{{Short description|Canadian television awards ceremony}} {{Infobox award | name = 2nd ACTRA Awards | image = | date = April 30, 1973 | location = | host = [[Pierre Berton]] | most_awards = | most_nominations = | producer = | previous = [[1st ACTRA Awards|1st]] | main = [[ACTRA Awards]] | next = [[3rd ACTRA Awards|3rd]] }} The '''2nd ACTRA Awards''' were presented on April 30, 1973 to honour achievements in [[Canada|Canadian]] television in 1972.<ref name=murray>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105754542/ "Murray, Pinsent win ACTRA awards"]. ''[[Red Deer Advocate]]'', May 1, 1973.</ref> The ceremony was hosted by [[Pierre Berton]], and featured several new categories which had not been presented at the [[1st ACTRA Awards]] the previous year.<ref name=murray/>
==Winners and nominees== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Earle Grey Award]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Gordon Sinclair Award]] |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Gordon Pinsent]], ''[[The Rowdyman]]'''''<ref name=murray/> * [[Jon Granik]], ''Islam''<ref name=base>Ron Base, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105755472/ "Words of love"]. ''[[Windsor Star]]'', April 28, 1973.</ref> * [[Dawn Greenhalgh]], ''[[Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist]]''<ref name=base/> * [[Michael Kane (actor)|Michael Kane]], ''The Disposable Man''<ref name=base/> * [[Henry Ramer]], ''[[Here Come the Seventies]]''<ref name=base/> * [[Deborah Turnbull]], ''Peace of Utrecht''<ref name=base/> | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Max Ferguson]]'''<ref name=murray/> * [[Barbara Frum]]<ref name=base/> * [[Michael Magee (actor)|Michael Magee]]<ref name=base/> |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Variety Performer ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Public Affairs Broadcaster |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Anne Murray]]'''<ref name=murray/> * [[Julie Amato]] and [[Jack Duffy]], ''[[Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour]]''<ref name=base/> * [[Laurie Bower]], ''The Laurie Bower Singers''<ref name=base/> * [[Barbara Hamilton (actress)|Barbara Hamilton]], ''Inside from the Outside''<ref name=base/> * [[Wayne and Shuster]]<ref name=base/> | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Peter Gzowski]], ''[[This Country in the Morning]]'''''<ref name=murray/> * [[Pierre Berton]]<ref name=base/> * [[Barbara Frum]], ''[[As It Happens]]''<ref name=base/> * [[Jack McGaw]]<ref name=base/> * [[Carole Taylor]]<ref name=base/> * [[Warner Troyer]]<ref name=base/> |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Dramatic Writer ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Documentary Writer |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Len Peterson]], ''Trouble with Giants'''''<ref name=murray/> * [[Ron Kelly]], ''[[Springhill (film)|Springhill]]''<ref name=murray/> * [[Grahame Woods]], ''Strike''<ref name=murray/> | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Neil Copeland]], ''Titanic: Six Decades of Controversy'' and ''The Oak Island Mystery: Fact or Fiction?'''''<ref name=murray/> * [[John David Hamilton]], ''York-Scarboro Revisited 1972''<ref name=murray/> * [[William Whitehead (Canadian writer)|William Whitehead]], ''[[The Nature of Things]]''<ref name=murray/> |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[John Drainie Award]] |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''[[Rupert Caplan]]'''<ref>Jack Kapica, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105754832/ "Rupert Caplan loves radio"]. ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', May 1, 1973.</ref> |}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Canadian Screen Awards}}
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