title: 2nd ACTRA Awards
text: # 2nd ACTRA Awards
  
  The 2nd ACTRA Awards were presented on April 30, 1973 to honour achievements in Canadian television in 1972. 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.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  | Earle Grey Award | Gordon Sinclair Award |
  | - | - |
  | Gordon Pinsent, The Rowdyman Jon Granik, Islam Dawn Greenhalgh, Psychiatrist Michael Kane, The Disposable Man Henry Ramer, Here Come the Seventies Deborah Turnbull, Peace of Utrecht | Max Ferguson Barbara Frum Michael Magee |
  | Best Variety Performer | Best Public Affairs Broadcaster |
  | Anne Murray Julie Amato and Jack Duffy, Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour Laurie Bower, The Laurie Bower Singers Barbara Hamilton, Inside from the Outside Wayne and Shuster | Peter Gzowski, This Country in the Morning Pierre Berton Barbara Frum, As It Happens Jack McGaw Carole Taylor Warner Troyer |
  | Best Dramatic Writer | Best Documentary Writer |
  | Len Peterson, Trouble with Giants Ron Kelly, Springhill Grahame Woods, Strike | Neil Copeland, Titanic: Six Decades of Controversy and The Oak Island Mystery: Fact or Fiction? John David Hamilton, York-Scarboro Revisited 1972 William Whitehead, The Nature of Things |
  | John Drainie Award |
  | Rupert Caplan |
  