Donald Brittain Award
The Donald Brittain Award is a Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour the year's best television documentary on a social or political topic. Formerly presented as part of the Gemini Awards, since 2013 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. The award may be presented to either a standalone broadcast of a documentary film, or to an individual full-length episode of a news or documentary series.
The award is named in honour of Donald Brittain, a pioneering Canadian documentary filmmaker.[1] On one occasion to date, the award has been won by a documentary film about Brittain and his importance to the history of Canadian documentary film.
Nominees and winners
1990s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 6th Gemini Awards | ||
| Island of Whales | George Johnson, Jack Silberman, Gillian Darling, Jerry Appleton | |
| Between Two Worlds | Peter Raymont | |
| Distress Signals | Kent Martin, John Walker, Tom Perlmutter | |
| James Bay: The Wind That Keeps Blowing | Nancy Archibald | |
| Transplant: The Breath of Life | Elias Petras | |
| 1992 7th Gemini Awards | ||
| Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer | Terence Macartney-Filgate, Don Haig | |
| Man Alive: "Chernobyl 2" | Halya Kuchmij | |
| On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature | Mary Armstrong | |
| Threads of Hope | Les Harris, Jane Harris | |
| Women in the Shadows | Signe Johansson, Christine Welsh | |
| 1993 8th Gemini Awards | ||
| Donald Brittain: Filmmaker | Adam Symansky | |
| Adrienne Clarkson Presents: "Artemesia" | Adrienne Clarkson | |
| Man Alive: "Held Hostage" | Halya Kuchmij | |
| The Fifth Estate: "Odd Man Out" | Susan Teskey | |
| The Nature of Things: "Trading Futures" | Michael Poole | |
| 1994 9th Gemini Awards | ||
| Shadows and Light: Joaquin Rodrigo at 90 | Larry Weinstein, Niv Fichman | |
| Dream Tower | Ron Mann | |
| Hidden Children | Julia Sereny | |
| No Man's Land | Shelley Saywell | |
| Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo | John Zaritsky, Virginia Storring | |
| 1995 10th Gemini Awards | ||
| Ms. Conceptions | Linda Frum, Ric Esther Bienstock | |
| The Fifth Estate: "Sealed in Silence" | David Kaufman | |
| The Last Trip | Ina Fichman | |
| The Negotiator | Laszlo Barna | |
| Orphans of Manchuria | Annie Dodds | |
| The Voyage of the St. Louis | Arnie Gelbart | |
| 1996 11th Gemini Awards | ||
| Utshimassits: Place of the Boss | John Walker, Mike Mahoney, Peter d'Entremont | |
| Fire and Water | Shelley Saywell | |
| Scenes from a Corner Store | Sun-Kyung Yi | |
| Summer in the Cherry Orchard | Ann Bromley | |
| The True Story of Linda M. | Norma Bailey, Joe MacDonald | |
| 1997 12th Gemini Awards | ||
| The Selling of Innocents | Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici, William Cobban | |
| My Russian Campaign: From Montreal to Moscow | John Curtin | |
| Mystics, Mechanics and Mindbombs | Michael Chechik, Jerry Thompson | |
| Nowhere Else to Live | Alan Handel | |
| Picturing a People: George Johnston Tlingit Photographer | George Hargrave, Sally Bochner | |
| 1998 13th Gemini Awards | ||
| Gerrie & Louise | Phyllis Brown, Sturla Gunnarsson, David York | |
| Confessions of a Rabid Dog | Rudy Buttignol, Gerry Flahive, Julia Sereny | |
| Dad | Chris Triffo | |
| Some Kind of Arrangement | Geeta Sondhi | |
| Witness: "Between Here and Heaven" | Andrew Gregg, Wayne Abbott | |
| 1999 14th Gemini Awards | ||
| Crimes of Honour | Shelley Saywell | |
| Believing | Nicole Lamothe | |
| East Side Showdown | Peter Starr | |
| Four Women of Egypt | Éric Michel | |
| The Dragon's Egg | Rudy Buttignol, Allan King, Elizabeth Yake |
2000s
| Year | Nominee | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 15th Gemini Awards | ||
