8th ACTRA Awards

• {{blue ribbon}} A Gift to Last[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105770327/ "List of winners"]. North Bay Nugget, April 5, 1979.
• The Champions[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105768127/ "Front-runners picked for ACTRA Awards"]. Montreal Star, March 24, 1979.
• Tyler

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• {{blue ribbon}} Helen Burns, Catsplay
• Robin Gammell, The Jesus Trial
• R. H. Thomson, Tyler

• {{blue ribbon}} Gordon Pinsent, A Gift to Last
• Ruth Springford, A Gift to Last
• Al Waxman, King of Kensington

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• {{blue ribbon}} Murray Westgate, Tyler
• Donald Davis, The Newcomers: "1832"
• Moya Fenwick, Catsplay

• {{blue ribbon}} Brian McKay, Clowns
• Patsy Gallant, The Patsy Gallant Show
• Rich Little, Rich Little's Christmas Carol

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• {{blue ribbon}} Roy Bonisteel, Man Alive
• Hana Gartner, Take 30
• Brian Linehan, City Lights

• {{blue ribbon}} Eric Malling, The Fifth Estate: "Law for Sale"
• Roy Bonisteel, Man Alive
• Adrienne Clarkson, The Fifth Estate

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• {{blue ribbon}} Pencil Box
• Encounter with Orion
• The Friendly GiantThe initial Canadian Press article reporting the winners erroneously identified The Friendly Giant as a co-winner in this category alongside Pencil Box; however, a [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105771117/ correction] was subsequently published indicating that Pencil Box was the sole winner.

• {{blue ribbon}} Roy MacGregor, Tyler
• Carol Bolt, One Night Stand
• Charles Israel and George Ryga, The Newcomers: "1927"

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• {{blue ribbon}} Jeri Craden, Rob Iscove and Peter Mann, Clowns
• Benjamin Gordon and Lorne Frohman, The Rimshots
• Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Ted Lonsdale and Kate Lonsdale, Wayne and Shuster

• {{blue ribbon}} The Other Self
• Signature: "McCarthyism and the Arts"
• Sunday Morning: "Operation White Knight"

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• {{blue ribbon}} Warren Davis, Panning for Gold
• Don Harron, Morningside
• Betty Kennedy, The Betty Kennedy Show

• {{blue ribbon}} Ruth Springford, The Other Self
• Marilyn Lightstone, The Other Self
• Florence Paterson, A Place to Come Back To

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• {{blue ribbon}} Gay Claitman, Robert Cameron and Nancy White, Lies My Mother Told Me
• Dave Broadfoot, Royal Canadian Air Farce
• Nancy White, Sunday Morning

• {{blue ribbon}} Terence McKenna, Sunday Morning: "Regina v Roberts"
• Arthur Cole, Gordon Sinclair and Betty Kennedy, Let's Discuss It
• Barbara Frum and Alan Maitland, As It Happens

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• {{blue ribbon}} Tom Gallant, Darlin' Dolly
• Margaret Atwood, Estelle
• Marian Waldman, Beth and Rosamund

• {{blue ribbon}} Gay Claitman and Nancy White, Lies My Mother Told Me
• Roger Abbott, Dave Broadfoot, Martin Bronstein, Don Ferguson and John Morgan, Royal Canadian Air Farce
• W.O. Mitchell, Live at the St. Lawrence

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• {{blue ribbon}} Terence McKenna and Stuart McLean, Sunday Morning: "Operation White Knight"
• Robert Harris and Bob McKeown, Muhammad Ali
• Rob Lucy and Jay Mowat, Albert Establishment

• {{blue ribbon}} Barbara Frum, As It Happens
• Robert Cooper, Ombudsman
• John Robertson and Mike Allder, 24 Hours

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• {{blue ribbon}} Brian Williams
• Ernie Afaganis
• Dave Hodge