Toronto Film Critics: ‘Nomadland,’ Riz Ahmed, Daniel Kaluuya win

The Toronto Film Critics Association has revealed its best in film for 2020, naming Nomadland Best Picture.

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

Best Film: Nomadland
Runners-up: First Cow and Minari

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runners-up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow and Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Runners-up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round

Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runners-up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Runners-up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal and Leslie Odom, Jr. One Night in Miami

Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runners-up: Yuh-jung Youn, Minari and Olivia Colman, The Father

Best Screenplay: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari (RUs: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland and Darius Marder and Abraham Marder, Sound of Metal

Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers
Runners-up: Soul and The Willoughbys

Best Documentary Film: Collective
Runners-up: Crip Camp, David Byrne’s American Utopia, and Time

Best Foreign Language Film: Bacurau
Runners-up: Another Round and Beanpole

Best First Feature: The 40-Year-Old Version
Runners-up: The Father and Promising Young Woman

Jay Scott Prize (for emerging artist): Kelly Fyffe-Marshall

The Clyde Gimour Award (for someone who has enriched the understanding and appreciation of film): Jason Ryle

Emerging Critic Award (tie): Mark Hanson and RoseColouredRayBans

Best Canadian Film nominees (winner to be announced March 9):

And the Birds Rained Down
Anne at 13,000 Ft.
White Lie

Jay Scott Prize for emerging artist: Kelly Fyffe-Marshall (Black Bodies, 2020; Haven, 2018)

Clyde Gimour Award: Jason Ryle

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