The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 7th Gemini Awards were held in March 1993 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show 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, Jeff King, Robert Lantos, R.B. Carney Neon Rider – (Virtue/Rekert Productions, Atlantis Films. Producers: Justis Greene, Danny Virtue, Winston Rekert, Michael MacMillan Road to Avonlea – Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan Street Legal – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nicholas Rose, Duncan Lamb, Brenda Greenberg
Best Short Dramatic Program Scales of Justice: "Regina v. Stewart" – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: George Jonas Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House – Atlantis Films, South Pacific Pictures. Producers: Michael MacMillan, Chris Bailey, Jonathan Goodwill The Ray Bradbury Theater – Alberta Filmworks, Atlantis Films, Ellipsanime, ITV Granada. Producers: Peter Sussman, Chris Bailey, Mary Kahn
Best TV MovieScales of Justice: "Regina v. Nelles" – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: George Jonas Christmas On Division Street – Columbia Pictures Television, Higher Ground Productions, Morrow-Heus Productions, Procter & Gamble Productions, The Guber-Peters Company, Western International Communications. Producers: Colleen Nystedt, Tony Allard Black Death – CTV Television Network, Libra Pictures, Saban Entertainment, Sunrise Films, Telefilm Canada. Producers: Steven Levitan, Lynn Raynor, Paul Saltzman, Edgar Scherick Rapture – Paragon Entertainment, Tristar Pictures. Producers: Richard Borchiver, Jon Slan School’s Out – Playing With Time, Inc. Producers: Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler
Best Comedy Program or SeriesThe Kids in the Hall – Broadway Video, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Lorne Michaels, Jeffrey Berman, Cindy Park, Joe Forristal Maniac Mansion – Atlantis Films. Producers: Jamie Paul Rock, Eugene Levy, Barry Jossen, Peter Sussman, Michael Short The Red Green Show – S&S Productions. Producer: Steve Smith
Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer – National Film Board of Canada. Producers: Don Haig, Terence Macartney-Filgate Man Alive – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Halya Kuchmij On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature – Cinéfort. Producer: Mary Armstrong Threads of Hope – Canamedia Productions. Producers: Jane Harris, Les Harris Women in the Shadows – National Film Board of Canada, Direction Films. Producers: Christine Welsh, Signe Johansson
Best Documentary Series The Valour and the Horror – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, Galafilm. Producers: Arnie Gelbart, André Lamy Brain Sex – Discovery Channel. Producers: Richard Price, Anne Moir, Pat Ferns Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World – Biniman Productions, KCET, BBC, Global Television Network. Producers: Adrian Malone, Richard Meech, Nancy Button, Michael Grant My Partners My People – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Maria Campbell, Tom Radford, Andy Thompson The Price of Power – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Noah Erenberg
Best Dramatic Mini-Series Conspiracy of Silence – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Bernard Zukerman Bethune: The Making of a Hero – Filmline International. Producers: Pieter Kroonenburg, Nicolas Clermont The Sound and the Silence – Atlantis Films, South Pacific Pictures. Producers: Luciano Lisi, Jon Glascoe, Kim Todd, Michael MacMillan
Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Expérience – Cirque du Soleil. Producer: Hélène Dufresne Adrienne Clarkson Presents – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Adrienne Clarkson, Gordon Stewart Canadian Brass: Home Movies – Rhombus Media. Producer: Niv Fichman Standards – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, Jeremy Podeswa, Ingrid Veninger
Best Variety Series The Best of Just for Laughs – Les Films Rozon. Producers: Andy Nulman, Gilbert Rozon Country Beat – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Steve Glassman The Tommy Hunter Show – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Lynn Harvey
Best Variety Program Brian Orser: Night Moves – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Sandra Bezic, Morgan Earl 6th Gemini Awards|1992 Gemini Awards – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Maria Topalovich, Joe Bodolai, Jon Nicholls, Peter Hayman, Sean Kiely Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ralph Benmergui, Joe Bodolai, Jon Nicholls, Peter Hayman Happy Birthday Canada! – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Darlene Harber, Annette Antoniak, Ken Gibson, Gordon James Howie – CBS, 3 Arts Entertainment. Producers: Peter Sussman, Morris Abraham, Michael Rotenberg, Sean Ryerson, Howie Mandel
Best Information Series the fifth estate – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Kelly Crichton, David Nayman For the Love of the Game – TSN. Producer: Aiken Scherberger Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan W5 With Eric Malling – CTV Television Network. Producer: Peter Rehak Contact with Hana Gartner – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Alan Burke, Robin Taylor, Anne Bayin, Larry Zolf
Best Light Information Series LIFE: The Program – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Duncan McEwan Street Cents – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Jonathan Finkelstein, Janet Thompson, John Nowlan Sunday Arts Entertainment – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Carol Moore-Ede On the Road Again – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Karl Nerenberg Prisoners of Gravity – TVOntario. Producer: Gregg Thurlbeck
