HBO Collects 102 ACE Awards Nominations

Home Box Office dominated nominations for the cable-TV industry’s ACE Awards Tuesday, collecting 102 of the 374 citations, including 13 for its series “Dream On,” 11 for its series “Tales From the Crypt” and 11 for its movie “The Josephine Baker Story.”

Thirty-four other cable networks received nominations. Showtime was runner-up to HBO with 30, followed by Arts & Entertainment with 25, the Disney Channel with 24, CNN and ESPN with 22 apiece, TNT with 21 and Lifetime Television with 20.

Winners of the 13th annual ACE Awards, honoring cable’s top programs, performers and craftsmen, will be announced Jan. 12 in ceremonies that TNT will televise from the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The awards cover the period from Sept. 1, 1990 to Aug. 31, 1991.

Among the nominees:

Comedy series: “Dream On,” HBO; “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” Comedy Central; “The Kids in the Hall,” HBO.

Dramatic series: “Avonlea,” Disney Channel; “Tales From the Crypt,” HBO; “The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd,” Lifetime; “The Hitchhiker,” USA; “The Ray Bradbury Theater,” USA.

Movie or miniseries: “Doublecrossed,” HBO; “Never Forget,” TNT; “Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture,” HBO; “The Josephine Baker Story,” HBO; “Without Warning: The James Brady Story.”

Dramatic or theatrical special: “Kurt Vonnegut’s Monkey House: All the Kings Horses,” Showtime; “Prison Stories: Women on the Inside--New Chicks,” HBO; “Prison Stories: Women on the Inside--Parole Board,” HBO; “Women & Men II: In Love There Are No Rules--Domestic Dilemma,” HBO; “Women & Men II: In Love There Are No Rules--Return to Kansas City,” HBO.

Music series: “American Music Shop,” Nashville Network; “MTV Unplugged,” MTV; “Rockumentary,” MTV; “Sound & Style,” Black Entertainment Television; “VH One to One,” VH-1.

Music special: “Billy Joel Live at Yankee Stadium,” Disney Channel; “HBO Presents Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston,” HBO; “Paul McCartney: Going Home,” Disney Channel; “Paul Simon Live in Central Park: Born at the Right Time Tour--One Night Only,” HBO; “The Bee Gees: Going Home,” Disney Channel.

Documentary series: “A&E; Journeys,” A&E; “The Nuclear Graveyard,” CNN; “The Trials of Life,” TNT; “War in the Gulf: A Look Back,” CNN; “World in Action,” A&E.;

Documentary special: “Bobby Kennedy: In His Own Words,” HBO; “Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House,” HBO; “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” Showtime; “Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives,” TBS; “The Best Hotel on Skid Row,” HBO.

Actor in a movie or miniseries: Beau Bridges, “Without Warning: The James Brady Story,” HBO; Louis Gossett Jr., “Sudie and Simpson,” Lifetime; Dennis Hopper, “Doublecrossed,” HBO; Dennis Hopper, “Paris Trout,” Showtime; Forest Whitaker, “Criminal Justice,” HBO.

Actress in a movie or miniseries: Blythe Danner, “Judgement,” HBO; Lolita Davidovich, “Prison Stories: Women on the Inside--Parole Board,” HBO; Christine Lahti, “Crazy From the Heart,” TNT; Vanessa Redgrave, “Orpheus Descending,” TNT; Lynn Whitfield, “The Josephine Baker Story,” HBO.