The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 14th Gemini Awards were held on November 7, 1999, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Rick Mercer, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.
Best Dramatic Series Da Vinci's Inquest – Haddock Entertainment, Barna-Alper Productions, Alliance Atlantis Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Chris Haddock, Laszlo Barna More Tales of the City – Working Title Films. Producers: Kevin Tierney, Suzanne Girard, Alan Poul, Tim Bevan Foolish Heart – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ken Finkleman, Brian Dennis La Femme Nikita – Baton Broadcasting, Fireworks Entertainment. Producers: Jamie Paul Rock, Jay Firestone Traders – Atlantis Films. Producers: Seaton McLean, Sandie Pereira, Peter Mitchell
Best TV Movie or Miniseries Milgaard – Barna-Alper Productions, Bar Harbour Films, Marble Island Pictures. Producers: Vibika Bianchi, Laszlo Barna, Richard Findlay, Martin Harbury, Laura Lightbown At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story – Barna-Alper Productions, Atlantic Mediaworks. Producers: Laszlo Barna, Bob Miller, Sheldon Larry Happy Christmas, Miss King – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Kevin Sullivan, Trudy Grant Justice – Alliance Atlantis Productions. Producers: Alyson Feltes, Brian Dennis, Seaton McLean Shot Through the Heart – Alliance Atlantis, BBC, Company Pictures, LeFrak Productions, Transatlantic Media Associates. Producers: Robert Lantos, Su Armstrong, Francine Lefrak, David M. Thompson
Best Comedy Program or Series Made in Canada – Salter Street Films, Island Edge. Producers: Marilyn Richardson, Gerald Lunz, Linda Nelson, Michael Donovan Double Exposure – CBC Radio One. Producers: Bob Robertson, Linda Cullen, Nick Orchard Comedy Now! – Elvira Kurt: Big Girl Now – CTV. Producers Trisa Dayot, Sandra Faire Air Farce Live – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson The Red Green Show – Red Green Productions. Producer: Steve Smith
Best Music, Variety Program or Series This Hour Has 22 Minutes New Year's Eve Special – Salter Street Films, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Michael Donovan, Geoff D'Eon, Andrew McInnes, Jack Kellum, Paul Bellini 1998 True North Concert – Producers: Keith MacNeill, Steve Glassman, Jack Bond History Bites – The History Channel. Producer: Rick Green In Thru the Out Door – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Andy Nulman Juno Awards of 1999 – Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Producers: Stephen Stohn, Lynn Harvey West Coast Music Awards – Producer: Moyra Rodger
Best Performing Arts Program or Series, or Arts Documentary Program or Series
The Genius of Lenny Breau – Sleeping Giant Productions, Buffalo Gal Pictures. Producers: Jim Hanley, Phyllis Laing, Paul McConvey
Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program Crimes of Honor – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Bishari Films. Producer: Shelley Saywell Believing – Producer: Nicole Lamothe East Side Showdown – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Peter Starr Four Women of Egypt – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Éric Michel The Dragon's Egg – TVOntario. Producers: Elizabeth Yake, Allan King, Rudy Buttignol
Best Documentary Series The View from Here – TVOntario. Producer: Rudy Buttignol Man Alive – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Robin Christmas, Joy Crysdale Rough Cuts – CBC Newsworld. Producers: Catherine Olsen, Tassie Notar, Jerry McIntosh The Cola Conquest – DLI Productions. Producers: Jan Rofekamp, Amy Webb, Abbey Jack Neidik, Irene Angelico Witness – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Janice Tufford, Marie Natanson, Hilary Armstrong
