5th Gemini Awards

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 5th Gemini Awards were held on December 4, 1990 to honour achievements in Canadian television.^[1] The awards show took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.

• E.N.G. – Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Jeff King, Robert Lantos, R.B. Carney
• Danger Bay – Sunrise Films, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Disney Channel, Telefilm Canada. Producers: Harold Lee Tichenor, Paul Saltzman, Paul Quigley
• Road to Avonlea – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan
• Street Legal – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Brenda Greenberg, David Pears, Duncan Lamb

• Saying Goodbye – The First Snowfall – TVOntario. Producers: John Brunton, Linda Rainsberry
• Pray for Me, Paul Henderson – Atlantis Films. Producers: Kim Todd, Michael MacMillan, Seaton McLean, Peter Sussman
• The Ray Bradbury Theater – To the Chicago Abyss – Atlantis Films, Alberta Filmworks, Ellipsanime, ITV Granada. Producers: Arvi Liimatainen, Ray Bradbury, Peter Sussman, Jonathan Goodwill, Seaton McLean
• Life After Hockey – Great North Productions. Producer: Andy Thomson

• Where the Spirit Lives – Screen Door. Producers: Heather Haldane, Eric Jordan, Mary Young Leckie, Paul Stephens
• E.N.G. – Pilot – Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Jeff King, Robert Lantos, R.B. Carney
• Divided Loyalties – History Productions. Producers: Gerry Rochon, Tom Gould
• Looking for Miracles – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan

• Material World – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Katie Ford, Joe Partington
• Mosquito Lake – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Producers Group International. Producers: Charles Falzon, Carol Commisso

• The Journal – At the Lodge – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Sharon Bartlett, Jim Williamson, Christine Nielsen
• Batiya Bak! Producer: Werner Volkmer
• Half the Kingdom – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Heather Marshall, Francine Zuckerman, Rina Fraticelli
• The Defender – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Ches Yetman, Charles Konowal, Michael J. F. Scott
• Welcome Home – Columbia Pictures, The Rank Organisation. Producer: Susan Fleming

• The Nature of Things – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: James Murray
• CBC at Six – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Slawko Klymkiw
• Imperfect Union: Canadian Labour and the Left – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Don Hopkins, John Spotton, Arthur Hammond, John Taylor
• Ken Dryden's Home Game – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Peter Pearson, Michael Maclear

• Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Bernard Zukerman
• La Révolution française – Atlantis Films. Producers: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Denis Héroux, Robert Lantos

• The Radical Romantic – Rhombus Media. Producers: Niv Fichman, Larry Weinstein
• I Just Wanna Dance – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, Sam Levene

• Codco – Salter Street Films. Producers: J. William Ritchie, Stephen Reynolds, Jack Kellum, Michael Donovan
• Montreal International Comedy Festival – HBO. Producers: Andy Nulman, Gilbert Rozon
• The Tommy Hunter Show – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Joan Tosoni

• k.d. lang's Buffalo Cafe- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Sandra Faire
• Juno Awards of 1990 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Lynn Harvey
• Brian Orser: Skating Free – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Morgan Earl
• Rita MacNeil: Flying On Her Own – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Cliff Jones
• The Magic of Aladdin – Primedia Productions, British Columbia Broadcasting System, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Pat Ferns

• The Journal – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Mark Starowicz
• Marketplace – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Paul Moore, Sig Gerber
• Monitor – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Joy Crysdale
• Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan
• W5 – CTV Television Network. Producers: Peter Rehak, Don McQueen

• On the Road Again – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Karl Nerenberg
• A Question of Leadership. Producer: Ted Remerowski
• The NewMusic – CHUM Limited. Producers: Moses Znaimer, Denise Donlon
• CityLine – CHUM Limited. Producers: Moses Znaimer, Chrissie Rejman, Marcia Martin
• Live It Up! – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Dianne Buckner, Sharon Seto, Jack McGaw

• the fifth estate – Beyond the Law – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Brian Hosking, Doug Pike, Michael Allder, Jim Hong, Hana Gartner
• Monitor – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Jeffrey Kofman, Paul Seeler, Kathy Priestman, Michelle Metivier, Terence McKeown
• Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nora Pratt, Steve Tonon, John Westheuser, Andy McBreartry
• CBC News – Escaping Justice – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Gloria Lowen, Cecil Rosner, Ray Bourrier, Stu Loeb, Ross Rutherford
• the fifth estate – Searching for the Past – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Hilary Brown, Slawko Klymkiw, John Scully, Peter Zin, Richard Lewchuk

