In the 2000 Prix Gemeaux, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television feted some perennial favorites and lavished multiple honors on a few notable dramas when the tv industry glitterati gathered Oct. 15 for two galas. The afternoon gala at Montreal’s Centre Pierre-Peladeau was telecast live on rdi, while the evening event from Theatre Saint-Denis was carried on Radio-Canada.

Among the big winners, Chartrand et Simonne plucked six prizes, including Best Dramatic Series and five craft awards, including best direction in a dramatic series. Other multiple winners included kids series Cornemuse with four awards, including best of that category, and three craft prizes; 4 et demi with four, including best teleroman; comedy series Un gars, une fille, which took the comedy series prize and three craft awards; and Albertine, en cinq times, which snagged the hardware for best dramatic program, best direction in a dramatic program and one performance award.

But there were many more besides. Following is a complete list of all winners:

Program categories

Best Dramatic Series: Chartrand et Simonne – Producers: Robert Menard, Claire Wojas (Les Productions Videofilms)

Best Teleroman: 4 et demi – Producer: Christian Martineau (src)

Best Dramatic Program: Albertine, en cinq temps – Producers: Pierre Beaudry, Luc Chatelain (Les Productions Sogestalt)

Best Animated Series or Program: Le special du peuple de Francois Perusse – Producer: Michel Prefontaine; director: Andre Drouin (Cinema 3180 B.E.)

Best Variety Series: Le plaisir croit avec l’usage – Producers: Luc Chatelain, Guy Latraverse (Sogestalt 2001)

Best Variety: La derniere de Celine – Producers: Lloyd Brault, Marie Cote, Andre Delambre, Jean Lamoureux, Julie Snyder (Productions J/Les Films Feeling)

Best Comedy Series: Un gars, une fille – Producers: Jean Bissonnette, Jean-Claude Lesperance, Luc Wiseman

(Avanti Cine Video)

Best Comedy Special: La petite vie: le bogue de l’an 2000 – Producers: Jean Bissonnette, Jean-Claude Lesperance, Luc Wiseman (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Performing Arts Program or Series, or Arts Documentary: Chronique de fin de millenaire – Jocelyn Barnabe (src)

Best Cultural Program or Series: Christiane Charette en direct – Producer: Christiane Charette (Productions Gignac – Charette/src)

Best Social Issues Program or Series: Enjeux – Producers: Marc Gilbert, Germain Thibault (src)

Best Service Program or Series: Ciel! Mon Pinard – Producers: Jocelyne Allard, Pierre Blais, Pierre-Paul Lariviere, Jean Tourangeau (Trinome)

Best Game Show (Original): Les Mordus – Producers: Marleen Beaulieu, Pierre Ste-Marie (JPL Production)

Best News Program: Le Telejournal/Le Point – Stephan Bureau (host), Catherine Cano (director/co-ordinator), Claude Gervais (editor in chief) (src)

Best Information Series: Zone libre – Producers: Marc Gilbert, Luc Paradis (src)

Best Information Program: Simon Durivage – Heroine: voyage au bout de l’enfer – Producers: Fabrice Brasier, Simon Durivage (Groupe tva/Productions Nomis)

Best Documentary Series: Decouverte hors serie – Producer: Jackie Corkery (src)

Best Documentary – Portrait and Biography: Maurice Richard – histoire d’un Canadien – Producers: Jean A. Roy, Robert Guy Scully, Claudette Theoret (L’Information Essentielle)

Best Documentary: Des marelles et des petites filles – Producers: Nicole Lamothe, Marcel Simard; director: Marquise Lepage (nfb/Les Productions Virage)

Best Children’s Program or Series (ages 3-5): Cornemuse – Producers: Jacques Bonin, Carmen Bourassa, Claude Veillet (Telefiction)

Best Children’s Program or Series (ages 6-12): Macaroni tout garni – Producer: Jean-Pierre Morin (Publivision)

Best Children’s Program or Series (ages 13-17): Watatatow – Producer: Jean-Pierre Morin (Publivision)

Best Sports Program or Series: Les Grands Prix de Formule 1: Le Grand Prix Air Canada – Producers: Lucien Gallant, Domenic Vannelli (Le Reseau des Sports)

Craft categories

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: Alain Chartrand – Chartrand et Simonne (Videofilms)

Best Direction in a Teleroman: Louise Ducharme – 4 et demi ‘T’se le film la’ (src)

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program: Martine Beaulne, Andre Melancon – Albertine, en cinq temps (Sogestalt)

Best Direction – Variety: Mario Rouleau – Le plaisir croit avec l’usage (Sogestalt 2001)

Best Direction in a Comedy Special or Series: Guy A. Lepage, Sylvain Roy – Un gars, une fille (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Direction in a Cultural, Social Issues or Service Program or Series: Jocelyn Barnabe, Simon C. Vaillancourt – La vie d’artiste (src)

Best Direction in a Documentary Series or Information Program or Series: Georges Amar – Zone Libre ‘Qui mene en prison’ (src)

Best Direction in a Children’s Program or Series: Pierre Theoret – Cornemuse ‘Tibor le garcon tigre’ (Telefiction)

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Series: Anne Boyer, Michel D’Astous – 2 Freres (Productions Deux Freres)

Best Writing in a Teleroman: Sylvie Lussier, Pierre Poirier – 4 et demi ‘Ma sage soeur’ (src)

