Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director

The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) have named Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest the best film of 2023, also awarding Glazer Best Director.

The Canadian org mirrored the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) with the top two wins as well as the breakdown of acting wins, which are non-gendered and feature two winners for lead. The TFCA has four runners-up in each.

Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon and Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall were the lead winners while Ryan Gosling in Barbie and Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers were the supporting winners.

In a break from nearly every group to announce so far, Robot Dreams was named Best Animated Feature and Fallen Leaves won Best International Feature. The group also went with Rye Lane for Best First Feature.

See full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture: The Zone of Interest (Runners-up: All of Us Strangers and Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest (Runners-up: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon and Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall)

Best Lead Performance: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon and Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
– (Runners-up: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers; Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers; Emma Stone, Poor Things and Kôji Yakusho, Perfect Days)

Best Supporting Performance: Ryan Gosling, Barbie and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
– (Runners-up: Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon; Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer; Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry and Charles Melton, May December)

Best Original Screenplay: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie (Runners-up: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall and Celine Song, Past Lives)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon (Runners-up: Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers and Tony McNamara, Poor Things)

Best Animated Feature: Robot Dreams (Runners-up: The Boy and the Heron and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
Allan King Documentary Award: 20 Days in Mariupol (Runners-up: The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, Swan Song)
Best International Feature: Fallen Leaves (Runners-up: Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest)

Best First Feature: Rye Lane (Runners-up: American Fiction and Past Lives)

Breakthrough Performance: Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One (Runners-up: Charles Melton, May December and Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers)

Best Performance in a Canadian Film: Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (Runners-up: Jay Baruchel, BlackBerry and Théodore Pellerin, Solo)

Rogers Best Canadian Film nominees: BlackBerry, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, and Solo
Rogers Best Documentary Award nominees: Rojek, Someone Lives Here, and Swan Song

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