• Babar – Nelvana, Ellipsanime. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith
• Anniversary – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Robert Forget
• The Railway Dragon – Lacewood Productions, Hinton Animation Studios. Producers: Gerald Tripp, Sheldon S. Wiseman

• Talkin’ About AIDS – Atlantis Films. Producers: Rachel Low, Daphne Ballon, Seaton McLean
• The Party’s Over – Frame 30 Productions. Producers: Hardy Shafer, Michael Hamm
• YTV Rocks – YTV. Producer: Joanne P. Jackson

• Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band – Devine Videoworks Production, Troubadour Records. Producers: Raffi, Richard Mozer, David Devine
• Dear Aunt Agnes – TVOntario. Producer: Heather Conkie
• Fred Penner's Place – Oak Street Music. Producer: Randy Roberts
• Under the Umbrella Tree – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Noreen Young Productions. Producer: Noreen Young

• XIV Commonwealth Games – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Laurence Kimber, Doug Sellars
• 1989 Triple Crown – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Dave Naylor
• Moon of the Desperados – Cinema Cartel. Producer: Jeth Weinrich
• Sportsline – Global Television Network. Producer: Jim Tatti
• The 1989 CIAU Vanier Cup – TSN. Producer: Bruce Perrin

• CBC News – The Meech Lake Accord – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Arnold Amber, Tom Kavanagh, Elly Alboim
• CBC News – The NDP Leadership Convention – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Arnold Amber, Tom Kavanagh, Elly Alboim, David Nayman
• CTV News – 1990 Liberal Convention – Canadian Television Network. Producer: Eric Morrison

• Francis Mankiewicz – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Brad Turner – C.B.C.'s Magic Hour – Pray For Me Paul Henderson (Atlantis Films)
• Bruce Pittman – Where the Spirit Lives (Screen Door)
• Kevin Sullivan – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Paul Cowan – Justice Denied (NFB)

• Stuart Gillard – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• René Bonnière – Diamonds – Life is a Lot Like Hockey (Alliance Entertainment/ Grosso-Jacobson Productions)
• Mark Sobel – Diamonds – Separate Ways (Alliance Entertainment/ Grosso-Jacobson Productions)
• David Winning – Friday the 13th: The Series – Jack in the Box (Lexicon Productions/Triumph Entertainment/Variety Artists International/Hometown Films/Paramount Television)
• Randy Bradshaw – Night Heat (Alliance Entertainment/ Grosso-Jacobson Productions)

• John Blanchard – The Kids in the Hall (Broadway Video/CBC)
• Larry Weinstein – The Radical Romantic (Rhombus Media)
• Ron Meraska – Juno Awards of 1990 (CBC)
• Ron Meraska – Brian Orser: Skating Free (CBC)
• James Weyman, Peter Weyman – Fiddleville (Close Up Films)

• John Zaritsky – Frontline – Born in Africa (PBS)
• Werner Volkner – Batiya Bak!
• Francine Zuckerman, Roushell Goldstein – Half the Kingdom (NFB)
• Stephen Low – The Defender (NFB)
• Nigel Markham – Pelts: Politics of the Fur Trade (NFB)

• Suzette Couture – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Malcolm MacRury – Pray for Me, Paul Henderson (Atlantis Films)
• Edwina Follows – Saying Goodbye – Thunder in My Head (TVOntario)
• Keith Ross Leckie – Where the Spirit Lives (Screen Door)

• R.B. Carney – E.N.G. – Special Segment (Atlantis Communications)
• Wayne Grigsby – E.N.G. – Your Place or Mine (Atlantis Communications)
• Jim Henshaw – Friday the 13th: The Series (Lexicon Productions/Triumph Entertainment/Variety Artists International/Hometown Films/Paramount Television)
• Michael O'Connell, Derek McGrath – My Secret Identity – Toe to Toe (Sunrise Films/Scholastic Corporation/Telefilm Canada/Universal Television)
• Bill Murtagh, Elliot Stern – My Secret Identity – Off the Record (Sunrise Films/Scholastic Corporation/Telefilm Canada/Universal Television)

• Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch – The Kids in the Hall (Broadway Video/CBC)
• Paul Pogue, Jane Ford – Material World (CBC)
• Stuart Northey, Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni – The Tommy Hunter Show (CBC)
• Cliff Jones – Rita MacNeil: Flying On Her Own (CBC)
• Joe Bodolai, David Flaherty, Morgan Earl, Martin Short – 4th Gemini Awards (CBC)

