19th Gemini Awards

Summary

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 19th Gemini Awards were held on December 13, 2004, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was co-hosted by several celebrities, took place at the John Bassett Theatre and was broadcast on CBC Television.[1]

19th Gemini Awards
DateDecember 13, 2004
VenueJohn Bassett Theatre, Toronto
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBC Television
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Awards edit

Best Dramatic Series edit

Best Dramatic Mini-Series or TV Movie edit

Best Comedy Program or Series edit

Best Music, Variety Program or Series edit

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

  • Men of the Deeps - CTV Television Network, John Walker Productions, Picture Plant, National Film Board of Canada. Producers: John Walker, Terry Greenlaw, Kent Martin
  • Amelia - Amérimage-Spectra, Media Principia, Echo Media. Producers: Pierre Touchette, Luc Châtelain, Bob Krupinski, Daniel Langlois, Alain Simard
  • Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty - Handel Productions. Producer: Alan Handel
  • Naked in the House - Fashion Television. Producers: Marcia Martin, Jay Levine, Adrienne Reid
  • The Planets - Amérimage-Spectra, Echo Media. Producers: Pierre Touchette, Luc Châtelain, Alain Simard

Best Talk Series edit

Best Reality Program or Series edit

  • CBC News: Disclosure - The Making of a Political Animal - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Catherine Legge, Jane Mingay, Cecil Rosner, Jim Williamson
  • Venture - Back to the Floor - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Patsy Pehleman, Chad Paulin, Tracie Tighe
  • Hooked Up - Lone Eagle Entertainment. Producers: Michael Geddes, Michael Frislev, Chad Oakes, Maria Pimentel, Tom Powers
  • Kenny vs. Spenny - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cinefornia, Blueprint Entertainment, Eggplant Picture & Sound, KVS Productions. Producers: Abby Finer, Noreen Halpern, Kenny Hotz, Ira Levy, John Morayniss, Spencer Rice, Kirsten Scollie, Peter Williamson
  • Zoo Diaries - DocuTainment Productions, Microtainment Plus International, Infinite Monkeys Productions, Atlantic 16 Productions. Producers: Garry Blue, Howard Bernstein, Mark Shekter
  • Buy Me - Whalley-Abbey Media. Producers: Nikila Cole, Hans Rosenstein

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program edit

Best Documentary Series edit

Best History Documentary Program edit

  • Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 - Markham Street Films. Producer: Judy Holm
  • City of Ruins: The Halifax Explosion - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Mark Starowicz, Alan Mendelsohn, Sally Reardon
  • Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story - National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Karen King, Silva Basmajian
  • From a Place Called War 1939-1945: Dawn of Deliverance - Northern Sky Entertainment. Producer: Wayne Abbott
  • Notman's Canada - TVOntario. Producers: Rudy Buttignol, Murray Battle, Andrea Nemtin

Best Biography Documentary Program edit

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

Best News Information Series edit

Best News Magazine Segment edit

Best Newscast edit

Best News Special Event Coverage edit

Best Lifestyle or General Interest Series edit

Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Segment edit

Best 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 Program or Series edit

Best Live Sporting Event edit

Best Interactive edit

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

  • Caroline Underwood - The Nature of Things - Arctic Mission (CBC)
  • Tim Wolochatiuk - Betrayal! (American World Pictures/Gryphon Films)
  • Chris Triffo - ExtraOrdinary Lives (Wavelength Entertainment)
  • Gary Lang - Forensic Factor - Future Crime (Exploration Production)
  • Leslie Côté - Stories of Mothers and Daughters (Breakthrough Entertainment)

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

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

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • John Haslett Cuff - Crimes of the Heart (John Haslett Cuff)
  • Mary Lynk - From the Heart: The Life & Times of Janet Conners (NFB)
  • Michael McNamara - Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 (Markham Street Films)
  • Don Murray - The Man Who Could Be King (Nomad Films)
  • Michael Maclear - Vietnam: Ghosts of War (Memory Films)

