9th ACTRA Awards

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| name = 9th ACTRA Awards

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| date = April 9, 1980

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| host = Dave Broadfoot

| most_awards =

| most_nominations =

| award1_type = Best TV Program

| award1_winner = Drying Up the Streets

| award2_type = Best Radio Program

| award2_winner = Sunday Morning: "Aftermath of Jonestown"

| network = CBC Television

| producer =

| previous = 8th

| main = ACTRA Awards

| next = 10th

}}

The 9th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 9, 1980.Rick Groen, "Drying Up the Streets cleans up on ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail, April 10, 1980. The ceremony was hosted by Dave Broadfoot.

Television

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style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Television Program

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Earle Grey Award

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{{blue ribbon}} Drying Up the Streets
Dieppe[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110657460/ "ACTRA Award nominations"]. Vancouver Sun, March 28, 1980.
The Music of Man

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{{blue ribbon}} Don Francks, Drying Up the Streets
Brent Carver, Crossbar
Bruno Gerussi, The Newcomers

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Supporting Performer

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best New Performer

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{{blue ribbon}} Paul Harding, A Man Called Intrepid
Gerard Parkes, A Gift to Last
Christopher Plummer, Riel

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{{blue ribbon}} Sarah Torgov, Drying Up the Streets
Megan Follows, Matt and Jenny
Liliane Stilwell, Piaf

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best TV Variety Performance

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Television Host or Interviewer

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{{blue ribbon}} Burton Cummings, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main
Salome Bey, Dream Weaver
Toller Cranston, Dream Weaver
Karen Kain, Karen Kain Requests the Pleasure

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{{blue ribbon}} Brian Linehan, City Lights
Larry Stout, Newsmagazine
Patrick Watson, The Watson Report

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Children's Television Program

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Writing, Television Drama

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{{blue ribbon}} Intergalactic Thanksgiving
Matt and Jenny
The Stowaway

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{{blue ribbon}} Ralph L. Thomas and Roy MacGregor, Every Person Is Guilty
Roy Moore, Riel
Gordon Pinsent, A Gift to Last

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Writing, Television Comedy/Variety

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Writing, Television Public Affairs

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{{blue ribbon}} Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Kate Lonsdale and Ted Lonsdale, Wayne and Shuster
John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis and Dave Thomas, Second City Television
Stan Jacobson, Rick Moranis and Paul Perlove, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main

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{{blue ribbon}} Barbara Young, Newsday: "Penny Kitchen"
Yehudi Menuhin and Charles Weir, The Music of Man: "Parting of the Ways"
Dini Petty, Incest: Scandal in the Family

Radio

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Best Radio Program ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Best Radio Host or Interviewer
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valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Sunday Morning: "Aftermath of Jonestown" Ideas: "Search for Tutankhamun" The Pat Lowther Poem \| valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Barbara Frum and Alan Maitland, As It Happens Lynne Gordon, Israel Don Harron, Morningside
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Best Radio Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Best Writing, Radio Drama
valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Kate Reid, Grasshopper Hill Douglas Rain, Coming Through Slaughter Henry Ramer, Grasshopper Hill \| valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Betty Lambert, Grasshopper Hill Silver Donald Cameron, The Sisters Sheldon Rosen, Ned and Jack
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Best Writing, Radio Public Affairs
valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} *Terence McKenna, Sunday Morning: "Aftermath of Jonestown"* Tom Keenan and Mary McGuire, Alberta Towns Stuart McLean, Sunday Morning: "The Marijuana Run"

Journalism and special awards

style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Gordon Sinclair Award ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| Foster Hewitt Award
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valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Ricki Katz {{blue ribbon}} Susan Millican Don Anderson Morton Shulman Gerry Sperling \| valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Dave Hodge Don Chevrier Bob Cole
style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" \| John Drainie Award
valign="top" \| {{blue ribbon}} Norman Campbell

References

Category:1980 in Canadian television

ACTRA

Category:ACTRA Awards