7th Gemini Awards


The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 7th Gemini Awards were held in March 1993 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.

Best Dramatic Series

  • E.N.G. - Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Jeff King, Robert Lantos, R.B. Carney
  • Neon Rider - (Virtue/Rekert Productions, Atlantis Films. Producers: Justis Greene, Danny Virtue, Winston Rekert, Michael MacMillan
  • Road to Avonlea - Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan
  • Street Legal - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nicholas Rose, Duncan Lamb, Brenda Greenberg

    Best Short Dramatic Program

  • Scales of Justice: "Regina v. Stewart" - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: George Jonas
  • Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House - Atlantis Films, South Pacific Pictures. Producers: Michael MacMillan, Chris Bailey, Jonathan Goodwill
  • The Ray Bradbury Theater - Alberta Filmworks, Atlantis Films, Ellipsanime, ITV Granada. Producers: Peter Sussman, Chris Bailey, Mary Kahn

    Best TV Movie

  • Scales of Justice: "Regina v. Nelles" - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: George Jonas
  • Christmas On Division Street - Columbia Pictures Television, Higher Ground Productions, Morrow-Heus Productions, Procter & Gamble Productions, The Guber-Peters Company, Western International Communications. Producers: Colleen Nystedt, Tony Allard
  • Black Death - CTV Television Network, Libra Pictures, Saban Entertainment, Sunrise Films, Telefilm Canada. Producers: Steven Levitan, Lynn Raynor, Paul Saltzman, Edgar Scherick
  • Rapture - Paragon Entertainment, Tristar Pictures. Producers: Richard Borchiver, Jon Slan
  • School’s Out - Playing With Time, Inc. Producers: Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler

    Best Comedy Program or Series

  • The Kids in the Hall - Broadway Video, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Lorne Michaels, Jeffrey Berman, Cindy Park, Joe Forristal
  • Maniac Mansion - Atlantis Films. Producers: Jamie Paul Rock, Eugene Levy, Barry Jossen, Peter Sussman, Michael Short
  • The Red Green Show - S&S Productions. Producer: Steve Smith

    [Donald Brittain] Award for Best Documentary Program

  • Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer - National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Don Haig, Terence Macartney-Filgate
  • Man Alive - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Halya Kuchmij
  • On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature - Cinéfort. Producer: Mary Armstrong
  • Threads of Hope - Canamedia Productions. Producers: Jane Harris, Les Harris
  • Women in the Shadows - National Film Board of Canada, Direction Films. Producers: Christine Welsh, Signe Johansson

    Best Documentary Series

  • The Valour and the Horror - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, Galafilm. Producers: Arnie Gelbart, André Lamy
  • Brain Sex - Discovery Channel. Producers: Richard Price, Anne Moir, Pat Ferns
  • Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World - Biniman Productions, KCET, BBC, Global Television Network. Producers: Adrian Malone, Richard Meech, Nancy Button, Michael Grant
  • My Partners My People - Canadian Television Network. Producers: Maria Campbell, Tom Radford, Andy Thompson
  • The Price of Power - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Noah Erenberg

    Best Dramatic Mini-Series

  • Conspiracy of Silence - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Bernard Zukerman
  • Bethune: The Making of a Hero - Filmline International. Producers: Pieter Kroonenburg, Nicolas Clermont
  • The Sound and the Silence - Atlantis Films, South Pacific Pictures. Producers: Luciano Lisi, Jon Glascoe, Kim Todd, Michael MacMillan

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

  • Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Expérience - Cirque du Soleil. Producer: Hélène Dufresne
  • Adrienne Clarkson Presents - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Adrienne Clarkson, Gordon Stewart
  • Canadian Brass: Home Movies - Rhombus Media. Producer: Niv Fichman
  • Standards - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, Jeremy Podeswa, Ingrid Veninger

    Best Variety Series

  • The Best of Just for Laughs - Les Films Rozon. Producers: Andy Nulman, Gilbert Rozon
  • Country Beat - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Steve Glassman
  • The Tommy Hunter Show - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Lynn Harvey