Best History, Biography Documentary Program Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows – National Film Board of Canada, High Road Productions. Producers: Sally Blake, Paul Jay, Louise Lore, David M. Ostriker, Silva Basmajian, Rudy Buttignol Deadly Seas – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Mala Chapple, Michael Maclear Gabrielle Roy – Buffalo Gal Pictures. Producers: Ian Boyd, Phyllis Laing John McCrae's War: In Flanders Fields – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Jonathan Desbarats, Barbara Shearer, Selwyn Jacob
Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Jerry Krepakevich Baboon Tales – Tamarin Productions. Producers: Gillian Darling-Kovanic, Rudolf Kovanic The Nature of Things – Up Close and Personal – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Caroline Underwood The Nature of Things – The Pill – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Joseph MacDonald Walking with Giants: The Grizzlies of Siberia – Rubin Tarrant Productions. Producer: Ian Herring
Best News Information Series the fifth estate – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: David Studer, Susan Teskey The Health Show – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Sophia Hadzipetros The Magazine – CBC Newsworld. Producers: Janet Thomson, Kelly Crichton, Bob Bishop W5 – CTV. Producers: Anton Koschany, Ian McLeod
Best Newscast/News Special The National/CBC News – Swissair Disaster. Producers: Kelly Crichton, Hedy Korbee, Fred Parker (CBC) CTV National News – Crisis in Kosovo. Producer: Henry Kowalski (CTV) CTV National News – Shooting at Columbine High. Producer: Henry Kowalski, Robert Hurst (CTV) CTV National News – Swissair Flight 111. Producer: Henry Kowalski (CTV) The National/CBC News – Town Hall: Canada At War. Producers: Fred Parker, Mark Bulgutch, Chris Waddell (CBC)
Best Talk, Information Program or SeriesOpen Mike with Mike Bullard – The Comedy Network. Producers: Barbara Bowlby, Al Magee, John Brunton Canada AM – CTV Television Network. Producers: Michael Serapio, Zev Shalev, Sean O'Malley Gzowski in Conversation – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Mary Young Leckie, Heather Haldane, Joan Tosoni Hot Type – CBC Newsworld. Producers: Maria Mironowicz, Andrew Johnson Imprint – TVOntario. Producers: Linda Dunlop, Richard Ouzounian
Best Lifestyle Information SeriesWeird Homes – Life Network, Homes II Productions, Yaletown Entertainment. Producer: Mike Collier Country Canada – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Nigel Simms Fashion File – CBC Newsworld, Toronto Life Fashion Magazine. Producers: Debbie Gibson, Maria Mironowicz, Réjean Beaudin Pet Project – Life Network. Producers: Dale Burshtein, Lon J. Hall Real Families – Life Network. Producers: Shoshana de Paz, Mark Ross Spilled Milk – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Melanie Wood
Best Animated Program or Series or Short Animated ProgramRolie Polie Olie – Nelvana, Métal Hurlant Productions. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Fabrice Giger, William Joyce, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith The Eye of the Wolf – CinéGroupe. Producer: Jacques Pettigrew Snow Cat – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Sheldon Cohen, Kenneth Hirsch, Marcy Page Tongue Twister – Collideascope. Producers: Sean Scott, Steven J.P. Comeau, Michael-Andreas Kuttner Twisteeria – Scintilla Entertainment. Producers: Pindar Azad, James C. McPhalen
Best Preschool Program or SeriesSesame Park – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Duncan Lamb, Susan Sheehan, Wendy Smith Panda Bear Daycare – YTV, Radical Sheep Productions. Producers: John Leitch, Cheryl Wagner, Rob Mills Ruffus the Dog – YTV, Radical Sheep Productions. Producers: John Leitch, Cheryl Wagner, Rob Mills
Best Children's or Youth Program or Series The Inventors' Specials – The Inventors' Specials: Edison: The Wizard of Light – Devine Entertainment. Producers: David Devine, Richard Mozer Jenny and the Queen of Light – Breakthrough Entertainment. Producers: Andrea Boyd, Lawrence Zack, Peter Williamson, Ira Levy Yaa! To the M@X – YTV. Producers: Jonathan Finkelstein, Michel C. Lavoie, André Picard Goosebumps – Protocol Entertainment. Producers: Steven Levitan, Deborah Forte, Bill Siegler Incredible Story Studios – Mind's Eye Entertainment. Producers: Rob W. King, Virginia Thompson, Kevin DeWalt, Robert de Lint
