The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical categories were presented in a series of galas, collectively called Canadian Screen Week, in the days leading up to the main ceremony. At the main ceremony, the film '' It's Only the End of the World'' and the television series '' Orphan Black'' won the most awards in film and television categories, with six and nine awards, respectively.

Broadcast

The ceremony was hosted by

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."Lurching from boring to weird, Canadian Screen Awards did produce notable moments"
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'', March 13, 2017. His performance was not well received by critics;

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'' criticized Mandel's recurring joke of dubbing the awards the STDs – for "Screen, television, Digital" – in response to the fact that the awards still do not have an official short-form name in the manner of "Oscar" for the

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, while Norman Wilner of '' NOW'' criticized Mandel's "hacky crowd work and even hackier bits", concluding that "I'm sure this stuff kills at Casino Rama, but when you're supposed to be anchoring an awards show it just seems cheap and lazy.""Moving moments at this year's Screenies"
'' Now'', March 13, 2017. Both critics wrote that the broadcast's best moments came from various winners' moving and funny acceptance speeches, including Tatiana Maslany's emotional response to winning the award for Best Actress in a Film for '' The Other Half''; Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's moving speech about how honoured he was to win Best Actor in a Comedy Series for '' Kim's Convenience'', a series which celebrated the immigrant contribution to Canadian society; Christopher Plummer's grace and humility in accepting a lifetime achievement award; and

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's decision to accept her award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in character as

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from ''

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''. At the broadcast,

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announced that beginning in 2018, the academy's annual award for Science or Nature Documentary Program would be named the Rob Stewart Award in memory of documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart, who died in January 2017.

Film

Television

Programs

Actors

News and information

Sports

Craft awards

Directing

Music

Writing

Digital media

Multiple nominations and awards

Special awards

Several special awards were given:
'' Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television'', March 2017. *board of directors' Tribute: Helga Stephenson * Earle Grey Award:

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*Fan Choice Award:

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* Gordon Sinclair Award: Simcha Jacobovici *Icon Award: Just for Laughs *Lifetime Achievement Award: Christopher Plummer

References

External links

Canadian Screen Awards, 2017 nominees
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