The Zone of Interest was honored as Best Picture of 2023 and Best Director for Jonathan Glazer at the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) twenty seventh annual awards, recognizing excellence in film.
The TFCA eliminated gender-based acting categories for 2023 and Lily Gladstone was voted winner of Outstanding Lead Performance for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon along with Sandra Hüller for her role in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
For its two Outstanding Supporting Performance winners, the TFCA chose Ryan Gosling for his role as Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph for Alexander Payne’s movie The Holdovers.
The TFCA created a new category, Outstanding Performance in a Canadian Film which went to Glenn Howerton for his portrayal of Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie in Blackberry. Teyana Taylor won the Breakthrough Performance award for her work as a single mother in Harlem in A.V Rockwell’s A Thousand and One.
The British romantic comedy Rye Lane was awarded Best First Feature for director Raine Allen-Miller; Best International Film went to Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves; 20 Days in Mariupol was awarded the Allan King Documentary Film Award; and Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams was named Best Animated Feature.
The full list of 2023 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up:
BEST PICTURE
The Zone of Interest (Elevation Pictures)
Runners Up: All of Us Strangers (Searchlight), Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+)
BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest (Elevation Pictures)
Runners Up: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+), Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (Elevation Pictures)
OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+)
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (Elevation Pictures)
Runners Up: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Universal Pictures Canada), Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight), Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight), Kôji Yakusho, Perfect Days (Elevation Pictures)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros. Canada)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Universal Pictures Canada)
Runners Up: Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+), Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures Canada), Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (Elevation Pictures), Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One (Universal Pictures Canada)
Runners Up: Charles Melton, May December (Netflix), Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers (Universal Pictures Canada)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A CANADIAN FILM
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (Elevation Pictures)
Runners Up: Jay Baruchel, BlackBerry (Elevation Pictures), Théodore Pellerin, SOLO (Axia Films)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Barbie – Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros. Canada)
Runners Up: Anatomy of a Fall – Arthur Harari, Justine Triet (Elevation Pictures), Past Lives – Celine Song (Elevation Pictures)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese (Apple TV+)
Runners Up: All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh (Searchlight), Poor Things – Tony McNamara (Searchlight)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Robot Dreams (Elevation Pictures)
Runners Up: The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD
20 Days in Mariupol (PBS)
Runners Up: The Eternal Memory (The Impact Series), Four Daughters (Mongrel Media), Swan Song (Blue Ice Docs)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Fallen Leaves (Films We Like)
Runners Up: Anatomy of a Fall (Elevation Pictures), The Zone of Interest (Elevation Pictures)
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Rye Lane (Disney+)
Runners Up: American Fiction (Warner Bros. Canada), Past Lives (Elevation Pictures)
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM NOMINEES
BlackBerry (Elevation Pictures)
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Game Theory Films)
Solo (Axia Films)
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY NOMINEES
Rojek (Maison 4:3)
Someone Lives Here (Game Theory Films)
Swan Song (Blue Ice Docs)