Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest Named Best Picture of 2023 by Toronto Film Critics

The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer — The Zone of Interest

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)