13th Gemini Awards

13th Gemini Awards
DateOctober 4, 1998
VenueMetro Toronto Convention Centre
Hosted byRonnie Edwards, Kenny Robinson
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBC Television
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The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 13th Gemini Awards were held on October 4, 1998, to honour achievements in Canadian television. (This year's awards were split into two segments; the first 1998 ceremony was held on March 1 and was named the 12th Gemini Awards). The awards show, which was hosted by Ronnie Edwards and Kenny Robinson, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.[1][2][3]

Best Dramatic Series

  • Traders Season III - Atlantis Films. Producers: Alyson Feltes, Hart Hanson, Sandie Pereira
  • Cold Squad - Keatley MacLeod Productions, Atlantis Films. Producers: Julia Keatley, Philip Keatley, Anne Marie LaTraverse, Matt MacLeod, Seaton McLean
  • Due South - Alliance Communications. Producers: Paul Gross, Robert B. Carney, Frank Siracusa
  • Emily of New Moon - Salter Street Films, Cinar. Producers: Micheline Charest, Michael Donovan, Marlene Matthews, Ronald A. Weinberg
  • Once A Thief - Alliance Communications. Producers: William Laurin, Terence Chang, Glenn Davis, Wendy Grean, John Woo

Best Short Dramatic Program

Best TV Movie or Mini-Series

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

Best Comedy Program or Series

Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program

Best Documentary Series

Best Science, Technology, Nature and Environment Documentary Program

Best Performing Arts Program or Series, or Arts Documentary Program

Best Information Program or Series

Best Lifestyle Information Series

Best Animated Program or Series

Best Preschool Program or Series

Best Children's or Youth Program or Series

Best Sports Program or Series

  • Sports Journal - CBC Newsworld. Producers: Ken Dodd, Jay Mowat, Terry Walker
  • The Boys Who Loved Hockey - Independent Moving Pictures, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Saskatchewan, Manitoba). Producers: Lori Kuffner, Gail Tilson
  • Life and Times - The Crazy Canucks - Summerhill Entertainment. Producers: John LaRose, Bill Johnston, Ron Lillie
  • September 1972 - TV Eye Entertainment. Producers: Ian Davey, Robert MacAskill
  • Life and Times - Villeneuve: A Legend, A Champion - M.D.F. Productions. Producer: Peter Gentile

Best Live Sporting Event

  • The 18th Olympic Winter Games - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Doug Sellars, Joel Darling, Terry Ludwick
  • NBA on CTV - Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors - CTV Television Network. Producers: Scott Moore, Michael Lansbury, Jeffrey Mather, John McLarty, Laura Mellanby

Best Special Event Coverage

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series

Best Direction in an Information Program or Series

  • Morris Karp - the fifth estate - John/Joan (CBC)
  • Jean-Louis Cote, Sydney Goldberg, Serge Marcil - Popular Mechanics For Kids - Food Production (SDA Productions)
  • Rachel Low - Flightpath II - Hurricane Hunters (Screenlife Productions)
  • Roxana Spicer - Marketplace - Fake Cigars (CBC)
  • Don Young - Travels With Mom - The Maine Show (Almadon Productions)

Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

Best Writing in an Information Program or Series

  • Clifton Joseph - Undercurrents - Dead Celebrities (CBC)
  • Carol Off - The National/CBC News ‘’Suharto’s Year of Living Dangerously (CBC)
  • Francine Pelletier - the fifth estate - Moral Authority (CBC)
  • Joe Schlesinger - The National/CBC News - Refugees From Democracy (CBC)
  • Joe Schlesinger - Schlesinger - Population Implosion (CBC)
  • Brian Stewart - The National/CBC News - Lost Frontier (CBC)

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series

  • Steven Silver, Barry Stevens - Gerrie & Louise (Blackstock Pictures/Eurasia Motion Pictures/CBC)
  • Martha Butterfield - Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer (Butterfield/Bernard Zukerman Productions)
  • Andrew Gregg, Bill Cameron - Witness - Between Here and Heaven (CBC)
  • Simcha Jacobovici - Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (Associated Producers)
  • John L'Ecuyer - Confessions of a Rabid Dog (Sienna Films/NFB/TVOntario)

Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program

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

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series

  • Brent Carver - Young At Heart (CBC)
  • George Bowser, Rick Elger (Blue) - A Bowser and Blue Comedy Christmas: Two Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire (Year End Productions/Baton Broadcasting)
  • Julie Leahy, Siobheann Donohue, Agnes Enright, Angus Leahy, Donnell Leahy, Doug Leahy, Erin Leahy, Frank Leahy, Maria Leahy - Leahy In Concert (Roadhouse Productions)
  • Justin Hines, Brianne Bland - Yaa! The 9th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (YTV)
  • Steve Smith, Cathy Jones - 12th Gemini Awards (Birch River Productions/ACCTV Productions)

Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series

  • Yo-Yo Ma - Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - Falling Down Stairs (Rhombus Media)
  • Isabelle Chasse, Mathieu Lavoie, Murielle La Ferrière - Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (Mellanby Robertson Productions/CBC/NFB)
  • Alain Trudel - The Mission of Alain Trudel (Greenpeace Productions)

Best Performance in a Pre-School Program or Series

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

Best Overall Broadcast Journalist (Gordon Sinclair Award)

  • Peter Mansbridge - The National/CBC News - Death of Diana/Ice Storm/Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky (CBC)
  • Linden MacIntyre - the fifth estate - Last of their Breed?/Whale of a Business/The Philanthropist (CBC)
  • Wendy Mesley - Undercurrents - Media Seduction/2000 Hype (CBC)
  • Francine Pelletier - the fifth estate - Moral Authority/All Pumped Up (CBC)
  • Brian Stewart - The National/CBC News - National Image/Remote Canada/Nuclear Industry/Canada’s Hospitals (CBC)

Best Reportage

  • Anna Maria Tremonti - The National/CBC News - Candles and Mourners (CBC)
  • Tom Kennedy - The National/CBC News - A City Without Power (CBC)
  • Elizabeth Palmer - The National/CBC News - Russia’s Collapse (CBC)
  • Reg Sherren - The National/CBC News - Flight Into Danger (CBC)
  • Tom Walters - CTV News - Matthew Schovanek (CTV)

Best Information Segment

  • Carmen Merrifield, Terry Milewski - The National/CBC News - Charter Free Zone (CBC)
  • Lynn Burgess, Michael McAuliffe - The National/CBC News - The Ambassador’s Secret (CBC)
  • Catherine Legge, Chris Gargus - Undercurrents - Movie Junkets (CBC)
  • Robert Osborne, Susan Ormiston - W5 - Neighbour Nightmare (CTV)
  • Rosemary Thompson - W5 - Million Dollar Babies (CTV)
  • Sadia Zaman - Skylight - Not A Fairy Tale (VisionTV)

Best Host, Anchor or Interviewer in a News or Information Program or Series

Best Host in a Lifestyle or Performing Arts Program or Series

Best Sports Broadcaster

  • Brian Williams - The 18th Olympic Winter Games (CBC)
  • Steve Armitage - The 18th Olympic Winter Games (CBC)
  • Bob Cole - The 18th Olympic Winter Games (CBC)
  • Ron MacLean - The 18th Olympic Winter Games (CBC)

Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series

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

Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series

  • Mark Willis - Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - The Music Garden (Rhombus Media)
  • Colin Allison - the fifth estate - On The Map (CBC)
  • John Foster, Janet Foster - Journey to the Sea of Ice (John and Janet Foster Productions/Discovery Channel/TVOntario)
  • Doug Munro - The Long River: The Life of J.B. Tyrrell (Great North Productions)
  • Richard Stringer - Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science - Bad Blood (Kensington Communications)
  • Hans Van Der Zande - Life and Times - Robert Bateman (CBC)

Best Visual Effects

  • Pedro Peres, Dominic Daigle, Mario Fraser, Stephane Landry - Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - The Sound of the Carceri (Rhombus Media)
  • Jonathan Gibson, Brian Anderson, Alex Boothby, Raymond Gieringer - The Planet of Junior Brown (Film Works)
  • John Gajdecki, Michelle Comens, Simon Lacey, Mark Savela - Stargate SG-1 - Within the Serpent’s Grasp (Stargate SG-1 Productions)
  • Stephen Roloff, John Kerns, Anthony Paterson, Neil Williamson - Earth: Final Conflict - Destruction (Atlantis Films)
  • Lucy Hofert, Robert Habros, Brenda Levert, Brian Moylan - Poltergeist: The Legacy - Mind’s Eye (PMP Legacy Productions/Trilogy Entertainment North)

