26th Gemini Awards

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The 26th Gemini Awards was held on September 7, 2011 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The ceremony was broadcast live from the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, and aired on CBC Television. The show was hosted by Russell Peters, and included live musical performances by Jim Cuddy, Deborah Cox and City and Colour.[1]

26th Gemini Awards
DateSeptember 7, 2011
VenueCanadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto
Hosted byRussell Peters
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBC Television
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Nominations were announced on August 3.[2][3][4] As with most Gemini Awards ceremonies, awards in less prominent categories were presented in a series of advance events over the week leading up to September 7, with only the most prominent categories presented at the televised ceremony.

These were the last Gemini Awards given before the establishment of the Canadian Screen Awards, which replaced the Geminis.

Awards

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Best Dramatic Series

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Best Dramatic Mini-Series or TV Movie

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Best Comedy Program or Series

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Best Music or Variety Program or Series

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

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  • The National Parks Project - FilmCan, Primitive Entertainment, Discovery Channel HD. Producers: Ryan J. Noth, Joel McConvey, Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon, Geoff Morrison
  • 12 Takes - Opus 59 Films, Knowledge Network. Producers: John Bolton, Murray Battle
  • The Instrument Bank - Rotating Planet Productions. Producer: Ari A. Cohen
  • Listen to This - Proximity Films. Producer: Howard Fraiberg
  • Star Portraits - PTV Productions. Producers: Andrea Nemtin, Ian Dunbar

Best Talk Series

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Best Reality Program or Series

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Best General/Human Interest Series

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  • Hell on Hooves - Juxtapose Productions. Producers: Dennis Hrapchak, Douglas Hudema
  • X-Weighted: Families - Anaid Productions. Producers: Margaret Mardirossian, Candice Tipton, Helen Schmidt
  • Forensic Factor - Exploration Production. Producers: Edwina Follows, Sally Karam, Alyse Rosenberg
  • Ice Pilots NWT - Omnifilm Entertainment. Producers: David Gullason, Michael Chechik, Gabriela Schonbach
  • Totally Tracked Down - Planetworks. Producers: Romano D'Andrea, Marshall Jay Kaplan, Carolyn Meland, Jeff Preyra

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program

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Best Documentary Series

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Best History Documentary Program

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  • Nazi Hunters: Herbert Cukurs - Cineflix (Wartime), Terra Vermelha Filmes. Producers: Simon Lloyd, Nick Godwin
  • Chasing the Royals: The Media & the Monarchy - Kaos Productions. Producer: John Curtin
  • Earth: Making of a Planet - Handel Productions, Pioneer Productions. Producers: Alan Handel, Yavar Abbas, Stuart Carter
  • Finding Atlantis - Associated Producers, Discovery Channel. Producers: Simcha Jacobovici, Ric Esther Bienstock, Kathryn Liptrott
  • Queen Elizabeth in 3D - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Liam O'Rinn, Lesley Cameron

Best Biography Documentary Program

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  • Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews - Motsjo Film. Producers: Mary Armstrong, David Sherman
  • Gordon Pinsent: Still Rowdy After All These Years - Morag Loves Company. Producer: Barbara Doran
  • When the Devil Knocks - Bountiful Films. Producers: Helen Slinger, Maureen Palmer

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

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Best News Information Series

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Best News Information Segment

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Best Local Newscast, Large Market

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Best Local Newscast, Small Market

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Best Breaking News Coverage

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Best News Special Event Coverage

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Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series

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Best Animated Program or Series

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Best Pre-School Program or Series

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Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series

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

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Best Sports Analysis or Commentary (Program, Series or Segment)

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  • Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Anniversary Special - TSN, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium. Producers: Rick Chisholm, Robert MacAskill, Don Young
  • 2010 FIFA World Cup Preview Show - CBC Television. Producers: Trevor Pilling, Paul McDougall
  • Oil Change - Aquila Productions. Producers: Don Metz, Gord Redel
  • SportsCentre: Year in Review - TSN. Producers: Ken Volden, Steve Argintaru, Sofie Kouleas
  • TSN: The Reporters with Dave Hodge - TSN. Producers: Dave Hodge, David Stiff

Best Sports Feature Segment

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Best Live Sporting Event

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Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Fiction

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  • Not awarded.

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

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Best Cross-Platform Project - Fiction

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Best Cross-Platform Project - Non-Fiction

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Best Cross-Platform Project - Children’s and Youth

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Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

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Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

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Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series

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Best Direction in a Documentary Program

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Best Direction in a Documentary Series

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  • P.J. Naworynski - Nazi Hunters: Erich Priebke (Cineflix (Wartime)/Terra Vermelha Filmes)
  • Michael Allder - Geologic Journey - The Pacific Rim: Americas (CBC/90th Parallel Productions)
  • Michel Philibert - Africa on the Move - The Power of Song (CBC)
  • Abhish S. Birla - Maamuitaau (Let's Get Together) - Song of the River (CBC)
  • Joe Wiecha - Trashopolis - Rome (Pixcom)

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

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Best Direction in a Variety Program or Series

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Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series

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  • Gail Gallant - Star Portraits - Gordon Pinsent (PTV Productions)
  • Ari A. Cohen - The Instrument Bank (Rotating Planet Productions)
  • Eunice Lee - Corrie Crazy: Canada Loves Coronation Street (CBC)

Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series

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Best Direction in a Reality Program or Series

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  • Dwayne Beaver, Karen Duthie - Conviction Kitchen - Episode 5 (Cineflix)
  • Ihor Macijiwsky - Mantracker - Jason & Clayton (Bonterra Productions)
  • D'Arcy Butler - Re-Vamped - Episode 10 (Sudden Storm Entertainment/Entertainment One)
  • Nadine Schwartz - Enraged (Lively Media)