Best Information Segment For the Love of the Game – TSN. Producer: Aiken Scherberger Venture – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ben Matilainen, Nora Pratt, R. Gamble, Steve Thomson Contact with Hana Gartner – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bruce Griffen, Larry Zolf, Hana Gartner, Wes Blanchard, Michael Savoie LIFE: The Program – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Stephen Bourne, Lon Appleby, Danny Cook, Sheldon Beldick the fifth estate – Black and Blue – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Julian Sher, Jennifer Campbell, Dan Burke, Gerry Wagschal, Roger Leclerc
Best Animated Program or Series The Adventures of Tintin – Nelvana, Ellipsanime. Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas – Cambium Film & Video Productions, Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions. Producers: Chris Delaney, Arnie Zipursky, Bruce Glawson
Best Youth Program or Series The Odyssey – Water Street Pictures. Producer: Michael Chechik Degrassi Talks – Playing With Time, Inc. Producers: Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler Road Movies – Why Not Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Barbara Barde Wonderstruck – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bob McDonald, Debra Mathews, Helga Haberfellner, Lasley Williams, Paul Goodman
Best Children’s Program or Series Shining Time Station – Catalyst Entertainment, YTV. Producers: Rick Siggelkow, Britt Allcroft, Nancy Chapelle Alligator Pie – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Cindy Hamon-Hill Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave – Atlantis Films. Producers: Michael J. F. Scott, Derek Mazur, Daphne Ballon, Seaton McLean, Michael MacMillan OWL/TV – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Annabel Slaight, Christopher Howard
Best Sports Program or Series Sports Weekend – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Joan Mead, Doug Sellars Bob Izumi’s Real Fishing Show – Izumi’s Outdoor. Producers: Douglas Volpel, Wayne Izumi CBC at Six – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Bill Kendrick, Bruce Dowbiggin CTV Sports Presents Year in Review – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Dean Bender, Jeffrey Mather, Doug Beeforth, John McLarty, Laura Mellanby SportsCentre – TSN. Producer: Michael Day
Best Special Event Coverage 1992 Olympic Winter Games – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Robert Moir, Doug Sellars Canada In Question – Canadian Television Network. Producers: Tobias Fisher, Robert Conroy, Louis Cooper, Eric Morrison, Fiona Conway CBC News National Town Hall – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Slawko Klymkiw, Elly Alboim, Christopher Waddell
Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Francis Mankiewicz – Conspiracy of Silence (CBC) John Kent Harrison – The Sound and the Silence (Atlantis Films/South Pacific Pictures) Allan Kroeker – Forever Knight (Paragon Entertainment) Eric Till – To Catch a Killer (Creative Entertainment Group/Libra Pictures/Telestories Entertainment) George Bloomfield – Wojeck: Out of the Fire (CBC)
Best Direction in a Dramatic or Comedy Series Allan King – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment) Bruce Pittman – Beyond Reality (Paragon Entertainment) René Bonnière – E.N.G. – Public Enemy (Atlantis Communications) George Bloomfield – Neon Rider (Virtue/Rekert Productions/Atlantis Films) Paul Lynch – Top Cops – John Kosek/Richard Voorhees/Doug Edgington/David Miles (C.B.I. of Canada)
Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series Jacques Payette – Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Expérience (Cirque du Soleil) Jeremy Podeswa – Standards (CBC) Joan Tosoni – 6th Gemini Awards|1992 Gemini Awards (CBC) Don Marks – Indian Time 2: Fly with Eagles (Global TV) Barbara Willis Sweete, Bernar Hébert – Pictures on the Edge (CBC)
Best Direction in an Information or Documentary Program or Series Brian McKenna – The Valour and the Horror (CBC/NFB/Galafilm) Susan Teskey – the fifth estate (CBC) Alan Gough – A Promise Kept (Signboard Hill Productions) John Paskievich – Sedna: The Making of a Myth (NFB) Larry Weinstein – Life and Death of Manuel de Falla (Rhombus Media
Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Suzette Couture – Conspiracy of Silence (CBC) Ted Allan – Bethune: The Making of a Hero (Filmline International) Stan Daniels – Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (Atlantis Films/South Pacific Pictures) Heather Conkie – Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Devine Entertainment) Douglas Bowie – Grand Larceny (CBC)
Best Writing in a Dramatic Series David Barlow – Max Glick (Sunrise Films/FosterFilm Productions) Heather Conkie – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment) Charles Lazer – Road to Avonlea – Another Point of View (Sullivan Entertainment) Peter Lauterman, Angelo Stea – E.N.G. (Atlantis Communications) Wayne Grigsby, Barbara Samuels – E.N.G. – The Best Defence (Atlantis Communications)
Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Tommy Sexton, Greg Malone – Codco (Salter Street Films) Louise Moon, Roger Fredericks – Street Cents (CBC) Bernard Rothman, Shari Lewis – Lamb Chop's Play-Along (Paragon Entertainment) Mike MacDonald – My House, My Rules (Howard Lapides Productions) Martha Kehoe – Country Gold (CBC)
Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series Brian McKenna, Terence McKenna – The Valour and the Horror (CBC/NFB/Galafilm) Linden MacIntyre – the fifth estate (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Susan Teskey – the fifth estate (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Susan A'Court, Barry Ewart Stone – All Ways Welcome (TVOntario) Terence McKenna, Jerry Thompson – The Journal (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Michael Mahonen – Conspiracy of Silence (CBC) Stephen Ouimette – Conspiracy of Silence (CBC) Michael Riley – To Catch a Killer (Creative Entertainment Group/Libra Pictures/Telestories Entertainment) Neil Munro – Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Devine Entertainment)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series