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

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 edit

Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series edit

  • Peter Chin - Streetcar (Mercury Films)
  • Nancy Crowley, Mistaya Hemingway, Keir Knight, Chun Hong Li, Bernard Martin, Jason Shipley-Holmes, Zofia Tujaka, Naomi Stikeman, Billy Smith, Andrea Boardman - Amelia (Amérimage-Spectra/Media Principia/Echo Media)
  • Emma Lu Romerein - From Time to Time
  • Andy Jones - Andy Jones: To the Wall
  • Russell Braun - Opening Night (CBC)
  • Ewa Uziel, Eugene Nakamura, Michele Dumoulin, John Morris Russell, Konstantin Popovic, Dawn Hrycak-Popovic, Kevin Filewych, Henryk Uziel, Valerie Selander Voisey, Andrew McIntosh, Pola Luboniecka, Jonathan Tortolano, Darrett Zusko, Besnik Yzeiri, Gregory Sheldon, Margaret Kapasi, Peter Wiebe - Cross-Canada Candlelight Christmas - Windsor Symphony Orchestra Concert (CBC)

Best Performance in a Preschool Program or Series edit

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

Best News Anchor edit

Best Reportage edit

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

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

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

Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast edit

Best Sports Play-by-Play or Analyst edit

Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series edit

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

  • Kim Derko - Youkali Hotel (Enigmatico Films/Westwind Pictures)
  • André Turpin - Amelia (Amérimage-Spectra/Media Principia/Echo Media)
  • Paul Tolton - Shadow Pleasures (Eccentrics Things)
  • Rudolf Blahacek - Death and the Maiden (Rhombus Media)

Best Photography in an Information Program or Series edit

Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • John Walker - Men of the Deeps (CTV/John Walker Productions/Picture Plant/NFB)
  • Michael Grippo - Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (NFB)
  • Claudine Sauvé - Short Infinity (NFB)
  • Susan Fleming, Keith Brust - Garden Mimics (Bullfrog Films)
  • Wayne Vallevand, Mike Rudyk - The Lone Trail: The Dogs and Drivers of the Yukon Quest (CBC)

Best Visual Effects edit

  • Don Urquhart, Claude Theriault, Colin Cunningham, Thomas Turnbull - Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion - Part 1 (CBC Television)
  • Brad Turner, Peter Hunt, Simon Lacey, Grant Lindsay - Andromeda - A Symmetry of Imperfection (Fireworks Entertainment/Tribune Entertainment/BLT Productions/Global/MBR Productions)
  • James Tichenor, Simon Ager, Michelle Comens, Adam de Bosch Kemper, Deborah Dunphy, Shannon Gurney, Krista McLean, Matthew Talbot-Kelly, Craig Van Den Biggelaar, Bruce Woloshyn - Stargate SG-1 - Redemption, Part 2 (Stargate SG-1 Productions)
  • James Tichenor, Simon Ager, Nicholas Boughen, Michelle Comens, Bruce Woloshyn, Tom Brydon, Matt Martell, Marc Roth, Wes Sargent - Stargate SG-1 - Descent (Stargate SG-1 Productions)
  • Clem Hobbs, Miles Horst, Donnie Anderson, Andy Russell - The Blobheads - Bringing Up Baby (Decode Entertainment)
  • Tony Coleman - National Geographic Channel Specials - Asteroid! The Doomsday Rock (CBC/Raincoast Storylines)

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series edit

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

  • Édouard Lock - Amelia (Amérimage-Spectra/Media Principia/Echo Media)
  • Darel Fortin - The Planets (Amérimage-Spectra, Echo Media)
  • Jeff Bessner - From Time to Time
  • Andy Attalai - Shadow Pleasures (Eccentrics Things)
  • Daryl K. Davis, Mike Munn - Youkali Hotel (Enigmatico Films/Westwind Pictures)

Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series edit

Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Nick Hector - Dying at Grace (TVOntario)
  • Wayne Abbott - From a Place Called War: 1939-1945 (Northern Sky Entertainment)
  • Richard Comeau - Short Infinity (NFB)
  • Marc Robichaud, Tony Coleman - The Canadian Experience: Expo '67: Back to the Future (CBC)
  • Marke Slipp - Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole (NFB)

