Toronto Film Critics Association 2010 Awards

The 14th annual TFCA awards have been announced and it's feeling like this year is going to be a very Social Network-centric awards season as they are featured prominently here. Also starting to see the True Grit love and I'm really kicking myself for not seeing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives yet as it keeps on popping up on lists, as it is here under foreign-language film. I do like how they also include runner's up, because that makes for more films to add to the to see list!

The awards themselves will be presented at a gala dinner at Toronto’s Nota Bene restaurant on January 12, 2011, hosted by Cameron Bailey. At that time they will name the winner of the Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award, the three films nominated are: Incendies, Splice and Trigger.

BEST PICTURE
The Social Network
Runners-up:
Black Swan
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

BEST ACTOR
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Runners-up:
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Armie Hammer, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Runners-up:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Melissa Leo, The Fighter

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Christopher Nolan, Inception

BEST SCREENPLAY
The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Runners-up:
The King’s Speech, written by David Seidler
True Grit, written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen based on the novel by Charles Portis

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Exit Through the Gift Shop, directed by Banksy
Runners-up:
Get Low, directed by Aaron Schneider
Monsters, directed by Gareth Edwards

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
How to Train Your Dragon
Runners-up:
Despicable Me
Toy Story 3

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Runners-up:
Mother
Of Gods and Men

ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Runners-up:
Inside Job
Marwencol

JAY SCOTT PRIZE for emerging talent
Daniel Cockburn

SPECIAL CITATION
To Bruce McDonald who directed four movies in 2010: This Movie is Broken, Trigger, Music from the Big House and Hard Core Logo 2.

ROGERS CANADIAN FILM AWARD NOMINEES
Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve
Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali
Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2009

The Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2009 have been announced and a few surprizes here, including ties - both best picture and best screenplay resulted in a tie! Lots of love for Hunger, a film I've not seen on many other year end lists and also lots of for Inglourious Basterds. Here are the results, including runner ups!

BEST PICTURE (tie)
Hunger
Inglourious Basterds
Runner Up: The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage - The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Runners-up:
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Michael Fassbender - Hunger
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Viggo Mortensen - The Road

BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Runners-up:
Arta Dobroshi - Le Silence de Lorna
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Runners-up:
Christian McKay - Me & Orson Welles
Timothy Olyphant - A Perfect Getaway

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Runners-up:
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Mo’nique - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Runners-up:
Steve McQueen - Hunger
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SCREENPLAY (TIE)
Inglourious Basterds - written by Quentin Tarantino
Up in the Air - written by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the novel by Walter Kirn
Runner-up:
A Serious Man - written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Hunger - directed by Steve McQueen
Runners-up:
District 9 - directed by Neill Blomkamp
(500) Days of Summer - directed by Marc Webb

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Runners-up:
Coraline
Up

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The White Ribbon
Runners-up:
Police, Adjective
Summer Hours

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Cove
Runners-up:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Beaches of Agnes

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2008 Update

The Toronto Film Critics announced their awards back in December 2008, but left us in suspense about the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award until quite recently. The winner is: My Winnipeg, directed by Guy Maddin. The award was presented on January 6, 2009 in Toronto. A mighty fine choice! Continental: A Film Without Guns (dir: Stéphane Lafleur) and Up the Yangtze (dir: Yung Chang) are the other nominated films.

Toronto Film Critics 2008 Awards

The Toronto Film Critics have announced their 2008 awards with Rachel Getting Married as the big winner winning 3 awards (Jonathan Demme for Director, Rosemarie DeWitt for Supporting Performance Female and Jenny Lumet for Best Screenplay) and Wendy and Lucy picking up 2 awards (Best Picture and Michelle Williams for Best Performance, Female). I do love that Jean-Claude Van Damme was a runner up for Best Performance, Male in JCVD but the award goes to Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.

There is one more award announced, the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, which will be announced at the presentation of all of the awards on January 6, 2009 in Toronto. The three pictures nominated for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award are: Continental: A Film Without Guns (dir: Stéphane Lafleur) My Winnipeg (dir: Guy Maddin) and Up the Yangtze (dir: Yung Chang). Wow, that will be a tough call - all three films are excellent.

Update January 7, 2009: Rogers Best Canadian Film Award goes to: My Winnipeg (dir: Guy Maddin)

Congratulations to all the winners!

BEST PICTURE
Wendy and Lucy
Runners-up:
Rachel Getting Married
WALL*E (Disney/Pixar)

BEST PERFORMANCE, MALE
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up:
Sean Penn, Milk
Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD

BEST PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Runners-up:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep, Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE, MALE
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Runners-up:
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr, Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE, FEMALE
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Andrew Stanton, WALL*E

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Ballast, directed by Lance Hammer
Runners-up:
The Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin
Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WALL*E
Runners-up:
Kung-Fu Panda
Persepolis
Waltz with Bashir

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Let the Right One In
Runners-up:
A Christmas Tale
The Class
I’ve Loved You So Long

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Man on Wire
Runners-up:
Standard Operating Procedure
Up the Yangtze

Curious as to which films qualify?
"Under the TFCA’s new guidelines, contenders eligible for the awards include films released in Canada in 2008 plus films that qualify for the 2008 Oscars and have Canadian distribution scheduled by the end of February, 2009." (source)