| Deep Inside Clint Star | Silva Basmajian | |
| Asylum: Falling Through the Cracks | Christopher Sumpton | |
| Kikkik | Ole Gjerstad | |
| Legacy of Terror: The Bombing of Air India | Rudy Buttignol, Shelley Saywell | |
| The Holier it Gets | Rudy Buttignol, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier | |
| 2001 16th Gemini Awards | ||
| Breakaway: A Tale of Two Survivors | Johanna Lunn Montgomery, Johanna Eliot, Mathew Welsh | |
| Chickens Are People Too | John Kastner, Hilary Armstrong, Marie Natanson, Charlotte Odele | |
| In the Shadow of a Saint | Mark Johnston, Stephen Milton | |
| Kim Campbell: Through the Looking Glass | Silva Basmajian | |
| A Moment in Time: The United Colours of Bronstein | Judy Jackson | |
| 2002 17th Gemini Awards | ||
| Offspring | Barry Stevens, Laszlo Barna | |
| Aftermath: The Remnants of War | Peter Starr, Ed Barreveld, Michael Kot | |
| Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture | Jill Sharpe, Lynn Booth | |
| In the Line of Fire | Patricia Naylor | |
| Waging Peace: A Year in the Life of Caledonia Junior High | Sally Bochner, Peter d'Entremont, Kent Martin | |
| 2003 18th Gemini Awards | ||
| Return to Kandahar | Paul Jay, Nelofer Pazira, David M. Ostriker | |
| Chinese Daughters | Dorlene Lin, Rudy Buttignol | |
| Salvation | Kent Martin | |
| Seeing Is Believing | Francis Miquet, Peter Wintonick, Katerina Cizek, Catherine Olsen | |
| The Tree That Remembers | Sally Bochner | |
| 2004 19th Gemini Awards | ||
| Dying at Grace | Allan King, Rudy Buttignol | |
| Deadline Iraq: Uncensored | Stuart Coxe, Greg Kelly, Douglas Arrowsmith, Eric Foss, Aaron Williams | |
| Dying to Be Free: Zimbabwe's Struggle for Change | David Belluz | |
| Short Infinity | Jean Lemire, Yves Bisaillon | |
| The Man Who Could Be King | Mark Johnston, Edith Champagne, Nancy Ing Duclos | |
| 2005 20th Gemini Awards | ||
| 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 | |
| 2006 21st Gemini Awards | ||
| House Calls | Gerry Flahive, Silva Basmajian | |
| Beyond Words: Photographers of War | Eric Foss, Stuart Coxe, Greg Kelly | |
| Big Sugar | Stephen Phizicky, Sylvia Wilson, Arnie Gelbart | |
| Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company | Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Allan King, Rudy Buttignol | |
| No More Tears Sister | Pierre Lapointe, Sally Bochner | |
| 2007 22nd Gemini Awards | ||
| Fatherland | Manfred Becker, Laszlo Barna | |
| Bombay Calling | Sally Bochner, Adam Symansky | |
| Cottonland | Annette Clarke, Kent Martin | |
| Empz 4 Life | Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Rudy Buttignol, Allan King | |
| Faith Without Fear | Silva Basmajian, Gordon Henderson | |
| Martyr Street | Deborah Parks, Shelley Saywell | |
| 2008 23rd Gemini Awards | ||
| A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman | Peter Raymont | |
| A Place Between | Joe MacDonald, Graydon McRea, Michael Scott, Derek Mazur | |
| Darfur: On Our Watch | Neil Docherty, Lisa Ellenwood | |
| Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time | Johanna Lunn, Kent Martin | |
| Girl Inside | Maya Gallus, Justine Pimlott | |
| 2009 24th Gemini Awards | ||
| Tiger Spirit | Ed Barreveld, Anita Lee, Min Sook Lee | |
| Air India 182 | David York, Sturla Gunnarsson | |
| bploi wai dtaai: Leave Her to Die | Antonia Thomson, Sean Buckley | |
| Norm | Kent Nason, Teresa MacInnes | |
| Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma | Peter Raymont, Silva Basmajian |
2010s
| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 25th Gemini Awards | ||
| Broke | Rosie Dransfeld | |
| A Dream for Kabul | Patricia Bergeron, Yves Bisaillon, Nathalie Barton | |
| Reel Injun | Christina Fon, Catherine Bainbridge, Catherine Olsen, Ravida Din, Adam Symansky, Ernest Webb, Linda Ludwick | |