Best Writing in a Comedy Special or Series: Guy A. Lepage, Chantal Cadieux, Chantal Francke, Steve Gallucio, Emile Gaudreault, Marie-Frederique Laberge-Milot, Sylvain Larocque, Pascal Lavoie, Sylvie Leonard, Christian Tetreault – Un gars, une fille (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Writing in a Children’s Program or Series: Pierre-Yves Bernard, Claude Legault – Dans une galaxie pres de chez vous ‘Flavien et Juliette’ (Zone3)

Best Research in a Cultural, Social Issues or Service Program or Series: Rose-Aline Leblanc, Marie-Jeanne Prefontaine – Les Francs-tireurs ‘Les petits et Serge Joyal’ (Zone3)

Best Research in a Documentary or Information Program or Series: Marquise Lepage, Raymonde Provencher, Marcel Simard, Monique Simard – Des marelles et des petites filles (nfb/Virage)

Best Research in a Children’s Program or Series: Claudine Blain, Maryse Joncas – Cornemuse ‘Un papa singe et une ratonne’ (Telefiction)

Best Cinematography in a Drama or Documentary – Film or Digital Video: Alain Dupras, Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis – 2 Freres (Productions Deux Freres)

Best Cinematography – Video: Carlos Ferrand, Marc Gadoury – Lumiere des oiseaux (Max Films Television)

Best Editing – Drama: Andre Corriveau – Fortier (Aetios Productions)

Best Editing – Variety, Comedy, Arts or Arts Documentary: Daniel Audet, Jocelyn Barnabe, Claude Laforest – Chronique de fin de millenaire ‘De l’idee de l’homme a l’idee du monde’ (src)

Best Editing – Documentary, Documentary Series, Information Program or Series: Natacha Dufaux – Des marelles et des petites filles (nfb/Virage)

Best Overall Sound – Drama: Lorraine Auger, Mario Brillon, Lucie Fortier, Sabin Hudon, Robert Labrosse, France Levesque, Michel Lorion – 2 Freres (Productions Deux Freres)

Best Overall Sound – Variety, Comedy, Arts: Yves Belanger, Denis Castonguay, Jacques Deslandes, Patrick Dionne, Benoit Gauvin, Alain Poirier, Denis Savage – Isabelle Boulay dans tous ses etats (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Art Direction: Serge Bureau – Chartrand et Simonne (Videofilms)

Best Costume Design: Lyse Bedard – Chartrand et Simonne (Videofilms)

Best Makeup/Hair: Manon Joly, Clair Vanderelst – Chartrand et Simonne (Videofilms)

Best Original Music in a Dramatic or Documentary Program or Series: Claude Lamothe, Jacques Roy – Albertine, en cinq temps (Sogestalt)

Best Original Music – All Categories Other Than a Dramatic or Documentary Program or Series: Marie Bernard – Cornemuse ‘Tibor la gaffe’ (Telefiction)

Best CGI in a Program or Series: Serge Dery, Diane Labrie, Andre Vaudrin – Chronique de fin de millenaire ‘De l’idee de l’homme a l’idee du monde’ (src)

Best Reportage: Pascal Gelinas (director), Normand Grondin (journalist), Guy Ouellet, Benoit Rivard

(cameramen), Andre Van Damme (editor) – Decouverte ‘Regeneration de la moelle epiniere’ (src)

Performance categories

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Dramatic Program or Series: Luc Picard – Chartrand et Simonne (Videofilms)

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Dramatic Program or Series: Sophie Lorain – Fortier (Aetios)

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Teleroman: Alain Zouvi – 4 et demi ‘Ma sage soeur’ (src)

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Teleroman: Rita Lafontaine – Le Retour (jpl)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Program or Series: Marc Beaupre – 2 Freres (Les Productions Deux Freres)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Program or Series: Guylaine Tremblay – Albertine, en cinq temps (Sogestalt)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor – Teleroman, Comedy or Children’s: Marc Labreche – La petite vie: le bogue de l’an 2000 (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress – Teleroman, Comedy or Children’s: Josee Deschenes – La petite vie: le bogue de l’an 2000 (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Performance in a Comedy Special or Series: Sylvie Leonard, Guy A. Lepage – Un gars, une fille (Avanti Cine Video)

Best Performance in a Dramatic Children’s Program or Series: Danielle Proulx – Cornemuse ‘Bagou est tout mele’ (Telefiction)

Best Host – Game Show, Variety or Comedy: Marc Labreche – La fin du monde est a 7 heures (Zone3)

Best Host in a Cutural, Social Issues or Service Program or Series: Christiane Charette – Christiane Charette en direct (Gignac – Charette/src)

Best Host in an Information Program or Series: Anne-Marie Dussault – Les regles du jeu (Tele-Vision 84)

Best Host in a Childrens’ Program or Series – Variety and/or Information: Sylvie Lussier, Pierre Poirier – Betes pas betes + ‘Les badlands’ (src)

Best Host in a Sports Program or Series: Pierre Houde, Bertrand Houle, Christian Tortora – Les Grands Prix de Formule 1: le Grand Prix Air Canada (rds)

Best Interview: Stephan Bureau – Le Telejournal/Le Point ‘Entrevue avec Jean-Marie Lepen’ (src)