The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 10th Gemini Awards was held on March 3, 1996 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Albert Schultz, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.
Best Dramatic Series Due South – Alliance Communications. Producers: George Bloomfield, Jeff King, Paul Haggis, Kathy Slevin TekWar – Atlantis Films, Western International Communications, Lemli Productions, Universal Television, CTV Television Network, USA Network. Producers: Stephen Roloff, William Shatner, John Calvert Highlander: The Series – Filmline International. Producers: Marla Ginsburg, William N. Panzer, Christian Charret, Nicolas Clermont, Ken Gord North of 60 – SEVEN24 Films. Producers: Tom Cox, Peter David Lauterman, Doug MacLeod, Barbara Samuels, Wayne Grigsby Road to Avonlea – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan
Best Short Dramatic Program Spoken Art: "A Letter to Harvey Milk" – Sleeping Giant Productions. Producers: Linda Rainsberry, Paul McConvey, Jim Hanley, John Brunton Adrienne Clarkson Presents – The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Robert Sherrin The Hands of Ida – Marble Island Pictures. Producer: Ritchard Findlay Performance!: Saying It – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, James Swan Scales of Justice: "Regina vs. Gamble and Nichols" – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Joy Barker, George Jonas, Robert Lantos, Murray Cohl
Best TV Movie or Mini-SeriesButterbox Babies – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Kevin Sullivan, Trudy Grant Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story – Hearst Entertainment, Morgan Hill Films, Power Pictures. Producers: Clara George, Julian Marks, Jennifer Alward, Paul Shapiro The Outer Limits – Sandkings – Atlantis Films, Trilogy Entertainment. Producers: Pen Densham, James Nadler, Justis Greene, Richard B. Lewis, John Watson Million Dollar Babies – Bernard Zukerman Productions, Quint Film Productions, Cinar, CBC Television, CBS Productions. Producers: Bernard Zukerman, Micheline Charest, Ronald A. Weinberg Small Gifts – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Flora Macdonald
Best Music Variety Program or Series Brian Orser: Blame It On the Blues – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Morgan Earl, Peter Mann The Big Ticket – Annie Lennox – MuchMusic. Producers: Moses Znaimer, Denise Donlon The Ultimate Birthday Party – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Lynn Harvey True North Concert – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Keith MacNeill, Jack Bond YAA! The 6th Annual YTV Achievement Awards – YTV. Producers: Joanne P. Jackson, Ian Murray
Best Comedy Program or Series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Series II – Salter Street Films, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Geoff D’Eon, Michael Donovan, Jack Kellum, Gerald Lunz, Jenipher Ritchie Air Farce Live – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Brian Robertson, Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson Married Life – Atlantis Films. Producers: Martin Katz, Jan Peter Meyboom The Kids in the Hall – Broadway Video. Producers: Betty Orr, Jim Biederman, John Blanchard, Lorne Michaels, Jeffrey Berman The Red Green Show – S&S Productions. Producers: Bill Johnston, Ron Lillie, Steve Smith Comics! – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Sandra Faire, Pam McFarlane, Joe Bodolai
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program Ms. Conceptions – Good Soup Productions. Producers: Ric Esther Bienstock, Linda Frum Orphans of Manchuria – Sienna Films, October Films. Producer: Annie Dodds the fifth estate – Sealed in Silence – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: David Kaufman The Last Trip – Maximage Productions. Producer: Ina Fichman The Negotiator – Barna-Alper Productions. Producer: Laszlo Barna The Voyage of the St. Louis – Galafilm, Les Films d'Ici, National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Arnie Gelbart
Best Documentary Series Man Alive – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Louise Lore Witness – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Mark Starowicz From the Heart – TVOntario. Producer: Rudy Buttignol Rough Cuts – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Jerry McIntosh The Human Race – Green Lion Productions. Producers: Marrin Canell, Catherine Mullins
Best Science, Technology, Nature and Environment Documentary Program Epilepsy: The Centre of Her Storms – TVOntario. Producers: David Way, Wally Longul Cyberwars – Binary Groove – Corvideocom. Producers: Alan White, Eric Calvert Forbidden Places: "Silent Witness" – Television Renaissance. Producer: Aiken Scherberger Forbidden Places: "Zone of Separation" – Television Renaissance. Producer: Aiken Scherberger Whisper In the Air – Archer Films, Arc Films. Producers: Angela Gwynn-John, Tom Perlmutter, Michael Betcherman
Best Performing Arts Program or Series, or Arts Documentary Program The Planets – Rhombus Media. Producer: Niv Fichman Journeys – Cirque du Soleil: Behind the Masks – TVOntario. Producers: Lauren Millar, B. Craig Moffit Have You Heard the Word? – TVOntario. Producers: Leanna Crouch, Stan Lipsey Making Ballet – Cineroute Productions. Producer: Anthony Azzopardi Nellie Gray: Inspired By Pyramids – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, Peter Lynch
Best Information Series Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Joy Crysdale, Linda Sims the fifth estate – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: David Studer, Susan Teskey Contact With Hana Gartner – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Larry Zolf, Roxana Spicer, Robin Taylor, Alan Burke Marketplace – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Paul Moore, Sig Gerber The National/CBC Prime Time News – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Joan Anderson, Tony Burman
