One Battle After Another Declared Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has been declared Best Picture by the Toronto Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Performance for Benicio del Toro.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

BEST PICTURE

One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Hamnet, Sinners

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Oliver Laxe, Sirāt 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Sinners
Runners-up: Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Hamnet, No Other Choice

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Sirāt
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

R​ose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners; Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Nina Hoss, Hedda
Runners-up: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein; Amy Madigan, Weapons; Sean Penn, One Battle After Another; Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental Value

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story
Runners-up: Miles Caton, Sinners; Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

ALLAN KING BEST DOCUMENTARY

Come See Me in the Good Light
Runners-up: Orwell 2+2=5, The Tale of Silyan

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Endless Cookie
Runners-up: KPop Demon Hunters, Space Cadet

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Blue Heron
Runners-up: Eephus, Sorry Baby

ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM (to be announced March 3)

Blue Heron
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
The Shrouds

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A CANADIAN FILM

Joan Chen, Montreal My Beautiful
Runners-up: Deragh Campbell, Measures for a Funeral; Vincent Cassel, The Shrouds

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A CANADIAN FILM

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sweet Angel Baby
Runners-up: Charlotte Aubin, Montreal My Beautiful; Troy Kotsur, In Cold Light

ROGERS BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY (to be announced March 3)

Endless Cookie
Ghosts of the Sea
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

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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