Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 108

1KI ACTRA MMDS On April 14, the luminaries of Canadian radio and television will gather in the Hotel Toronto ballroom to honor 16 of their members for excellence in their endeavors in 1976. The ACTRA Awards dinner, with Pierre Berton, Barbara Frum, and Gordon Pinsent as hosts, will be carried on the CBC network. ACTRA is an abbreviation of Canadian Television and Radio Artists which lists over 4,800 members. The judging for the ACTRA Awards is done by 16 national judging panels with a total of 70 judges. In each category, the judges vote twice.

The first vote reduces the nominations to three finalists. The second vote selects the winners. The ballots are sent to a firm of chartered accountants and are secret until the names are read at the award ceremonies. The winner in each category is pre sented with a Nellie, a statuette created by Bill McElchran. The TVTimes front cover is a composite of the pictures of eight nominees who have been there during the past year.

Lack of space squeezed out Larry Solway and John Colicos. rrr Xv 'i. I i i i I I I i -i 1 i Elizabeth Shepherd was chosen because she appeared in The Marriage Circus and Beaverbrook, both of them nominated for best IV show ot tne year. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appeared in another show which is nominated in the same category: A Discussion With Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The show would have been impossible without him.

1 rAnracontc the mm. edy team of Wayne and Shuster whose auperspeciai series is a tumcnuci best variety performance in TV. Diane Stapley is nominatea tne same classification. Chapelle Jaffe -is nominated for the best acting performance in television for her lead role in Red Emma. She had a cameo role as Lord Beaverbrook's 1975 ACTRA AWARD WINERS Earle Grey Award: Jayne Eastwood Andrew Allan Award: Chris Wiggins Gordon Sinclair Award: Adrienne Clarkson and Warner Troyer Best Performance in a Continuing Role in a Television Program: Al Waxman Best Public Affairs Broadcaster In Television: John Harvard Best Variety Performance in Television: no award given Best Variety Performance in Radio: Max Ferguson and Allan McFee Best Dramatic Writer Television: Ted Allan for Lies My Father Told Me Best Dramatic Writer Radio: Harry Bruce Best Documentary Writer Television: Warner Troyer Best Documentary Writer Radio: Elizabeth Gray Foster Hewitt Award: Fred Sgambati Best News Broadcaster: Peter Kent Best Television Progam of the Year: Emily Carr Best Radio Program of the Year: Pro Nobis Peccatoribus first wife in Beaverbrook and appeared nM tUa fmni wivpr in hpr hriHnl frnwn.

Zoe Caldwell was Sara Bernhardt in 1 .1 1 sara, wnicn is nominaiea ior me ucsi television program of the year. Gordon Pinsent wrote and acted in A uitt to Last and is nominated in two catego ries: Best TV writer and best TV actor. Al Waxman and Fiona Reid ap peared together on the front cover of TVTimps and hoth are nominated for best performance in a continuing role sington. Front cover by Bruce Macaulay Warning: Health and Welfare Canada advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked-avoid inhaling. Av.

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