The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film .[1] $ 100,000, making it the largest arts award in Canada. Each year, two runners-up also receive $ 5,000. The award is funded and presented by Rogers Communications , which is a founding sponsor of the association's awards gala.[2] [3]
Unlike the other Toronto Film Critics Association awards, whose winners are announced in early December each year, the Best Canadian Film award only has its finalists announced at that time, and the winner of the award is then announced in a separate presentation in January of the following year.
Toronto Film Critics Poll [ ] Prior to the official launch of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 1997, film critic Wyndham Wise coordinated two polls of Toronto film critics in 1995 and 1996 through his magazine Take One
1995 [ ]
Category
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Rude Damon D'Oliveira , Karen King[4]
Double Happiness [5]
When Night Is Falling [5]
Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)[5]
Best Director
Clement Virgo , Rude [4]
Mina Shum , Double Happiness [5]
Charles Binamé , Eldorado [5]
Patricia Rozema , When Night Is Falling [5]
Best Actor
Maury Chaykin , Whale Music [4]
Clark Johnson , Rude [5]
Maurice Dean Wint , Rude [5]
Peter Williams , Soul Survivor [5]
Best Actress
Sandra Oh , Double Happiness [4]
Pascale Montpetit , Eldorado [5]
Pascale Bussières , Eldorado [5]
Tracy Wright , Wasaga [5]
Best Screenplay
Mina Shum , Double Happiness [4]
Clement Virgo , Rude [5]
Émile Gaudreault , Sylvie Bouchard and Michel Michaud, Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)[5]
Bruce McDonald , Don McKellar and John Frizzell , Dance Me Outside [5]
1996 [ ]
Category
Winners and nominees
Best Film[6]
Hard Core Logo
Crash
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Margaret's Museum
Curtis's Charm
Lilies
The Suburbanators
Screamers
Best Director[6]
Robert Lepage , The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Bruce McDonald , Hard Core Logo
David Cronenberg , Crash
David Wellington , Long Day's Journey into Night
Mort Ransen , Margaret's Museum
John L'Ecuyer , Curtis's Charm
John Greyson , Lilies
Gary Burns , The Suburbanators
Christian Duguay , Screamers
Peter Mettler , Picture of Light
Best Actor[6]
William Hutt , Long Day's Journey into Night
Callum Keith Rennie , Hard Core Logo
Hugh Dillon , Hard Core Logo
Lothaire Bluteau , The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Maurice Dean Wint , Curtis's Charm
Tom McCamus , Long Day's Journey into Night
Brent Carver , Lilies
Elias Koteas , Crash
James Spader , Crash
Clive Russell , Margaret's Museum
Best Actress[6]
Martha Henry , Long Day's Journey into Night
Helena Bonham Carter , Margaret's Museum
Kate Nelligan , Margaret's Museum
Martha Burns , Long Day's Journey into Night
Deborah Kara Unger , Crash
Mary Beth Rubens , The Michelle Apartments
Deanna Milligan ,
Tushka Bergen , Turning April
Kristin Scott Thomas , The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Holly Hunter , Crash
Best Screenplay[6]
, Hard Core Logo
Robert Lepage , The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
Gerald Wexler and Mort Ransen , Margaret's Museum
Eugene O'Neill , Long Day's Journey into Night
David Cronenberg , Crash
John L'Ecuyer , Curtis's Charm
Michel Marc Bouchard , Lilies
Gary Burns , The Suburbanators
Laurie Lynd and Daniel MacIvor , House
Dan O'Bannon and Miguel Tejada-Flores, Screamers
Best Documentary[6]
Picture of Light Peter Mettler
Project Grizzly Peter Lynch
Power — Magnus Isacsson
Toronto Film Critics Association [ ] 1990s [ ] 2000s [ ] 2010s [ ] 2020s [ ] References [ ]
^ "Rogers Best Canadian Film Award" . Toronto Film Critics Association . Retrieved 13 December 2015 .^ "Rogers Best Canadian Film Award rises to $100,000" . Toronto Film Critics Association . 27 November 2012. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014 .^ "Sarah Polley doc wins Toronto critics' $100K prize" . CBC News . 8 January 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013 .^ a b c d e Christopher Harris, "Magazines: Toronto Film Critics Poll". The Globe and Mail
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "The Toronto Film Critics' Poll". Take One
^ a b c d e f "The 2nd Annual Toronto Film Critics' Poll". Take One
^ Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail
^ "'Anthropocene' named best Canadian feature by Toronto Film Critics Association" . CityNews ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association" . The Hollywood Reporter
^ Pat Mullen, "Drive My Car Leads TFCA Award Winners" . That Shelf , January 16, 2022.