Declan Sowers in The Misselthwaite Archives, Wesley Buckeridge as Edmund Bertrum in From Mansfield With Love.
Thoughts: Again, I defy the idea that Declan was a leading role. He was mostly there as the nature guy. Jake won as Benedick last year for Nothing Much To Do, and I feel like his performance in Lovely Little Losers wasn’t nearly as good. While Caleb had his shining moments, his performance largely circled stereotypes and other characters regarded it with biphobia and slutshaming that were never addressed. I know that’s more of a script problem, but it still makes me not want to vote for any character involved in it. Sorry, I’m biased. That leaves it between Edmund and Gilbert.
My Vote: I’ve got to go with Gilbert, for the amazing performance trying to woo Anne and dealing with Ruby’s death (I know that was 2016 but it was SO GOOD). Edmund was an idiot who just kinda went with things.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated: Annie Briggs as Lola Perry in Carmilla, but she didn’t get the nomination. My backups were Jessica Stansfield as Margaret Winter in Lovely Little Losers and Elise Cantu as Cara Graves in Classic Alice, both of which were nominated.
Other nominees: Abigail Snarr as Ruby Gilles in Green Gables Fables, Ella de Vito as Callie Craven in The Misselthwaite Archives, and Harriet Marie as Beatrice Duke in Lovely Little Losers.
Thoughts: I didn’t really pay any attention to Ruby until recently. I feel like Callie was a lead role, not supporting. I forgot that Beatrice was a supporting role, because she won best actress in a lead role last year for the same part in Nothing Much To Do. I would actually put Harriet’s performance above Jessica’s.
My vote: I was ready to vote for Harriet until I saw the Cara clip chosen for the awards. I actually forgot how good Elise’s performance was until watching it. Elise gets my vote.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated: Kaitlyn Alexander as S. LaFontain in Carmilla, but they didn’t get the nomination. One of my backups, Phosido Dintwe as Kitso Harper in Lovely Little Losers did get the nomination, so I’ll be voting for him.
Other Nominees: Steven Christie as George Bates in Call Me Katie, who I’m also totally in love with, Thomas Bjork as Rory Rushworth in From Mansfield With Love, who I would also love to win, Robbie Nichol as Costa McClur in Lovely Little Losers, and Brett Veil as Art Craven in The Misselthwaite Archives.
Best Chemistry on Screen
Nominated: Adam Bowes and Steven Christie as George Gleeson and George Bates in Call Me Katie and they got the nomination. They’re my OTP, so none of the rest of this really matters, does it? But for consistency’s sake…
Other Nominees: Alice Hale and Jeremy Stewart as Catherine Morland and Henry Tinley in Northbound (who I identified as one of my backups), Caleb Wells and Rueben Hudson as Peter Donaldson and Balthazar Jones in Lovely Little Losers, Bryce Earhart and Sophie Gibson as Declan Sowers and Mary Lennox in The Misselthwaite Archives, and Mandy Harmon and Tanner Gillman as Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe in Green Gables Fables.
Thoughts: OK, so I want my vote to win really bad. But It’s pretty much a tie between all of the rest of them for second…
Best Transmedia Experience
Nominated: Green Gables Fables, and it got the nomination, so I’ll be voting for them.
Other Nominees: Northbound, which was one of my backups, Call Me Katie, which I probably should have made a backup because one of the first accounts I followed when I got an Instagram was the George Squared account from this show, despite the having been over for months, Classic Alice, which to be fair did a lot of nontraditional transmedia (diary entries, school paper, etc.) and The Misselthwaite Archives, which also did nontraditional transmedia (emails, college rejection letters, etc.). My second choice is still Northbound, but these all deserve it.
Best Costume and Set Design
Nominated: The Misselthwaite Archives, which got the nomination, and I will be voting for them.
Other Nominees: Green Gables Fables, Carmilla, which was my second choice, The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy, which could have been my second choice if they didn’t have a set dressing sponsor (lootcrate) and a costume sponsor (Modcloth), which I felt gave them an unfair advantage, and Lovely Little Losers.
Best Ensemble Cast
Nominated: The Writing Majors, which did not get the nomination, nor did it get a nomination in any category, which is a shame because it’s wonderful. My second choice was The March Family Letters, which also wasn’t nominated in category. For shame.
Nominees: Call Me Katie, Green Gables Fables, Lovely Little Losers, From Mansfield With Love, and The Misselthwaite Archives.
Thoughts and My Vote: I’m going to be honest, I really struggled with this one. I debated for hours between From Mansfield With Love and The Misselthwaite Archives. Ultimately, I went with From Mansfield With Love because sibling relationships is one of my favorite features of web series, and this show does a good job showing that sibling dynamic between the four Bertram siblings, the two Price siblings, and the two Crawfords. But damn, I also loved that relationship between the Sowers.
Best Script
Nominated: The Misselthwaite Archives, which got the nomination, so I’ll be voting for that. I was disappointed that the clip wasn’t just a bunch of Mary zingers, but it did have the line “I’m going to Beyoncé the hell out of this glade,” so it wasn’t a complete loss.
Other Nominees: Call Me Katie, Green Gables Fables, Lovely Little Losers, and From Mansfield With Love, my second choice.
Best Literary Inspired Webseries
Nominated: From Mansfield With Love, which got the nomination, so I will be voting for it.
Other Nominees: The Misselthwaite Archives, Lovely Little Losers, Green Gables Fables, and Call Me Katie.
Thoughts: My backups were not nominated, but I think you can probably tell that my second choice of these options is The Misselthwaite Archives.
In sum:
The Misselthwaite Archives: Nominated in 10/10 categories
Lovely Little Losers: Nominated in 9/10 categories - with TWO categories dedicating two nominations to them.
Green Gables Fables: Nominated in 9/10 categories
From Mansfield With Love: Nominated in 6/10 categories
Call Me Katie: Nominated in 6/10 categories
Classic Alice: Nominated in 2/10 categories
Northbound: Nominated in 2/10 categories
Carmilla: Nominated in 1/10 categories
The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy: Nominated in 1/10 categories
Project Green Gables: Nominated in 1/10 categories
Three shows have been nominated in all or nearly all categories. Two shows have been nominated in about half. five shows have been nominated for one or two categories. There were over 40 shows eligible, and only ten were nominated into fifty slots.
These are all great shows, and deserve recognition. Here’s to hoping that no one show wins over half the categories again.
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