15th ACTRA Awards

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15th ACTRA Awards
DateApril 2, 1986
Hosted by Don Harron, Pierre Berton, Barbara Frum, Gordon Pinsent, Dave Broadfoot, Ann Mortifee
Highlights
Best TV Program Charlie Grant's War
Best Radio ProgramGlenn Gould: The Well-Tempered Polymath
Television/radio coverage
Network CBC Television
  14th  · ACTRA Awards ·  1st Gemini  

The 15th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 2, 1986 to honour achievements in Canadian television production in 1985. [1] They were the final ACTRA Awards presented before the responsibility for organizing and presenting Canadian television awards was transferred from ACTRA to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television; [2] after this, ACTRA only presented awards in radio categories, until relaunching the ACTRA Awards program in the early 2000s as a series of regional production awards in various Canadian film and television production markets.

Contents

The ceremony was hosted by Don Harron, Pierre Berton, Barbara Frum, Gordon Pinsent, Dave Broadfoot and Ann Mortifee. [3]

Due to overlapping eligibility periods, some of the nominees or winners at the 15th ACTRA Awards were also nominees or winners at the 1st Gemini Awards, which were presented in December 1986. [4]

Television

Best Television ProgramBest Direction in a Television Program
Best Television ActorBest Television Actress
Best Continuing TV PerformanceBest Supporting TV Performance
Best TV Variety PerformanceBest Television Host
Best Children's Television ProgramBest Television Score
Best Writing, Original Television DramaBest Writing, Adapted Television Drama
Best Writing, Television Comedy/VarietyBest Writing, Television Public Affairs

Radio

Best Radio ProgramBest Radio Host
  • Blueribbon icon.png Glenn Gould: The Well-Tempered Polymath [5]
  • A Celebration of Genius: The 300th Anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach [6]
  • Ideas : "Journey Through the Volcano" [6]
  • Scales of Justice: "I'm Not Living Like This Anymore" [6]
Best Radio ActorBest Radio Actress
Best Radio Variety PerformanceBest Writing, Original Radio Drama
Best Writing, Adapted Radio DramaBest Writing, Radio Variety
Best Writing, Radio Public Affairs

Journalism and special awards

Gordon Sinclair Award Best Live Television Reporting
Foster Hewitt Award John Drainie Award

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References

  1. Jim Bawden, "Old familiar faces clean up at final ACTRA ceremony". Toronto Star , April 3, 1986.
  2. Sid Adilman, "Canada's new TV award makes debut". Toronto Star , April 22, 1986.
  3. "ACTRA co-hosts announced". Toronto Star , March 6, 1986.
  4. Bill Taylor, "Producer may boycott Geminis". Toronto Star , June 17, 1986.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Adele Freedman, "Charlie Grant's War is ACTRA's top show of the year: Nellie makes last stand brisk but chummy". The Globe and Mail , April 4, 1986.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 "ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". Montreal Gazette , March 18, 1986.