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.