Best Feature

* Avant le jour (Before Day Breaks) – director: Lucie Lambert (assisted by Nadine Beaudet); producer: Sylvain L’Esperance

* Life Without Death – director: Frank Cole; producers: Francis Miquet, Frank Cole

* The Choir Boys! (Enfants de choeur!) – director: Magnus Isacsson; producer: Paul Lapointe

* The Genius of Lenny Breau – director: John Martin; producers: Jim Hanley, Phyllis Laing

* Vinyl – director/producer: Alan Zweig

Best Short

* Cass – director: Matt Gallagher; producers: Matt Gallagher, Lisa Taylor, Mike Allcock

* Diary of an Alien – director: Ellen Raine Scott; producers: Tony Nichols, Dean Sawatzky

* Esther, Baby & Me – director: Louis Taylor; producers: Suzie Mukherjee, Earl White, Louis Taylor

* Sleight of Hand – director: Laurence Green; producer: Peter Raymont

* Zyklon Portrait – director/producer: Elida Schogt

Best Arts

* A la recherche de Louis Archambault – director/producer: Werner Volkmer

* Daniele Rochon – De l’ocre a l’azur (Daniele Rochon – From Ochre to Azure) – director/producer: Marie Cliche

* Larguer les Amarres – directors: Catherine Vidal, Johanne Fournier; producer: Nicole Lamothe

* What Held It All: The Making of Cosmos – director/producer: Lalita Krishna

Best Biography

* Ambition: The Life & Times of Ted Rogers – director: Daniel Gelfant; producer: Gordon Henderson

* How to Eat a Cat: The Cartoonist Mike Constable – director/producer: Michael Connolly

* Life & Times: Alys Robi – Let Me Sing Again – director/producer: Roma Andrusiak

* The Life & Times of Dr. Henry Morgentaler – director: Audrey Mehler; producers: Audrey Mehler, David Paperny

Best Cultural

* Just a Wedding – director: Beverly Shaffer; producers: Sally Bochner, Gerry Flahive

* Road Stories for the Flesh Eating Future – director: Lewis Cohen; producer: Arnie Gelbart

* The Holier It Gets – director: Jennifer Baichwal; producers: Nick de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal

* Two Brides and a Scalpel – director: Mark Achbar; producer: Cari Green

* Visionnaires – director: Carlos Ferrand; producer: Nathalie Barton

Best History

* A Coup: Made in America – directors: Alan Mendelsohn, Nadine Pequeneza; producers: Laszlo Barna, Frank Savoie

* I Remain Your Loving Son – director: Bob Wakeham; producer Bill Coultas

* Newfoundland on the Somme – director: Barry Stevens; producers: Laszlo Barna, Frank Savoie

* Traces d’une histoire oubliee (Fragments of Lost History) – director: Lara Fitzgerald; producer: Yves Bisaillon

* Unwanted Soldiers – director: Jari Osborne; producers: Louise Lore, Karen King

Best Political

* Images of a Dictatorship – director: Patricio Henriquez; producers: Patricio Henriquez, Raymonde Provencher, Robert Comellier

* In the Company of Fear – director: Velcrow Ripper; producer: Jill Sharpe

* L’erreur Boreale (Forest Alert) – directors: Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie; producer: Bernadette Payeur

* Le reel du megaphone (The Megaphone Reel) – director: Serge Giguere; producer: Andre Gladu

* Village of Widows – director: Peter Blow; producers: Peter Blow, Gil Gauvreau

Best Science/Technology/Environment

* La vie a l’envers (Life Upside Down) – director: Jean-Marie Migaud; producer: Paul Cadieux

* Main basse sur les genes (The Genetic Takeover) – directors: Karl Parent, Louise Vandelac; producer: Eric Michel

* Pandemic: Case of the Killer Flu – director: Elliott Halpern; producers: Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici, Garfield Kennedy

* Sea Birds of Gaspe – director: Harold Arsenault; producer: Paul Cadieux

* Tatshenshini-Alsek Park: Heart of the Wilderness – director: Deborah Burgess; producers: Mitchell Azaria, Ihor M Macijiwsky

Best Series

* Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science – directors: various; producers: Robert Lang, Robert Sandler

* Quiet Places – directors: various; producers: Brian Hamilton, Gabriela Schonbach

* The Nature of Things – directors: various; producer: Michael Allder

* The Sex Files: The Series – director/producer: Sam Linton

* Turning Points of History – directors: various; producers: Laszlo Barna, Frank Savoie

Best Social Issue

* Endnotes – director: Garry Beitel; producer: Barry Lazar

* Laugh in the Dark – director/producer: Justine Pimlott

* Through A Blue Lens – director: Veronica Alice Mannix; producer: Gillian D. Kovanic

* Un syndicat avec ca? (Union Trouble: A Cautionary Tale) – director: Magnus Isacsson; producer: Marcel Simard