Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay explained

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
1999	Charlie Kaufman	Being John Malkovich	^[1]
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Magnolia
		American Beauty

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2000	Kenneth Lonergan	You Can Count on Me	^[2]
	After Life
2001	Christopher Nolan	Memento	^[3]
	The Royal Tenenbaums
	Ghost World
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation.	^[4]
	Punch-Drunk Love
	The Hours
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	^[5]
	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions
2004	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	^[6]
2005	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale	^[7]
2006	Peter Morgan	The Queen	^[8]
	Babel
	The Departed
2007	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men	^[9]
	Juno
	Michael Clayton
2008	Jenny Lumet	Rachel Getting Married	^[10]
	Frost/Nixon
	Doubt
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds	^[11]
	Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner	Up in the Air
	A Serious Man

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2010	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network	^[12]
	True Grit
	The King's Speech
2011	Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin	Moneyball	^[13]
	The Tree of Life
	The Descendants
2012	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master	^[14]
	Zero Dark Thirty
	Lincoln
2013	Spike Jonze	Her	^[15]
	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Before Midnight
2014	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel	^[16]
	Inherent Vice
	Boyhood
2015	Adam McKay, Charles Randolph	The Big Short	^[17]
	Anomalisa
	Carol
	Spotlight
2016	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea	^[18]
	Toni Erdmann
	Moonlight
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out	^[19]
	Lady Bird
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018	Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara	The Favourite	^[20]
	Paul Schrader	First Reformed
		Roma
2019	Steven Zaillian	The Irishman	^[21]
	Marriage Story
	Parasite

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2020	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari	^[22]
		Sound of Metal
		Nomadland
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe	Drive My Car	^[23]
		Licorice Pizza
		The Power of the Dog
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	^[24]
		Tár
		Women Talking

Original Screenplay

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
	Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach	Barbie	^[25]
		Anatomy of a Fall
		Past Lives

Adapted Screenplay

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
	Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
		All of Us Strangers
		Poor Things

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners

Notes and References

1. "Toronto critics pick Magnolia as best film of 1999 Yet-unreleased second picture from director of Boogie Nights follows linked stories of characters in San Fernando Valley". The Globe and Mail, December 17, 1999.
2. Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star, December 21, 2000.
3. "Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald, December 20, 2001.
4. "Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 2022.
5. "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record, December 18, 2003.
6. "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star, December 17, 2004.
7. "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star, December 22, 2005.
8. Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
9. Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun, December 19, 2007.
10. Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star, December 17, 2008.
11. "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record, December 17, 2009.
12. [Peter Knegt]
13. [Brian D. Johnson]
14. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
15. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star, December 17, 2013.
16. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now, December 16, 2014.
17. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily, December 14, 2015.
18. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now, December 12, 2016.
19. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
20. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada, December 10, 2018.
21. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now, December 9, 2019.
22. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
23. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada, January 16, 2022.
24. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View, January 8, 2023.
25. Erik Anderson, "Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director". AwardsWatch, December 17, 2023.