Established in 1997, the Toronto Film Critics Association is a collective of Toronto-based journalists and broadcasters who specialize in film criticism and commentary. Today they announced their choices for best movies and performances of 2011. Here are their picks as posted on the TFCA website:
Best Picture: The Tree of Life (eOne Films). Runners-up: The Artist (Alliance Films), The Descendants (Fox Searchlight Pictures).
Best Actor: Michael Shannon - Take Shelter. Runners-up: George Clooney - The Descendants, Michael Fassbender - Shame.
Best Actress: Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn. Runners-up: Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene, Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady.
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer - Beginners. Runners-up: Albert Brooks - Drive, Patton Oswalt - Young Adult.
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter. Runners-up: Jessica Chastain - The Tree of Life, Shailene Woodley - The Descendants.
Best Director: Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life. Runners-up: Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist, Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive.
Best Screenplay: Moneyball written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, story by Stan Chervin, based on the book by Michael Lewis. Runners-up: The Descendants written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Tree of Life written by Terrence Malick.
Best First Feature: Attack the Block directed by Joe Cornish. Runners-up: Margin Call directed by J.C. Chandor, Martha Marcy May Marlene directed by Sean Durkin.
Best Animated Feature: The Adventures of Tintin (DreamWorks Animation). Runners-up: Puss in Boots (DreamWorks Animation), Rango (Paramount Pictures).
Best Foreign Language Film: Mysteries of Lisbon (Alfama Films). Runners-up: Attenberg (filmswelike), Le Havre (filmswelike), A Separation (Mongrel Media).
Allan King Documentary Award: Nostalgia for the Light (Icarus Films). Runners-up: Into the Abyss (Mongrel Media), Project Nim (Mongrel Media).
Rogers Canadian Film Award Finalists: Café de Flore directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, A Dangerous Method directed by David Cronenberg, Monsieur Lazhar directed by Philippe Falardeau.
The 2011 TFCA Awards will be presented at a gala dinner in the Round Room of Toronto’s historic Carlu on January 10, 2012. There the TFCA will also reveal the winner of the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award which garners a $15,000 cash prize. The event will be hosted by Cameron Bailey, co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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