History Television Canada’s Ice Pilots NWT, John Kastner’s Life with Murder documentary and CityTV’s Conviction Kitchen (pictured) are among the multiple nominees for the 26th Gemini Awards, which recognize excellence in Canadian English-language television.
Three CBC titles – Geologic Journey, Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse and Africa on the Move – are in the running for the best documentary series prize at this year’s edition of the Geminis. History Television’s Rodeo: Life on the Circuit and APTN’s The Uluit: Champions of the North complete the quintet of nominees.
Elsewhere, Discovery Canada’s The National Parks Project Interactive and History Television Canada’s Museum Secrets – Digital are nominated in the best cross-platform project – non-fiction category; while CBC’s Queen Elizabeth in 3D, Discovery Canada’s Earth: The Making of a Planet and History Television’s Nazi Hunters: Herbert Cukurs got nods in the best history documentary program category.
Also, The National Film Board of Canada completely dominated the nominations in the best original program or series produced for digital media in non-fiction category, and the drama The Kennedys, which aired on History Television Canada, picked up 10 nominations in the scripted categories, including a nod for best dramatic mini-series.
“We congratulate all the nominees,” said ACCT’s interim CEO Helga Stephenson. “It is sensational to see brand new television series garner so many accolades alongside established favorites. We are also delighted that there is a strong and growing presence in this year’s digital media categories. The arrival of new talent in both industries is a very strong indicator of a robust future.”
The awards will take place over three nights in Toronto beginning August 30 and continuing August 31 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, culminating September 7 with a live broadcast on CBC Television.
The key list of non-fiction nominees follows below:
Program Categories
Best Biography Documentary Program
Gordon Pinsent: Still Rowdy After All These Years
Bravo (Bell Media)
Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews
Bravo (Bell Media)
When the Devil Knocks
CBC
Best Documentary Series
Africa on the Move
CBC
Geologic Journey
CBC
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse
CBC
Rodeo: Life on the Circuit
History Television (Shaw)
The Uluit: Champions of the North
APTN (Shaw)
Best Cross-Platform Project – Non-Fiction
CBC News Canada Votes 2011
CBC
We Will Remember Them – Digital
CBC
Museum Secrets – Digital
History Television (Shaw)
Live Right Now
CBC
Storming Juno Interactive
History Television (Shaw)
The National Parks Project Interactive
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series
Artzooka!
CBC
In Real Life
YTV (Corus)
Spelling Night in Canada: Canspell 2011
CBC
Survive This
YTV (Corus)
TVOKids – Mark’s Moments
TVO (TVOntario)
Best General/Human Interest Series
Forensic Factor
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Hell on Hooves
RAD-X (High Fidelity TV)
Ice Pilots NWT
History Television (Shaw)
Totally Tracked Down
TvTropolis (Shaw)
X-Weighted: Families
Slice (Shaw)
Best History Documentary Program
Chasing the Royals: The Media & the Monarchy
CBC
Earth: The Making of a Planet
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Finding Atlantis
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Nazi Hunters: Herbert Cukurs
History Television (Shaw)
Queen Elizabeth in 3D
CBC
Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag
W Network (Corus)
Chuck’s Day Off
Food Network (Shaw)
Design DNA
HGTV (Shaw)
Pitchin’ In
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Til Debt Do Us Part
HGTV/ Slice (Shaw)
Best Music, Variety Program or Series
Battle of the Blades
CBC
So You Think You Can Dance Canada
CTV (Bell Media)
The 18th Annual National Aboriginal Achievement Awards
Shaw/ APTN (Shaw)
2010 MuchMusic Video Awards
CTV-MuchMusic (Bell Media)
The 2011 Juno Awards
CTV (Bell Media)
Best News Information Series
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
TVO (TVOntario)
CBC News: Marketplace
CBC
Connect with Mark Kelley
CBC
Focus: Decision Canada
Global (Canwest)
The Fifth Estate
CBC
Best News Special Event Coverage
CBC News: The New Governor General
CBC
CBC News: The Queen in Canada
CBC
Canada Remembers
Global News (Canwest)
Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media – Non-Fiction
Highrise / Out My Window
NFB
Crankytown.ca
(Studio XX, NFB)
This Land
NFB
Welcome to Pinepoint
NFB
The Test Tube with David Suzuki
NFB
My Tribe is My Life
NFB
Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series
12 Takes
Knowledge (Government of BC)
The Instrument Bank
Bravo! (Bell Media)
Listen to This
TVO (TVOntario)
The National Parks Project
Discovery World HD (Bell Media)
Star Portraits
Bravo! (Bell Media)
Best Reality Program or Series
All for Nothing?
