The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 8th Gemini Awards were held on March 6, 1994, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Albert Schultz and Valerie Pringle, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television.
Best Dramatic Series E.N.G. – Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Greg Copeland, Robert Lantos Beyond Reality – Paragon Entertainment. Producers: Jon Slan, Richard Borchiver, Janet Cuddy Forever Knight – Paragon Entertainment. Producers: Jon Slan, James D. Parriott, Richard Borchiver, Lionel E. Siegel, Nicholas Gray North of 60 – (Seven24 Films). Producers: Tom Cox, Doug MacLeod, Robert Lantos, Barbara Samuels, Wayne Grigsby Street Legal – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nicholas Rose, Duncan Lamb, Brenda Greenberg
Best Short Dramatic Program Letter from Francis – Atlantis Films, Cabiria Productions. Producers: Daphne Ballon, Jane Thompson Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House – More Stately Mansions – Atlantis Films, South Pacific Pictures. Producers: Michael MacMillan, Chris Bailey, Jonathan Goodwill Scales of Justice: "Regina v Coffin" – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: George Jonas The Hidden Room – While She Was Out – Hidden Room Productions. Producers: David Perlmutter, Lewis Chesler, Tab Baird, Adam Haight The Bellringer – Firehorse Film Productions. Producer: Brenda Sherwood
Best TV Movie The Diviners – Atlantis Films, Credo Group. Producers: Kim Todd, Derek Mazur, Bill Gray, Peter Sussman I'll Never Get to Heaven – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Flora Macdonald Liar, Liar – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer Phil Savath Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Alan Burke Adrift – Atlantis Films. Producers: Jonathan Goodwill, Peter Sussman
Best Music Program or Series The Holly Cole Trio – My Foolish Heart – Cambium Film & Video Productions. Producers: Bruce Glawson, Arnie Zipursky Juno Awards of 1993 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: John Brunton, Joan Tosoni Michael Burgess at Massey Hall – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Lynn Harvey
Best Comedy Program or Series The Kids in the Hall – Broadway Video, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: John Blanchard, Lorne Michaels, Jeffrey Berman, Cindy Park, Joe Forristal Maniac Mansion – Atlantis Films. Producers: Jamie Paul Rock, Eugene Levy, Barry Jossen, Peter Sussman, Seaton McLean, Michael Short The Red Green Show – S&S Productions. Producers: Steve Smith, William Johnston, Ronald Lillie
Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program Donald Brittain Filmmaker – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Adam Symansky Adrienne Clarkson Presents – Artemisia – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Adrienne Clarkson The Nature of Things – Trading Futures – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Michael Poole Man Alive – Held Hostage – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Halya Kuchmij the fifth estate – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Susan Teskey
Best Documentary Series Acts of War – Screenlife. Producers: Michael Maclear, David Kirk The Nature of Things with David Suzuki – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: James Murray Man Alive – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Louise Lore
Best Dramatic Mini-Series The Boys of St. Vincent – Les Productions Tele-Action, National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Claudio Luca, Sam Grana Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story – Alliance Communications. Producers: Robert Lantos, Michael Weisbarth, Ian McDougall
Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg – Rhombus Media. Producers: Larry Weinstein, Niv Fichman Adrienne Clarkson Presents – Ronnie Burkett: Hands On – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Patricia Smith-Strom Adrienne Clarkson Presents – Famous People Players – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Robert Sherrin The Tin Soldier – Sound Venture Productions. Producer: Neil Bregman
Best Variety Program or Series The Trial of Red Riding Hood – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Bernard Rothman Productions. Producer: Bernard Rothman Royal Canadian Air Farce – 1992 Year of the Farce – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Brian Robertson, Ralph Mellanby, Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson Anne Murray in Nova Scotia – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Balmur Entertainment. Producers: Sandra Faire, Leonard T. Rambeau True North Concert '93 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Keith MacNeill
Best Information Program or Series Marketplace – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Sig Gerber, Paul Moore Contact with Hana Gartner – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Alan Burke, Robin Taylor, Anne Bayin, Larry Zolf the fifth estate – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Kelly Crichton, David Studer Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan W5 With Eric Malling – CTV Television Network. Producer: Peter Rehak
Best Information Segment CBC Prime Time News – The Somalia Affair – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Robin Benger, Brian Stewart W5 With Eric Malling – Welfare – CTV Television Network. Producers: Andrea Dinnick, Michael Lavoie CBC Prime Time News – Every Move You Make – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Daniel Gelfant, Leslie MacKinnon CBC News Manitoba – A Tale of Two Towns – CBC Manitoba. Producers: Ross Rutherford, Cecil Rosner The Spirit of the Game – CBC Manitoba. Producers: Mark Lee, Andy Blicq
