Numerous Hallmark Channel stars received exciting news on May 27, 2026, as a slew of actors and movies were nominated for Leo Awards.
Hosted by the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, the awards honor the best movie, TV and web programming to come out of the Canadian province, where the majority of Hallmark projects are filmed.
To qualify for a 2026 Leo, each movie or show had to be completed in 2025, but could premiere at a later date. In addition, at least one of the producers has to be a resident of British Columbia. To rise to the top of the heap (organizers said there were 1500 entries to review) is no small feat, and the winners will be announced in July.
Hallmark Channel Movies Will Duke It Out for Best Movie Award
HallmarkThe Best Television Movie category is a fascinating grouping featuring multiple Hallmark Channel projects that will go head-to-head against each other for the title. Up for the award are:
- “A Little Park Music” — Starring Laci J. Mailey and Beau Mirchoff, the movie was filmed in 2025 but premiered on April 11. Mailey was also nominated for Best Lead Performance for the movie.
- “Nelly Knows Mysteries: All Manners of Murder” — The second whodunit starring “When Calls The Heart” couple Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith was filmed in early 2025 and premiered on March 14.
- “Oy to the World” — A hybrid Christmas-and-Hanukkah movie that premiered in December, the film starred Brooke D’Orsay and Jake Epstein.
- “Providence Falls: An Impossible Promise” — The second movie in the August 2025 trilogy, the time-travel miniseries starred Katie Stevens, Lachlan Quarmby, and Evan Roderick.
- “To Barcelona, With Love” — The first of a two movies that aired on back-to-back Saturdays in June 2025, Hallmark fan-favorites Ashley Williams and Alison Sweeney starred in and produced them overseas.
There are three non-Hallmark movies in the Best Television Movie category: “Monster in the Family: The Stacey Kananen Story,” “Before Your Father Finds Us,” and “Love, Again.”
Meanwhile, only one of Hallmark’s series earned a nod in the category for Best Music, Comedy, or Variety
Program or Series — Lea Thompson’s “The Chicken Sisters,” which has not yet been renewed for a third season. Three actors in the ensemble cast received nominations for Best Performance or Host(s) — Music, Comedy or Variety Program or Series: Caitlin Howden, Cassandra Sawtell, and James Kot.
‘Three Wisest Men’ Earns Leo Nominations on Kimberley Sustad’s Birthday
GettyThe third movie in the “Three Wise Men” trilogy — “Three Wisest Men,” which premiered in November 2025 — received multiple nominations. Most notably, stars and screenwriting partners Kimberley Sustad and Paul Campbell earned a nomination for Best Screenwriting on a Television Movie.
The happy news came on Sustad’s 39th birthday, so when she shared a screenshot of the nomination in her Instagram Stories, she wrote, “It’s like they knew it was my bday;)!!!”
Sustad and Campbell will be up against the screenwriters of two other Hallmark movies in the category — Kraig Wenman for “Haunted Harmony Mysteries 2: Buried at C” and Katherine Wagner for “Nelly Knows Mysteries: All Manners of Murder.”
“Three Wisest Men” also received a nomination for Best Costume Design for wardrobe queen Kelsey Baran, who has styled countless Hallmark movies, including the “Hannah Swensen Mysteries” movies and 2025’s “Christmas Above the Clouds,” also starring Hynes.
Hallmark Channel’s ‘Providence Falls’ Trilogy Gets Multiple Nominations
Hallmark“Providence Falls,” Hallmark Channel’s innovative trilogy of time travel movies starring Katie Stevens, Lachlan Quarmby, and Evan Roderick received numerous Leo nominations. The trio of movies premiered in August 2025 and can be streamed via Hallmark+.
The second movie in the trilogy, “Providence Falls: An Impossible Promise,” is nominated in the Best Television Movie category — a great honor for actress Joanna Garcia-Swisher, who is among the project’s producers and was heavily involved in its development (but didn’t appear in the movies). That movie also received a nod for Best Picture Editing for a Television Movie, specifically for editor Jason King, while Laura Murray received a nomination for Best Makeup, and Melissa Neilsen for Best Hairstyling on that film.
Meanwhile, Heather Coutts received Best Production Design nominations for two of the movies in the trilogy, the first, “Providence Falls: Chance of a Lifetime,” and for “An Impossible Promise.”
The third movie, “Providence Falls: Thief of Fate,” received a nod for Best Cinematography, highlighting Justin Sebastian, a cinematographer who’s worked on many Hallmark movies, including “The Santa Class,” “Jingle Bell Run,” and “A Whitewater Romance.”
Quarmby, who also stars in Hallmark’s new “Hope Valley: 1874” series, celebrated all of the nominations on Instagram, sharing the news in his Instagram Stories. In the caption of one, he wrote, “Love seeing this trilogy continue to get love. Thank you!”
