2nd ACTRA Awards

The 2nd ACTRA Awards were presented on April 30, 1973 to honour achievements in Canadian television in 1972.^[1] 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.^[1]

2nd ACTRA Awards
Date	April 30, 1973
Hosted by	Pierre Berton
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Winners and nominees

Earle Grey Award	Gordon Sinclair Award
Gordon Pinsent, The Rowdyman[1] Jon Granik, Islam[2] Dawn Greenhalgh, Psychiatrist[2] Michael Kane, The Disposable Man[2] Henry Ramer, Here Come the Seventies[2] Deborah Turnbull, Peace of Utrecht[2]	Max Ferguson[1] Barbara Frum[2] Michael Magee[2]
Best Variety Performer	Best Public Affairs Broadcaster
Anne Murray[1] Julie Amato and Jack Duffy, Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour[2] Laurie Bower, The Laurie Bower Singers[2] Barbara Hamilton, Inside from the Outside[2] Wayne and Shuster[2]	Peter Gzowski, This Country in the Morning[1] Pierre Berton[2] Barbara Frum, As It Happens[2] Jack McGaw[2] Carole Taylor[2] Warner Troyer[2]
Best Dramatic Writer	Best Documentary Writer
Len Peterson, Trouble with Giants[1] Ron Kelly, Springhill[1] Grahame Woods, Strike[1]	Neil Copeland, Titanic: Six Decades of Controversy and The Oak Island Mystery: Fact or Fiction?[1] John David Hamilton, York-Scarboro Revisited 1972[1] William Whitehead, The Nature of Things[1]
John Drainie Award
Rupert Caplan[3]