11th Gemini Awards

The 11th Gemini Awards were held on June 6, 1997, to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was hosted by Albert Schultz, and was broadcast on CBC.

Awards

Best Comedy Program or Series

• Comics!
• The Red Green Show
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Best Dramatic Series

• Due South
• Forever Knight
• North of 60
• Road to Avonlea
• Traders

Best TV Movie or Dramatic Mini-Series

• Diana Kilmury: Teamster
• Little Criminals
• Net Worth
• The War Between Us
• Under the Piano

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

• 1995 Year of the Farce
• Juno Awards of 1996
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
• September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
• The 7th Annual YTV Achievement Awards

Best Documentary Series

• Forbidden Places
• From the Heart
• Man Alive
• The Nature of Things
• The View from Here
• Witness

Best News Information Program or Series

• @discovery.ca
• Sunday Report: CBC News
• the fifth estate
• The National
• Venture

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

• Due South
• North of 60
• Traders

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• 1996 Gemini Awards
• Royal Canadian Air Farce
• The Red Green Show
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• True North Concert 1996

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series or Comedy Series

• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• Due South
• Flash Forward
• Madison
• Side Effects
• Straight Up

Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Comics!

Russell Peters

• One Minute to Air

Shawn Alex Thompson

• Royal Canadian Air Farce

Roger Abbott, Luba Goy, John Morgan, Don Ferguson

• The Red Green Show

Steve Smith

• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Mary Walsh, Greg Thomey, Rick Mercer, Cathy Jones

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• David Cubitt, Traders
• Robert Bockstael, North of 60
• Chris William Martin, Madison
• Cedric Smith, Road to Avonlea
• Peter Stebbings, Madison

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Tina Keeper, North of 60
• Stacy Grant, Madison
• Barbara Eve Harris, Side Effects
• Jennifer Podemski, The Rez
• Sarah Strange, Madison
• Gema Zamprogna, Road to Avonlea

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program

• Aidan Devine, Net Worth
• Beau Bridges, Kissinger and Nixon
• Ron Silver, Kissinger and Nixon
• Brendan Fletcher, Little Criminals
• Nicholas Campbell, Diana Kilmury Teamster

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program

• Barbara Williams, Diana Kilmury Teamster
• Ellen-Ray Hennessy, Spoken Art: (For episode "One Last Look in the Mirror)
• Rachel Crawford, Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
• Tanya Allen, Lives of Girls and Women
• Shannon Lawson, The War Between Us

Best News Anchor

• Hana Gartner
• Peter Mansbridge
• Linden MacIntyre
• Lloyd Robertson
• Pamela Wallin

Canada Award

• The Mind of a Child

Earle Grey Award

• Gordon Pinsent

Chrysler's Canada's Choice Award

• Due South