Best Direction in an Animated Program or Series

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

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Best Direction in a Live Sporting Event

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Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

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Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

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Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

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

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Best Writing in an Information Program or Series

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Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series

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  • Terence McKenna - Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse - A Global Tsunami (CBC)
  • Francine Pelletier, Charles Foran - Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews (Motsjo Film)
  • Jon Cooksey - How to Boil A Frog (Fools Bay Entertainment)
  • Christopher Gagosz - Storming Juno (Windup Filmworks/Entertainment One/The Colony)
  • Kelly McClughan - X-Cars (Dreamfilm Productions)
  • Brian McKenna - Famine and Shipwreck: An Irish Odyssey (Galafilm)

Barbara Sears Award for Best Editorial Research

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

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

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

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

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

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role

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Best Performance in a Hosted Stand-Up/Sketch Comedy Program or Series

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Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

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

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

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  • Victor Micallef, Clifton Murray, Remigio Pereira, Fraser Walters - Season of Song: The Canadian Tenors and Friends (Suddenly SeeMore Productions)
  • Andrea Menard - Sparkle - An Evening with Andrea Menard (APTN)
  • Ivars Taurins - Sing Along Messiah (90th Parallel Productions)

Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series

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

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Best Achievement in Casting

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Best News Anchor

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Best Breaking News Reportage, Local

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Best Breaking News Reportage, National

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Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or Series

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

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

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

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Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast

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Best Sportscaster/Anchor

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Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer

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Best Sports Analyst

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Best Sports Reporting

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Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series

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Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series

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Best Photography in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series

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Best Photography in an Information Program or Series

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Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series

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  • Daron Donahue - Code Breakers (Clearwater Documentary)
  • Vincent Biron - Last Call Indien (Nish Media)
  • Nicholas de Pencier, Keith Brust - Raccoon Nation (Eggplant Picture & Sound/Optix Digital Pictures/Rubin Tarrant Productions)
  • Daniel Grant - Love at the Twilight Motel (Inigo Films)
  • Dale Hildebrand - T O in 2 4 (Hildebrand Productions)

Best Visual Effects

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Best Visual Research

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  • Sonja Carr, Benoît Michaud - Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse - The Men Who Crashed The World (CBC)
  • Lynette Fortune, Leslie Morrison - the fifth estate - You Should Have Stayed at Home (CBC)
  • Maureen Grant - Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories (David Brady Productions)
  • Kathleen McKenna, Elspeth Domville - Storming Juno (Windup Filmworks/Entertainment One/The Colony)

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series

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

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Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series

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  • Clark Masters, Richard Rotter - Best. Trip. Ever. (Castlewood Productions)
  • Michael Ellis, Robert Lawrenson, Franco Pante - Village on a Diet - Small Town, Big Problem (Force Four Entertainment)
  • Jesse James Miller - Mantracker - Dylan & Travis (Bonterra Productions)
  • Paul Smart, Wes Belair - Oil Change (Aquila Productions)
  • Jonathan Wong - 16:9: The Bigger Picture - Eye on the Prize (Global News

Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series

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

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

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Best Achievement in Main Title Design

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Best Costume Design

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Best Achievement in Make-Up

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Best Sound in a Dramatic Program

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Best Sound in a Dramatic Series

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

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  • Fred Brennan, Robert Bertola, Stefan Fraticelli, Matthew Harrold, Allen Ormerod, Jane Porter - Call Me Fitz - The Pilot (Entertainment One/Amaze Film & Television/Big Motion Pictures)
  • Roberto Capretta, Kevin Bonnici, Melissa Glidden, Edwin Janzen, Tim O'Connell - Bolts and Blip - Robots Don't Dream Part 1 (ToonBox Entertainment/Redrover)
  • Peter Lopata, Dominique Chartrand, David Gertsman, Paul Hubert, Éric Ladouceur, François Maurice - 18 To Life - Family Portrait (CBC)
  • Jonny Ludgate, Ewan Deane, Steffan Andrews, Pat Haskill, Gordon Sproule - League of Super Evil - Ant-archy (Nerd Corps Entertainment)
  • Anthony Montano, Steven Budd, Phil Hay - At the Concert Hall - Broken Social Scene at the Concert Hall

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series

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  • Mark Gingras, Christian Cooke, Sanjay Mehta, Adrian Tucker - Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories (David Brady Productions)
  • Benoît Dame, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette, Stephane Cadotte - Last Day of the Dinosaurs (Handel Productions/ Dangerous Films/Discovery Channel)
  • Brian Eimer - Beyond Survival - The Hewa and the Hidden Secret Ceremony (Vanishing World Productions)
  • Jo Rossi, Hennie Britton, Michael P. Keeping, Vince Renaud - Ice Pilots NWT - Under Pressure (Omnifilm Entertainment)
  • Terry Wedel, Euan Hunter, Michael Mancuso - Mantracker - Dylan & Travis (Bonterra Productions)

Best Original Music for a Program or Series

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

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Best Original Music for a Documentary Program or Series

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

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Best Original Music for an Animated Program or Series

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Special Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Jim Cuddy, City and Colour, Deborah Cox to perform at Gemini Awards: Jim Cuddy, City and Colour to sing at Geminis". Canadian Press, September 1, 2011.
  2. ^ "New series scoop Gemini nominations". CBC News, August 3, 2011.
  3. ^ "Nominee List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  4. ^ "26th Annual Gemini Awards Culminate with Star-Studded Broadcast Gala" (PDF). Press release. Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. 7 September 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2012.
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