12th Gemini Awards

The 12th Gemini Awards were held on March 1, 1998, to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was broadcast on CBC. This would be the first of two Gemini awards that broadcast in 1998.

Awards

Best Comedy Program or Series

• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• Dave Broadfoot: Old Enough To Say What I Want
• Royal Canadian Air Farce
• The Red Green Show
• The Newsroom

Best Dramatic Series

• Traders
• Cold Squad
• Jake and the Kid
• Madison
• North of 60
• The Outer Limits

Best TV Movie or Dramatic Mini-Series

• Hiroshima
• Captains Courageous
• Dangerous Offender
• Giant Mine
• The Arrow

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

• Juno Awards of 1997
• Amanda Marshall
• Hot Off The Dock
• Native Voices: Our Spirit Sings
• YAA! The 8th Annual YTV Achievement Awards

Best Documentary Series

• Man Alive
• Cosmic Highway
• Great Adventures of the 20th Century
• Life and Times
• Witness
• Women: A True Story

Best News Information Program or Series

• the fifth estate
• Schlesinger
• Undercurrents
• Venture
• W-FIVE

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

• North of 60
• F/X: The Series
• Gullage's
• Madison
• The Outer Limits

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• The Newsroom
• Native Voices: Our Spirit Sings
• Royal Canadian Air Farce
• The Red Green Show
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• The Newsroom: Mark Farrell, Tanya Allen, Ken Finkleman, Peter Keleghan, Jeremy Hotz
• Comedy Now!: John Rogers
• Dave Broadfoot: Old Enough To Say What I Want: Dave Broadfoot
• Royal Canadian Air Farce: John Morgan, Luba Goy, Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes: Greg Thomey, Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Bruce Gray, Traders
• Robert Bockstael, North of 60
• Tom Jackson, North of 60
• David Meyer, Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle
• Peter Stebbings, Madison

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Patti Harras, Jake and the Kid
• Cynthia Belliveau, Wind at My Back
• Tina Keeper, North of 60
• Sarah Strange, Madison
• Peta Wilson, Nikita

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

• Aidan Devine, The Arrow
• Kim Coates, Dead Silence
• Brent Stait, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
• Peter MacNeill, Giant Mine
• Saul Rubinek, Hiroshima

Best News Anchor

• Peter Mansbridge
• Jane Hawtin
• Jay Ingram
• Linden MacIntyre
• Lloyd Robertson
• Alison Smith

Canada Award

• The Road Taken

Earle Grey Award

• Kenneth Welsh