5th Canadian Screen Awards
| 5th Canadian Screen Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 12, 2017 |
| Location | Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto |
| Hosted by | Howie Mandel |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Film: It's Only the End of the World (6) TV: Orphan Black (9) |
| Most nominations | Film: It's Only the End of the World (9) TV: Orphan Black (14) |
| Best Motion Picture | It's Only the End of the World |
| Best Dramatic Series | Orphan Black |
| Best Comedy Series | Letterkenny |
| Television/Radio coverage | |
| Network | CBC |
| Produced by | Barry Avrich |
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 Canadian Screen Week galas over the week before the main ceremony. At the main ceremony, the film It's Only the End of the World and TV series Orphan Black won the most awards in film and television categories, with six and nine awards, respectively.
The ceremony was hosted by Howie Mandel. His performance was not well received by critics. Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail 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 Academy Awards, 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."
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; Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's moving speech about how honoured he was to win for a series which celebrated the immigrant contribution to Canadian society; Christopher Plummer's grace and humility in accepting a lifetime achievement award; and Catherine O'Hara's decision to accept her award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in character as Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek.
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