The runners-up for Best Picture were Black Swan and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives did, however, win for Best Foreign Language Film. Exit Through the Gift Shop was named both Best First Feature and Best Documentary. The winner for Best Animated Feature was How to Train Your Dragon.
Bruce McDonald received a special citation for making four features in 2010. They were This Movie is Broken, Trigger, Music from the Big House and Hard Core Logo 2.
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TORONTO FILM CRITICS
ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES
2010 AWARDS
The Social Network dominates a diverse slate of winners
that
range
from the Thai jungle and the Ozark Mountains
to the
wilds of urban street art
Jesse Eisenberg was named
Best Actor for his performance as
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, while his co-star Armie Hammer took Best Supporting Actor for his dual role as
Zuckerberg’s well-bred nemeses, the Winklevoss twins. Aaron
Sorkin’s adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental
Billionaires” won the Best Screenplay
prize.
“In
our final discussions Sunday afternoon, again and again The Social Network galvanized broad
support from our members,” said TFCA President Brian D. Johnson, film
critic for Maclean’s. “There
was a strong sentiment that we’re not just recognizing a superbly crafted
‘movie of the moment’ that spins a creation myth of
cyber-capitalism. We appreciate what it represents in popular American film
culture—an intelligent moral drama told from multiple viewpoints with a complex
protagonist who is neither hero nor villain.”
More details of the 14th
annual TFCA awards, which were announced today:
- Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her breakout role as a young woman who challenges her Ozark Mountains community to look for her missing father in Winter’s Bone, while newcomer Hailee Steinfeld took Best Supporting Actress for her debut performance in True Grit as an 1870s teenager avenging her father’s murder.
- Exit Through the Gift Shop, an inventive puzzle of a documentary about street art directed by the artist known as Banksy, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King Documentary Award.
- DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon received the Best Animated Feature award, while Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – a runner-up for Best Picture – was named Best Foreign-Language Film.
“As we ended up
championing a remarkable diversity of styles,” said Johnson, “there
was much discussion about what these films mean about where cinema is
headed—whether it be the immersive magic realism of Uncle Boonmee, the ruthless neo-realism of
Winter’s Bone, or the
subversive mischief of Exit Through the Gift
Shop.”
The 2010 TFCA Awards will
be presented at a gala dinner at Toronto’s
Nota Bene restaurant on January 12, 2011, hosted by Cameron Bailey, co-director
of the Toronto International Film Festival. There the TFCA will also name the
winner of the Rogers Best Canadian Feature
Award, which carries a $15,000
cash prize. The three pictures nominated are: Incendies,
directed by Denis Villeneuve, winner of last year’s Canadian Feature
award for Polytechnique; Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali, and Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald.
In addition, the TFCA
voted a special citation recognizing Bruce McDonald for a banner year. He made
four features in 2010: This Movie is Broken,
Trigger, Music from the Big House, and Hard Core Logo 2.
The TFCA will also
present the second annual Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent, which
carries a $5,000 prize. This year it will go to Toronto writer-director Daniel Cockburn,
whose wildly original feature debut, a wry cosmic puzzle called You Are Here, has been winning raves on
the festival circuit. The TFCA will also inaugurate the Deluxe Student
Film Award, which gives $3,000 in post-production services to a
student filmmaker. The winner will be chosen by TFCA members voting on shorts
submitted by film departments at Humber
College, Ryerson
University, Sheridan
College and York University.
The result will be announced at the awards dinner.
Please note: under the
TFCA’s guidelines, contenders eligible for the awards include films
released in Canada
in 2010 plus films that qualify for the 2010 Oscars and have Canadian
distribution scheduled by the end of February 2011.
The TFCA is especially
grateful to founding sponsor, Rogers Communications Inc., and welcomes new
sponsors RBC, Porter Airlines and Deluxe Toronto. The TFCA also thanks the
ongoing generosity of its additional sponsors: Maclean’s
magazine, Nota Bene, Moet & Chandon, Four Seasons Hotel, Ontario Film
Development Corporation, Cineplex Entertainment, the Globe and Mail, and Citytv.
Established in 1997 the
Toronto Film Critics Association is comprised of Toronto based journalists and broadcasters
who specialize in film criticism and commentary. All major dailies,
weeklies and a variety of other print and electronic outlets are represented.
Members
of the TFCA also
participate in the International Federation of International Film
Critics
(FIPRESCI). As such, they have sat on juries at festivals in Cannes,
Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Palm Springs, Chicago, Pusan,
Moscow, Amsterdam, London and Vienna, among others.
Website:
http://www.torontofilmcritics.
The full
list of Toronto
Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up follows.
BEST PICTURE
The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Runners-up:
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past
Lives (filmswelike)
BEST ACTOR
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Runners-up:
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Armie Hammer, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Runners-up:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher, The Social Network
Runners-up:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Christopher Nolan, Inception
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Social Network, written by Aaron
Sorkin
based on the book "The
Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich
Runners-up:
The King's Speech, written by David
Seidler
True Grit, written by Joel Coen &
Ethan Coen
based on the novel by
Charles Portis
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Exit Through the Gift Shop, directed by
Banksy
Runners-up:
Get Low, directed by Aaron Schneider
Monsters, directed by Gareth Edwards
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks
Animation)
Runners-up:
Despicable Me (Universal Studios)
Toy Story 3 (Disney●Pixar)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past
Lives (filmswelike)
Runners-up:
Mother (Mongrel Media)
Of Gods and Men (Mongrel Media)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Mongrel
Media)
Runners-up:
Inside Job (Mongrel Media)
Marwencol (KinoSmith Inc.)
JAY SCOTT PRIZE for emerging talent
writer-director Daniel Cockburn (You Are Here)
SPECIAL CITATION
to Bruce McDonald, who directed four movies in 2010:
This Movie is Broken, Trigger, Music from the Big House and Hard Core Logo 2
ROGERS
CANADIAN FILM AWARD NOMINEES
Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve
Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali
Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald
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