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series

Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series

  • Roger Lefebvre - On the Road Again - Mobile Bike Repair (CBC)
  • Tony Coleman - Undercurrents - Animation Liberation (CBC)
  • Fred Gauthier - the fifth estate - On The Map (CBC)
  • Denis Langlois - W5 - Welcome To My Nightmare (CTV)
  • Cathy McIsaac - The National/CBC News - Refugees From Democracy (CBC)

Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series

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

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

  • Marian Wihak - Pit Pony (Cochran Entertainment)
  • Perri Gorrara, Andree Brodeur - Emily of New Moon - The Disappointed House (Salter Street Films/Cinar)
  • Arthur Herriot - White Lies (CBC)
  • Maureen Sless, Jeremy Hindle - Twitch City - My Pet, My Hero (Shadow Shows/Accent Entertainment/CBC)
  • Stephen Roloff - Earth: Final Conflict - Destruction (Atlantis Films)

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

Best Costume Design

Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series

  • Yvon Benoit, Jean-Pierre Pinard, Mario Rodrigue, Alain Roy, Raymond Vermette - The Sleep Room (Cinar/Bernard Zukerman Productions/CBC)
  • Alastair Gray, Eric Apps, Dino Pigat, Clive Turner, David Yonson - Traders - Dark Sanctuary (Atlantis Films)
  • Michael Baskerville, Greg Chapman, John Gare, Steven Hammond, Doug Hubert, Jonas Kuhnemann, Scott Thiessen - The Planet of Junior Brown (Film Works)
  • Jane Tattersall, Erv Copestake, Keith Elliott, John Laing, Daniel Pellerin - Straight Up - Raw (Alliance Communications/Back Alley Film Productions)
  • John Douglas Smith, Eric Apps, Tom Bjelic, Orest Sushko, David Yonson - Earth: Final Conflict - Truth (Atlantis Films)

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series

  • Robert Fletcher, David McCallum, Lou Solakofski, John J. Thomson - Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - The Music Garden (Rhombus Media)
  • Bruce Cameron, Simon Bowers, Peter Campbell, Brad Nelson - September 1972 (TV Eye)
  • Igal Petel, Michael Edgarton - If Dinosaurs Could Fly (Exploration Production/Discovery Channel)
  • Peter Sawade, Steve Munro - It Takes A Child (Judy Films)
  • Adrian Tucker, Alan Geldart, Peter Kelly, Daniel Pellerin - Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (Associated Producers)

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

  • Bruce Fleming - Leahy In Concert (Roadhouse Productions)
  • Howard Baggley, Ian Dunbar, Ron Searles - The Nine O’Clock Show - Tanya Allen (CBC)
  • Simon Bowers, Peter Campbell, Doug McClement - An Intimate Evening With Anne Murray (Balmur Entertainment)
  • Hans Peter Strobl, Steven Epstein, Charles Harbutt, Bobby O’Mally, Bruno Pupparo - Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - The Sound of the Carceri (Rhombus Media)
  • Peter Mann, Simon Bowers, Peter Campbell, Duncan Roach - Bruce Guthro: Solo (CBC)
  • Norm Lussier, Kenny MacDonald, Allan Scarth - Celtic Electric (Salter Street Films)

Best Original Music for a Program or Miniseries

  • Jonathan Goldsmith - Pit Pony (Cochran Entertainment)
  • Richard Grégoire - The Sleep Room (Cinar/Bernard Zukerman Productions/CBC)
  • John Welsman - Borrowed Hearts (Atlantis Films)
  • Fiachra Trench - The Inventors’ Specials Galileo - On the Shoulders of Giants (Devine Entertainment/Merlin Films Group)
  • Fiachra Trench - The Inventors’ Specials Leonardo - A Dream of Flight (Devine Entertainment/Merlin Films Group)

Best Original Music for a Dramatic Series

Best Original Music for a Documentary Program or Series

  • Glenn Morley - Life and Times - W.O. Mitchell, Who Has Seen W.O. (CBC)
  • Michael Alonzo - Great Canadian Parks - Forillon National Park (Good Earth Productions/Discovery Channel)
  • Mark Korven - A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada - The Force of Hope: The Legacy of Father McGauran (White Pine Pictures)
  • Mark Korven - Before Their Time (TVOntario/Discovery Channel)
  • John Sereda - The Rat Among Us (Great North Productions)

Special Awards

References

  1. ^ "Gemini Awards/Prix Gemeaux: The Gemini nominees". playbackonline.ca. Playback. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Futureworld, Richler take early Geminis Awards". cbc.ca. CBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Gemini Winners 1998". playbackonline.ca. Playback. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
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