Best Information Segment W5 – Multiculturalism 1 & 2 – CTV. Producers: Susan Ormiston, Ian McLeod The National/CBC Prime Time News – Winners & Losers – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Lynn Burgess, Leslie MacKinnon The National/CBC Prime Time News – Frightful Place to Die – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Off, Andrew Gregg The National/CBC Prime Time News – VE Day, Victory Campaign – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bill Cobban, Brian Stewart Undercurrents – Videotape Evidence – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Anne Wright-Howard Street Cents – Music – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Mark Lawrence
Best Lifestyle Series On the Road Again – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Paul Harrington 50/UP – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Shafik Obrai Spilled Milk – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Melanie Wood, Herb Baring Yellow Brick Roads – Stornoway Communications. Producers: Gary Freedman, Martha Fusca, Kitson Vincent
Best Animated Program or Series ReBoot – Mainframe Entertainment, Alliance Communications, BLT Productions. Producers: Christopher Brough, Ian Pearson, Stephane Reichel, Steve Barron The Busy World of Richard Scarry – Cinar Films. Producers: Micheline Charest, Ronald A. Weinberg, Cassandra Schafhausen, Christian Davin Rupert – Nelvana. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith Nilus the Sandman – Cambium Film & Video Productions, Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions. Producers: Arnie Zipursky, Chris Delaney, Julie Stall Tales from the Cryptkeeper – The Sleeping Beauty – Nelvana. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert
Best Youth Program or Series Ready or Not – Insight Productions. Producers: Alyse Rosenberg, John Brunton Madison – Forefront Entertainment. Producers: Helena Cynamon, Gillian Lindsay, Mickey Rogers, Teri Woods-McArter Girl Talk – Up Front Entertainment. Producers: Melanie York, Barbara Barde What: Body Part Art – TVOntario. Producers: Christine Gerritse, Janet Thomson, Adrian Callender YTV News – YTV. Producer: Ian Murray
Best Children’s Program or Series Are You Afraid of the Dark? – Cinar Films. Producers: Micheline Charest, DJ MacHale, Ronald A. Weinberg The Composers’ Specials – Devine Entertainment. Producers: Richard Mozer, David Devine The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon – Breakthrough Entertainment. Producers: Ira Levy, Peter Williamson Dog City – Nelvana, Jim Henson Productions. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith, Brian Henson, Michael K. Frith Mighty Machines – TVOntario. Producers: René Malo, Robert Blair Theodore Tugboat – Cochran Entertainment. Producer: Andrew Cochran
Best Sports Program or Series For the Love of the Game – Television Renaissance. Producer: Aiken Scherberger Fresh Paint: Birth of a Franchise – Northern Sky Entertainment. Producers: Wayne Abbott, Chris McCracken, Dave Toms Eye on the Diamond – TV Eye Entertainment. Producers: Ian Davey, Robert MacAskill Paul Tracy: Road Warrior – TVOntario. Producers: B. Craig Moffit, Lauren Millar The 1995 Molson Indy Toronto – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Laurence Kimber, Don Peppin
Best Special Event Coverage VE Day – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Fred Parker, Mark Bulgutch, Chris Waddell, Slawko Klymkiw Holy Macro Economics Taxman! – Budget '95 – MuchMusic. Producers: Matt Zimbel, Avi Lewis Manitoba Votes: 1995 Manitoba Provincial Election – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Linda Nelson, Carl Karp Studio 2: Election ‘95 – TVOntario. Producer: Doug Grant The Calgary Stampede Special – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Geoff Johnson, Don Peppin
Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Christian Duguay – Million Dollar Babies (Bernard Zukerman Productions/Quint Film Productions/Cinar/CBC Television/CBS Productions) Joseph L. Scanlan – The Outer Limits – Sandkings (Atlantis Films/Trilogy Entertainment) Bruce Pittman – Harrison Bergeron (Atlantis Films) Paul Shapiro – Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (Hearst Entertainment/Morgan Hill Films/Power Pictures) Brad Turner – Paris or Somewhere (Credo Entertainment)
Best Direction in a Dramatic or Comedy Series Jerry Ciccoritti – Due South – The Gift of the Wheelman (Alliance Communications) Ken Finkleman – Married Life – Prime Time (Atlantis Films) Gary Harvey – Madison – True Colours (Forefront Entertainment) Giles Walker – Sirens – The Abduction (Telescene Film Group)
Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series Barbara Willis Sweete – The Planets (Rhombus Media) Jacques Payette – Cirque du Soleil: Saltimbanco (Telemagik) David Acomba – Brian Orser: Blame It On the Blues (CBC) John Doyle, Michael Willoughby – Lend Me Your Ears (AdVantage Productions) Tim Southam – Satie and Suzanne (Rhombus Media)
Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series Elliott Halpern – Witness – The Plague Monkeys (CBC) Sylvie Van Brabant – The Last Trip (Maximage Productions) Barry Gray – Beyond Golden Mountain (Beyond Golden Mountain Productions) Susan Dando – The National/CBC Prime Time News (CBC)
Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series David Adams Richards – Small Gifts (CBC) Raymond Storey – Butterbox Babies (Sullivan Entertainment) Lee Gowan – Paris or Somewhere (Credo Entertainment) Michael DeCarlo – Fellini and Me (Insight Productions) Keith Ross Leckie – Trial at Fortitude Bay (Atlantis Films/Credo Entertainment/imX Communications)
Best Writing in a Dramatic Series Paul Haggis, David Shore – Due South – Hawk and a Handsaw (Alliance Communications) Paul Haggis – Due South – The Gift of the Wheelman (Alliance Communications) Hart Hanson – North of 60 – The Trial (Seven24 Films) Ann MacNaughton – Destiny Ridge – The Freezer of Turin (Alliance Atlantis/Great North Productions) Yan Moore – Liberty Street – The Dating Game (Epitome Pictures)
Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series