The 15th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 2, 1986 to honour achievements in
Canadian
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television production in 1985. They were the final ACTRA Awards presented before the responsibility for organizing and presenting Canadian television awards was transferred from ACTRA to the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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; after this, ACTRA only presented awards in radio categories, until relaunching the ACTRA Awards program in the early 2000s as a series of regional production awards in various Canadian film and television production markets.
The ceremony was hosted by
Don Harron
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,
Pierre Berton
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,
Barbara Frum
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Personal life
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,
Gordon Pinsent
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,
Dave Broadfoot
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.
Due to overlapping eligibility periods, some of the nominees or winners at the 15th ACTRA Awards were also nominees or winners at the
1st Gemini Awards
The 1st Gemini Awards were held in Toronto on 4 December 1986 to honour achievements in Canadian television. Gémeaux Award, the French version of the Gemini Awards were held for the first time this year as well. The 1985 television miniseries '' ...
, which were presented in December 1986.
[Bill Taylor, "Producer may boycott Geminis". '']Toronto Star
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'', June 17, 1986.
Television
Radio
Journalism and special awards
References
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