2024 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Winners: ‘Nickel Boys’ Named Best Picture, RaMell Ross Wins Best Director

The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) has named Nickel Boys the Best Picture of 2024 with RaMell Ross winning Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay with co-writer Joslyn Barnes.

Mirroring Los Angeles critics’ awarding of two performances in lead and two in supporting (including LAFCA’s dual runners-up) and removing gender barriers, Toronto also copy/pasted their winners, giving the lead wins to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora and the supporting performance award to both Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

Best Picture: Nickel Boys (runners-up: Anora and The Brutalist)

Best Director: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (runners-up: Sean Baker, Anora and Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light)

Outstanding Lead Performance: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths and Mikey Madison, Anora (runners-up: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist; Colman Domingo, Sing Sing; Ralph Fiennes, Conclave; and Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez and Demi Moore, The Substance)

Outstanding Supporting Performance: Yura Borisov, Anora and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing and Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez; Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice and Denzel Washington, Gladiator II)

Best Original Screenplay: Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light (runners-up: Sean Baker, Anora and Justin Kuritzkes Challengers)
Best Adapted Screenplay: RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys (runners-up: Peter Straughan, Conclave and Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two)

Best Animated Feature: Flow (runners-up: Memoir of a Snail and The Wild Robot)
Allan King Documentary Award: Dahomey (runners-up: Occupied City and Soundtrack to a Coup d’État)
Best International Feature: All We Imagine as Light (runners-up: Evil Does Not Exist and Green Border)

Best First Feature: Woman of the Hour (runners-up: 40 Acres, Janet Planet, The People’s Joker)

Breakthrough Performance: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (runners-up: Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez and Mikey Madison, Anora)

Outstanding Performance in a Canadian Film: Félix-Antoine Duval, Shepherds (runners-up: Deragh Campbell, Matt and Mara and Roy Dupuis, Rumours)

Rogers Best Canadian Film nominees: Rumours, Shepherds, and Universal Language
Rogers Best Documentary Award nominees: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Yintah, and Your Tomorrow

Special Citations:
– No Other Land
– Serena Whitney and The Revue Film Society