Nomadland Named Best Film by Toronto Film Critics Association

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has been named Best Film by the Toronto Film Critics Association. The film also picked up awards for Best Director and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film
Nomadland
Runners-up: First Cow and Minari

Best Director
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runners-up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow and Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Runners-up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round

Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runners-up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Runners-up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal and Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runners-up: Yuh-jung Youn, Minari and Olivia Colman, The Father

Best Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Runners-up: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland and Darius Marder and Abraham Marder, Sound of Metal

Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers
Runners-up: Soul and The Willoughbys

Best Documentary Film
Collective
Runners-up: Crip Camp, David Byrne’s American Utopia, and Time

Best Foreign Language Film
Bacurau
Runners-up: Another Round and Beanpole

Best First Feature
The 40-Year-Old Version
Runners-up: The Father and Promising Young Woman

Jay Scott Prize (for emerging artist)
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall

The Clyde Gimour Award (for someone who has enriched the understanding and appreciation of film):
Jason Ryle

Emerging Critic Award
Mark Hanson and RoseColouredRayBans (tie)

Best Canadian Film nominees (winner announced March 9)
And the Birds Rained Down
Anne at 13,000 Ft.
White Lie

Jay Scott Prize for emerging artist
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall (Black Bodies, 2020; Haven, 2018)

Clyde Gimour Award
Jason Ryle


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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.

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