Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 18, 2012,[1] Gala February 26, 2013[2]
Site	Round Room at The Carlu[3]

The 16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were given on December 18, 2012.^[4][5][6]

Through a naming rights sponsorship with Rogers the Best Canadian Film Award prize money was raised to C$100,000 from $15,000 in 2010 and $10,000 prior to that, while the two runners-up took $5,000 each. It is now the largest film prize in Canada.^[7][8]

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Denis Lavant – Holy Motors

Runners-Up: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

• Best Actress:
  • Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Runners-Up: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

• Best Animated Film:
  • ParaNorman

Runners-Up: Brave and Frankenweenie

• Best Director:
  • Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

Runners-Up: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty and Leos Carax – Holy Motors

• Best Documentary Film:
  • Stories We Tell

Runners-Up: The Queen of Versailles and Searching for Sugar Man

• Best Film:
  • The Master

Runners-Up: Amour and Zero Dark Thirty

• Best First Feature (tie):
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow

Runner-Up: The Cabin in the Woods

• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Amour • Austria/France/Germany

Runners-Up: Holy Motors • France/Germany and Tabu • Portugal

• Best Screenplay:
  • The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson

Runners-Up: Lincoln – Tony Kushner and Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Runners-Up: Javier Bardem – Skyfall and Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Gina Gershon – Killer Joe

Runners-Up: Amy Adams – The Master, Ann Dowd – Compliance and Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

• Rogers Canadian Film Award:^[9]
  • Sarah Polley - Stories We Tell.^[10]

Runners-Up: Denis Côté - Bestiaire, Michael Dowse -Goon

References

1. http://torontofilmcritics.com/features/toronto-film-critics-association-announces-2012-awards/
2. http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1
3. http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=8
4. "Toronto Film Critics Association Announces 2012 Awards". torontofilmcritics.com. 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
5. "Toronto Critics Champion 'The Master'". IndieWire. 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
6. "'The Master' Named Best Movie by Toronto Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
7. http://playbackonline.ca/2012/11/27/toronto-film-critics-best-canadian-film-award-upped-to-100000/
8. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Sarah+Polley+Stories+Tell+wins+Toronto+film/7795803/story.html
9. http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1
10. "Sarah Polley doc wins Toronto critics' $100K prize". CBC News. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.