    Best Variety Program

  • Brian Orser: Night Moves - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Sandra Bezic, Morgan Earl
  • 6th Gemini Awards|1992 Gemini Awards - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Maria Topalovich, Joe Bodolai, Jon Nicholls, Peter Hayman, Sean Kiely
  • Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ralph Benmergui, Joe Bodolai, Jon Nicholls, Peter Hayman
  • Happy Birthday Canada! - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Darlene Harber, Annette Antoniak, Ken Gibson, Gordon James
  • Howie - CBS, 3 Arts Entertainment. Producers: Peter Sussman, Morris Abraham, Michael Rotenberg, Sean Ryerson, Howie Mandel

    Best Information Series

  • the fifth estate - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Kelly Crichton, David Nayman
  • For the Love of the Game - TSN. Producer: Aiken Scherberger
  • Venture - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan
  • W5 With Eric Malling - CTV Television Network. Producer: Peter Rehak
  • Contact with Hana Gartner - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Alan Burke, Robin Taylor, Anne Bayin, Larry Zolf

    Best Light Information Series

  • LIFE: The Program - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan
  • Street Cents - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Jonathan Finkelstein, Janet Thompson, John Nowlan
  • Sunday Arts Entertainment - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Carol Moore-Ede
  • On the Road Again - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Karl Nerenberg
  • Prisoners of Gravity - TVOntario. Producer: Gregg Thurlbeck

    Best Information Segment

  • For the Love of the Game - TSN. Producer: Aiken Scherberger
  • Venture - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ben Matilainen, Nora Pratt, R. Gamble, Steve Thomson
  • Contact with Hana Gartner - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bruce Griffen, Larry Zolf, Hana Gartner, Wes Blanchard, Michael Savoie
  • LIFE: The Program - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Stephen Bourne, Lon Appleby, Danny Cook, Sheldon Beldick
  • the fifth estate - Black and Blue - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Julian Sher, Jennifer Campbell, Dan Burke, Gerry Wagschal, Roger Leclerc

    Best Animated Program or Series

  • The Adventures of Tintin |The Adventures of Tintin - Nelvana, Ellipsanime. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith
  • Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas - Cambium Film & Video Productions, Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions. Producers: Chris Delaney, Arnie Zipursky, Bruce Glawson

    Best Youth Program or Series

  • The Odyssey - Water Street Pictures. Producer: Michael Chechik
  • Degrassi Talks - Playing With Time, Inc. Producers: Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler
  • Road Movies - Why Not Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Barbara Barde
  • Wonderstruck - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bob McDonald, Debra Mathews, Helga Haberfellner, Lasley Williams, Paul Goodman

    Best Children’s Program or Series

  • Shining Time Station - Catalyst Entertainment, YTV. Producers: Rick Siggelkow, Britt Allcroft, Nancy Chapelle
  • Alligator Pie - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Cindy Hamon-Hill
  • Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave - Atlantis Films. Producers: Michael J. F. Scott, Derek Mazur, Daphne Ballon, Seaton McLean, Michael MacMillan
  • OWL/TV - Canadian Television Network. Producers: Annabel Slaight, Christopher Howard

    Best Sports Program or Series

  • Sports Weekend - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Joan Mead, Doug Sellars
  • Bob Izumi’s Real Fishing Show - Izumi’s Outdoor. Producers: Douglas Volpel, Wayne Izumi
  • CBC at Six - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bill Kendrick, Bruce Dowbiggin
  • CTV Sports Presents Year in Review - Canadian Television Network. Producers: Dean Bender, Jeffrey Mather, Doug Beeforth, John McLarty, Laura Mellanby
  • SportsCentre - TSN. Producer: Michael Day

    Best Special Event Coverage

  • 1992 Olympic Winter Games - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Robert Moir, Doug Sellars
  • Canada In Question - Canadian Television Network. Producers: Tobias Fisher, Robert Conroy, Louis Cooper, Eric Morrison, Fiona Conway
  • CBC News National Town Hall - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Slawko Klymkiw, Elly Alboim, Christopher Waddell

    Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

  • Francis Mankiewicz - Conspiracy of Silence
  • John Kent Harrison - The Sound and the Silence
  • Allan Kroeker - Forever Knight
  • Eric Till - To Catch a Killer
  • George Bloomfield - ''Wojeck: Out of the Fire''