Welcome to
The Toronto Film Critics Awards 2021
Virtual Gala Livestream
Thank you for joining us in celebrating the winners and nominees for this year’s TFCA Awards and stay tuned for appearances from some special guests!
The virtual gala includes the reveal of the winner of the Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award, which carries a cash prize of $100,000 courtesy of Rogers—the largest cash prize in Canadian film.
Thank you to the Paradise Theatre
for providing a venue for the pre-recorded portions of this event.
ROGERS
BEST CANADIAN FILM NOMINEES
And the
Birds Rained Down
Directed by Louise Archambault
(MK2 Mile End)
— WINNER —
Anne at 13,000 ft.
Directed by Kazik Radwanski
(MDFF)
White Lie
Directed by Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis
(levelFilm)
BEST PICTURE
WINNER
Nomadland
(Searchlight)
RUNNERS UP
First Cow
(MK2 Mile End)
Minari
(Elevation Pictures)
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER
Chloé Zhao
Nomadland
(Searchlight)
RUNNERS UP
Kelly Reichardt
First Cow
(MK2 Mile End)
Lee Isaac Chung
Minari
(Elevation Pictures)
BEST ACTOR
WINNER
Riz Ahmed
Sound of Metal
(Pacific Northwest Pictures)
RUNNERS UP
Chadwick Boseman
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
(Netflix)
Mads Mikkelsen
Another Round
(Mongrel Media)
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER
Frances McDormand
Nomadland
(Searchlight)
RUNNERS UP
Viola Davis
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
(Netflix)
Sidney Flanigan
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
(Focus Features)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER
Daniel Kaluuya
Judas and the Black Messiah
(Warner Bros)
RUNNERS UP
Leslie Odom, Jr.
One Night in Miami
(Amazon Prime Video)
Paul Raci
Sound of Metal
(Pacific Northwest Pictures)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER
Maria Bakalova
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
(Amazon Prime Video)
RUNNERS UP
Olivia Colman
The Father
(Elevation Picture)
Youn Yuh-Jung
Minari
(Elevation Pictures)
BEST SCREENPLAY
WINNER
Minari
(Elevation Pictures)
RUNNERS UP
Nomadland
(Searchlight)
Sound of Metal
(Pacific Northwest Pictures)
BEST FIRST FEATURE
WINNER
The Forty-Year-Old Version
(Netflix)
RUNNERS UP
The Father
(Elevation Pictures)
Promising Young Woman
(Focus Features)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER
Wolfwalkers
(Apple TV+)
RUNNERS UP
Soul
(Disney)
The Willoughbys
(Netflix)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER
Bacurau
(Kino Lorber)
RUNNERS UP
Another Round
(Mongrel Media)
Beanpole
(Kino Lorber)
ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD
WINNER
Collective
(Mongrel Media)
RUNNERS UP
Crip Camp
(Netflix)
Time
(Amazon Prime Video)
(Crave/HBO Canada)
CLYDE GILMOUR AWARD
Jason Ryle
JAY SCOTT AWARD
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
TFCA CINEPLEX EMERGING CRITIC AWARD
Mark Hanson and Rose Ho (tie)
