An ACTRA Award is a Canadian prize given to members of the "Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists" for accomplishment in film, radio and television. First presented in 1972, the ACTRA awards were discontinued after 1986 but in honour of the union's 60th Anniversary, in 2003 they were resurrected in several of its branches across Canada. Canada is the second largest country in the world in land area, and the northern-most, occupying much of the North American land mass. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry. ... Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ... An American family watching television in the 1950s. ...

Formed in 1943, ACTRA is a national organization with a membership (2004) of 21,0000 professional performers working in the English-language recorded media in Canada. The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England. ...