Best Lifestyle Series MediaTelevision – Citytv. Producers: Moses Znaimer, Marcia Martin, Reid Willis Imprint – TVOntario. Producers: Stanford Lipsey, Leanna Crouch Life Lines – TVOntario. Producers: David Way, Mary Pattenden, Wally Longul Prisoners of Gravity – TVOntario. Producer: Gregg Thurlbeck On the Road Again – CBC. Producer: Paul Harrington LIFE: The Program – CBC. Producer: Duncan McEwan
Best Animated Program or Series Dog City – Nelvana, Jim Henson Productions. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith A Bunch of Munsch – Cinar. Producers: Ronald A. Weinberg, Micheline Charest
Best Youth Program or Series Street Cents – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: John Nowlan, Jonathan Finkelstein, Barbara Kennedy Minoru: Memory of Exile – National Film Board of Canada. Producer: Bill Pettigrew The Odyssey – Water Street Pictures. Producer: Michael Chechik Are You Afraid of the Dark? – Cinar, YTV. Producer: Ronald A. Weinberg Spirit Rider – OWL/TV, Credo Group. Producers: Wayne Arron, Derek Mazur
Best Children's Program or Series Lamb Chop's Play-Along – Paragon Entertainment. Producers: Jon Slan, Richard Borchiver, Bernard Rothman Join In! – Play Ball – TVOntario. Producer: Jed MacKay The Big Comfy Couch – Radical Sheep Productions. Producers: Cheryl Wagner, Robert Mills Under the Umbrella Tree Special: Baseball Fever – Noreen Young Productions. Producer: Noreen Young
Best Sports Program or Series The Spirit of the Game – CBC Manitoba. Producers: Andy Blicq, Noah Erenberg The Hat Trick – J.T.D. Video Productions. Producer: Bob Cole Pumped! – Insight Productions. Producers: John Brunton, Dale Burshtein Coach's Corner – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ron G. Harrison, Larry Isaac, Mark Askin Molson Hockey Night in Canada – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ron G. Harrison, Mark Askin, Larry Isaac, Ed Milliken
Best Special Event Coverage The Canadian Open – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Doug Beeforth, John Shannon 1993 NHL Entry Draft – TSN. Producer: Gord Cutler CTV News – Leadership '93 – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Eric Morrison, Fiona Conway 1993 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Arnold Amber, Tom Kavanagh, Elly Alboim, Fred Parker
Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series John N. Smith – The Boys of St. Vincent (Les Productions Tele-Action/NFB) Sturla Gunnarsson – Scales of Justice: "Regina v Truscott" (CBC) Jorge Montesi – Liar, Liar (CBC) Paul Cowan – Double or Nothing: The Rise and Fall of Robert Campeau (NFB) Eric Till – Lifeline to Victory (Primedia Productions)
Best Direction in a Dramatic or Comedy Series Jerry Ciccoritti – Catwalk – Here Today (Cat Run Productions) George Bloomfield – North of 60 – Sisters of Mercy (Seven24 Films) Jorge Montesi – Catwalk – Sex, Lies and Rock N' Roll Stacey Curtis – North of 60 – Freeze-Out (Seven24 Films) Allan King – By Way of the Stars – Arrival at Niagara Falls (Sullivan Entertainment) Don McBrearty – The Odyssey – A Place Called Nowhere (Water Street Pictures)
Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series Ron Meraska – Michael Burgess at Massey Hall (CBC) Michael McNamara – The Holly Cole Trio – My Foolish Heart (Cambium Film & Video Productions) Larry Weinstein – My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (Rhombus Media) David Langer – The Tin Soldier (Sound Venture Productions) Eric Till – The Trial of Red Riding Hood (CBC/Bernard Rothman Productions)
Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series John Zaritsky – Frontline: An Appointment With Death (PBS) Kent Martin – Donald Brittain Filmmaker (National Film Board of Canada) Julian Sher – the fifth estate – Crimes Against Humanity (CBC) Vladimir Bondarenko – Speaking of Courage (Condor Productions) Denis Blaquière, Gisèle Benoit – In the Company of Moose (Films Franc-Sud)
Best Writing in a Dramatic Mini-Series Des Walsh, John N. Smith, Sam Grana – The Boys of St. Vincent (Les Productions Tele-Action/NFB) Kathleen M. Turner – I'll Never Get to Heaven (CBC) Nancy Isaak – Liar, Liar (CBC) Paul Gross – Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (CBC) Anna Sandor, William Gough – Family of Strangers (Atlantis Communications)
Best Writing in a Dramatic Series Rebecca Schechter – North of 60 – Sisters of Mercy (Seven24 Films) Dave Cole – E.N.G. – Another Pretty Face (Atlantis Communications) Paul Vitols, Warren Easton – The Odyssey – A Place Called Nowhere (Water Street Pictures) Marlene Matthews – Road to Avonlea – Home Movie (Sullivan Entertainment) Hart Hanson – Ready or Not – Origins of Man (Insight Productions)
Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Tommy Sexton, Greg Malone – Codco – Lil and Buster (Salter Street Films) Michael Short – Maniac Mansion – Freddie Had a Little Lamb (Atlantis Films) Steve Smith, Rick Green – The Red Green Show – Car Pool (S&S Productions) John Morgan, Gord Holtam, Rick Olsen – Royal Canadian Air Farce – 1992 Year of the Farce (CBC) Thomas Wallner, Larry Weinstein – My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (Rhombus Media)
Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series Michael Maclear – Acts of War – A Very Personal War (Screenlife) Amanda McConnell – The Nature of Things – Trading Futures – CBC) Linden MacIntyre – the fifth estate – Odd Man Out (CBC) Joe Schlesinger – CBC Prime Time News – The Mulroney Years (CBC) Ted Remerowski – God's Dominion – In the Name of the Father (God's Dominion Productions)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Henry Czerny – The Boys of St. Vincent (Les Productions Tele-Action/NFB) Tom Jackson – The Diviners (Atlantis Films, Credo Group) Art Hindle – Liar, Liar (CBC) Daniel Kash – Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (CBC) Ron White – Manic (Fleeting Glimpse Productions)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Kelly Rowan – Adrift (Atlantis Films) Julie Stewart – Letter from Francis – (Atlantis Films/Cabiria Productions) Sonja Smits – The Diviners (Atlantis Films, Credo Group) Wendy Crewson – I'll Never Get to Heaven (CBC) Vanessa King – Liar, Liar (CBC)