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25th Gemini Awards

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The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 25th Gemini Awards were held on November 15, 2010, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Cory Monteith, took place at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre and was broadcast on Showcase and Global.[1]

25th Gemini Awards
DateNovember 15, 2010
VenueWinter Garden Theatre, Toronto
Hosted byCory Monteith
Television/radio coverage
NetworkGlobal, Showcase
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Awards edit

Best Dramatic Series edit

Best Dramatic Mini-Series edit

Best TV Movie edit

Best Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Music or Variety Program or Series edit

Best Performing Arts Program or Series, or Arts Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Fire Jammers - Yap Films. Producers: Elliott Halpern, Pauline Duffy *Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary - National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Michelle Van Beusekom
  • Live At... - Live Music Special Productions. Producers: Joel Stewart, Warren Sulatycky
  • Nureyev - Mossanen Productions. Producers: Moze Mossanen, Peter Gentile
  • Star Portraits - PTV Productions. Producers: Andrea Nemtin, Ian Dunbar, Theresa Kowall-Ship

Best Talk Series edit

Best Reality Program or Series edit

Best General/Human Interest Series edit

  • Tosca: Flexing at 49 - Wiwa Productions. Producers: Linda Stregger, Barbara Barde
  • Family Renovation - Ocean Entertainment. Producer: Johanna Eliot
  • Hell on Hooves - Juxtapose Productions. Producers: Dennis Hrapchak, Doug Hudema
  • Remedy Me! - Creative Atlantic Communications. Producers: Janice Evans, Greg Jones, Wendy Purves
  • X-Weighted: Families - Anaid Productions. Producers: Margaret Mardirossian, David Way, Candice Tipton, Helen Schmidt, Roger Larry

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program edit

Best Documentary Series edit

Best History Documentary Program edit

  • Paris 1919 - National Film Board of Canada, 13 Productions, Galafilm, Arte. Producers: Gerry Flahive, Silva Basmajian, Arnie Gelbart, Paul Saadoun
  • Dive Detectives: Edmund Fitzgerald - Yap Films. Producers: Elliott Halpern, Pauline Duffy
  • Manson - Cineflix. Producers: Simon Lloyd, Nick Godwin, Tom Parkhouse, John Vandervelde
  • Passage - National Film Board of Canada, PTV Productions, John Walker Productions. Producers: John Walker, Andrea Nemtin, Kent Martin, Bill Nemtin

Best Biography Documentary Program edit

  • Genius Within - The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - White Pine Pictures. Producer: Peter Raymont
  • Karsh Is History - Productions Grand Nord. Producer: Ian McLaren
  • Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary - Take 3 Productions, 13 Productions. Producers: Barbara Barde, Yosif Feyginberg, Paul Saadoun, Virginie Guibbaud, Linda Stregger

Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program edit

  • The Great Sperm Race - Cream Productions, Blink Entertainment. Producers: David W. Brady, Christopher Rowley
  • A Murder Of Crows - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Arte. Producer: Susan Fleming
  • One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep - Merit Motion Pictures. Producers: Merit Jensen Carr, Michael Allder, Caroline Underwood
  • The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind - Stornoway Communications. Producers: Paul Kemp, Brian Cotter
  • The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future - Title Entertainment. Producers: John Matlock, Derek Diorio, Frank Taylor

Best News Information Series edit

Best News Information Segment edit

Best Local Newscast, Large Market edit

Best Local Newscast, Small Market edit

Best Breaking News Coverage edit

  • CityNews Vaughan Tornado (Citytv). Producers: Tina Cortese, Katia Del Col, Ramneek Gill, Kathleen O'Keefe, Amar Sodhi
  • Global National - Catastrophe In Haiti - Global News. Producers: Kenton Boston, Mark Blanchard, Neill Fitzpatrick, Bryan Grahn, Rosa Hwang, Kam Razavi, Doriana Temolo

Best News Special Event Coverage edit

Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series edit

Best Animated Program or Series edit

Best Pre-School Program or Series edit

Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series edit

Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series edit

Best Sports Analysis or Commentary Program, Series or Segment edit

  • Superbodies - CTV. Producers: Don Young, Les Tomlin
  • On Home Ice - Aquila Productions. Producers: Dave Toms, D.H. Metz, Gord Redel, Don Young
  • TSN: The Reporters with Dave Hodge - TSN. Producers: Ken Volden, David Stiff

