Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film explained

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

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
1997	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	^[1]
Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
The Ice Storm	Ang Lee
L.A. Confidential
Titanic
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	^[2]
The Celebration
Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
Happiness	Todd Solondz
Out of Sight	Steven Soderbergh
1999	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	^[3]
Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Ang Lee	^[4]
Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
2001	Memento	Christopher Nolan	^[5]
Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
2002	Adaptation.	Spike Jonze	^[6]
Punch-Drunk Love
Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	^[7]
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne	^[8]
2005	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg	^[9]
2006	The Queen	Stephen Frears	^[10]
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	^[11]
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	Zodiac	David Fincher
2008	Wendy and Lucy	Kelly Reichardt	^[12]
	Rachel Getting Married	Jonathan Demme
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009	Hunger	Steve McQueen	^[13]
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher	^[14]
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	^[15]
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
2012	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	^[16]
	Amour	Michael Haneke
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	^[17]
	Her	Spike Jonze
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	^[18]
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson
2015	Carol	Todd Haynes	^[19]
		George Miller
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	^[20]
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Toni Erdmann	Maren Ade
2017	The Florida Project	Sean Baker	^[21]
	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	^[22]
	Burning	Lee Chang-dong
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	^[23]
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	^[24]
	First Cow	Kelly Reichardt
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
2021	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	^[25]
	Licorice Pizza
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
2022	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells	^[26]
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley
2023	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	^[27]
	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners

Notes and References

1. Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail, January 15, 1998.
2. "War movies are the big winners". Hamilton Spectator, December 18, 1998.
3. "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.
4. Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star, December 21, 2000.
5. "Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald, December 20, 2001.
6. "Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 2022.
7. "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record, December 18, 2003.
8. "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star, December 17, 2004.
9. "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star, December 22, 2005.
10. Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
11. Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun, December 19, 2007.
12. Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star, December 17, 2008.
13. "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record, December 17, 2009.
14. [Peter Knegt]
15. [Brian D. Johnson]
16. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
17. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star, December 17, 2013.
18. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now, December 16, 2014.
19. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily, December 14, 2015.
20. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now, December 12, 2016.
21. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
22. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada, December 10, 2018.
23. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now, December 9, 2019.
24. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
25. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada, January 16, 2022.
26. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View, January 8, 2023.
27. https://awardswatch.com/toronto-film-critics-association-tfca-awards-the-zone-of-interest-wins-best-picture-director/ AwardsWatch - Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director