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Aftersun Named Best Film by Toronto Film Critics Association

   January 9, 2023

Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun has been named Best Picture by the Toronto Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Actor for Paul Mescal, and Best First Feature.

Full list of winners below.

Best Film
Aftersun

Best Director
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best Actor
Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, TÁR

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress
Keke Palmer, Nope

Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Animated Film
Turning Red

Best Documentary Film
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Best Foreign Language Film
Saint Omer

Best First Feature 
Aftersun

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.