Best Sports Feature Segment edit

Best Live Sporting Event edit

Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Fiction edit

Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Non-Fiction edit

Best Cross-Platform Project - Non-Fiction edit

  • Kraft Hockeyville 2010 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Lauren Pare, Dayton Pereira, Dan Tavares, Mike Yokota
  • One Ocean - Merit Motion Pictures, Tactica Communications. Producers: Kevin Glasier, Merit Jensen Carr, Vergil Kanne, Alexandra Rosentreter, Annette Bradford
  • TotallyADD.com - Big Brain Productions. Producers: Rick Green, Ava Green, James Milward
  • Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games - CTV. Producers: Alon Marcovici, Marc Dinsdale, Mark Silver, Alyson Walker
  • Licence to Drill - Pixcom. Producers: Nicola Merola, Jacquelin Bouchard, Emmanuelle Wiecha

Best Cross-Platform Project - Fiction edit

  • Being Erica Webisodes - Temple Street Productions. Producers: Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, Jessie Gabe, Jason Lorr, Eva Riintze, Thom Ryder
  • Sanctuary - My Plastic Badger Productions. Producers: Jim Bogusz, Andrea Gorfolova, Patrick Crowe
  • Cra$h & Burn - Investigation Productions, Whizbang Films. Producers: Frank Siracusa, Penny McDonald, Peter Miskimmin

Best Cross-Platform Project - Children’s and Youth edit

  • Taste Buds - Marblemedia. Producers: Mark J.W. Bishop, Sasha Boersma, Ted Brunt, Matthew Hornburg, Johnny Kalangis
  • Stoked - Fresh TV, Marblemedia. Producers: Mark J.W. Bishop, Sasha Boersma, Ted Brunt, Matthew Hornburg, Tom McGillis
  • RollBots Online - Xenophile Media. Producers: Patrick Crowe, Keith Clarkson, Thomas Wallner
  • Overruled! - You Rule! - Shaftesbury Films, Smokebomb Entertainment. Producers: Shane Kinnear, Jay Bennett, Jérémie Bernard, Nicole Mickelow, Jarrett Sherman

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series edit

Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Documentary Program edit

Best Direction in a Documentary Series edit

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Variety Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series edit

  • Moze Mossanen - Nureyev (Mossanen Productions)
  • Brent Fidler, Eric Goldstein - Poe: Last Days of the Raven (Theater Crossing Film)
  • Michael Morrow - Fire Jammers (Yap Films)

Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Reality Program or Series edit

Best Direction in an Animated Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series edit

Best Direction in a Live Sporting Event edit

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series edit

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series edit

Best Writing in a Children's or Youth's Program or Series edit

Best Writing in an Information Program or Series edit

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Eric Bednarski, Barry Cowling - The Strangest Dream (NFB)
  • Scott Harper - Philanthropy Inc. (Castlewood Productions)
  • Vladimir Kabelik - So Far From Home (Willing Mind Productions)
  • Susan Teskey - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War (CBC)
  • John Walker - Passage (NFB/PTV Productions/John Walker Productions)

Best Editorial Research edit

  • Lynette Fortune - the fifth estate - Out Of Control (CBC)
  • Claude Berrardelli - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Truth and Total War (CBC)
  • Lisa Ellenwood - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Hiding the Horrors (CBC)
  • David Ridgen - Canadian Cold Case: The Bomb That Killed Wayne Greavette (CBC News)
  • Daniel Thomson, Nancy Carter - Hangman's Graveyard (Ballinran Entertainment)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role edit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role edit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series edit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role Dramatic Series edit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series edit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series edit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series (Individual or Ensemble) edit

Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series (Individual or Ensemble) edit

  • Evan Alexander Smith - Hot Toxic Love: The Making of The Toxic Avenger Musical (Citytv)
  • Nico Archambault - Nureyev (Mossanen Productions)
  • Louise Pitre - Hot Toxic Love: The Making of The Toxic Avenger Musical (Citytv)

Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series edit

Best Performance in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series edit

Best Achievement in Casting edit

Best News Anchor edit

Best Breaking News Reportage, Local edit

Best Breaking News Reportage, National edit

Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or Series edit

Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series edit

Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series edit

Best Host in a Pre-School, Children's or Youth Program or Series edit

Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast edit

Best Sportscaster/Anchor edit

Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer edit

Best Sports Analyst edit

Best Sports Reporting edit

Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series edit

Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Photography in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series edit