Best Sports Program or SeriesThe New Ice Age: A Year in the Life of the NHL – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, White Pine Pictures. Producers: Peter Raymont, Joseph Blasioli, Maria Pimentel Dave Hodge Special: The Three Nicest People in Sports – CBC Sports. Producer: Mitch Kerzner Hockey Night in Canada – Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Night in Canada Farewell – CBC Sports. Producers: Joel Darling, Paul Harrington Olympic Warrior: Donovan Bailey's Story – CBC Sports. Producer: John Curtin Sports Journal – CBC Sports. Producers: Brenda Irving, Claude Panet-Raymond, Tom Harrington, Ken Dodd
Best Short DramaThe Dane — Christina Ford, Jeffrey Berman, David HubandDecember 1917 — Craig Cameron, Evangelo Kioussis, Scott Simpson The Tale of Teeka — Anna Stratton, Arnie Gelbart
Best Live Sporting Event1998 Commonwealth Games – CBC Sports. Producers: Doug Sellars, Terry Ludwick 1998 Export A Skins Golf – CBC Sports. Producers: Joel Darling, Jim Marshall TSN World World Junior Hockey Final from Winnipeg – TSN. Producer: Rick Briggs-Jude
Best Live Special Event Coverage CBC Newsworld – Crash of Swissair 111 – CBC Newsworld. Producers: Mark Bulgutch, Brian Dubreuil, Dan Leger CBC Newsworld – Mandela and the Children – CBC Newsworld. Producers: Fred Parker, Mark Bulgutch, Chris Waddell CTV News 1: Tragedy in Taber – CTV News Channel. Producer: Tom Haberstroh CTV News Special Report: 1998 SCOC Ruling on Quebec Succession – CTV News. Producer: Tom Haberstroh, Robert Hurst @discovery.ca – John Glenn: Mission of Discovery: Live Special – Discovery Channel. Producers: Alex Bystram, Paul Lewis, Deanna Kraus
Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-SeriesStephen Williams – Milgaard (Barna-Alper Productions/Bar Harbour Films/Marble Island Pictures) Gil Cardinal – Big Bear (Telefilm Canada/Productions Télé-Action/Kanata Productions) Stefan Scaini – Happy Christmas, Miss King (Sullivan Entertainment) Raymond Saint-Jean – Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (Cine Qua Non Films) Tim Southam – The Tale of Teeka (Galafilm/Triptych Media)
Best Direction in a Dramatic SeriesKen Finkleman – Foolish Heart: "Breathless" (CBC) George Bloomfield – Due South: "Dead Guy Running" (Alliance Films) Chris Bould – Emily of New Moon: "Pins and Needles, Needles and Pins, When a Man Gets Married, His Trouble Begins" (Salter Street Films/Cinar) John Fawcett – Power Play (CTV Originals/NDG Productions/Serendipity Point Films/Alliance Atlantis) T. W. Peacocke – Traders (Atlantis Films)
Best Direction in a Variety, or Performing Arts Program or Series Henry Sarwer-Foner – This Hour Has 22 Minutes New Year's Eve Special (Salter Street Films/CBC) Judy Jackson, Serge Turbide – Beauty for Ashes: Artists and Human Rights Laura Taler, Moze Mossanen – Dances for a Small Screen (Taler Group/Triptych Media, Hammond Associates) Michael McNamara – In Thru the Out Door (Showtime) Robert Crossman – Water, Earth, Air, Fire (BravoFACT/Paulus Productions)
Best Direction in an Information Program or SeriesNeil Docherty – the fifth estate – Bad Blood (CBC) David Storey – Pet Project (Life Network) Ramelle Mair, Serge Marcil, Sid Goldberg, Jean Louis Côté – Popular Mechanics For Kids (SDA Productions) Michael Prini – Savoir Faire (Primevista Television) Linda McEwan – The Health Show (CBC)
Best Direction in a Documentary Program or SeriesJoseph Viszmeg – My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer (NFB) Patricio Guzmán – Chile, Obstinate Memory (NFB) Barry Greenwald – High Risk Offender (NFB) Paul Jay – Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (National Film Board of Canada/High Road Productions) Jane Armstrong – Nuclear Sharks (Discovery Channel) Maurice Bulbulian – The Nitinaht Chronicles (NFB)