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