Canadian Film Award - Film of the Year Winners
The films on this list have all won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year.
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- DirectorF.R. CrawleyStarsGeorge GormanThe Tsimshian legend of a blind old medicine man and the origin of the distinctive white pattern on the neck of the loon.
- DirectorF.R. CrawleyStarsFrank PeddieGordon PinsentA portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.
- DirectorRené DelacroixGratien GélinasStarsFred BarryMonique MillerDenise PelletierAfter returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
- DirectorChristopher ChapmanA documentary film on the subtle and changing seasons through the passing year in one small part of Ontario.
- DirectorMorten ParkerStarsJohn DrainieMichael BatesLloyd BochnerThe story of the founding, by Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson, of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, which opened in July of 1953 with a performance of "Richard III" starring Alec Guinness. Expanding in the years since to include many other great works of the theatre other than Shakespeare, it is now known simply as the Stratford Festival of Canada and is the largest classical repertory theatre in North America.
- DirectorWolf KoenigColin LowStarsPierre BertonAuthor Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- DirectorRoman KroitorColin LowStarsDonald MacRaeDouglas RainA journey through the universe as it would appear to a space traveler beginning at the David Dunlap Observatory on Earth.
- DirectorWolf KoenigRoman KroitorStarsPaul AnkaJules PodellA documentary chronicling the career of teen singing star Paul Anka (the title is taken from one of his hit songs).
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsLéopold TremblayAlexis TremblayAbel HarveyAt the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
- DirectorBeryl FoxStarsBernard FallThai NguyenA documentary on the war in South Vietnam shot entirely on location. There is no narration and no use of archive footage. The participants speak for themselves. The filmmakers spend time with units from many services: army, tanks, marines, ARVN, air cavalry. They accompany an air force napalm and strafing attack on a Viet Cong bunker complex. There are many scenes both of Saigon streets and of peasant village life. Soldiers speak of their experiences and their mission to fight Communism in Vietnam. One American informant says that the Vietnamese peasant is not interested in ideology, but in social justice, a piece of land, fair taxation, and to be left alone. Some interviews are used as voice-over. Participants, American and Vietnamese, are very natural, with little or no posturing for the camera. There are scenes of dead Viet Cong, and one showing a VC suspect being drowned to aid interrogation.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsMartin FischerChronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist's experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.
- DirectorChristopher ChapmanA multi-image large-format film showcasing life in Ontario without narration and dialogue.
- DirectorPeter PearsonStarsChris WigginsKate ReidMargot KidderA poor bush worker refuses to sacrifice his dignity to provide his family with a better life.
- DirectorBretislav PojarStarsSevern DardenA scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsRichard DreyfussMicheline LanctôtJack WardenIn a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsHélène LoiselleJean LapointeGuy ProvostA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.