One Battle After Another Wins In Toronto

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Toronto Film Critics Association has announced its picks for the best of 2025. (It’s so cute that Canada has an opinion.) Here they are:

Best Film
Winner: One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Sinners & Hamnet

Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Ryan Coogler – Sinners & Oliver Laxe – Sirāt

Best Lead Performance
Winners: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You & Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Runners-up: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet, Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another, Michael B. Jordan – Sinners & Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Lead Performance In A Canadian Film
Winner: Joan Chen – Montreal My Beautiful
Runners-up: Deragh Campbell – Measures for a Funeral & Vincent Cassel – The Shrouds

Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another & Nina Hoss – Hedda
Runners-up: Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein, Amy Madigan – Weapons, Sean Penn – One Battle After Another & Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Performance In A Canadian Film
Winner: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers – Sweet Angel Baby
Runners-up: Charlotte Aubin – Montreal My Beautiful & Troy Kotsur – In Cold Light

Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story
Runners-up: Miles Caton – Sinners & Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Sinners
Runners-up: Marty Supreme & Sentimental Value

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Hamnet & No Other Choice

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Sirāt
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident & The Secret Agent

Allan King Best Documentary
Winner: Come See Me in the Good Light
Runners-up: Orwell 2+2=5 & The Tale of Silyan

Best Animated Feature
Winner: Endless Cookie
Runners-up: KPop Demon Hunters & Space Cadet

Best First Feature
Best First Feature: Blue Heron
Runners-up: Eephus & Sorry Baby

Nickels Boys Wins In Toronto

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Toronto Film Critics Association has announced their picks for the best films of 2024!

Best Film
Winner: Nickel Boys

Best Director
Winner: RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: All We Imagine As Light

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Nickel Boys

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: All We Imagine As Light

Best Performance In A Canadian Film
Winner: Félix-Antoine Duval – Shepherds

Best Lead Performance
Winners: Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths & Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Yura Borisov – Anora & Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing

Allan King Best Documentary
Winner: Dahomey

Best Animated Feature
Winner: Flow

Best First Feature
Winner: Woman of the Hour – Directed by Anna Kendrick

Rogers Best Canadian Film
Rumours
Shepherds
Universal Language

Rogers Best Canadian Documentary
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Yintah
Your Tomorrow

Special Citation: No Other Land

Special Citation: Serena Whitney and The Revue Film Society

The Toronto Film Critics Association Named The Zone of Interest The Best Of 2023

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Canada has spoken! Today, the Toronto Film Critics Association named their picks for the best of 2023!

Best Film
Winner: The Zone Of Interest
Runners-Up: All of Us Strangers & Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Director
Winner: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest
Runners-Up: Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon & Justine Triet – Anatomy Of A Fall

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Barbie
Runners-Up: Anatomy Of A Fall & Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon
Runners-Up: All of Us Strangers & Poor Things

Best Lead Performance
Winners: Sandra Hüller – Anatomy Of A Fall & Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runners-Up: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers, Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers, Emma Stone – Poor Things & Kôji Yakusho – Perfect Days

Best First Feature
Winner: Rye Lane
Runners-Up: American Fiction & Past Lives

Allan King Best Documentary
Winner: 20 Days in Mariupol
Runners-Up: The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters & Swan Song

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Fallen Leaves
Runners-Up: Anatomy Of A Fall & The Zone Of Interest

Best Animated Feature
Winner: Robot Dreams
Runners-Up: The Boy and the Heron & Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Ryan Gosling – Barbie & Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runners-Up: Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon, Robert Downey, Jr. – Oppenheimer, Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry & Charles Melton – May December

Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: Teyana Taylor – A Thousand And One
Runners-Up: Charles Melton – May December & Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Best Performance In A Canadian Film
Winner: Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
Runners-Up: Jay Baruchel – BlackBerry & Théodore Pellerin – Solo

O Canada! Aftersun win in Toronto!

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Love you, Canada!

The Toronto Film Critics Association has named their picks for the best of 2023!

And here they are:

Best Film
Winner: AFTERSUN

Best Director
Winner: Charlotte Wells – AFTERSUN

Best Screenplay
Winner: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Best Actress
Winner: Cate Blanchett in TÁR

Best Actor
Winner: Paul Mescal in AFTERSUN

Best First Feature
Winner: AFTERSUN

Best Documentary
Winner: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: SAINT OMER

Best Animated Feature
Winner: TURNING RED

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Keke Palmer in NOPE

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ke Huy Quan in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Drive My Car Wins in Toronto!

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Earlier today, the Toronto Film Critics Association named Drive My Car as the best film of 2021!

Here are all the winners from the hometown of Degrassi:

Best Film
Winner: DRIVE MY CAR
Runners Up: LICORICE PIZZA & THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Director
Winner: Jane Campion – THE POWER OF THE DOG
Runners Up: Ryusuke Hamaguchi – DRIVE MY CAR & Denis Villeneuve – DUNE

Best Screenplay
Winner: DRIVE MY CAR
Runners Up: LICORICE PIZZA & THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Actress
Winner: Olivia Colman – THE LOST DAUGHTER
Runners Up: Penelope Cruz – PARALLEL MOTHERS & Kristen Stewart – SPENCER

Best Actor
Winner: Denzel Washington – THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Runners Up: Benedict Cumerbatch – THE POWER OF THE DOG & Andrew Garfield – TICK, TICK…BOOM!

