3rd Gemini Awards

The 3rd Gemini Awards were held in 1988 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on 29 and 30 November. It was broadcast on CBC.

Awards

Best Variety Program or Series

• It's Only Rock & Roll
• The Comedy Mill
• The Tommy Hunter Show

Best Dramatic Series

• Degrassi Junior High
• Night Heat
• He Shoots, He Scores
• Street Legal

Best Dramatic Mini Series

• Anne of Avonlea
• Hoover vs. The Kennedys
• The King Chronicle

Best Information Program or Series

• Venture
• Land and Sea
• Monitor
• Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada

Best Children's Series

• Mr. Dressup
• Ramona
• Today's Special
• What's New
• Wonderstruck

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program

• Night Heat
• Adderly
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
• He Shoots, He Scores
• The Beachcombers

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• Family Reunion
• Breaking All the Rules
• 9th Genie Awards
• The Raccoons

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series or Comedy Series

• Degrassi Junior High
• Danger Bay
• Night Heat
• The Beachcombers

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Series

• Pat Mastroianni, Degrassi Junior High
• Patrick Bauchau, Mount Royal
• Scott Hylands, Night Heat
• Winston Rekert, Adderly
• Donnelly Rhodes, Danger Bay

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Series

• Sonja Smits, Street Legal
• Ocean Hellman, Danger Bay
• Sarah Polley, Ramona
• Jessica Steen, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist

• Roger Smith
• Robert Hurst
• Don Murray

Earle Grey Award

• Kate Reid

TV Guide's Most Popular Program Award

• Night Heat

Best Animated Program or Series

• The Raccoons

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series

• Daniel Masse, Dominique Chartrand, John Martin, Serge Lacroix, North to Nowhere
• Keith Bonnell, Life After Death
• Clancy Livingston, Michael Lalonde, Barry Jones, Reni Potrebenko, Shooting Stars
• Pierre Ouellet, Michael Edward Jackson, Earth's Magnetic Field