Boyhood

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, has won three top prizes at the 2014 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association.  In addition to the film’s Best Picture award, Linklater has won Best Director, and Patricia Arquette has been named Best Supporting Actress.  The Toronto Film Critics Association also named its three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award: Enemy, directed by Denis Villeneuve; The F Word, directed by Michael Dowse; and Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan.

The 2014 Joe Fresh Allan King Documentary Award is given to The Overnighters; director Jesse Moss, and Albert Shin, director of the South Korean domestic drama In Her Place, was named the winner of the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist. 

The full details of the 18th annual TFCA awards are as follows:

Best Film: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, a cinematic masterpiece that evokes beauty in life and the inevitable passage of time
Runners-up: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inherent Vice

Best Director: Richard Linklater, for the singular achievement that is Boyhood
Runners-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice; Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actor: Tom Hardy, for playing a Welsh builder in crisis in Locke
Runners-up: Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler; Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, for her performance as a Polish woman navigating 1920s America in The Immigrant
Runners-up: Julianne Moore, Still Alice; Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, for his role as a tyrannical conductor in Whiplash
Runners-up: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice; Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, for her role as the mother of Mason Jr. in Boyhood
Runners-up: Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice; Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel, for its nuanced humour and intricate narrative dollhouse
Runners-up: Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater); Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Animated Feature: Isao Takahata’s delicate fable The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Runners-up: The Lego Movie; Big Hero 6; How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best First Feature: Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox
Runners-up: Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy); John Wick (dir. David Leitch and Chad Stahelski)

Best Foreign-Language Film: Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure
Runners-up: Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski); Leviathan (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)

Best Documentary Film: Jesse Moss’s The Overnighters
Runners-up: Citizenfour (dir. Laura Poitras); Manakamana (dir. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez)