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unusual facts about Gemini award



Darryl Kyte

Kyte hosted the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's International Emmy and Gemini award winning show Street Cents and has worked as a journalist and producer for a number of other CBC news television programs.

Jesse Rath

He has been co-nominated for 2 Gemini Award in 2010 and 2011 for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series for 18 to Life.

John J. Thomson

1999 Gemini Award for Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series - Total Recall 2070 episode "Machine Dreams" Part 1 - Won (Shared with Allen Ormerod, Steve Baine, Scott Shepherd)

Judah Katz

Winning an ACTRA award (now called a Gemini Award) for his very first foray in front of a camera in 1983 as "best new actor in Canadian Television", he also received a Gemini for "best supporting actor" for his role as Alan Eagleson in the CBC mini-series Canada Russia '72.

Lenora Hume

Ewoks and Droids for Lucasfilm and The Care Bears are amongst her producing credits, which also include the award winning Babar (1989, Gemini Award for Best Animated Program or Series) and Beetlejuice (1990, Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program).

Murray C. Anderson

Films for which he has written the music include John Boorman's In My Country, the CBC's documentary Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela, which won the 2005 Gemini Award in Canada for Best Music in a Documentary, and Tim Greene's A Boy Called Twist.

Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer later performed in, co-produced, and co-directed Return to Kandahar, which won the 2003 Gemini Award in Canada and also appeared in Christian Frei’s documentary, The Giant Buddhas.

Nicky Guadagni

1985, Nominee, Gemini Award
Turning to Stone
Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television

Ralph Hamelmann

In 2013, Hamelmann co-wrote "If You're Not Here At Christmas" with Juno Award winner Gavin Bradley and Gemini Award winner Paul Bellini.

Susan Coyne

In 2006, she won two Gemini Awards for her work on the show, one for best performance in a supporting role and one for best writing for a dramatic series (shared with her fellow co-creators, Bob Martin and Mark McKinney).

Susan Walden

She was nominated for a Gemini Award (Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Series) for Danger Bay in 1986.

Tim Thorney

Through their studio work the Thorney brothers have won advertising awards for many commercial campaigns in both Canada and the U.S., these awards include a Gemini Award and three Daytime Emmy Awards for the hit show Rolie Polie Olie.

Will Brenton

They went on to produce a TV adaptation of Mick Inkpen's 'Wibbly Pig' books (nominated for a Gemini in Canada) and An Vrombaut's 'Dear Dragon' books, which have appeared on Disney UK as 'Florrie's Dragons'.


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Jed MacKay

MacKay was creative consultant for CBC's game-changing "Canada's Super Speller" (winner of the ACCT 's 2010 Gemini Award for Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Series). Since 2009 he has developed, and been Creative Producer and Executive Story Editor, of DHX Media's "Pirates: Adventures in Art".

Knight Enterprises

Since joining the company in 2001, Senior Producer Kathy Doherty has produced, managed and co-written more than 300 half hours of television with Knight Enterprises including the Gemini Award nominated hit series “Cook like A Chef’ and “Licence to Grill”.

Tim Southam

Early signs of Southam's directing ability came in 1995 when he was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series for the 1994 documentary Satie and Suzanne about Erik Satie's relationship with the painter Suzanne Valadon, which he also wrote.