The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards, recognizing the best in Canadian English-language television. The celebrations will be held in Toronto over three nights in November (Industry Gala Presentations: 2-3 November; Broadcast Gala: 13 November).
Here are some of the productions and people nominated in several documentary categories.
Best Biography Documentary Program
Genius Within - The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Karsh Is History
Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary
Best Documentary Series
Aftermath
Down The Mighty River
Licence To Drill
The View From Here
Word Travels
Best History Documentary Program
Dive Detectives: Edmund Fitzgerald
Manson
Paris 1919
Passage
Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program
A Murder Of Crows
The Great Sperm Race
One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep
The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind
The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
A Dream For Kabul
Broke.
Reel Injun
Up Against The Wall
Water On The Table
Best Direction in a Documentary Program
Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge - Reel Injun
Rosie Dransfeld - Broke.
Julian Jones - The Great Sperm Race
Rob King - Silent Bombs: All For the Motherland
Nimisha Mukerji, Philip Lyall - 65_RedRoses
Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Mike Downie - One Ocean - Birth of an Ocean
Leon Laflamme - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Truth and Total War
Jeff Semple - Ancestors In The Attic - Black Market Baby?
Stavros Stavrides, Leslie Lucas, John Westheuser - Licence To Drill - Paydirt
Wendy Trueman - Mega Builders - Big Rig
To see a full list of all nominees from documentary productions and other genres please visit the official website of the Gemini Awards.