TORONTO -- Veteran Canadian actor Donnelly Rhodes is to receive the Earle Grey Award to recognize 50 years of film and TV work at the upcoming Gemini Awards, the Academy of Cinema & Television said Wednesday. Canada's TV awards will also give CTV executive Bob Culbert the Academy Achievement Award, while veteran CBC reporter Hana Gartner will receive the Gordon Sinclair Award for broadcast journalism. Other special award winners include screenwriter Pete White receiving the Margaret Collier Award, and veteran Canadian news anchor Beverly Thomson being honored with the Gemini Humanitarian Award for publicizing the fight against breast cancer after successfully battling the disease herself. The 21st annual Gemini Awards will air nationwide on Nov. 4 from Vancouver.
- 10/4/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. was the big winner at the Gemini Awards' Saturday night gala, taking 12 of 28 trophies handed out at Canada's TV awards. As awards were handed out in Toronto for documentary, news and sports programming on the first of three nights of celebration for the 19th annual Gemini Awards, the public broadcaster's flagship investigative news series, The Fifth Estate, won for best news information series, and The National, the CBC's flagship newscast, earned a trophy for best reportage. The Fifth Estate also picked up Geminis for best writing in an information program for Bob McKeown and best photography for Colin Allison. Another highlight of the night was longtime Fifth Estate producer Neil Docherty earning the Gordon Sinclair Award for broadcast journalism.
- 12/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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