Award Nominations

2010 Awards & nominations for short film, Chains:

2010 HBO Finalist at the American Black Film Festival
2010 Winner of Best Science Fiction Short at the Eugene International Film Festival
2010 Chicago International Film Festival

2004 Leo Awards Nomination

Sharon Lewis was nominated as "Best Performance or Host". Visit the Leo Awards Web site

2003 Gemini Nomination

Sharon Lewis was nominated as " Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series" at the 18th Annual Gemini Awards. Canada's equivalent of the American Emmy Television Awards. Visit the Gemini Awards site.

RITCH

2006 "Best Short Film", Atlanta Hip Hop Film Festival

2006 "Honorable Mention" for Best Short, Hollywood Black Film Festival

Press

Actor

RUDE (35mm 1995 Official Cannes Selection film directed by Clement Virgo)

• "Rude Awakening" (Xtra Magazine, June 8th 1996)
• "A Masterpiece of Rudeness" (Saturday Sun, Sept. 30th 1995)
• "Rude Girls" (FLARE Magazine, 1995)
• "Rude's Powerful black voice rivets attention" (Toronto Star, Sept. 29th 1995)
• "Three unrelated lives merge in RUDE" (Toronto Express, Sept. 26th 1995)
• "Renegades on the Riviera" (MacLean's Magazine, May 22 1995)

AFROCENTRIC (play written by David Odhiambo)

• "Symbiosis produces beautiful performance" (Toronto Star, Vit Wagner, 1996)

RIOT (play written by Andrew Moodie)

• "Play provides riotous.." (Ottawa Sun, January 1997)
• "Riot" (The Charlatan, Feb. 1997)
• "Black Like Me" (Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 1997)

Once Upon a Time in the Park (written by Tarek Ghaleb)

• "More than just stereotyping..." (Toronto Star, Apri1 1997)

IMPERCEPTIBLE MUTABILITIES IN THE THIRD KINGDOM (play written by suzan lori-parks)

• " A harsh but often oblique allegory" (Globe and Mail, Feb. 18th 1992)
• "Rich play, fine cast... (Toronto Star, Feb. 16th 1992)

DESH PARDESH (South Asian Festival)

• "Sharon Lewis creative identity conflicts" (NOW Magazine, June 1996 online version)

on-air host

ZeD

• "Media Magnets" (University of Toronto Magazine, 2004)
• "Hottest art gallery screens on weeknights" (Toronto Star, Dec. 2002)
• "Toronto Rocks serves up more satisfaction this time"by Andrew Ryan (Globe and Mail)
• 2004 Leo Nomination
• 2003 Gemini Nomination
• "Canada's Top 30 Women" (Elle Canada)
• "ZeD aims for the 'sweet spot'" by Amanda Gill (Globe and Mail)
• "Kudos and Kvetches" from the Vancouver Courier
• "ZeD like a channel all its own" by David Spanner (Movie Reporter)

counterSpin

• "The Spin Doctor" (Saturday Night Magazine, August 25th 2001)
• "Sharon Lewis finds activism experience..." (Canadian Press, Oct. 3rd 200 I)
• "Sharon Lewis at home on the counterSpin..".
  ( SHARE magazine, Dec. 2001 )
• "signal"
• "Counterspin host finds footing quickly despite frenzied debut" by Brian Gorman (TVData Features Syndicate)

Director & Writer

• "sistahs" - review by Jon Kaplan (Now Magazine 1994)
• "sistahs the flava of soup" (Alison Duke, Metro Word, Oct. 1994)