28th Canadian Film Awards

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28th Canadian Film Awards
DateNovember 20, 1977
Location Hilton Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
Hosted by Gordon Pinsent
Highlights
Most nominations One Man
Best Motion Picture J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin, photographe)
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The 28th Canadian Film Awards were held on November 20, 1977 to honour achievements in Canadian film. [1] The ceremony was hosted by actor Gordon Pinsent.

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For this year's awards, 143 films were submitted, including 11 features, 78 documentaries and 23 TV dramas. Also, the organizing committee announced a new selection process; films would now be assessed through secret ballot. This eliminated the selection practice using the nominating pre-selection committee and the international jury for the final selection. Now, a new jury group composed of one representative from each member organization chose four nominees in each category from a first ballot, then selected the winners from that group.

Despite the 1976 agreement that Quebec would organize the awards every other year, there were no Francophones on this year's organizing committee. CTV was meant to broadcast the ceremony but withdrew, so the CBC aired a one-hour special called All About the Canadian Film Awards. [2]

Films

Best Feature Film Best Theatrical Short
Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes
Best Animated Film Best TV Drama

Feature Film Craft Awards

Best Performance by an Actor Best Performance by an Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Direction Best Music Score
Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Overall Sound

Non-Feature Craft Awards

Performance by a Lead Actor Performance by a Lead Actress
Supporting Actor or ActressArt Direction
  • Blueribbon icon.png Evelyn Roth - Woven in Time (NFB) [31]
CinematographyBest Direction
Film EditingSound Editing
  • Blueribbon icon.png Mary Gross - Potters at Work (Marty Gross Film Productions) [33]
ScreenplayNon-Dramatic Script
Sound RecordingSound Re-recording
  • Blueribbon icon.png Fred Easton, Chris Aikenhead and Michael Chechik - Greenpeace: Voyage to Save the Whales
Music Score

Special Awards

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