Nights 2 and 3 Geminis winners

following are the Nights 2 and 3 Gemini Awards winners, announced March 4 and 5 in Toronto. The list of Night 1 winners, announced Feb. 23, was published in the Feb. 27 issue of Playback.

Best Animated Program or Series: ReBoot – Producers: Jay Firestone, Christopher Brough, Ian Pearson (Alliance Communications/BLT Productions in association with YTV Canada)

Best Children’s Program or Series: The Big Comfy Couch – Producers: Cheryl Wagner, Robert Mills (Radical Sheep Productions)

Best Comedy Series: This Hour Has 22 Minutes – Producers: Michael Donovan, Jack Kellum, Gerald Lunz, Jenipher Ritchie, Geoff D’Eon (Salter Street Films)

Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program: Shadows and Light: Joaquin Rodrigo at 90 – Producers: Larry Weinstein, Niv Fichman (Rhombus Media)

Best Dramatic Miniseries: Dieppe – Producer: Bernard Zukerman (cbc)

Best Dramatic Series: Due South – Producers: Paul Haggis, Kathy Slevin, Jeff King (Alliance Communications)

Best Information Series: the 5th estate – Producers: Kelly Crichton, David Studer (cbc)

Best Music Variety Program or Series: Kurt Browning: You Must Remember This – Producers: John Brunton, Joan Tosoni, Sandra Bezic (cbc)

Best Performing Arts Program: Sunday Arts Entertainment ‘Walls’ – Producers: Carol Moore-Ede, Jeremy Podeswa (cbc)

Best Short Dramatic Program: Something to Cry About – Producer: Terry Steyn (Swirling Storm Productions)

Best Sports Program or Series: Elvis: Airborne – Producers: Morgan Earl, Catherine McCartney, Edward Futerman (Silent ‘J’ Entertainment/ Baton Broadcasting)

Best TV Movie: Due South – Producers: Paul Haggis, Jean Desormeaux, Jeff King (Alliance Communications)

Best Youth Program or Series: Street Cents – Producers: John Nowlan, Jonathan Finkelstein, Barbara Kennedy (cbc)

Best Direction in a Dramatic or Comedy Series: George Bloomfield – Due South ‘Due South: Free Willie’ (Alliance Communications)

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries: Paul Donovan – Life With Billy (Salter Street Films/The Film Works)

Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series: Joan Tosoni – Kurt Browning: You Must Remember This (cbc)

Best Original Music Score for a Program or Miniseries: Neil Smolar – Dieppe (cbc)

Best Original Music Score for a Series: John Welsman – Road to Avonlea ‘Thursday’s Child’ (Sullivan Entertainment)

Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series: Roger Fredericks, Louise Moon – Street Cents ‘Hype’ (cbc)

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series: Mary Walsh, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey, Cathy Jones, Alan Resnick – This Hour Has 22 Minutes – ‘New Year’s Eve Special’ (Salter Street Films)

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries: Barry Stevens – The Diary of Evelyn Lau (cbc)

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series: Kathy Slevin, Paul Haggis – Due South ‘Due South: Free Willie’ (Alliance Communications)

Best Anchor or Interviewer: Linden MacIntyre – the 5th estate (cbc)

Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor: Bruce Greenwood – Road to Avonlea ‘Stranger in the Night’ (Sullivan Entertainment)

Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actress: Sarah Strange – Neon Rider ‘Moving On, Part Two’ (Atlantis Films/Virtue/ Rekert Productions)

Best Host in a Lifestyle Info, Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series: Albert Schultz – 1994 Gemini Awards (ACCTV Productions with Quality Shows)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role: Paul Gross – Due South ‘Due South: Free Willie’ (Alliance Communications)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries: Stephen McHattie – Life With Billy (Salter Street Films/The Film Works)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Bernard Behrens – Coming of Age (Breakthrough Films & Television with ZDF-German Television)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role: Lally Cadeau – Road to Avonlea (Sullivan Entertainment)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries: Nancy Beatty – Life With Billy (Salter Street Films/The Film Works)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Jennifer Phipps – Coming of Age (Breakthough Films & Television)

Best Performance in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series: Laura Bertram – Ready or Not ‘Am I Perverted or What?’ (Insight Productions)

Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series (Individual or Ensemble): Mary Walsh, Rick Mercer, Cathy Jones, Greg Thomey – This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Salter Street Films)

Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series: Holly Cole Trio – Intimate and Interactive With Holly Cole Trio (MuchMusic)

Best Performance in a Variety Program or Series: Sarah McLachlan – Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Fogel-Sabourin Productions)

Best Sports Broadcaster: Dave Hodge – TSN Inside Sports (tsn)

Margaret Collier Award: Timothy Findlay

John Drainie Award (for distinguished contribution to broadcasting): Knowlton Nash

Earle Grey Award: SCTV Comedy Troupe

Canada Award: For Angela – Producers: Joe MacDonald, Nancy Trites Botkin (National Film Board of Canada, Winnipeg)

Chrysler’s Canada’s Choice Award: 1994 Molson Hockey Night in Canada on CBC: The Stanley Cup Final – Producers: Ron G. Harrison, Larry Isaac (cbc)