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Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program

Gemini Awards

Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program is one of the awards presented every year at the Gemini Awards Ceremony.
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program is one of the awards presented every year at the Gemini Awards Ceremony.

Check all the winners of Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program presented under Gemini Awards since 2000 .


Michael McNamara

Honored for : Acquainted With the Night

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Michael McNamara Acquainted With the Night
Nadine Pequeneza Inside Disaster Haiti
Alan Black Jackpot
John Kastner Life with Murder
Niobe Thompson The Nature of Things
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Tom Radford The Nature of Things
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands

Neil Diamond, Jeremiah Hayes, Catherine Bainbridge

Honored for : Independent Lens
(Reel Injun)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Neil Diamond Independent Lens
Reel Injun
Jeremiah Hayes Independent Lens
Reel Injun
Catherine Bainbridge Independent Lens
Reel Injun
Nimisha Mukerji 65 Redroses
Philip Lyall 65 Redroses
Rosie Dransfeld Broke.
Julian Jones The Great Sperm Race
Rob King Silent Bombs: All for the Motherland

Robert Cornellier

Honored for : Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Cornellier Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
Annette Mangaard General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle
Teresa MacInnes Norm
Kent Nason Norm
Karen Cho Seeking Refuge
John Zaritsky Doc Zone
The Wild Horse Redemption

Maya Gallus

Honored for : Girl Inside

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Maya Gallus Girl Inside
Peter Raymont A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
David Paperny Confessions of an Innocent Man
Nicholas de Pencier Four Wings and a Prayer
John Zaritsky The Suicide Tourist

David Ridgen

Honored for : Mississippi Cold Case

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Ridgen Mississippi Cold Case
Nance Ackerman Cottonland
Eddie Buchanan Cottonland
Shelley Saywell Martyr Street
Scot McFadyen Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Sam Dunn Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Katerina Cizek The Interventionists

Paul Nadler

Honored for : Braindamadj'd...Take II

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Julian Jones How William Shatner Changed the World
Paul Nadler Braindamadj'd...Take II
Christine Nielsen Rocketman
Mike Sheerin The Secret Mulroney Tapes

Kevin McMahon

Honored for : Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin McMahon Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
John Kastner Rage Against the Darkness
Bunny and Leona
David Vaisbord Drawing Out The Demons: A Film about the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs
Craig Chivers No Place Called Home
Peter Raymont Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
Avi Lewis The Take

Peter Raymont

Honored for : The World Stopped Watching

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Raymont The World Stopped Watching
Sarah Goodman Army of One
Allan King Dying at Grace
John Walker Men of the Deeps
Kun Chang Short Infinity

Paule Baillargeon

Honored for : Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paule Baillargeon Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Robin Benger First Person Shooter
Audrey Mehler The Boys of Buchenwald
Mike Downie Dave Bidini: The Hockey Nomad
Jennifer Baichwal The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia

Steven Silver

Honored for : The Last Just Man

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Steven Silver The Last Just Man
Susan Teskey Canada: A People's History
The Crucible 1940-1946
Barry Stevens Offspring
Matt Gallagher Tyler's Barrel
Stan Feingold Heroines

Gerry Rogers

Honored for : My Left Breast

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gerry Rogers My Left Breast
John Kastner Witness
Chickens are People Too
Richard Meech In the Shadow of a Saint: The Ken Wiwa Story
Anne Wheeler The Orkney Lad: The Story of Isabel Gunn
Michael McNamara Wrinkle

Lesley Ann Patten

Honored for : The Voice Set Free

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lesley Ann Patten The Voice Set Free
Beverly Shaffer Just a Wedding
Shelley Saywell Legacy of Terror: The Bombing of Air India
Lewis Cohen Road Stories For The Flesh-Eating Future
Shui-Bo Wang Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square