• John Zaritsky – Born in Africa (PBS)
• Werner Volkner – Batiya Bak!
• Stephen Low – The Defender (NFB)
• Rachel Low, Daphne Ballon – Talkin’ About AIDS (Atlantis Films)
• Les Harris, Andrew Johnson – By the Seat of Their Pants (Canamedia Productions)

• Kenneth Welsh – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Jack Langedijk – Divided Loyalties (History Productions)
• Greg Spottiswood – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Louis Del Grande – Sanity Clause (CBC)

• Michelle St. John – Where the Spirit Lives (Screen Door)
• Jennifer Dale – Saying Goodbye – Thunder in My Head (TVOntario)
• Kate Nelligan – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)

• Art Hindle – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• C. David Johnson – Street Legal (CBC)
• Pat Mastroianni – Degrassi Junior High (Playing With Time, Inc.)
• Duncan Waugh – Degrassi Junior High (Playing With Time, Inc.)
• Bruno Gerussi – The Beachcombers (CBC)

• Jackie Burroughs – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Sarah Polley – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Stacie Mistysyn – Degrassi High (Playing With Time, Inc.)
• Angela Deiseach – Degrassi High (Playing With Time, Inc.)
• Marsha Moreau – My Secret Identity (Sunrise Films/Scholastic Corporation/Telefilm Canada/Universal Television)

• Victoria Snow – Street Legal (CBC)
• Wayne Robson – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• Frances Hyland – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• Colleen Dewhurst – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Leslie Toth – T. and T. (Nelvana/Qintex Entertainment)

• Joe Flaherty – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Karl Pruner – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• Shawn Lawrence – Saying Goodbye – The First Snowfall (TVOntario)
• Eugene Lipinski – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Michael Ball – The Private Capital (CBC)

• Ann-Marie MacDonald – Where the Spirit Lives (Screen Door)
• Sherry Miller – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• Mary Beth Rubens – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications)
• Lally Cadeau – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Ocean Hellman – Anything to Survive (Saban/Scherick Productions)

• k.d. lang – k.d. lang's Buffalo Cafe (CBC)
• Tommy Hunter – The Tommy Hunter Show (CBC)
• Mary Margaret O'Hara – It's a Razorbacks Christmas Barbeque (CBC)
• Karen Kain – Karen Kain: Dancing in the Moment (CBC)
• Blue Rodeo – Video Hits (CBC)

• Peter Mansbridge – The National – CBC News (CBC)
• Hana Gartner – the fifth estate (CBC)
• Bob McKeown – the fifth estate (CBC)
• Sheila MacVicar – the fifth estate (CBC)

• Jerry Thompson – The Journal – At the Lodge (CBC)
• Kelly Crowe – CBC at Six (CBC)
• Patrick Brown – The National – CBC News – Preying on Immigrants (CBC)

• Norm Perry – Canada AM (CTV)
• Ken Dryden – Ken Dryden's Home Game (CBC)
• Wayne Rostad – On the Road Again (CBC)
• Shirley Solomon – The Shirley Show (Adderley Productions)
• Valerie Pringle – Midday (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Brian Williams – XIV Commonwealth Games (CBC)
• Ron MacLean – Molson Legend’s Hockey Night in Canada (CBC)
• Jim Hughson – NHL Tonight Playoffs (TSN)

• Vic Sarin – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Manfred Guthe – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Vic Sarin – Divided Loyalties (History Productions)
• Brian Thomson – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Brian R.R. Hebb – The Campbells (Settler Film Productions/CTV/Telefilm Canada/Fremantle)

• Ron Stannett – Rita MacNeil: Flying On Her Own (CBC)
• Tom Swartz, Alan MacPherson – A David Foster Christmas Card (CTV)
• Lawrence Barclay, Damir Chytil – Veronique (CBC)

• Michael Boland – Ken Dryden's Home Game (CBC)
• Michael Sweeney – The Journal – At the Lodge (CBC)
• Michael Boland – The Struggle for Democracy – The Curtain Rises (CBC)
• Keith Whelan – La Tabatière (CBC)

• Geof Richards – CTV News (CTV)
• Daniel McIvor – CBC News – Dying Yanomami (CBC)
• Rick Dobrucki – The National – CBC News (CBC)