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

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

Best Costume Design edit

Best Achievement in Make-Up edit

Best Sound in a Dramatic Program edit

  • Martin Lee, Steve Hammond, Tom Bjelic, Allan Fung, Doug Johnston, Ian Rankin, John Douglas Smith - Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (CBC Television)
  • John Hazen, Mark Gingras, Steve Hammond, Leon Johnson, John Laing, Tim O’Connell - Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (High Definition Pictures/The Film Works/APTN/CBC)
  • Tony Gronick, Hennie Britton, Michael P. Keeping, Conrad Kuhne, Brent Marchenski, Vince Renaud, Clive Turner, Joseph Rossi - Human Cargo (Force Four Entertainment)
  • Tom Bjelic, Georges Hannan, Don Dickson, Allan Fung, John Sievert, Mark Wright, John Douglas Smith - Open Heart (Barna-Alper/Dreamsmith Entertainment/Movie Central/CBC)

Best Sound in a Dramatic Series edit

  • Louis Hone, Paul Hubert, Gabor Vadnay, Stan Sakellaropoulos, Peter Lopata - Bliss - Steph’s Life (Galafilm/Back Alley Film Productions)
  • Eric Fitz, Grant Bone, Erik Culp, Steve Hammond, Jack Heeren, John Douglas Smith, Adam Roberts - Blue Murder - Eyewitness (Barna-Alper Productions/Canwest/North Bend Films)
  • Dino Pigat, Eric Apps, Paul Germann, Alastair Gray, Steve Kostick, Brian Newby, Donna G. Powell - The Eleventh Hour - Wonderland (Alliance Atlantis)
  • Rob Bryanton, Jeff Hamon, Evan Rust, Warren St. Onge - renegadepress.com - Out in the Open (Vérité Films)
  • Janice Ierulli, Susan Fairbairn, Leon Johnson, Sid Lieberman, Brent MacLean, Ian Rankin, Lou Solakofski - The Shields Stories - The Harp (Shaftesbury Films)

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

  • David Hillier, Martin Lee, Alex Salter, Lou Solakofski - Men of the Deeps (CTV/John Walker Productions/Picture Plant/NFB)
  • Daniel Pellerin, Elma Bello, Stefan Fraticelli, Daniel Hamood, Goro Koyama, Stephen Marian, Scott Shepherd - Puppets Who Kill - The Twilight Place (Eggplant Picture & Sound)
  • Neal Gaudet, Kenny MacDonald, Bob Melanson, Brian Power, Lil Thomas, P.J. MacNeil - This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Episode 1 (Salter Street Films/CBC)
  • Norm Lussier - Paul Brandt Presents
  • Damian Kearns, Danny Greenspoon, Doug Doctor, Doug McClement, Howard Baggley, Jeremy Darby - 2003 Canada Day Evening Show (National Capital Commission/Canadian Heritage/CBC)

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Marie-Claude Gagné, Hubert Macé de Gastines - The Nature of Things - Arctic Mission (CBC)
  • Damian Kearns, Joe Passaretti - the fifth estate - Dead in the Water (CBC)
  • Steve Cupani - City of Ruins: The Halifax Explosion (CBC)
  • Loïc Thériault, Sylvain Brassard, Vivian Savoy, Dany Ouellet, Benoît Dame - Deadly Arts (Nintendo)
  • Emil Jany - Frontiers of Construction - Road Warriors (Ragged Earth Productions/Barna-Alper Productions)

Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series edit

Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series edit

Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series edit

  • Robert Carli - Galileo's Sons (Bullfrog Films)
  • Jean-Louis Valéro - Korea: The Unfinished War - Burnt Ground (TVOntario)
  • Chris Crilly - Short Infinity (NFB)
  • Ben Johannesen, Geoff Bennett - Garden Mimics (Bullfrog Films)
  • Clode Hamelin - Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole (NFB)

Special Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ho, Julia. "Gemini Special Awards winners announced". playbackonline.ca. Playback. Retrieved 23 June 2022.