Winner for 1977
Finalists for 1977
- Emile Barolle - Gallery Director, Teura Maffei
- Edward Binder - Peter Upward and Friends
- David Campbell - Adrian Rawlins
- Reg Campbell - R. A. Dickson Esq.
- Judy Cassab - Paul Haefliger
- Kevin Connor - Robert Klippel (Winner: Archibald Prize 1977)
- Margery Dennis - Bruce Murphy, Q.C.
- Brian Dunlop - Professor Richard Spann
- Brian Dunlop - Peter Hastie
- Samuel Fullbrook - Frank Ciantar The Dentist
- Garran-Brown - Joanne Thew
- Phillip George - James Dibble
- Bernd Heinrich - Garry McDonald
- Nigel Hewitt - G. W. Burns
- Helen Hooper - Bert Deling I
- Geoff La Gerche - Clive's opening (Portrait of Clive Murray-White)
- Garth Legge - Mrs Garth Legge
- David Ryley Marshall - John S. Ashworth
- John Money - Self Portrait No. 2
- Garry Nichols - Garry McDonald
- Alan Oldfield - James Davenport
- Clifton Pugh - Something happened (Self portrait)
- John Rigby - Dr John Sullivan
- Martin Sharp - Her Majesty Edna the First
- Eric Smith - Self Portrait
- Ian Smith - Ray Hughes and Surround
- Joshua Smith - Yve Close
- Joshua Smith - Yve Close
- Lillian Sutherland - Salvatore Zofrea
- Noel Thurgate - Ivor
- Noel Thurgate - Jim Paterson
- Michael Winters - "Self portrait with the Written Word I"
- Ross Wolfe - Ian Hunter
- Geoff Woodward - Don Chipp
- Peter Zageris - Dr Jim Cairns