• Michael Todd – Where the Spirit Lives (Screen Door)
• Marke Slipp – The Ray Bradbury Theater – To the Chicago Abyss (Atlantis Films/Alberta Filmworks/Ellipsanime/ITV Granada)
• Gordon McClellan – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• David Goard, Gary L. Smith – Friday the 13th: The Series – The Prophecies (Lexicon Productions/Triumph Entertainment/Variety Artists International/Hometown Films/Paramount Television)
• Vincent Kent – Sanity Clause (CBC)

• Les Harris – By the Seat of Their Pants (Canamedia Productions)
• Murray Green – The Journal – At the Lodge (CBC)
• Jacques Milette – Man Alive (CBC)
• Steve Thomson – Venture (CBC)
• Paul Michel Thibault, Roger Lefebvre, Sarah Lalumiere – On the Road Again (CBC)

• Russell Chick, Armando Sgrignuoli – The Private Capital (CBC)
• Dale Heslip – Juno Awards of 1990 (CBC)
• Stephen Roloff – Friday the 13th: The Series (Lexicon Productions/Triumph Entertainment/Variety Artists International/Hometown Films/Paramount Television)
• Sheila Haley, Eric Fraser, Douglas Higgins – Bordertown (Alliance Communications)
• John Halfpenny, Chris Labonte, Charles E. Bastien – Beetlejuice (Nelvana/The Geffen Film Company/Warner Bros. Television Studios/Tim Burton Productions)

• Martha Mann – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Michael Harris – The Private Capital (CBC)
• Michel Crête – Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Expérience (Cirque du Soleil)
• Glenne Campbell – Bordertown (Alliance Communications)
• John Macfarlane – La Ronde (BBC)

• David Appleby, Wayne Griffin, David Evans, Paul Massey, Steve Joles – Divided Loyalties (History Productions)
• Erick Hoppe, Arnie Stewart, Allen Ormerod, Scott Purdy, Gillian Jones – Street Legal (CBC)
• Daniel Pellerin, Owen Langevin, Ken Porter, Jeremy Maclaverty – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Elius Caruso, Ian Hendry, Dave Templeton, Carla Prouse, Terry Burke – My Secret Identity (Sunrise Films/Scholastic Corporation/Telefilm Canada/Universal Television)
• Tim Archer, W. Michael Beard, Tom Hidderley, Rick Ellis, Anthony Lancett – The Hitchhiker ((Chester/Perlmutter/Markowitz Productions)

• Scott Purdy, Jane Tattersall, John Martin, Paul Massey – Carnival of Shadows (Rhombus Media/CBC)
• Barry Gilmore, Jean-Pierre Joutel, John Martin, Brian Avery – The Radical Romantic (Rhombus Media)
• Mas Kikuta, Simon Bowers, Peter Mann, Howard Baggley – Juno Awards of 1990 (CBC)
• Paul Massey, Brian Avery, John Martin, Denis Blais, Gillian Jones – For the Whales (Rhombus Media)
• Jacques Montminy – Songs from the Big Valley (CBC)

• Floyd Burrell, Mas Kikuta, Paul Massey – Behind the Mask (The Really Useful Group)
• David Picoski – The Journal – At the Lodge (CBC)
• Terence McKeown – Monitor (CBC)

• Victor Bateman, Danny Greenspoon – My Grandparents Had a Hotel (Karen Shopsowitz)
• John Welsman – Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Eric Robertson – Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher (CBC)
• Eric Robertson – The Private Capital (CBC)
• Larry Crosley – The Teddy Bears' Picnic (Lacewood Productions/Hinton Animation Studios/CTV)

• John Welsman – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Hagood Hardy – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)
• Milan Kymlicka – Babar (Nelvana/Ellipsanime)
• Henri Lorieau – Bordertown (Alliance Communications)
• Judith Henderson – The Smoggies (Cinar)

• Canada Award: Batiya Bak!
• The John Labatt Entertainment Award for Most Popular Program – Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan – Road to Avonlea
• Margaret Collier Award: Ted Allan
• John Drainie Award: Allan McFee
• Earle Grey Award: Jan Rubeš
• Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up and Hair Design – Judi Cooper Sealy, Beverly Schechtman – Second City Television
• Outstanding Technical Achievement – Brian Purdy – Building The Dome: 2 1/2 Years in 2 1/2 Minutes
• The Multiculturalism Award – Werner Volkner, Batiya Bak!
• Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Television – Frank Shuster, Johnny Wayne – Wayne and Shuster