Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role:
Enrico Colantoni - Flashpoint - Who's George?
Hugh Dillon - Flashpoint - Haunting the Barn
Robin Dunne - Sanctuary - Requiem
Daniel Kash - The Line - Episode 102
Ron White - The Line - Episode 102

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series:
Hugh Dillon - Of Murder and Memory
Dylan Everett - Booky's Crush
Reda Guerinik - The Terrorist Next Door
Stuart Hughes - Booky's Crush

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series:
David Alpay - The Tudors - Episode 207, Episode 209
Jonny Harris - Murdoch Mysteries - Big Murderer On Campus, Convalescence
Christopher Heyerdahl - Sanctuary - The Five, Revelations P2
Mpho Koaho - Soul - Seducing Spirits, Exile
Wes Williams - The Line - Episode 106, Episode 107


Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series:
Damir Andrei - Being Erica - The Secret of Now
Nicholas Campbell - Flashpoint - Who's George?
Henry Czerny - Flashpoint - First In Line
Mpho Koaho - Flashpoint - Never Kissed A Girl
Ron Lea - Flashpoint - Haunting the Barn

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series:
Trevor Duplessis - In a World Created By a Drunken God
Chenier Hundal - The Terrorist Next Door
Carlo Rota - Othello, The Tragedy of the Moor
David Suchet - Diverted
Bradley Whitford - Burn Up

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role:
Natalie Dormer - The Tudors - Episode 210
Amy Jo Johnson - Flashpoint - Planets Aligned
Erin Karpluk - Being Erica - Dr. Tom
Andrea Menard - Rabbit Fall - Hit and Run
Amanda Tapping - Sanctuary - Requiem

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series:
Barbara Hershey - Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Tiio Horn - Moccasin Flats: Redemption
Louise Rose - Diamonds

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series:
Lolita Davidovich - ZOS: Zone of Separation - Bred in the Bone, The Laws
Catherine Disher - The Border - The Sweep, Unacceptable Risk
Tasha Lawrence - The Line - Episode 104, Episode 106
Gabrielle Miller - Robson Arms - Season III - Baby? What Baby? , Mean Girls
Reagan Pasternak - Being Erica - The Secret of Now, Such a Perfect Day

Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series:
Daisy Beaumont - The Border - Floral Tribute
Kristin Booth - Flashpoint - Backwards Day
Sarah Gadon - Flashpoint - Attention Shoppers
Tatiana Maslany - Flashpoint - Planets Aligned
Anna Silk - Being Erica - Everything She Wants

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series:
Judy Davis - Diamonds
Christine Ghawi - Celine
Joanne Kelly - Diamonds
Rachel Marcus - Booky's Crush
Chandra West - Of Murder and Memory

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series:
Steven Adelson - Sanctuary - Instinct
John Fawcett - The Border - Going Dark
Chris Grismer - Being Erica - Leo
Kelly Makin - Flashpoint - Planets Aligned
Jeremy Podeswa - The Tudors - Episode 201

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series:
James Dunnison - Less Than Kind - Fun
Kelly Makin - Less Than Kind - The Daters
Samir Rehem - Testees - Herfume
Henry Sarwer-Foner - Less Than Kind - Pakikisama
Shawn Alex Thompson - Less Than Kind - French is My Kryptonite
Shawn Alex Thompson - Billable Hours - A Manson for All Seasons

Best Direction in a Documentary Program:
Karen Cho - Seeking Refuge
Robert Cornellier - Black Wave The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
Annette Mangaard - General Idea : Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle
Kent Nason, Teresa MacInnes - Norm
John Zaritsky - The Wild Horse Redemption

Best Direction in a Documentary Series:
Ryszard Hunka - The Great Food Revolution - 24 Hours, 24 Million Meals: Feeding New York City
Michael McNamara - Driven By Vision - Of Castles, Kings and Jesters
Liam O'Rinn - The Great Food Revolution - The Great Food Revolution
Les Stroud - Survivorman Third Season - Papua New Guinea
Susan Teskey - India Reborn - Myth and Might

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series:
Paolo Barzman - The Last Templar
Jerry Ciccoritti - The Terrorist Next Door
Peter Svatek - The Christmas Choir
David Wellington - Of Murder and Memory
Andy Wilson - Diamonds

The complete list of nominees runs through a total of 99 categories and covers all aspects of the television industry from casting to editing to best host of a news show. Due to the number of awards the Academy decided a few years back to spread the event across a number of days. The 2009 Industry Galas will take place on October 19th and 20th in Toronto at The Sound Academy when the Gemini for News, Sports, Documentary, Lifestyle, Drama, Comedy and Variety Awards will be among the categories presented. Then, almost a month later, the 2009 Broadcast Gala will take place in Calgary. Northernstars congratulates all of the nominees of the 2009 Gemini Awards.