Toronto Film Critics Association Announces 2022 winners.
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 12, 2022 Toronto Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Award Winners Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun wins Best Picture, Best Director, Best First Feature, and Best Actor for Paul Mescal Brother, Crimes of the Future, and Riceboy Sleeps compete for Rogers Best Canadian Film Award and $100,000 prize. TORONTO – Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun took four top awards from the Toronto Film Critics Association, in a crowded field of favourites that included Everything Everywhere All at Oncefrom Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known as The Daniels, and Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. Aftersun, a film with themes of memory, regrets and love, set during a bonding father-daughter resort vacation, took honours for Best Picture, Best First Feature, Best Director for Wells, and Best Actor for Paul Mescal. Meanwhile, though The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Onceand Sarah Polley’s Women Talking dominated nominations with five and four respectively, they produced one win between them. Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Ke Huy Quan earned Best Supporting Actor. Cate Blanchett was named Best Actress for Tár, Todd Field’s psychological drama about a charismatic, world-famous orchestra conductor who’s manipulative and controlling behavior leads to her personal and professional downfall. And Keke Palmer won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jordan Peele’s Nope. The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s film set on a quiet island during the 1920s Irish Civil war, won Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two longtime friends whose relationship is severed for no obvious reason. Best International Film went to Saint Omer, Alice Diop’s Medea-themed legal drama about a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her toddler. The city itself took the spotlight with a Best Animated Film award for Pixar’s Turning Red, directed by Toronto’s Domee Shi. Shi set her teen coming-of-age movie in her hometown of Toronto. And the Allan King Documentary Film Award went to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras. It follows the artist Nan Goldin, a powerful activist against the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical company is considered a major spreader of the opioid epidemic, and it traces her life and experience from bohemian New York artist to fame, addiction and activism. The awards were voted on by TFCA members at a meeting on Sunday, January 8, 2023. The membership has also chosen the three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award: Brother,directed by Clement Virgo, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, and Riceboy Sleeps, directed by Anthony Shim. The winner of the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award will be named at the 26th TFCA Awards Gala, to be held in Toronto at the Omni King Edward Hotel on March 6. The honour carries a record-setting $100,000 cash prize, the richest film award in the country, courtesy of Rogers. The runners-up will each receive $5,000. “The Toronto Film Critics Association vote is often a nail-biter, but this year’s results were as close as they come,” said Johanna Schneller, TFCA president. “In most categories, only a few votes separated our top three candidates. Our eleven winners came from eight different films, and excitingly, for the first time, the majority of those were films directed by women: Laura Poitras for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Domee Shi for Turning Red, Alice Diop for Saint Omer, and a major sweep for Aftersun’s Charlotte Wells. One thing we all agree on: The intimate, layered Aftersun is the debut of a thrilling new talent.” Yet to be announced are the 2022 recipients of the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist and the Company 3 TFCA Luminary Award. The winner of the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist will be presented with a $10,000 cheque at the gala. A pay-it-forward award, the Company 3 TFCA Luminary Award winner will choose a filmmaker to be the recipient of $50,000 worth of services. The TFCA is extremely grateful to founding sponsor Rogers Communications for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, to returning sponsors Labatt for the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist, to Netflix as the Dinner sponsor, to Air Canada as Official Airline and to Company3 as the Company3 TFCA Luminary Award sponsor. The TFCA welcomes new sponsor Universal Pictures Canada as the Cocktail Reception sponsor and Prime Video as the After-Party sponsor. The TFCA also thanks sponsors Omni King Edward Hotel and salutes stalwart supporters Zoomer Magazine, Globe and Mail, L-Eat Catering and Chairman Mills. The full list of 2022 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up: Best Picture Aftersun (Sphere Films) Runners Up Everything Everywhere All at Once (Elevation Pictures) Women Talking (Universal Pictures Canada) Best Director Charlotte Wells – Aftersun (Sphere Films) Runners Up The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once (Elevation Pictures) Sarah Polley, Women Talking (Universal Pictures Canada) Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh (Searchlight Pictures) Runners Up Todd Field, Tár (Universal Pictures Canada); Sarah Polley, Women Talking (Universal Pictures Canada) Best Actress Cate Blanchett in Tár (Universal Pictures Canada) Runners Up Danielle Deadwyler in Till (Universal Pictures Canada) Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once (Elevation Pictures) Best Actor Paul Mescal in Aftersun (Sphere Films) Runners Up Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) Brendan Fraser in The Whale (Elevation Pictures) Best Supporting Actress Keke Palmer in Nope (Universal Pictures Canada) Runners Up Jessie Buckley in Women Talking (Universal Pictures Canada) Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once (Elevation Pictures) Best Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (Elevation Pictures) Runners Up Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) Best Animated Feature Turning Red, directed by Domee Shi(Walt Disney Pictures Canada) Runners Up Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Elevation Pictures) Allan King Documentary Award All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras (Elevation Pictures) Runners Up Fire of Love (Mongrel Media) Moonage Daydream (Elevation Pictures) Best International Feature Saint Omer, directed by Alice Diop (Films We Like) Runners Up Decision to Leave (Mongrel Media) EO (Films We Like) Best First Feature Aftersun, directed by Charlotte Wells (Sphere Films) Runners Up Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Elevation Pictures) Turning Red (Walt Disney Pictures Canada)Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award Nominees Brother, directed by Clement Virgo (Elevation Pictures) Crimes of the Future, directed by David Cronenberg (Sphere Films) Riceboy Sleeps, directed by Anthony Shim (Game Theory Films) *Special Citation To Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, who are currently in jail in Ira yet continue to make subtle movies that talk about life in their country, in spite of threats and restrictions from the regime. We stand in solidarity with them and add our voices to the international arts community calling for their release. About the Toronto Film Critics Association The Toronto Film Critics Association was established in 1997 and is comprised of Toronto-based journalists and broadcasters who specialize in film criticism and commentary. All major dailies, weeklies and a variety of other print, electronic and web outlets are represented. Members of the TFCA also participate in the Federation of International Film Critics (FIPRESCI). As such, they have sat on juries at festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Palm Springs, Chicago, Pusan, Moscow, Amsterdam, London, and Vienna, among others. Website: www.torontofilmcritics.com Twitter: @tfca |