‘Drive My Car,’ ‘The Lost Daughter’ top Toronto Film Critics winners

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The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) have named Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car the best picture of 2021, also awarding the film their Best Screenplay prize. Hamaguchi was also a runner-up for Best Director, which went to Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog.

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth) and Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, respectively, while Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza) and Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) won the supporting prizes.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter was awarded the Best First Feature award, giving her film a third win overall, tying with Drive My Car for the most wins overall.

Here is the full list of winners and runners-up from the Toronto Film Critics Association .

Best Picture: Drive My Car

Runners–up: Licorice Pizza and The Power of the Dog

Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Runners–up: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car and Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Best Actor: Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Runners–up: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog and Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!

Best Actress: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter

Runners–up: Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers and Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Supporting Actor: Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza

Runners–up: Ciarán Hinds, Belfast and Kodi Smit–McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress: Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter

Runners–up: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog and Ruth Negga, Passing

Best Screenplay: Drive My Car

Runners–up: Licorice Pizza and The Power of the Dog

Best Animated Feature: Flee

Runners–up: Encanto and The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Allan King Documentary Award: Summer of Soul

Runners–up: Flee and The Velvet Underground

Best International Feature: Drive My Car

Runners–up: Petite Maman and The Worst Person in the World

Best First Feature: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Runners–up: Rebecca Hall, Passing and Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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