Best Photography in an Information Program or Series edit

  • Henry Less - French Food at Home - Confidence Builders (Ocean Entertainment)
  • Andre Dupuis - Departures - Ethiopia: Saints and Snakes
  • Ihor Macijiwsky, Kurt Carpenter, Lawrence Foster, Mike Schaffel - Mantracker - Jessica & Lauren (Bonterra Productions)
  • Stefan Randström - Which Way To...Arviat (Which Way To Productions)
  • Steven Tsushima - Holmes Inspection - A Hole Lot of History (The Holmes Group)

Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Matt Phillips - Silent Bombs: All For the Motherland (4 Square Productions Canada)
  • Jeremy Benning - Manson (Cineflix)
  • Jeremy Benning - The Great Sperm Race (Cream Productions/Blink Entertainment)
  • Geoff Lackner - The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind (Stornoway Communications)
  • Ian Toews - Saskatchewan River Delta (291 Film Company)

Best Visual Effects edit

Best Visual Research edit

  • Elizabeth Klinck, Laura Blaney - Reel Injun (Rezolution Pictures/NFB/CBC)
  • Zoë Barraclough, Mia Webster - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Truth and Total War (CBC)
  • Gina Cali - One Ocean - Birth of an Ocean (Merit Motion Pictures)
  • Ron Krant, Darren Yearsley - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War (CBC)
  • Suzan Yum - The Naked Archaeologist - Biblical Beauty Secrets (Associated Producers)

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series edit

Best Picture Editing in a Comedy, Variety, Performing Arts Program or Series edit

Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series edit

Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Sharon Zupancic - Mayday - Lockerbie Disaster (Cineflix)
  • Pavel Chichagov, Chris Mullington - The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future (Title Entertainment)
  • Barry McMann - Convoy: War For The Atlantic (Darlow Smithson Productions)
  • Deanna Scriver, Marco Porsia - The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind (Stornoway Communications)
  • Steve Weslak - Empire of the Word - Forbidden Reading (TVOntario)

Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Non-Fiction Program or Series edit

Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series edit

Best Achievement in Main Title Design edit

Best Costume Design edit

Best Achievement in Make-Up edit

Best Sound in a Dramatic Program edit

  • John Gare, Rob Bertola, Alan deGraaf, Steve Hammond, Bill McMillan, Jill Purdy, Richard Calistan - The Good Times Are Killing Me (Shaftesbury Films)
  • Steven Gurman, Matthew Cerantola, Scott Donald, Jean-Philippe Espantoso, David Gertsman, Paul Hubert, Eric Lagacé, Stan Sakellaropoulos - Ben Hur (Alchemy Television Group/Drimtim Entertainment/Muse Entertainment)
  • Kirby Jinnah, David Cyr, James Fonnyadt, Graeme Hughes, Iain Pattison, Paul Sharpe, James Wallace, Rich Walters - Riverworld (Reunion Pictures)

Best Sound in a Dramatic Series edit

Best Sound in a Comedy, Variety, or Performing Arts Program or Series edit

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Jo Rossi - Ice Pilots NWT - The Crash (Omnifilm Entertainment)
  • Steph Carrier, Brian Hanish, Steve Medeiros - Clubland (MDF Productions)
  • Cary Ciesielski, Lucas Hart, David J. Taylor - Saskatchewan River Delta (291 Film Company)
  • Edward Krupa, Shaun Firth - Empire of the Word - The Future of Reading (TVOntario)
  • Ron Searles, Rodrigue Amyot, Alan Geldart - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War (CBC)
  • J. Martin Taylor, Jamie Mahaffey - Darwin's Brave New World - Publish and Be Damned (Ferns Productions/Screenworld)

Best Original Music Score for a Program or Series edit

Best Original Music for a Dramatic Program, Mini-Series or TV Movie edit

Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series edit

Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series edit

Best Original Music Score for an Animated Program or Series edit

The Gemini Top 25 edit

The Gemini Awards asked the public to vote for their favourite programs that aired during the Gemini Awards’ 25 years of existence.[2] The results were:

Special Awards edit

  • Gemini Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement in Digital Media: Alon Marcovici - CTVOlympics.ca/RDSolympiques.ca, Live Sports Video Stream Player




References edit

  1. ^ "Gemini Awards Nominations" (PDF). Wayback Machine, Gemini Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Canada's Favourite TV Shows Revealed". Wayback Machine, Gemini Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 31 July 2022.

External links edit

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