The 28th Canadian Film Awards were held on November 20, 1977 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony was hosted by actor Gordon Pinsent.

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.

Films

Feature Film Craft Awards

Non-Feature Craft Awards
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 George Clutesi - Dreamspeaker
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 Marina Dimakopoulos - Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (NFB)
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 Jacques Hubert - Dreamspeaker
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 Evelyn Roth - Woven in Time (NFB)
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 Tamara Sale, Dave Geddes, Ron Orieux and Jeff Mart - Spartree
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 Claude Jutra - Dreamspeaker
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 Mary Gross - Potters at Work (Marty Gross Film Productions)
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 Raymond Hall - Spartree
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 Cam Hubert - Dreamspeaker
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 Donald Brittain - Henry Ford's America
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 Fred Easton, Chris Aikenhead and Michael Chechik - Greenpeace: Voyage to Save the Whales
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 Barry Jones - Spartree
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 Jean Cousineau - Dreamspeaker 
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Special AwardsRalph L. Thomas: "for increasing the stature of film drama on television in Canada".
Wendy Michener Award: Zale Dalen - "for outstanding artistic achievement in Skip Tracer".
Golden Reel Award: Lawrence Hertzog - Why Shoot the Teacher? - "for highest-grossing film".
John Grierson Award: Fernand Dansereau''' - "for outstanding contributions to Canadian cinema".

References

Canadian
1977 in Canadian cinema
Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978)