20th Gemini Awards

The 20th Gemini Awards were held on November 19, 2005 to honour achievements in Canadian television. For the first time in its history the Gemini Awards were not broadcast on CBC Television, instead they were broadcast on Global.

Awards

Best Comedy Program or Series

• Corner Gas
• History Bites
• Puppets Who Kill
• The Newsroom
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Best Dramatic Series

• Da Vinci's Inquest
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Godiva's
• ReGenesis
• The Eleventh Hour
• This Is Wonderland

Best Dramatic Mini Series

• H2O
• Sex Traffic
• Lives Of The Saints

Best Documentary Series

• Legendary Sin Cities
• Rough Cuts
• The Nature of Things
• The Passionate Eye
• Witness

Best Newscast

• Global National
• CTV National News
• The National

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

• Da Vinci's Inquest
• ReGenesis
• Stargate Atlantis
• The Eleventh Hour
• This Is Wonderland

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• Getting Along Famously
• Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
• Trailer Park Boys
• The Newsroom
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

• Cold Squad
• ReGenesis
• The Eleventh Hour

Best Direction in a Dramatic Programme or Mini-Series

• I, Claudia
• Sex Traffic
• The Last Casino
• Chasing Freedom
• Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

• Ciao Bella
• Getting Along Famously
• Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
• Puppets Who Kill
• Trailer Park Boys

Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• History Bites

Rick Green, Ron Pardo, Janet Van de Graaff, Bob Bainborough, Teresa Pavlinek

• Puppets Who Kill

Gord Robertson, James Rankin, Bob Martin, Dan Redican, Bruce Hunter

• The Tournament

Martin Huisman, Louis-Philipe Dandenault, Richard Jutras, Annie Bovaird, Paula Boudreau, Al Goulem, Tracey Hoyt, Kate Greenhouse, Ryan Tilson, Christian Potenza, Cas Anvar, Victor Chowdury, Dean McDermott, Swikriti Sarkar

• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Shaun Majumder, Cathy Jones, Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford

• Trailer Park Boys

Barrie Dunn, Shelley Thompson, Pat Roach, Garry James, Tyrone Parsons, Jonathan Torrens, Jeanna Harrison-Steinhart, John Paul Tremblay, Sarah Dunsworth, Lucy Decoutere, Cory Bowles, John Dunsworth, Mike Smith, Robb Wells, Michael Jackson

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Michael Riley, This is Wonderland
• Ben Bass, The Eleventh Hour
• Nicholas Campbell, Da Vinci's Inquest
• Peter Outerbridge, ReGenesis
• Jeff Seymour, The Eleventh Hour

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Cara Pifko, This is Wonderland
• Tammy Isbell, Paradise Falls
• Victoria Snow, Paradise Falls
• Julie Stewart, Cold Squad
• Waneta Storms, The Eleventh Hour

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Mary Walsh, Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
• Irwin Barker, Halifax Comedy Festival
• Lewis Black, Just For Laughs
• Colin Fox, Puppets Who Kill
• Levi MacDougall, Comedy Now

Donald Brittain Award

• Runaway Grooms - Ali Kazimi
• Bunny and Leona - Deborah Parks, John Kastner
• El Contrato - Karen King-Chigbo
• No Place Called Home - Peter Starr
• One More River - Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge
• The Take - Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, Laszlo Barna, Silva Basmajian

Best News Anchor

• Kevin Newman
• Peter Mansbridge
• Lloyd Robertson

Best Interactive

• cornergas.com - Brent Butt, David Storey, Virginia Thompson, Leif Kaldor
• deafplanet.com - Matthew Hornburg and Mark J.W. Bishop
• renegadepress.com - Gail Bryanton, Robert de Lint, Virginia Thompson
• Wizard World - Jennifer Burkitt and Patricia Ellingson
• ZeD: The New Media - Weston Triemstra and Tammy Everts

Canada Award

• Two Worlds Colliding

Earle Grey Award

• Steve Smith