2002 Gemini Awards
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The 17th Gemini Awards were held on November 4, 2002 to honour achievements in Canadian television
Television in Canada
Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

. It was hosted by Seán Cullen
Seán Cullen
Seán Cullen is a Canadian comedian. He is known for combining improvisation with mimicry and music. Cullen has been described in Time as the "vanguard of comedy's next generation". He is best known for voicing Four, Five & Seven in Seven Little Monsters. -Career:Cullen entered into the public eye...

, and was broadcast on CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

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Best Comedy Program or Series

  • An American in Canada
    An American in Canada
    An American in Canada is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC.The show starred Rick Roberts as Jake Crewe, an American television news host who was forced, after beating up his station manager, to accept a job in Calgary, Alberta as the host of the lowest-rated morning news program in the...

  • Buzz
    Buzz (TV series)
    The Buzz was a Canadian comedy television series that aired on The Comedy Network. The show was hosted by Morgan "Mista Mo" Smith and Daryn Jones. The show originally aired in the mid-90's as a community channel show on Rogers Television before finally getting a network deal in 2000...

  • Made in Canada
    Made in Canada
    Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....

  • This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...

  • Women of the Night

Best Dramatic Series

  • Bliss
    Bliss (TV series)
    Bliss is a Canadian produced, half hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica...

  • Cold Squad
    Cold Squad
    Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...

  • Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....

  • Dice
  • Foreign Objects

Best TV Movie or Dramatic Mini-Series

  • Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City
  • Jinnah On Crime
  • Society's Child
  • Stolen Miracle
  • Torso

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

  • The 2002 Juno Awards
    Juno Award
    The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

  • The Guess Who: The Concert
    The Guess Who
    The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...

  • History Bites
    History Bites
    History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen...

  • Live at the Rehearsal Hall
  • The Thrill on the Hill: Canada Day 2001
    Canada Day
    Canada Day , formerly Dominion Day , is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act , which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire...


Best Documentary Series

  • Family Dance: Tales From the Sandwich Generation
  • The Nature of Things
    The Nature of Things
    The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on the CBC on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging...

  • The Secret World of Gardens
  • Turning Points of History
  • Witness

Best Newscast

  • CTV National News
    CTV National News
    CTV National News is CTV's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00 p.m. local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2 a.m. ET on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour cable news television channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet. ...

  • CTV News at Six
  • The National

Best News Information Program or Series

  • The Fifth Estate
    The fifth estate
    the fifth estate is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television network. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into...

  • Foreign Assignment
  • Marketplace
    Marketplace (TV series)
    Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to...

  • Trail of a Terrorist
  • W-FIVE
    W-FIVE
    W5 is a Canadian news magazine television series produced by CTV News. The program is currently initially broadcast Saturday nights at 7 p.m...


Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

  • The Associates
    The Associates (Canadian TV series)
    The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner...

  • Cold Squad
    Cold Squad
    Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...

  • Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....


Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

  • The Associates
    The Associates (Canadian TV series)
    The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner...

  • Blue Murder
  • Cold Squad
    Cold Squad
    Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...

  • Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....

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Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

  • The Endless Grind
  • Made in Canada
    Made in Canada
    Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....

  • This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...


Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

  • Made in Canada
    Made in Canada
    Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....


Rick Mercer, Jackie Torrens, Dan Lett, Peter Keleghan, Leah Pinsent
  • This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes
    This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...


Colin Mochrie, Greg Thomey
  • Trailer Park Boys
    Trailer Park Boys
    Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...


Sarah Dunsworth, Robb Wells, Mike Smith, John Dunsworth, Pat Roach, Lucy Decoutere, Cory Bowles, Michael Jackson, Barrie Dunn, Ellen Page, Shelley Thompson, Sam Tarasco, John Paul Tremblay, Jonathan Torrens

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

  • Demore Barnes
    Demore Barnes
    Demore Barnes is a Canadian film and television actor who is best known for his role in the American television show, The Unit as Hector Williams aka Hammerhead....

    , The Associates
    The Associates (Canadian TV series)
    The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner...

  • Martin Cummins
    Martin Cummins
    Martin Cummins is a Canadian actor known for his role as Ames White in Dark Angel . He attended the Vancouver Actors Studio where he trained under Mel Tuck, a highly respected pioneer of Canadian theatre...

    , Dice
  • Donnelly Rhodes
    Donnelly Rhodes
    Donnelly Rhodes is a Canadian actor. He recently starred as Doctor Cottle on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. Before Battlestar Galactica he was probably best known to American audiences as the lovestruck, hapless escaped convict "Dutch Leitner" on the 1970s soap-opera...

    , Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....

  • John Shea
    John Shea
    John Victor Shea III is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret...

    , Mutant X
    Mutant X (TV series)
    Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Marvel Studios, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects...

  • Maurice Dean Wint
    Maurice Dean Wint
    Maurice Dean Wint is a British-born, Canadian-based actor who has starred in several television shows and movies; the most notable ones include "Cube", "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", RoboCop: Prime Directives, Psi Factor and the TekWar movies and television series.Wint moved to Canada in 1969 with...

    , Blue Murder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

  • Tamara Hickey, The Associates
    The Associates (Canadian TV series)
    The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner...

  • Janet Kidder
    Janet Kidder
    Janet Kidder is a Canadian actress.Janet Kidder is the niece of actress Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman movies. They both appeared in Walk on By, an episode of La Femme Nikita, as the younger and older Roberta, Nikita's mother. Janet's participation was in brief flashback...

    , Tom Stone
    Tom Stone (TV series)
    Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on the CBC for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover...

  • Victoria Snow, Paradise Falls
    Paradise Falls
    Paradise Falls is a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario....

  • Julie Stewart
    Julie Stewart
    - Biography :Julie Stewart studied acting in Montreal at the National Theatre School of Canada and now makes her home in Toronto. She was the star of the Canadian television series Cold Squad. Her credits also include continuing roles in Chasing Rainbows, North of 60 and The Border.- External links :...

    , Cold Squad
    Cold Squad
    Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...

  • Venus Terzo
    Venus Terzo
    Venus Terzo is a Canadian actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in Da Vinci's Inquest and its spinoff, Da Vinci's City Hall. She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role...

    , Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....


Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

  • Jayne Eastwood
    Jayne Eastwood
    Jayne Eastwood , also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress most famous for appearing in the 2002 film Chicago. She was one of the original cast members of the Toronto branch of The Second City, and was a semi-regular on SCTV...

    , The Endless Grind
  • Peter Keleghan
    Peter Keleghan
    Peter Keleghan is a Canadian television actor, who has played roles in several popular Canadian comedy series.Keleghan's best-known roles have been film industry CEO Alan Roy on Made in Canada, low-IQ news anchor Jim Walcott on The Newsroom, and Ranger Gord on The Red Green Show...

    , Royal Canadian Air Farce
    Royal Canadian Air Farce
    Air Farce Live, also credited as Air Farce, previously Royal Canadian Air Farce, and Air Farce—Final Flight! for the final season, was a Canadian comedy series starring the comedy troupe The Royal Canadian Air Farce that previously starred in an eponymous radio show on CBC radio from 1973 to 1997...

  • Bette MacDonald
    Bette MacDonald
    Bette MacDonald, a Canadian comedian, is well-known for her comedic series Rideau Hall. Bette is married to teacher, actor, writer and director Maynard Morrison...

    , Ha!ifax Comedy Fest Gala
  • Nikki Payne
    Nikki Payne
    Nikki Payne , is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Born with a cleft palate, she is well known for incorporating her lisp into her comedy act. She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Stand-up Newcomer and Best Female Stand-up...

    , Ha!ifax Comedy Fest Gala

Best News Anchor

  • Peter Mansbridge
    Peter Mansbridge
    Peter Mansbridge, OC , a Canadian broadcaster and news anchor, is the CBC News Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. Mansbridge has received many awards and accolades for his journalistic work including an honorary doctorate from Mount Allison...

  • Kevin Newman
    Kevin Newman (Canadian journalist)
    Kevin Newman is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. From 2001 to 2010, he was the anchor and executive editor of Global National, and hosted Global's weekly newsmagazine series Global Currents. In August 2011 he became the co-host of CTV's Question Period..- Life and career :Newman was born in...

  • Lloyd Robertson
    Lloyd Robertson
    Lloyd Robertson, OC is the currently the co-host of CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson previously served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September, 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News...


Earle Grey Award

  • Greg Malone
    Greg Malone (actor)
    Greg Malone is a Canadian impressionist and actor.He is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II....

    , Andy Jones
    Andy Jones (comedian)
    Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, and a former member of CODCO.Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador...

    , Tommy Sexton
    Tommy Sexton
    Thomas "Tommy" Sexton was a Canadian comedian. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, he was the youngest member of the CODCO comedy troupe....

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