Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film.[1] In 2012, the cash prize accompanying the award was increased to $100,000, making it the largest arts award in Canada. Each year, two runners-up also receive $5,000. The award is funded and presented by Rogers Communications, which is a founding sponsor of the association's awards gala.[2][3]
Unlike the other Toronto Film Critics Association awards, whose winners are announced in early December each year, the Best Canadian Film award only has its finalists announced at that time, and the winner of the award is then announced in a separate presentation in January of the following year.
Toronto Film Critics Poll
Prior to the official launch of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 1997, film critic Wyndham Wise coordinated two polls of Toronto film critics in 1995 and 1996 through his magazine Take One to select the year's best Canadian films.
1995
| Category | Winners and nominees |
|---|---|
| Best Film | Rude — Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King[4] |
| Double Happiness — Steve Hegyes, Rose Lam Waddell[5] | |
| When Night Is Falling — Barbara Tranter[5] | |
| Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) — Richard Sadler, Jacques Dorfmann[5] | |
| Best Director | Clement Virgo, Rude[4] |
| Mina Shum, Double Happiness[5] | |
| Charles Binamé, Eldorado[5] | |
| Patricia Rozema, When Night Is Falling[5] | |
| Best Actor | Maury Chaykin, Whale Music[4] |
| Clark Johnson, Rude[5] | |
| Maurice Dean Wint, Rude[5] | |
| Peter Williams, Soul Survivor[5] | |
| Best Actress | Sandra Oh, Double Happiness[4] |
| Pascale Montpetit, Eldorado[5] | |
| Pascale Bussières, Eldorado[5] | |
| Tracy Wright, Wasaga[5] | |
| Best Screenplay | Mina Shum, Double Happiness[4] |
| Clement Virgo, Rude[5] | |
| Émile Gaudreault, Sylvie Bouchard and Michel Michaud, Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)[5] | |
| Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and John Frizzell, Dance Me Outside[5] |
1996
Toronto Film Critics Association
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020[8] | TBA March 9, 2021 | |
| Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski | |
| And the Birds Rained Down | Louise Archambault | |
| White Lie | Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas | |
References
- "Rogers Best Canadian Film Award". Toronto Film Critics Association. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- "Rogers Best Canadian Film Award rises to $100,000". Toronto Film Critics Association. 27 November 2012. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- "Sarah Polley doc wins Toronto critics' $100K prize". CBC News. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- Christopher Harris, "Magazines: Toronto Film Critics Poll". The Globe and Mail, December 18, 1995.
- "The Toronto Film Critics' Poll". Take One, Winter 1996.
- Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail, January 15, 1998.
- "'Anthropocene' named best Canadian feature by Toronto Film Critics Association". CityNews, January 8, 2019.
- Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.