#FIRSTLOOK: “NICKEL BOYS” AMONG TOP WINNERS AT 2024 TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS

NICKEL BOYS took top honours at the 2024 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards today. The RaMell Ross historical drama which looks at abuse at a reform school through the eyes of two young African-American men, also won Best Adapted Screenplay and Director. The Film recently received Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nominations as well, and will see a release on Prime Video Canada, following a theatrical run.

The actual awards gala is set to take place in January, where winners of the Rogers Best Canadian Feature and Documentary awards will be named, each worth $50k.

Winners and nominees for the two awards named, are as follows:

Best Picture
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 International Feature
Winner: ​All We Imagine As Light

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

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

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

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

(Photo/video credit: Amazon/MGM Studios)