9th ACTRA Awards

The 9th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 9, 1980.^[1] The ceremony was hosted by Dave Broadfoot.

Television

Best Television Program	Earle Grey Award
Drying Up the Streets^[1] Dieppe^[2] The Music of Man^[2]	Don Francks, Drying Up the Streets^[1] Brent Carver, Crossbar^[2] Bruno Gerussi, The Newcomers^[2]
Best Supporting Performer	Best New Performer
Paul Harding, A Man Called Intrepid Gerard Parkes, A Gift to Last^[2] Christopher Plummer, Riel^[2]	Sarah Torgov, Drying Up the Streets^[1] Megan Follows, Matt and Jenny^[2] Liliane Stilwell, Piaf^[2]
Best TV Variety Performance	Best Television Host or Interviewer
Burton Cummings, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main^[1] Salome Bey, Dream Weaver^[2] Toller Cranston, Dream Weaver^[2] Karen Kain, Karen Kain Requests the Pleasure^[2]	Brian Linehan, City Lights^[1] Larry Stout, Newsmagazine^[2] Patrick Watson, The Watson Report^[2]
Best Children's Television Program	Best Writing, Television Drama
Intergalactic Thanksgiving^[1] Matt and Jenny^[2] The Stowaway^[2]	Ralph L. Thomas and Roy MacGregor, Every Person Is Guilty^[1] Roy Moore, Riel^[2] Gordon Pinsent, A Gift to Last^[2]
Best Writing, Television Comedy/Variety	Best Writing, Television Public Affairs
Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Kate Lonsdale and Ted Lonsdale, Wayne and Shuster^[1] John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis and Dave Thomas, Second City Television^[2] Stan Jacobson, Rick Moranis and Paul Perlove, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main^[2]	*Barbara Young, Newsday: "Penny Kitchen"^[1] Yehudi Menuhin and Charles Weir, The Music of Man: "Parting of the Ways"^[2] Dini Petty, Incest: Scandal in the Family*^[2]

Radio

Best Radio Program	Best Radio Host or Interviewer
Sunday Morning: "Aftermath of Jonestown"^[1] Ideas: "Search for Tutankhamun"^[2] The Pat Lowther Poem^[2]	Barbara Frum and Alan Maitland, As It Happens^[1] Lynne Gordon, Israel^[2] Don Harron, Morningside^[2]
Best Radio Actor	Best Writing, Radio Drama
Kate Reid, Grasshopper Hill^[1] Douglas Rain, Coming Through Slaughter^[2] Henry Ramer, Grasshopper Hill^[2]	Betty Lambert, Grasshopper Hill^[1] Silver Donald Cameron, The Sisters^[2] Sheldon Rosen, Ned and Jack^[2]
Best Writing, Radio Public Affairs
*Terence McKenna, Sunday Morning: "Aftermath of Jonestown"^[1] Tom Keenan and Mary McGuire, Alberta Towns^[2] Stuart McLean, Sunday Morning*: "The Marijuana Run"^[2]

Journalism and special awards

Gordon Sinclair Award	Foster Hewitt Award
Ricki Katz^[1] Susan Millican^[1] Don Anderson^[2] Morton Shulman^[2] Gerry Sperling^[2]	Dave Hodge^[1] Don Chevrier^[2] Bob Cole^[2]
John Drainie Award
Norman Campbell^[1]

References

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