Best First Feature
Winner: THE LOST DAUGHTER
Runners Up: PASSING, PIG & SHIVA BABY

Best Documentary
Winner: SUMMER OF SOUL
Runners Up: FLEE & THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: DRIVE MY CAR
Runners Up: PETITE MAMAN & THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Best Animated Feature
Winner: FLEE
Runners Up: ENCANTO & THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley – THE LOST DAUGHTER
Runners Up: Kirsten Dunst – THE POWER OF THE DOG & Ruth Negga – PASSING

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Bradley Cooper – LICORICE PIZZA
Runners Up: Ciarán Hinds – BELFAST & Kodi Smit-McPhee – THE POWER OF THE DOG

The Toronto Film Critics Association Honors Nomadland

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Lisa Marie Bowman

They love Nomadland, even in Canada!

The Toronto Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2020 yesterday and Noamdland picked up another best picture prize. Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand were also, once again, honored. Daniel Kaluuya, who has been coming on strong in recent days, picked up Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah, defeating former front runners Paul Raci and Leslie Odom Jr.

Here are the winners from Toronto:

Best Film
Winner: Nomadland
Runners Up: First Cow & Minari

Best Director
Winner: Chloe Zhao – Nomadland
Runners Up: Lee Isaac Chung – Minari & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Best Screenplay
Winner: Minari
Runners Up: Nomadland & Sound of Metal

Best Actress
Winner: Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Runners Up: Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom & Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Actor
Winner: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Runners Up: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom & Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round

Best First Feature
Winner: The Forty-Year-Old-Version
Runners Up: The Father & Promising Young Woman

Best Documentary
Winner: Collective
Runners Up: Crip Camp, David Byrne’s American Utopia & Time

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Bacurau
Runners Up: Another Round & Beanpole

Best Animated Feature
Winner: Wolfwalkers
Runners Up: Soul & The Willoughbys

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runners Up: Youn Yuh-jung – Minari & Olivia Colman – The Father

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas And The Black Messiah
Runners Up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal & Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami

The Toronto Film Critics Association Announced Their Picks For The Best of 2019

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Canada has spoken!

Or, at least, one city in Canada has spoken. On Sunday, the Toronto Film Critics Association named Parasite the best film of 2019. Here’s a full list of the winners at Toronto:

Best Picture

“PARASITE”

Best Foreign Language Film

“PARASITE”

Best Director

BONG JOON-HO, “PARASITE”

Best Actress

LUPITA NYONG’O – “US”

Best Actor

ADAM DRIVER – “MARRIAGE STORY”

Best Supporting Actress

LAURA DERN – “MARRIAGE STORY”

Best Supporting Actor

BRAD PITT – “ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD”

Best Documentary Feature

“AMERICAN FACTORY”

Best Animated Feature

“MISSING LINK”

Best First Feature

“BOOKSMART”

Best Screenplay

“THE IRISHMAN”

Love you, Canada!

The Toronto Film Critics Association Honors ROMA!

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The word out of Canada is that, earlier today, the Toronto Film Critics Association met and picked ROMA as the best film of 2018! Just like the L.A. Critics, Toronto picked Steven Yeun for best supporting actor, for his work in Burning.

Here’s a full list of the winners in Toronto!

Best Picture: ROMA
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón (ROMA)
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Best Actress: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Best Supporting Actor: Steven Yeun (Burning)
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Screenplay: The Favourite and First Reformed (tie)
Best Documentary: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Animated Feature: Isle of Dogs
Best Foreign Language Film: Burning
Best First Feature: Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You)

Love you, Canada!

O Canada! The Florida Project Wins in Toronto!

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Yesterday, our friends in Toronto (we love you, Canada!) named their picks for the best of 2017! And who did the Toronto Film Critics Association select? Check out below to find out!

Best Picture: The Florida Project
Best Director: Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Best Male Performance: Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Best Female Performance: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Best Male Supporting Performance: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Best Female Supporting Performance: Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original): Get Out
Best First Feature: Get Out
Best Animated Feature: The Breadwinner
Best Documentary: Faces Places
Best Foreign Film: The Square

O Canada! Moonlight Wins In Toronto!

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Oh wow! I’ve been kind of busy for the last few days so I missed a lot of precursor awards! I’m going to try to get caught up on them tonight (especially since the Golden Globe nominations are due to be announced on Monday morning).

Let’s start out with the Toronto Film Critics Association! They announced their picks for the best of 2016 earlier today. It’s another victory for Moonlight!

Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Director: Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann
Best Actor: Adam Driver, Paterson
Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Toni Erdmann
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Best Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Best Animated Feature: Zootopia
Best Documentary: Cameraperson
Best First Feature: The Witch
Best Foreign Language Film: Toni Erdmann
Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award: Alanis Obomsawin