W Network (Corus)
Best. Trip. Ever.
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
CheF*OFF
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Conviction Kitchen
CityTV (Rogers)
Dragons’ Den
CBC
Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program
Acquainted With the Night
Documentary (Shaw/CBC)
Code Breakers
CBC
For the Love of Elephants
CBC
Last Day of the Dinosaurs
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
X-Cars
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Best Talk Series
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
CBC
JR Digs Man with a Van
Global / Shaw (Canwest)
Mansbridge One on One
CBC
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
Jackpot
Global (Canwest)
Life with Murder
CTV (Bell Media)
Mom’s Home
TVO (TVOntario)
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
CBC
When We Were Boys
CBC
Craft Categories
Barbara Sears Award for Best Editorial Research
The Pig Farm
CTV (Bell Media)
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse – The Men Who Crashed The World
CBC
Save My Lake
CBC
The Fifth Estate – Death at the Olympics
CBC
Museum Secrets – Inside the Vatican
History Television (Shaw)
Best Direction in a Documentary Program
Jackpot
Global (Canwest)
Life with Murder
CTV (Bell Media)
Acquainted With the Night
Documentary (Shaw/CBC)
Inside Disaster Haiti
TVO (TVOntario)
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
CBC
Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Geologic Journey – The Pacific Rim: Americas
CBC
Maamuitaau (Let’s Get Together) – Song of the River
CBC
Nazi Hunters – Erich Priebke
History Television (Shaw)
Africa on the Move – The Power of Song
CBC
Trashopolis – Rome
History Television (Shaw)
Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series
Forensic Factor – The Abbotsford Killer
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Village on a Diet – Beyond the Diet
Corus / Viva (Corus)
Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag – Marguerite Patten’s Best British Dishes
W Network (Corus)
The Heat with Mark McEwan – New York, New York!
The Food Network (Shaw)
Ice Pilots NWT – Arnie Calls It
History Television (Shaw)
Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series
Oil Change – Team
TSN (Bell Media)
CBC News: Marketplace – Clean Water, Dirty Tricks
CBC
The Fifth Estate – Above Suspicion
CBC
The Nanny Business
Global (Canwest)
CBC News: Marketplace – Superbugs in the Supermarket
CBC
Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series
The Instrument Bank
Bravo! (Bell Media)
Star Portraits – Gordon Pinsent
Bravo! (Bell Media)
Corrie Crazy: Canada Loves Coronation Street
CBC
Best Direction in a Reality Program or Series
Conviction Kitchen – Episode 5
City TV (Rogers)
Revamped – Episode 10
Slice (Shaw)
Mantracker – Jason & Clayton
OLN (Rogers)
Enraged
TvTropolis (Shaw)
Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Segment
Creative Block – Tick Tock Tom
CBC
Connect with Mark Kelley – Search for a Huntington’s Cure
CBC
16:9 The Bigger Picture – Electronic Pickpocket
Global (Canwest)
Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series
Ice Pilots NWT – Arnie Calls It
History Television (Shaw)
Make the Politician Work – Peter MacKay
CBC
Mantracker – Dylan & Travis
OLN (Rogers)
Survive This – Self Rescue / Finale
YTV (Corus)
Village on a Diet – Small Town, Big Problem
Viva (Corus)
Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series
Museum Secrets – Inside the Vatican
History Television (Shaw)
Geologic Journey – The Pacific Rim: Americas
CBC
Love at the Twilight Motel
Documentary Channel (Shaw/CBC)
Peep Culture
CBC
T O in 2 4
OMNI Television (Rogers)
Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series
Last Call Indian
CBC
Raccoon Nation
CBC
Code Breakers
CBC
Love at the Twilight Motel
Documentary Channel (Shaw/CBC)
T O in 2 4
OMNI Television (Rogers)
Best Photography in an Information Program or Series
Ice Pilots NWT – Under Pressure
History Television (Shaw)
William Shatner’s Weird or What? – Episode 5
History Television (Shaw)
Make the Politician Work – Peter MacKay
CBC
16:9 The Bigger Picture – Field of Dreams
Global (Canwest)
Best. Trip. Ever.