| Up Against the Wall | Eileen Thalenberg, Gail McIntyre | |
| Water on the Table | Liz Marshall | |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | ||
| Life with Murder | John Kastner, Silva Basmajian | |
| Jackpot | Michelle Latimer | |
| Mom's Home | Maureen Judge | |
| Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands | Niobe Thompson | |
| When We Were Boys | Mark Johnston, Amanda Handy, Sarah Goodman | |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| About Her | Sissy Federer-Less, Michelle Rothstein, Scott Garvie, Alison Gordon, Phyllis Ellis, Christina Jennings, Henry Less | |
| 8th Fire | Paul Morin, Sue Dando, Peter John Ingles, Jo-Ann Demers, Kelly Crichton | |
| The Market | Ed Barreveld | |
| Prosecutor | Lea Marin, Silva Basmajian, Julia Bennett, Kelly Jenkins, Peter Raymont | |
| The Team | Kelly Jenkins, Peter Raymont, Patrick Reed | |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| The People of the Kattawapiskak River | Alanis Obomsawin, Ravida Din | |
| Blood Relative | Nimisha Mukerji | |
| Herman's House | Angad Singh Bhalla, Ed Barreveld, Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Loring McAlpin | |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Tales from the Organ Trade | Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici | |
| The Exhibition | Robert Straight, Damon Vignale, Miho Yamamoto | |
| The Ghosts in Our Machine | Liz Marshall, Nina Beveridge | |
| Out of Mind, Out of Sight | Silva Basmajian, John Kastner, Deborah Parks | |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Sugar Coated | Janice Dawe, Michele Hozer | |
| 15 to Life: Kenneth's Story | Nadine Pequeneza | |
| Anti-Social Limited | Roswitha Dransfeld | |
| Danny | Annette Clarke, William D. MacGillivray, Justin Simms | |
| Human Harvest | Leon Lee, Jason Loftus | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Guantanamo's Child | Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard, Peter Raymont | |
| After the Last River | Vicki Lean, Jade Blair | |
| I, Pedophile | Matthew Campea, Christopher Sumpton, Robin Benger | |
| The War at Home | Deborah Parks, Shelley Saywell | |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| The Secret Path | Stuart Coxe, Mike Downie, Jocelyn Hamilton, Gord Downie, Justin Stephenson, Jeff Lemire, Sarah Polley, Patrick Downie | |
| All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone | Fred Peabody, Peter Raymont, Steve Ord, Andrew Munger, Jeff Cohen, Oliver Stone | |
| Colonization Road | Michelle St. John, Brendan Brady, Jordan O'Connor, Shane Belcourt, Evan Adams | |
| Migrant Dreams | Min Sook Lee, Lisa Valencia-Svensson | |
| The Skin We're In | Gordon Henderson, Stuart Henderson | |
| 2018[2] 7th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Quiet Killing (Ce silence qui tue) | Michèle Rouleau | |
| Driving with Selvi | Elisa Paloschi | |
| The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution | Maya Gallus | |
| The Way Out | David York, Bryn Hughes, Michelle Shephard | |
| 2019[3] 8th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Mr. Jane and Finch | Alison Duke, Ngardy Conteh George | |
| In Search of a Perfect World | Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon | |
| The Invisible Heart | Nadine Pequeneza | |
| Village of the Missing | Paul Kemp |
See also
- Canadian television awards
References
- "Gemini gala scores with innovation; Awards show tosses in falcon, football and plea from star of Wayne's World". Montreal Gazette, March 9, 1992.
- "Gord Downie's Secret Path, Amazing Race and CBC News among Canadian Screen Awards winners". CBC News, March 26, 2019.
- Pat Mullen, "2020 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary". Point of View, February 18, 2020.
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