10th ACTRA Awards

10th ACTRA Awards
Date	April 3, 1981
Hosted by	Gordon Pinsent
Highlights
Best TV Program	The Canadian Establishment
Best Radio Program	Sunday Morning
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBC Television
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The 10th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 3, 1981, and hosted by Gordon Pinsent.

Television

Best Television Program	Best Television Actor
The Canadian Establishment: "Store Wars" and "Ten Toronto Street"[1] A Gift to Last[2] The Hanga Shore[2]	Al Waxman, The Winnings of Frankie Walls[1] Lawrence Dane, A Question of the Sixth[2] Dixie Seatle, A Population of One[2]
Best Continuing TV Performance	Best Supporting TV Performance
Don Francks, The Phoenix Team[1] Elizabeth Shepherd, The Phoenix Team[2] Kim Yaroshevskaya, Home Fires[2]	Mary Pirie, Lyon's Den[1] Helen Burns, Today I Am a Fountain Pen[2] Sonja Smits, War Brides[2]
Best New Performer	Best TV Variety Performance
Lally Cadeau, Harvest[1] Wendy Crewson, War Brides[2] Allan Levson, Today I Am a Fountain Pen[2]	Dinah Christie, D.C. and Friends[1] Jeff Hyslop, Dancin' Man[2] Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, Wayne and Shuster Superspecial[2]
Best Television Host or Interviewer	Best Writing, Television Drama
Patrick Watson, The Canadian Establishment: "Store Wars"[1] Eric Malling, The Fifth Estate[2] Sherv Shragge, Shragge's Journal[2]	Grahame Woods, War Brides[1] Rob Forsyth, Harvest[2] Tony Sheer, Maintain the Right[2]
Best Writing, Television Comedy/Variety	Best Writing, Television Public Affairs
Roger Abbott, Dave Broadfoot, Don Ferguson, Gord Holtam, John Morgan and Rick Olsen, Royal Canadian Air Farce[1] Ted Barris and Alex Barris, A Little Part of Canada[2] Charles Weir, Guy Shulman, Mark Shekter and Robert Sandler, Dancin' Man[2]	Ted Remerowski, The Canadian Establishment: "Store Wars"[1] Les Nirenberg, Man Alive: "City of Love"[2] Peter Pearson, The Canadian Establishment: "The Chairman"[2]

Radio

Best Radio Program	Best Radio Host
Sunday Morning[1] Africa Week[2] Morningside: "War Measures"[2] A Salzburg Diary[2]	Bronwyn Drainie and Patrick Martin, Sunday Morning[1] Don Harron, Morningside[2] Jacqueline Toupin, Keewatin Country[2]
Best Radio Actor	Best Radio Variety Performance
Zoe Caldwell, Fifth Business[1] Douglas Campbell, The Life of Galileo[2] Martha Henry, Memoir[2]	Linden Soles, 60 Minutes with a Bullet: The Decade[1] Bill Buck, Norm Grohmann, Marla Gropper and Bill Reiter, Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show[2] Gene Di Novi, Morningside: "Cole Porter"[2]
Best Writing, Radio Drama	Best Writing, Radio Variety
Sharon Pollock, Sweet Land of Liberty[1] John Murrell, Memoir[2] Jim Nichol, Biko[2]	Linden Soles, 60 Minutes with a Bullet: The Decade[1] Erika Ritter, Morningside: "Invasion of the Stewardesses"[2] Dan Thatchuk, Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show[2]
Best Writing, Radio Public Affairs
Harry Rasky, Africa Week[1] Naomi Diamond, Open Circuit: The Handicapped Child[2] Lilian Garson, Growing Up in the Coke Ovens[2]

Journalism and special awards

Gordon Sinclair Award	Foster Hewitt Award
Eric Malling[1] Harry J. Boyle[2] Charles Templeton[2]	Jim Robson[1] Dave Hodge[2] Bernie Pascall[2]
John Drainie Award
Frances Hyland[1]

References

1. Rick Groen, "Waxman, Establishment take Actras". The Globe and Mail, April 4, 1981.
2. "Nominees announced for ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail, March 13, 1981.