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Everyday Exotic – Catfish
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
Peep Culture
CBC
Dish: Women, Waitressing & The Art of Service
TVO (TVOntario)
The Real M*A*S*H
History Television (Shaw)
Mom’s Home
TVO (TVOntario)
Acquainted With the Night
Documentary Channel (Shaw/CBC)
Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series
Village on a Diet – Small Town, Big Problem
VIVA (Corus)
Best. Trip. Ever.
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Mantracker – Dylan & Travis
OLN (Rogers)
Oil Change – Changes
TSN (Bell Media)
16:9 The Bigger Picture – Eye on the Prize
Global (Canwest)
Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Non-Fiction Program or Series
Breakout – Pittsburgh Six
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
The 2011 Juno Awards
CTV (Bell Media)
Season of Song: The Canadian Tenors and Friends
CBC (CBC)
2010 MuchMusic Video Awards
CTV-MuchMusic (Bell Media)
Storming Juno
History Television (Shaw)
Everyday Exotic – Peking Duck
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series
Last Day of the Dinosaurs
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Beyond Survival with Les Stroud – The Hewa and the Hidden Secret Ceremony
Rogers Media Television (Rogers)
Yonge Street – Toronto Rock & Roll Stories
CTV/Bravo! (Bell Media)
Ice Pilots NWT – Under Pressure
History Television (Shaw)
Mantracker – Dylan & Travis
OLN (Rogers)
Best Visual Research
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse – The Men Who Crashed the World
CBC
The fifth estate – You Should Have Stayed at Home
CBC
Yonge Street – Toronto Rock & Roll Stories
CTV /Bravo! (Bell Media)
Storming Juno
History Television (Shaw)
Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
How to Boil A Frog
Movie Central (Corus)
Storming Juno
History Television (Shaw)
X-Cars
Discovery Channel Canada (Bell Media)
Famine & Shipwreck: An Irish Odyssey
CBC
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse – A Global Tsunami
CBC
Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews
Bravo! (Bell Media)
Best Writing in an Information Program or Series
The fifth estate – You Should Have Stayed at Home
CBC
Hell on Hooves – A Dangerous Game
RAD-X (High Fidelity TV)
The fifth estate – The Betrayal
CBC
The fifth estate – The Confession
CBC
William Shatner’s Weird or What? – Episode 5
History Television (Shaw)
Performance Categories
Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series
Glutton for Punishment – Rice Eating Record
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Bob Blumer
Pitchin’ In – Chicken
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Lynn Crawford
Bitchin’ Kitchen – Break Up Bonanza
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
Nadia Giosia
Princess – Princess Nicola
Slice (Shaw)
Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag – Marguerite Patten’s Best British Dishes
W Network (Corus)
Anna Wallner, Kristina Matisic
Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series
The Opener – Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen
Food Network Canada (Shaw)
David Adjey
Magical Mystery Cures
CBC
Bob McDonald
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
CBC
George Stroumboulopoulos
All for One with Debbie Travis
CBC
Debbie Travis
Creative Block
CBC
Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld
Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series (Individual or Ensemble)
The 18th Annual National Aboriginal Achievement Awards
APTN (Shaw)
Adam Beach, Evan Adams
Battle of the Blades – Episode 2-09
CBC
Shae-Lynn Bourne, Patrice Brisebois
Battle of the Blades – Episode 2-15
CBC
Ron MacLean, Kurt Browning –
Solo – Episode #2
CBC
Stephan Moccio
CityTV – Cityline
CityTV (Rogers)
Tracy Moore