Nickel Boys has been getting plenty of love this year but winning Best Picture is a major win to notch.

Award Tallies

(3) Nickel Boys
(2) All We Imagine as Light, Anora
(1) Dahomey, Flow, Hard Truths, No Other Land, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, Woman of the Hours

The Awards

Best Picture

Nickel Boys (Runners-Up: Anora, The Brutalist)

Best Animated Feature

Flow (Runners-Up: Memoir of a Snail, The Wild Robot)

Best Director

RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys (Runners-Up: Sean Baker – Anora, Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light)

Best Lead Performance

Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora (Runners-Up: Adrien Brody – The Brutalist, Colman Domingo – Sing Sing, Ralph Fiennes – Conclave, Karlia Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez, Demi Moore – The Substance)

Best Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Runners-Up: Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing, Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez, Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice, Denzel Washington – Gladiator II)

Best Original Screenplay

All We Imagine as Light (Runners-Up: Anora, Challengers)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Nickel Boys (Runners-Up: Conclave, Dune: Part Two)

Best Foreign Language Film

All We Imagine as Light (Runners-Up: Evil Does Not Exist, Green Border)

Allan King Best Documentary

Dahomey (Runners-Up: Occupied City, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat)

Best First Feature

Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour (Runners-Up: R.T. Thorne – 40 Acres, Annie Baker – Janet Planet, Vera Drew – The People’s Joker)

Best Breakthrough Performance

Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (Runners-Up: Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez, Mikey Madison – Anora)

Best Canadian Film Finalists (To Be Announced: 2/24/25)

Rumours
Shepherds
Universal Language

Best Performance in a Canadian Film

Félix-Antoine Duval – Shepherds (Runners-Up: Deragh Campbell – Matt and Mara, Roy Dupuis – Rumours)

Best Canadian Documentary (To Be Announced: 2/24/25)

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Yintah
Your Tomorrow

Special Citation

No Other Land
Serena Whitney and The Revue Film Society

Toronto Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1997 (28)