1st Gemini Awards

1st Gemini Awards
1st Gemini Awards
Date	December 4, 1986
Location	Metro Toronto Convention Centre; Toronto, Ontario
Hosted by	Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas
Highlights
Best Drama Series	Night Heat
Best Comedy Series	Seeing Things
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBC Television

The 1st Gemini Awards were held in Toronto on 4 December 1986^[1] to honour achievements in Canadian television. Gémeaux Award, the French version of the Gemini Awards were held for the first time this year as well. The 1985 television miniseries Anne of Green Gables was the most prominent winner.^[2]

English-language television coverage of the ceremonies was originally scheduled for broadcast on CBC Television, but labour disruptions at that network forced the telecast to move to a syndicated arrangement of private television stations including Toronto's Citytv. Unused cable channels in Montreal carried the broadcast in that city. The inaugural Gemini Awards were hosted by Second City Television performers Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.^[1]^[2]

Awards[edit]

Best Comedy Program or Series[edit]

Best Documentary, Single Program or Series[edit]

Glenn Gould: A Portrait, Parts 1 and 2
444 Days to Freedom: What Really Happened in Iran
Karsh: The Searching Eye
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra

Best Dramatic Series[edit]

Best Dramatic Mini Series[edit]

Anne of Green Gables
Red Serge
Spearfield's Daughter

Best TV Movie[edit]

Best Short Drama[edit]

Oakmount High
The Exile
In This Corner
Undertow

Best Information Program or Series[edit]

The Fifth Estate
Canada AM
The Journal
Live It Up!
Peter Ustinov's Russia

Best Children's Series[edit]

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program[edit]

Donald Brittain and Richard Nielsen, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Tim Dunphy and Peter Mohan, Night Heat
Yan Moore, The Kids of Degrassi Street (episode "Griff Gets a Hand")
Judith Thompson, Turning to Stone
Pete White, Striker's Mountain

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series[edit]

Seeing Things
The Bestest Present
The Canadian Conspiracy
Toller Cranston's True Gift of Christmas

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series[edit]

Donald Brittain, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Mario Azzopardi, Night Heat
Allan Kroeker, Tramp at the Door
Kevin Sullivan, Anne of Green Gables
Marc Voizard, Blue Line

Best Direction in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series[edit]

Robert Boyd, The Canadian Conspiracy
David Acomba, Toller Cranston's True Gift of Christmas
Ron Meraska, The S and M Comic Book
Peter Thurling, Floating Over Canada
Eric Till, Fraggle Rock: "The Perfect Blue Rollie"

Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series[edit]

Larry Weinstein, Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
Les Harris, 444 Days to Freedom: What Really Happened in Iran

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series[edit]

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Series[edit]

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Single Dramatic Program or Miniseries[edit]

August Schellenberg, The Prodigal
Maury Chaykin, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Jeff Fahey, The Execution of Raymond Graham
Ed McNamara, The Prodigal
Ed McNamara, Tramp at the Door

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series[edit]

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Series[edit]

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Single Dramatic Program or Miniseries[edit]

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor[edit]

Richard Farnsworth, Anne of Green Gables
Bernard Behrens, Turning to Stone
Thomas Peacocke, Oakmount High
Douglas Rain, Love and Larceny
R. H. Thomson, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress[edit]

Colleen Dewhurst, Anne of Green Gables
Anne Anglin, Turning to Stone
Sharry Flett, The Suicide Murders
Jackie Richardson, Turning to Stone

Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist[edit]

Best Performance by a Host or Interviewer[edit]

Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series[edit]

Rene Ohashi, Anne of Green Gables
Rene Ohashi, Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Ron Orieux, Tramp at the Door
Andreas Poulsson, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Vic Sarin, The Suicide Murders

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series[edit]

Ralph Brunjes, Oakmount High
Thomas Berner, Turning to Stone
Lara Mazur, Tramp at the Door
Mairin Wilkinson and James Lahti, Anne of Green Gables

TV Guide's Most Popular Program Award[edit]

Anne of Green Gables

Earle Grey Award[edit]

Ed McNamara

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Boone, Mike (5 December 1986). "Anne of Green Gables big winner at Geminis". The Gazette. p. D1.
^ ^a ^b Adilman, Sid (5 December 1986). "Anne Of Green Gables a lucky child of Gemini". Toronto Star. p. D26.

[MG05Dec86-1] Boone, Mike (5 December 1986). "Anne of Green Gables big winner at Geminis". The Gazette. p. D1.

[TS05Dec86-2] Adilman, Sid (5 December 1986). "Anne Of Green Gables a lucky child of Gemini". Toronto Star. p. D26.

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