Toronto critics honour 'Carol'

In other key awards, the Toronto Film Critics Association cited Tom Hardy as best actor for playing Ronnie and Reggie Kray in Legend and Nina Hoss as best actress for Phoenix, which also won the Best Foreign-Language Film prize.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence won the Allan King Documentary Award. The film is a companion piece to Oppenheimer’s 2013 winner The Act Of Killing.

TFCA membership chose the three finallists for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award – The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, My Internship In Canada by Philippe Falardeau and Sleeping Giant by Andrew Cividino.

The winner will be announced at TFCA’s awards gala on January 5 2016 along with the winner of the C$5,000 Manulife Student Film Award and the winner of the C$5,000 Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist.

As previously announced, the 2015 recipient of the Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award is Deepa Mehta, who will present a filmmaker of her choice with C$50,000 worth of services from Technicolor at the January 5 gala.  

“This year’s winning films encompass a remarkable diversity of genres and styles,” said TFCA president Brian D Johnson. “And the Canadian finallists present a broad spectrum of talent — a veteran Winnipeg auteur who remixes cinema like a mad alchemist, an Oscar-honoured Quebecois who’s made a bold turn from intimate drama to sly political satire, and a young Toronto director making his feature debut with a Lakehead coming-of-age story that dazzled Cannes and TIFF.

The full list of TFCA winners and runners-up:

BEST PICTURE

Winner: Carol

Runners-up: Mad Max: Fury Road; Spotlight

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Tom Hardy, Legend

Runners-up: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant; Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

BEST ACTRESS

Nina Hoss, Phoenix

Runners-up: Cate Blanchett, Carol; Brie Larson, Room

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Mark Rylance, Bridge Of Spies

Runners-up: Benicio Del Toro, Sicario; Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

Runners-up: Rooney Mara, Carol; Kristen Stewart, Clouds Of Sils Maria

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Todd Haynes, Carol

Runners-up: Tom McCarthy, Spotlight; George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road; Denis Villeneuve, Sicario

BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED OR ORIGINAL

Winner: The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay. Based upon the book by Michael Lewis.

Runners-up: Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman based on his stage play; Carol by Phyllis Nagy based on the novel The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith; Spotlight by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Winner: Ex Machina, Alex Garland

Runners-up: Sleeping Giant , Andrew Cividino; Son Of Saul, Lázsló Nemes

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Winner: Shaun The Sheep Movie

Runners-up: Anomalisa; Inside Out

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: Phoenix (Germany)

Runners-up: The Assassin (Taiwan); Son Of Saul (Hungary)

ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD

Winner: The Look Of Silence

Runners-up: Amy; Listen To Me Marlon

ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD FINALISTS

The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

My Internship In Canada, Philippe Falardeau

Sleeping Giant , Andrew Cividino.