The Toronto Film Critics Association have named their 2023 winners, led by THE ZONE OF INTEREST which was named Best Picture. The Awards are now in their 27th year.
The Awards Gala will be held early 2024 where winners of two prizes will be named: Rogers Best Canadian Film and Rogers Best Canadian Documentary. Each award is worth $50,000. Blackberry, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and SOLO for Best Canadian Film, and Rojek, Someone Lives Here and Swan Song for Best Canadian Documentary. The two runners up in each category will receive $5,000.
Winners are as follows:
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
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